'Americans are clamoring for immigrant labor…Whether they realize it or not'
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- Immigration remains a top issue for voters, with fear mongering remaining central to the Republican party’s messaging, but reports show that immigrants are key to our economy’s success. “We don't often see all the ways in which immigrant workers make our lives less expensive and more efficient. Growth happens more quickly and it's more affordable because of their presence,” says Pulitzer Prize-winning immigration reporter Caitlin Dickerson. “Americans really are clamoring for immigrant labor, and it benefits our lives, and that's what these reports are telling us.”
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#Immigration #Economy #Labor
Companies need immigrant labor or else they would have to pay employees a living wage.
It's more about field work to be honest. Most Americans won't do it and trying to banish immigrants, legally entering or not, is what is driving up food costs. Add to that the taxes they pay without getting benefits back helps the rest of us in what money they add to those programs they cannot get benefits from. Beefing up our education systems would also benefit us better as said companies will hire out from other countries to get better trained company labor because people who might actually do well from this country can't afford the education. That's a much bigger issue in business level hires.
@@afry6400 It's almost as if the country were built for the rich!
@@afry6400 Yes, thank you for making this point. Rather than taking away work from American citizens, they are doing work most Americans won't suffer through. Some say that because immigrants are willing to work for a low wage, they are making those jobs unattractive for Americans. What is actually making those salaries so low is the desire of Americans for cheap goods and services. Same reason so many jobs went overseas or were automated. If Americans weren't so obsessed with getting more and more stuff beyond what they need for cheap prices (while large companies will jettison workers or outsource overseas before raising salaries and reducing dividends) millions of workers abroad wouldn't be doing the jobs of millions of Americans who would still be working in manufacturing or services like call centers.
I would take issue with one point you made. Don't immigrants get some benefits? For example, their children are expected to go to school. They are served in emergency rooms at hospitals. And when Abbott or DeSantis send bus- and planeloads of immigrants north, officials at their destinations do not send them back to Florida or Texas or Mexico, but have to provide them with some kind of humane accommodation. That costs money, which is one of the big complaints of right wingers. It's true things were more orderly when my grandparents came to America. Most people had established some kind of contact who would set them up in a neighborhood with other families from the same country. Then again, though my grandparents were looking for more freedom and fewer wars than in Europe, and a better economic deal for their children, they had time to prepare to emigrate. They weren't fleeing for their lives from drug cartels and gangs.
@@afry6400 Field work? Your assumption is silly. How many fields do they have in New York or Chicago?
@@gnirolnamlerf593 Fleeing the cartel? The cartels are coming over too. You pretend the illegals are all innocent. Did it not cost FL and Texas to keep the illegals there? Why does Texas and FL have to pay for all of Bidens new voter base?
Rich people want cheap labor. Poor people want less competition 😂
you are half right. poor people want more opportunities rich people take for granted
@@josedelatorre2569 I've been both
@@calebcase80 no shame being poor, and no greater reward than helping those when you are not.
But the people complaining to most about immigrants taking their jobs won't even work the jobs that the immigrants are doing!
Velshi,those men who died on that bridge collapse had been in this country for over 20 years! It's not like they were recent border crossers!!
@@josedelatorre2569 I helped a lot more people when I was rich...
Nope. Americans are clamoring for fair pay, good benefits, and for Wall Street to be held accountable.
Accountable for what? like it or not they make millions of jobs a year. Once again, people without a college degree making decisions
Then Stop Bidinflation and Bidenomics.
Will do. Vote corrupt 46 out
Facts lol
Businesses want cheap labor, and there are jobs that Americans simply won’t do
I love when media tells the people how we feel
The media is dead on correct
@@PraveenSriram this is propaganda
Most MSNBC viewers are not capable of thinking for themselves.
@@sergeant_salty Just because you don't like the facts doesn't mean it's propaganda, bud.
@@sergeant_salty Does putin allow you to use the term "war" yet, or is it still off limits for russians? Listen: War war war war war war. I dont know how you put up with a lack of free speech there. So bizarre in the 21st century.
This is the definition of manufactered consent. No American is asking for this.
Indirectly, we are.
Are you willing to pay $5 for an orange, or $10 for a gallon of milk?
If the answer is no, then you are asking for immigrant labor.
