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MARK LEVIN : NUMBERS YOU HEAR ON IMMIGRATION ARE A LIE
Breitbart ^ | July 14,2015 | by TONY LEE

Posted on 07/14/2015 5:31:57 PM PDT by Hojczyk

Trump is resonating with Americans, especially the so-called “silent majority,” by speaking bluntly about illegal immigration, and Levin also had some politically incorrect points to make on the subject. While listening to Breitbart News Sunday,

Levin said he was particularly bothered by the claim—made by politicians on both sides of the aisle—that there are so many so-called “jobs that Americans will not do.” Levin mentioned that, according to the Census, 73% of janitors are American citizens, as are 51% of maids and housekeepers, 58%of taxi drivers, 64% of landscapers, 66% of construction workers, and 72% of bellhops, porters, and concierges.

But the establishment wings of both parties that do not want to control immigration levels never mention these inconvenient facts. Levin also predicted that the current “push by cities to drive up the minimum wage makes it more likely that people are going to hire illegal aliens in order to undercut the wages of Americans who work in these industries.”

“I wanted to mention these jobs because the majority of these manual labor jobs are done by American citizens, and there’d be more but for the fact that the entire pay structure is undermined by the criminals who come into the country and the criminals who hire them and the criminal politicians who keep praising them,” Levin said.

He added that when listening to Jeb Bush, it seems like he believes “Everybody who comes here is better than every American citizen.”

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aliens; economy; wages

1 posted on 07/14/2015 5:31:57 PM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: Hojczyk
Then you hear the argument "Who will pick the strawberries"?

I for one will go out back and pick some right now. I don't need juan gomez to do that.

2 posted on 07/14/2015 5:37:17 PM PDT by pfflier
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To: Hojczyk

Why hire an American for $15/hr (plus all the other costs involved) when you can hire an illegal alien for less than half as much and pay them under the table?


3 posted on 07/14/2015 5:41:04 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (INTOLERANCE WILL NOT BE TOLERATED!!!!)
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To: pfflier

It won’t be that long until there will be robots doing all the picking.


4 posted on 07/14/2015 5:41:33 PM PDT by MarkeyD (Obama is a victim of Affirmative Action)
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To: Hojczyk

(this is from a story last night, but worth a re-post, have a look)


“A report from the Congressional Research Service concluded that “the vast majority of UNAUTHORIZED IMMIGRANTS do not fit in the category that fits Trump’s description: aggravated felons, whose crimes include murder, drug trafficking or illegal trafficking of firearms,” the Washington Post reported.

The American Immigration Council also reported that, based on analysis of data from the FBI, US Census Bureau and other agencies, “IMMIGRANTS are less likely than the native-born to engage in either violent or nonviolent ‘antisocial’ behaviors.””


Look at the the above 2 paragraphs, and the words that I capitalized - they are together, with one right after the other, just as above, but they are referring to two entire different groups of people - in the first case ILLEGALS, in the second ALL IMMIGRANTS.

For the first case, I would just use the analogy of blacks. The VAST MAJORITY of blacks are honest, hard working, people that simply want to provide for their families (that may not quite be true for black males aged 15-30, but it is true for all other categories of blacks)...yet black are half the population of our jails.


5 posted on 07/14/2015 5:41:36 PM PDT by BobL (REPUBLICANS - Fight for the WHITE VOTE...and you will win (see my 'about' page))
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To: Hojczyk

What do former convicts do when they get out of jail? We have a larger obligation to them to integrate them back into society than we do immigrants.


6 posted on 07/14/2015 5:51:00 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: Hojczyk

As always Mark Levin nails it.


7 posted on 07/14/2015 5:52:44 PM PDT by wjcsux ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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To: pfflier
I don't need juan gomez to do that.

At least get Juan Valdez's name right. He's been picking your coffee beans for crying out loud.

8 posted on 07/14/2015 5:53:49 PM PDT by BipolarBob
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To: Hojczyk

The biggest lies is the 11M number (of illegals). That number has been around for at least 15 years and is way small. IMHO, the real number is between 40-50M.


9 posted on 07/14/2015 6:04:36 PM PDT by rbg81
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To: Hojczyk
This is the stuff Ted Cruz should be saying instead of WE introduced (bipartisan) legislation blah, blah, blah.
10 posted on 07/14/2015 6:39:37 PM PDT by lewislynn ( Hillary = Obama in a pantsuit)
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To: Hojczyk

There is so much smoke and mirrors to address in the Republican party (and in the Democrat party and the federal government, and the states, and counties and cities too, it’s difficult to address all of it in a short concise presentation.

Mark actually comes close to rambling here, but it’s because one thing leads to another, and that to another, and that to another, and on and on it goes.

You can’t stay on topic, because every topic is merely a new worm-hole for galaxies of potential corruption to address.

How do you address all that? When you talk illegal immigration, you have to address the border, jobs, crime, gangs. prisons, illegal housing, illegal commerce, children, the Constitution, and that’s just getting started.

You start another topic and it’s flourishing in the exact same manner. Good luck.

Mark did a good job there, so don’t get me wrong. It’s tough to talk to folks without their eyes glazing over, because there’s do much detail that has to be covered, you can’t help but nod off after seven or eight hours with nothing repeated.


11 posted on 07/14/2015 6:52:49 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Conservatism: Now home to liars too. And we'll support them. Yea... GOPe)
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To: rbg81

I hope you’re right, because if you aren’t 25,000,000 illegals have already been processed to legal status.

That’s the dirty little secret.


12 posted on 07/14/2015 6:54:21 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Conservatism: Now home to liars too. And we'll support them. Yea... GOPe)
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To: BipolarBob

I had no intention of mentioning juan valdez or his donkey. I said juan gomez and I meant it. Everyone knows juan valdez picks coffee.. we’re talking strawberries.


13 posted on 07/14/2015 7:13:03 PM PDT by pfflier
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To: Hojczyk
Check out Ann Coulter: ‘immigrants…are window dressing for left-wing activists’ campaign to destroy America’ .
14 posted on 07/14/2015 7:15:42 PM PDT by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: Hojczyk
Holy moly! Mark's going nuclear on Hannity right now!

Check it out. Awesome!

15 posted on 07/14/2015 7:19:58 PM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: MarkeyD

Yep!


16 posted on 07/14/2015 7:45:12 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (0bama's agenda—Divide and conquer seems to be working.)
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To: TribalPrincess2U

Then the illegals will really be in trouble. That’s karma for voting for a traitor.


17 posted on 07/14/2015 7:46:43 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (0bama's agenda—Divide and conquer seems to be working.)
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To: Hojczyk
The biggest LIAR in throwing out FALSE illegal immigration/crime statistics is Whorealdo whose big mouth overpowers everybody else on The Five and the other panelists just give up or they're ill-prepared with the true figures.

Between Whorealdo and Juan Peron Williams this program is just too plain sickening to watch any more.

Leni

18 posted on 07/14/2015 8:55:12 PM PDT by MinuteGal (Boycott Aug-Nov-All movie houses,Macys,everything Disney.See MinuteGal posts in "search" 4 details)
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To: lewislynn
This is the stuff Ted Cruz should be saying

Maybe he would if he really believed it.

19 posted on 07/14/2015 11:45:14 PM PDT by itsahoot (55 years a republican-Now Independent. Will write in Sarah Palin, no matter who runs. RIH-GOP)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Fixing the tax code would fix two problems at once.


20 posted on 07/16/2015 5:42:13 AM PDT by generally (Don't be stupid. We have politicians for that.)
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