[kabar]

The real question is who is going to restore the import tariffs, and restore American manufacturing and put everyone back to work. Do that and you won’t need to raise the minimum wage, the labor market will do it for you.

No, the real question is why we are bringing in 1.1 million legal permanent legal immigrants a year along with 640,000 guest workers annually. Immigrants are taking all the jobs.

In December 2014 there were 18 million immigrants (legal and illegal) living in the country who had arrived since January 2000. But job growth over this period was just 9.3 million — half of new immigration.

Between two-thirds and three-fourths of the new arrivals are estimated to be legal immigrants. Of the new arrivals 89 percent were potential workers 16 and older. In addition to the 18 million new immigrants, the native-born working-age population (ages 16 to 65) grew by 16.5 million since 2000; if we count natives over age 65, total native population growth was 25.2 million since 2000.

Job growth has not come close to matching new immigration and natural population increase; as a result, the labor force participation rate (the share working or looking for work) of native-born Americans 16 to 65 shows a significant long-term decline.

The share of native-born Americans 16 to 65 in the labor force was 77 percent in December 2000, 75 percent in December 2007, and 72 percent in December 2014.

The number of working-age natives not in the labor force (neither working nor looking for work) increased by 13 million from December 2000 to December 2014.

[dragnet2]

No, the real question is why we are bringing in 1.1 million legal permanent legal immigrants a year along with 640,000 guest workers annually. Immigrants are taking all the jobs.

It's what the corrupt and greedy AH's will run from and never admit.

They don't want to talk about the real issues.

The corrupt U.S. Gov backed and supported by big biz is adding the equivalent of 1 or 2 *major* cities of nothing but foreigners every single year.

WTF did people think would happen?

Import the equivalent of nearly 2 major cities per year of low wage green carder's, illegal's, Muslims and others from who knows where and they turn around and export tens of hundreds of thousands of jobs to off shore low wage labor land.

People think things are bad now? They have no idea what's coming.

[DannyTN]

We need to do both. Raise the import tariffs, because imports are at an all time high. And close the border and deport illegals to reduce the supply of labor and make jobs available to American Citizens.