@@mikerew9132 Don't call them immigrant labor to be nice, they are our slaves. The slaves of Americans😊
@@mikerew9132 not even close 😂. Stop being so reliant on grocery stores. Eat local
@@brandonburns5365
I already shop the local produce markets. I get most of my meat from a local Amish butcher shop. I also grow many of the vegetables we eat myself.
Certain crops can only be grown in particular climates, so unless you live in Florida or California there ARE no "local" oranges. Even MY local produce is picked by migrant workers, so your statement about grocery stores in moot. Prices would go up across the board without migrant workers, no matter where you shop.
@@brandonburns5365and city hall decides how many markets and bodegas alike sell food same w taxi service medallions
Funny how these elites just openly admit they want serfs.
Reality
Communism was never about helping workers.Only maintaining status quo
Businesses are looking for individuals who want a job and who are willing to work. These individuals, however, must be in the country legally.
They all got immediate work permits
@@InnocentCardGame-sz2be. Who is ‘they,’ and from whom do they obtain these work permits? Are the permits issued according to the prevailing law of the area?
Migrant workers are legal.
@@dark14lifeillegal’s are not migrants.
They are also human beings and have every right to come to the USA 🇺🇸. Trump needs to leave this planet 🌎
If the immigrants are doing so well for themselves why are cities like NY begging for federal aid to pay for these people?
those folks are not yet settled and working. If they are true asylum seekers, they only get help for the first year in order to get established, at least in my state. After that they fall under same parameters as others in the work force
Cities like New York pay FAR more into Federal programs than rural areas.
They are net positive in respect to how much they contribute vs what they take in.
Red states constitute an outsized TAKER of federal aid rather than contributors.
For someone calling themselves "commonsense" you certainly don't display much of it.
If the feds grant them work permits, then those cities and metro areas will need less or even no aid. If the feds deny them work permits, then those cities and metro areas will need aid to handle them. Granting people some sort of status, even if it’s a temporary status, requires statutory reforms that would need to be passed by congress. If certain members of congress are not supporting reforms that provide a net benefit to America (like lots more people paying into SS) then vote in new congress people. It’s not that complicated actually.
You don't have common sense, let alone any sense at all.
Legal immigrants are wholeheartedly welcomed to the United States, whereas those who enter illegally are unequivocally not welcome.
By racists like you.
Immigrants who seek asylum in the US ARE considered LEGAL.
Agree, if there not here legal and don't have paperwork, Work Visa's ECT they get deported. and I'm a Democrat
Illegal immigrants will continue to be welcome here as long as businesses continue to hire them for cheaper than citizens and legal immigrants, like Trump has done in the past.
@@james-rd4dq the majority of the people crossing over have their asylum papers and a court date but are being lumped in with true “illegal” border crossers who don’t even stop for border patrol. Those are far and few between. Most of these people go and turn themselves in to border patrol, seek asylum, and are on the list to have their case heard. Unfortunately, the court dates aren’t happening for years and years (five years plus in most cases.) During that time they have to wear an ankle monitor, are not allowed to get a job on the books (which is why you see a lot of people working off the books because they have to support themselves somehow). So these right-wingers who say that everyone at the border is illegal are just plain incorrect or are lying. Anyone you see crossing the border with border control IS legal. That’s why we need comprehensive immigration reform. Unfortunately, Donald Trump decided to use the most recent bill as a political pawn and had the MAGAs in the House vote against the bill that they negotiated themselves so he could run on it. Republicans are the ones soft on the border.
Come on MSNBC you're absolutely getting ridiculous now. we are clamoring for help but we don't know it. How anybody can listen to this b******* station and take it serious is beyond me you guys hit an all-time low.
My roof was replaced by a crew from Guatemala and El Salvador. The owner of the company said he has had disastrous luck trying to hire locals; the just don't show up, or if they do, they're on their phones. He said it's easier to do the paperwork for the seasonals from Central America than trying to scrounge up Americans willing to work on a hot roof.
I had a nice conversation with the wife of one of the roofers. (She was working the ground, picking up trash and sending up pails of nails.) She said that after a few years of seasonal roofing, she and her spouse would be able to buy a small farm or a building with a store below and an apartment above. In Guatemala. "Do you think about moving to the US," I asked? "We were here once in the winter. Never again!"
Is MSNBC really going this far?
