Ryan says no immigrant workers needed for 10 years

Daily Caller ^ | 1/28/14 | Neil Munro

[jimbo123]

The nation’s economy won’t need additional immigrants for another 10 years, Rep. Paul Ryan told a friendly audience of Texas business executives.

“We will have labor shortages in — not right now — but in the near future, in, say, a decade,” he predicted during a taped appearance at the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce in San Antonio.

Paul’s admission may be a relief for GOP legislators, who are facing conflicting pressures on immigration from voters who are worried about jobs, from business donors eager for new low-wage workers, and from the Democrats’ 2014 campaign strategy of economic populism.

The Jan. 24 forecast comes shortly before Republicans gather for a closed-door strategy meeting in Cambridge, Maryland. GOP leaders, including Ryan, are expected to pressure the caucus to support an unpopular business-backed plan that would immediately increase the flow of low-wage foreign workers — and award work permits to roughly 12 million illegal immigrants — who would compete against their voters for jobs.

Ryan is perhaps the leading GOP advocate for an immigration increase.

“We have to have a guest-worker program so that [foreign] people can come and go freely through the front door to serve our economy, to serve our needs,” Ryan said in Texas, without once mentioning the 20 million unemployed or underemployed American workers, or the 28 million Americans teenagers who will compete for jobs in a few years.

[xzins]

I’m surprised he didn’t demand retired vets be restricted from taking jobs after retirement so that illegals can find employment.

[chicagolady]

He’s a LYING SACK.....

[kabar]

He is not a conservative like we think of conservatism and certainly not in the mold of Thatcher. The UK is a welfare state and we are following them over the cliff.