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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[–] 17210370? ago
The "we" is referring to government agents, that's not "self-reporting" if you pay the government to conduct and organize the information. They cross-reference their data with immigration and emigration inflow and outflow. The data is consistent insofar as the ethnic designations are, which they are not, i.e. some English-Americans identify as simply "American." or people of Spanish origin consider themselves "white hispanic" or whatever. It's not self-reporting, it's self-designating one's ethnicity that you're talking about. That's not self-reporting if they aren't filing the fucking paperwork. UnDeRsTaNd? You can't just make shit up and expect those agents not to follow up with more questions, that's what follow-up surveys are for.
[–] 17211289? ago
Citation on the census workers being able to challenge racial assertions?
Just kidding, there are no citations, because that would get smacked right the fuck down in court.
I'm not sure why you are trying to lie about this shit. Racial demographics are absolutely self-reported, a worker hanging in paper with information coming only from the client means it's self reporting, The worker handing in the paper does not fucking magically change the information on it or how it was collected.
Why are you trying to gaslight? What is your agenda in lying about how American racial demographics are self-reported?
[–] 17211290? ago
They don't "challenge" anything you retard, they just ask questions, organize the answers and create follow-up surveys when the aggregate data is inconsistent. Sure a few people here and there can straight-up lie, but that's not "self-reporting" that's just fucking with the Census Bureau. I knew you'd double down.