Absolutely ridiculous is what it is
They are going to continue to tell us what we really want, need and think
The great replacement theory 👌
@@Mike-ns1ho what?
@@Mike-ns1ho Let's replace maga with people from across the border that are coming here to work for a better life.
Wage suppression on steriods
American citizens are willing and eager to do the work. We just don’t what to keep on and being Taken advantage of. Union companies understand this and realize illegal immigrants. Will do the same work for 70% cheaper wage. The school system is a perfect example, janitor maintenance. You will be hired to clean toilets, wash the floors wax the floors, buff the floors if the power went out you had to fix. The electrical panel change out lightbulbs do the electric wiring if a wall fell down in the school janitor maintenance we have to fix it.we mow the grass, take out the trash, fix the playground. If it broke, we do everything to maintain, the The school to keep it from crumbling. That type of job used to start out at 20 bucks an hour and you would be able to top out at 40 bucks an hour. The unions eventually realized illegal immigrants would do that same job for 10 bucks an hour and top out at 15 bucks. then when the American worker the American citizen would file grievances and complain about this treatment. The union would just say the state would say you are just being lazy you just don’t want to work. And this keeps repeating in nearly every job containing to labor or building now they don’t want to pay a living wage they want to pay slave wage.
I didn't know slaves had a wage. Can you explain more about that wage?
That is a good point and explanation.
Only a small percentage of these people work in agriculture. They should have seasonal workers but not citizenship and no to Brining their families with them
Is a mixed bag no doubt. It has been shown crops are going to waste because Americans are unwilling to do the job and honestly, can't do the job. We need to spend as much time trying to figure out immigration as we are trying to keep them out. This is a lose lose for everyone. We need to fix this for the benefit of everyone.
You won’t find Americans willing to pick strawberries terrible conditions for peanuts
@ecurewitz we don't need 12 million slaves . Just a few
Democrats have always liked slave labor.
It's not that Americans are not willing to do those jobs it's just that illegal immigrants are willing to do it because they're having everything else subsidized. If you pay for Americans rent if you pay for their electric bill if you give them food stamps sure they work for less money. These companies can pay illegal immigrants more because the taxpayers are subsidizing these illegal immigrants..
The only thing dumber than equality of outcome is equality of outcome with open borders to the 5th world
@@ecurewitz Americans will do those jobs but you have to pay them a living wage..... That's the point.
She's an open borders advocate.
She is until one of those illegals, takes her job
magats own this issue now..after refusing to sign the tough immigration bill THEY HELPED FASHION because RAPEY DON wants it to be an issue.. he prefers more pain and death for Americans as long as he avoids jail... he is PRISON BOUND and GOOD FKN RIDDANCE!
It's not an open border. Have you ever been across the border? Have you ever been to the border?
@georgelayton6641 great response. Anyone who thinks it's so open should go to Mexico and leave their passport in the hotel and try cross the border without it
So am I. Trump is a fear monger
There certainly is a case to be made for more immigration, done legally. There is no case to be made for a wide open border.
no there isn't
If we had a wide open border, you wouldn't need a passport. Take a trip to Mexico; leave your passport at home and see just how open the border is.
Nobody's actually campaigning for a wide open border. Anybody saying otherwise is lying to you. If Democrats wanted that, they wouldn't have helped build the strongest border bill in modern history with some of the most conservative senators who are _actual conservatives,_ not the MAGA trolls who kept it from being voted on in the House.
Close the border already.👹
Trump 2024
Hopefully Donald Trump nasty ports tens of millions of these illegal Invaders
Better yet hopefully we can have a two-state solution. One country for the people who support the right aka the true Americans and one country for the traitors and their army of tens of millions of Invaders with a 70% welfare rate.
No one talks about the growing number of 1099 workers and side hustler who don't know how a d/ or don't contribute to social security taxes.
You lost all credibility when reporting a "Peaceful Protest" while fires raged in the back of you.
Drama queen
Drama drama...
That was CNN
@@msmithy7813same state run media
@@leonblack2651 Wow your mind is totally owned by idiots.
Greed is why everything's twice as much, immigration has no play in that.
Total. No civilization without an underclass to exploit.
If those migrants who crossed are telling others not to do it, because it's not worth it, you can die, to use the legal means of getting in, that should be a message to the Congress. If the ones who crossed are inviting everyone to use the same path, then we know our empathy for this crisis is too high for our own good.
