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Posted on 07/21/2025 9:45:51 AM PDT by John Semmens
Statistically, all of the jobs gained since Trump took office have gone to native-born Americans. In Biden's last year in office half of the jobs gained went to immigrants. Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-DeRemer explained "President Trump promised to focus on improving the opportunities and wages of Americans when he campaigned for the presidency. We are now delivering on that promise. Two million more Americans have jobs that they didn't have while Biden was president."
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) was less enthusiastic about this outcome, pointing out that "President Biden's policies produced a more balanced result. I addition to aiding both natives and immigrants to get jobs there was also a 50/50 balance between public and private sector jobs. In contrast, all of Trump's job gains were in the private sector. As we are seeing, Trump is relentlessly firing thousands of public sector employees. Public service careers are disappearing at an alarming rate."
Secretary Chavez-DeRemer pointed out that "private sector jobs produce wealth. Public sector jobs consume wealth. With the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) helping to identify redundancies and unnecessary functions in the public sector we are able to generate more opportunities for augmenting the wealth creation function of private industry. Right now there are an estimated six million Americans who are willing to work but have been priced out of employment by the wage-lowering presence of illegal immigrants in the workforce. The efforts being made to deport illegal immigrants will improve the employment prospects of these Americans."
In an effort to thwart this outcome, Rep. Maria Salazar (R-Fl) and Veronica Escobar (D-Tx) have introduced "The Dignity Act." Salazar explained "this legislation acknowledges that most undocumented individuals are not seeking citizenship, but rather the dignity of living and working legally, contributing to society, paying taxes, being safe from deportation, and traveling to see family during the holidays. Add in the fact that there are some jobs that Americans aren't willing to do it seems that allowing more immigrants in is a win-win situation."
Chavez-DeRemer challenged the "aren't willing to do" premise by citing the construction industry as an example, saying "right now it is estimated that about 20% of the construction jobs are held by illegal immigrants and 80% by Americans. That means that Americans are willing to do this kind of work. The main thing stopping them getting construction jobs is the undercutting of wages by illegal immigrant workers. This is not a 'win-win' situation and we are fixing it."
"Well, a lot of American voters are not going to like paying the higher prices needed to pay other Americans to do the work that illegal immigrants are doing for less," Salazar predicted.
In related news, Argentina went from bankruptcy to a booming economy in the course of a single year after its libertarian President Javier Gerardo Milei drastically slashed government spending. Adopting a chainsaw as a symbol of his administration he eliminated half of the government's ministries, fired 10% of the federal workforce, reduced regulations and taxes. "We loosened the fetters that were impeding our people's opportunities to create wealth," Milei boasted. "We proved that freedom works better than socialism."
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I think Hakeem Jeffries is someone who needs to be ignored.
Heck. Not much different then every summer I had as a kid.
We always took part in the ‘haying’ every summer... Oddly enough... I cant’ recall ever getting money from the local farmers for helping out... Those days are over.
Kids don’t even go outside anymore and they’re all allergic to hay and everything else.
The main thing stopping them getting construction jobs is ...
Unfortunately many citizen candidates for construction jobs have alcohol, drug and anger issues. We can debate: Which came first. Or we can ignore reality.
The last thing an employer needs is a guy with an electric saw and a bad attitude...or bad sense of balance.
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