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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[–] 17209362? ago
Just when I thought "I want people to come into our country in the largest numbers ever," was the worst thing he ever said.
[–] 17210344? ago
btw the USA's estimation of racial demographics relies upon self-reporting in censuses.
So when you see a modern percentage of whites, that includes white people, and whoever feels like saying that they're white.
It's probably actually worse then reported, maybe significantly worse.
They play games like this in every western country, sometimes inflating the numbers of whites to boil the frog in nations where the populace is capable of extreme belligerence if roused (ex. America), sometimes in other countries including the question to claim race OR nationality, to cause demoralization and give a sense of hopelessness as if it's too late even though it really isn't (ex.Canada).
The main goal is obviously to cause a lull.
I honestly don't trust any numbers at all anymore. The only number that truly interests me is 100%.
[–] 17210345? ago
Not true. Government agents do census reports on a ten-year basis through the Census Bureau. you we have one those right?