"The connection between the oversupply of labour and plummeting living standards for the poor is one of the more robust generalisations in history." Peter Turchin, Return of the oppressed, aeon magazine.
I think Americans would rather Americans have those jobs but get paid more
But then we will complain that things cost more.
And what is stopping that? American employers are there and American workers are there too
You don't seem to realize that there are fewer American workers because the baby boomers are mostly retiring because they are old. People actually don't seem to know what the baby boom was.
Who wants to pay the price of produce if Americans are picking it at $100,000/yr. America has always depended on exploitive labor. For the first hundred years it was slave labor, it was then another hundred years of Jim Crow labor, now it is illegal immigrant labor. America has never been great without exploiting someone for cheap labor to build and feed this country.
Illegal immigration could be eliminated immediately all you have to do is pass a law requiring significant jail time for anyone who hires an illegal immigrant. All the illegal immigrants would be gone in a couple months and the country would be in a major depression in less than a year. Conservatives are just too stupid to vote.
Yes
I'm a latinamerican that doesn't live in USA. But it's so nice of you to highlight the importance of immigrants in USA economy. THANKS
And most are coming here to make a better life for their families.
They are lying. It's not going to work
@@cyclewisconsin105 Nobody cares.... No more room
@@JudyStroyer-bk6fb Just because your trailer home is too small, doesn't mean we can't have legal immigration.
@@rahimmajid647 I live in my Jeep... There is a housing shortage in this country.... We cannot grow the population at this time, Not until we build millions more houses
Any news we should know about Gov. Hochul?
They're not allowed to talk about that on here
This channel is state sponsored propoganda. No wonder Trump called them fake news and enemy of the poeple
Legal immigrant labor.
No. Illegal
@@Americasinertia they pay taxes unlike RApey DOn. =\/
Yep , MSNBC relies on the stupidity of its audience they can't distinguish between legal immigrants who are high IQ and specialists working in good fields and illegal Invaders from s*** hole countries who go on welfare. This is why they don't want to distinguish between illegal immigrants and people from other countries working here legally because the numbers don't work out for them.
Slavery 😊 They are the slaves of Americans.
Black American people love their new racist neighbors from Venezuela
Why do you say that?
@@PraveenSriram sarcasm
If you see anyone from MSDNC in a restaurant in a department store or a gasoline station you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them and you tell them they are not welcome anymore….anywhere!!!!🤬😡🤬😡🤬🤬😡😡😡
Reality hurts magat's loser feelings! BHABaahbahbahhaahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Cope
@@chadfr1013 With what?
Sounds like Russia. Maybe you should move there.
Bring back Trump and stop this nonsense!
He never STOPPED it!! 🤦🙄
Get your head out of the sand
Trump is a criminally corrupt traitor. The only place needs to go is prison!
Trump has hired illegal immigrants at his properties. He's part of the problem.
You look more like a Russian troll than an actual Trump supporter.
No, Americans are not clamoring for immigrant labor. Because what you are talking about is illegal immigration labor. Big, huge, difference!!!
Makes our lives less expensive? If that's true, why does everything cost twice as much as two or three years ago? Shouldn't the prices be coming down instead of going up?
Republicans keep giving away the country to the rich every time they take the Whitehouse. You vote in Republicans and they send the higher paying union jobs overseas and make this country a right to work for nothing state.
Well, if you keep lowering prices especially of basic commodities and increasing wages, that will trigger recession which is even worse because there's too much cash in the system. It's tricky because on that level you need to now be aware of how our nearest competition in the the global economic scale, which is why Yelen and Powell's faces look so empty every time they get interviewed at the end of the month, sometimes they're sort of mumbling even. (•‿•). They do good work of course, and you can tell that they just want to tell Senator Warren to try doing what they're doing, "Here, take the wheel for a while.". (•‿•)
It’s called “greedflation”
Look up Robert Reich, the economist and university professor.
It has now been shown that Big Grocery used the short term inflation to gouge us all on prices and don't seem to intend to stop. If only we had a functioning Congress to help citizens.
