For the fourth time in about a month, Trump suggested increasing legal immigration levels. With Apple CEO Tim Cook sitting next to him at the White House on Wednesday, Trump said he not only wanted more legal immigration but that companies needed an expansion of new arrivals to grow their business.
“We’re going to have a lot of people coming into the country. We want a lot of people coming in. And we need it,” Trump said:
"It’s not a question of do we want more immigration, these folks are going to have to sort of not expand too much. And if we tell them … these are very ambitious people around this table. They don’t like the concept of not expanding. We want to have the companies grow and the only way they’re going to grow is if we give them the workers and the only way we’re going to have the workers is to do exactly what we’re doing."
The comments are a direct rebuttal of the president’s commitments in 2015, 2016, and 2017, where he vowed to reduce overall legal immigration levels to boost the wages of U.S. workers and reduce the displacement of America’s working and middle class.
In 2017, for instance, Trump touted Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) and Sen. David Perdue’s (R-GA) RAISE Act legislation, which would have cut legal immigration down to about 500,000 arrivals a year rather than the current admission of more than one million legal immigrants annually who compete against working-class Americans for jobs.
Trump, at the time, said legal immigration levels needed to be trimmed to “reduce poverty, increase wages, and save taxpayers billions and billions of dollars,” arguing that the current importation of more than a million legal immigrants every year “has placed substantial pressure on American workers, taxpayers, and community resources.”
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[–] 17205670? ago
More for Israel maybe, I guess tax cuts are nice too but that doesn't change the fact that deportations are down. Face it you're a dumb nigger just like the people who voted for the king of all niggers.
[–] 17209344? ago
deportations are technically down, youre correct. does that include self deportations or account for the smaller amount of illegals here at the moment?
i mean, do you have any idea how fucked this country is? how do we have accurate immigration statistics when we werent even counting them coming in since before bill clinton was in office and only started counting in 2017?
ICE hasnt had a job they could perform for like 2 decades and now they are active. they have a presence in the area i work and i've witnessed arrests. this is a first for me and i've worked here for over 15 years. ive also anonymously used them to arrest people which lead to closed businesses
theres something fucky about the statistics.
>>12886357
imkikey wasnt a good mod. but he wasnt as bad as many made him out to be. if you watched the event log like i did, the ban volume were insane. he blanket banned israel IPs and other suspicious ones like that. i was banned at one point for 3 months for being a ctr shill and my post wasnt even political. im willing to bet groups went through /pol/ and just reported everything to flood it.
everyone seems to have forgotten how insane and unusable /pol/ was.