Workers in the 1950s benefited from a low birth rate in the 1920s and 1930s
"In a nation-wide survey of job opportunities for the Class of 1955, the Wall Street Journal finds that most students have jobs lined up before they graduate. Starting salaries are generally higher than the year before." Covina Argus Citizen June 30, 1955
"Job Opportunities Increase; Placements at Record Level" Van Nuys Valley News April 14, 1955
"The United States Civil Commission is experiencing difficulty in filling many well paying jobs that offer security, sick leave and pensions." Long Beach Independent Press Telegram June 12, 1955
A survey shows that jobs at good pay will be more abundant for college graduates this year than at any previous time. Corporations and smaller firms have talent scouts looking over the graduate crop. At some schools graduates who have specialized in one skill have a choice of two or three offers. They are being courted in a manner resembling the wooing of the high school football phenomenon by college coaches.." San Mateo Times May 9, 1955
"Investigate Our Many Job Opportunities." Financial Center Building, Suite 313, 405 14th street, Oakland. Oakland Tribune, Sunday, April 17, 1955
Most Americans don't mind *legal* immigrants, but they do mind *illegal* immigrants because coming to the U.S. illegally shows disregard for U.S. laws. Disregarding U.S. laws is equivalent to disrespect for the U.S.
Harvesting cheap labor from illegal immigrants is *not* a long-term solution to labor shortage, but automation (e.g. robots, AI, etc.) is.
Oh? And who's going to maintain and keep the AI and robots operational? You? U don't even know math well... much less mechanics, electronics or computer hardware/ software... Immigrants are who we need for that.
And there is no such thing as an "illegal" anyone... that is crap. Migrants can either be allowed to stay or leave... depending on their cases and records... But no human should be 'illegal'... That is dehumanizing.
We need immigrant workers, after we lay off some employees. Lol
After they quit because they don't have the work ethic, strength, or skills of immigrants...
No one needs to be laid off. Immigrants are the people that do all the jobs we don't want to do. They've always been in this country. Right now, you most likely wouldn't have the job you have without them, same applies to trump yet all he does is take advantage of them. I highly doubt you or I would like to be picking fruit all day, or any other intense labor job out there. They're the ones doing those jobs, unless it's a specialty labor/blue collar job.
@@TrumpsPrisonMouth not enough work ethics and skills to fix their own countries?
@@wu-han_of_chiraq USA policies have made their countries unliveable.
What was it Tyson foods that laid off American workers then hired 50,000 illegal immigrants.
Of course illegal immigrants can work for less money because they're having their lifestyle subsidized by the American taxpayers .
We no longer need TSA in the airports if these illegal crimes continue 😢
Yes, let's drive down wages and make it even harder to unionize. What has even happened to the "left"?
Leave it to MSNBC to tell you how u feel or your racist
How is this...
I don't...
I have no words to describe how stupid this is...
Almost like you can't argue with the facts
@@j_117 Which "facts"?
@@j_117That's it!
Those stated in the video you're commenting under and almost certainly didn't actually watch.@@glennmandigo6069
Illegal immigrants, why is that so hard to understand
It makes more sense to let them work, support their own families and pay taxes. All states need workers and the unemployment rate is the lowest in over 50 years.
@@suzanne9150 It is against the law.
Headlines like these... will ensure election losses.
Hahahahaha
Sadly, this network has a lot of useful idiots believing everything they say.
Being a city employee is an advanced position. Illegals can’t usually get these jobs.
How is it Social Security is always in jeopardy? But welfare seems to be endless, so when Social Security goes broke all seniors will be enrolled in the welfare system
i am planning my retirement in 10 years and am planning to apply for every welfare benefit on day one. and i make about 90k
@@user-fm8rc4zh4h
Why not they give it to everyone,
Especially those who won’t work or be responsible
This is why the entire immigration issue will never get solved. Ever. There's too much money being made with the situation as is. The truth is our society as Americans needs a permanent underclass South of the border to come every summer and pick the food so the food is cheap at Walmart. Americans would be crying and complaining if the prices of food kept on going up and up! It's actually a pretty hilarious thing but then it's truly sinister because then the Republicans always have a boogeyman during the election season... However of course nothing is ever done to fix the problem. Because corporate profits must go on!!
The US doesn't produce many people who do MANY different jobs, and not just manual labor. 38% of health care aids including nurses, old age attendants, 29% doctors, 23% of pharmacists. These are hardly low level jobs. Immigration allows people who are raised, taught and trained in other countries to come. For the US to essentially not have to pay for their training costs and get fully functional working people in the prime of their working lives. In 2022, 10% of the billionaires were immigrants. Tesla, Nvidia, PayPal, Google, Calendly and Zoom were all founded by immigrants. Frankly, some countries like the Philippines complain that the US demand for their nurses, is created a shortage there.
PS the fact that you have to be intellectually dishonest not distinguishing between immigrant and illegal immigrant tells me you know you have no argument to make.
Which tells me your best interest isn't the United States.
LEGAL immigration is a wonderful thing. They don't get set up in hotels with gift cards and free food and medical care and demand we pay for it though. Big difference.
We don't want people coming from other countries competing for our jobs and lowering our wages And making everything more expensive....
@@JoeysStolenTopSecretDocs. - The fact is the STORY talks about immigrant labor PERIOD and when people like you talk about it, it's about "illegal immigrants". Because that's all it is to you. I haven't put any spin in it. It's intellectually dishonest in all these comments to constantly harp of "illegal immigration". By constantly demonizing it, all forms of immigration become targets. Just look at H1B1 visas over the years for instance. BTW, you don't have to PS anything. PS means post script. You didn't write any point or argument. Keep trying to tie it denigrate migration, which has the US being basically country of migrants.
The tight labor market thats holding up monetary policy is definitely screaming for immigrant workers. Man you guys are going off 😂
They should not be getting more than vets.
My colleague at work, green card holder has been paying taxes and Social security since 2019, and has never taken a penny back in aid or anything. Immigrants are a net positive for America.
No, not at all
Literally no Americans citizens will work as farm workers, it's all immigrant labor. Something to remember next time you buy your vegetables etc.
Dude, I'm a farmer, and I'm white. You don't know what your talking about.
Well then you've solved the whole problem! You little genius, you! 😂🤣🤣🤣
Take it up with big ag. and everyone else willing to pay out for services, but thank you!@@michaelgordon264
It has always bothered me how comfortable Democrats are with insisting on a slave class in this country. This "illegal immigration is a good economic thing" discussion is just the latest example of it.
Who will pick your oranges?American simply won’t do the job. And it isn’t slave labor. They often work their way up, the next generation almost never picks crops
The border deal would help.
@ecurewitz oranges are picked by Jamaican nationals who go back to Jamaica when the harvest is over. They don't get paid unless they go back
@@ecurewitz That just sounds like slavery with extra steps.
Who says they are a "slave" class. The US doesn't produce many people who do MANY different jobs, and not just manual labor. 38% of health care aids including nurses, old age attendants, 29% doctors, 23% of pharmacists. These are hardly low level jobs. Immigration allows people who are raised, taught and trained in other countries to come. For the US to essentially not have to pay for their training costs and get fully functional working people in the prime of their working lives. In 2022, 10% of the billionaires were immigrants. Tesla, Nvidia, PayPal, Google, Calendly and Zoom were all founded by immigrants.
I lived in Chicago back in the 1970's, and Chicago is an excellent place for these migrants.
The American economy has always been dependent on cheap imported labour.
The 6 guys who died because of the bridge collapse were simply working
...doing a job. Yes, they were immigrants. Two of them had been here a very long time.
I'm not clamoring for immigrant labor because cheap stuff and profit margins aren't at the top of my priority list. At the very top, is meaningful/fulfilling life. The only way Americans can have meaningful/fulfilling lives, is if they can buy homes and start families with their income. Letting millions of workers pour into the country every year keeps wages stagnant at the very least, at worst makes them decline. This is disgusting.
Im happy to see immigrants replace blacks... Keep up the good work Democrats!!
BIDEN 2024
Ironic comment?
There’s an easy solution to the social security concerns:
Erase the maximum earnings subject to OASDI taxes cap. Have OASDI tax rates apply to EVERY dollar of income.
There’s no reason there should be a wage cap of $168,600.
There IS a reason. The rich don't want it and they own the political will in this country.
America needs a strong labor…
Immigrants who come here "legally" don't typically have to stay in "Homeless" shelters.
If they are here legally, more power to them. If not, then don’t bother
"Before we ask what is fair to illegals living in our country, we must first ask what is fair to American families, students, taxpayers and American Job seekers,it's about putting Americans first." President Donald Trump.
Like your god of MAGA cares about ANY of that!!
Almost every state across the country is SHORT of workers and the unemployment rate is now the lowest in over 50 years. Immigrants built this country and we are ALL Immigrants from some place else. Where did your ancestors come from? YOU were not here first and Trump's mother was an Immigrant and he married TWO immigrants and both were not US citizens when their kids were born making them anchor babies.
@@davidmccarthy6061I mean ya he does he puts Americans first…
We had it wrong this whole time. This guy just explained it.. 🙏🙏🙏
at least give permit to work that has been here for 20 years but you give the new ones a 1000 a month plus permit to work. how is thar fair?
Come here legally then your contribution will be recognized and praised. Come here illegally and your hard work is just free labor with a free ticket back to your home country. Enough already.
Open borders lowers wages Einsteins
People drive the economy . . . the "Economy" is the 1%
When its convenient carbon emissions are a problem, but at the same time we need more people to offest our aging population. 😂
Immigrants OUT!!!! We want real wages.
$20/hr minimum retail wage. $45/hr minimum all blue collar workers. $70/hr minimum all professionals.
When you live in suburbs behind a tall wall in your multimillion dollar mansion, you do not understand how economy for middle class is being destroyed right now.
Worse. They understand and don't care.
Gas lighting lol
You know it's election year when this subject starts to come up.
This discussion is so needed!
Statewide minimum wage across red states is as low as $7.50/hr. On the other hand, minimum wage in blue states is around $16/hr and in California, fast food workers will start making a minimum of $20/hr starting April 1st. Is it any wonder red state workers are angry and feel left out. Dont blame the dems.
True, but the cost of living is much higher in blue states, so what’s the difference?
@@jessm821 There are more "blue states" than just New York or California. I live in very blue Delaware, cost of living is very reasonable.
I have no problem getting by. Low property taxes & no sales tax just sweetens the pot.
Yea, that prolly why big Mac meals are 17 dollars. Hope that brings more customers
@@BennyRuff So, because one rest stop in a tourist area in Connecticut was trying to sell a Big Mac meal for $17, that is somehow reflective of the rest of the country.
I paid $18 for a beer and a hot dog at a football game last year, does that represent prices elsewhere?
No, it doesn't. Your comment is a joke & so are you.
How many people are going to be laid off?
Yes population increase also leads to lower wages, higher rents and higher prices. After the black plague in Europe, wages skyrocketed and rents plummeted; economics.
Trump thinks of immigrants as democrats,the elderly,veterans,an anyone not in his mirror.
FJB
Come In Legally!!!
All seasonal immigrant workers should be Unionized to get them a decent wage. A decent living wage for honest hard work.
I've opened my home to an undocumented family from Haiti and it's been the best experience of my life. I have faith that the kind and generous people representing team blue will step up and offer to house and financially support our newcomers, too. Vote Blue. 💙💙
“Relatively few are children” hmm that’s odd
Remove the income cap on Social Security and the problem is solved period. Immigrant’s boost our economy and tax revenue but can’t collect Social Security. We are a country of immigrants and need more immigrants due to our aging population.
Child Labour laws are being loosened because America has a Labour shortage. (Labour is proper Canadian/British spelling.)
MSNBC tomorrow: Why higher prices and stagnant wages benefit the average American.
Im clamoring for them to leave.
how these new immigrants getting a 1000 a month free contribute the economy ?
WASPS and the majority of people I have encountered do not realize how intimate our immigrants are with how our economy and supply chain work.
Yeah. You don't seem to understand how expensive they truly are
Making excuses for illegal migration is not right.
It's only 'illegal' because YOU made inhumane laws for it... and there is no such thing as an "illegal" human being.
@@sumonjamal1653 just another dumb excuse.
@@rl9808 What's a 'dumb excuse' is a person like u who wouldn't even qualify for US citizenship if u were on the other side of the fence...
This is 💯 correct
Yeah they fired me to hire some illegals how sad!!!!
Inconceivable
No they aren’t!
Force a national raise of the minimum wage in blue states who are lagging.
yes. we need more wage slaves to drive down wages even further and get those rents even higher. remember, the democrat party has always been the party of the people, just not the American people.
Illegal immigration is costing the state of Florida 8 billion dollars a year.
I have no issue with legal immigrants. My concern arises with illegal immigrants.🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸💪
It's kinda like slavery
Yeah there listen now. It's like the immigrant song.
Illegal immigration is costing the state of California 22 billion dollars a year.
No