Posted on 05/02/2025 5:59:26 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) stated that “the vast majority of immigrants who happen to be here unlawfully” “are so critical to keep our economy going” and blamed the Trump administration’s immigration policies for GDP shrinking in the last quarter despite “inheriting a strong economy from President Biden.”
Padilla stated, “You were talking in previous segments about the state of the economy. Prices are up, right? There [are] a lot of consumers on edge. When immigrants represent such significant elements of the necessary workforce in agriculture, in hospitality, in construction, in transportation, in health care, and child care and beyond, we ought to be able to distinguish between those violent criminals everybody agrees should be the target and the priority with the vast majority of immigrants who happen to be here hunlawfully, they overstayed a visa or whatever their circumstance was, but are so critical to keep our economy going despite the rhetoric and the horrible policies that the Trump administration is bringing about.”
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Communist globohomos are shameless freaks.
BUT WHO WILL PICK THE CROPS?
The only people being deported are terrorists and gang bangers and even that is in painfully small numbers. So our economy relies on terrorists and gang bangers? Probably should change our economy then.
Imports were massive, which accounts for the lack of growth. Second quarter should recoup and then some.
They don’t really know if the economy fell because all the Biden economic statics were just made up.
Right. MS=13, Mexican cartels, murderers, rapists, etc. are critical to the economy.
I wondered who this Padilla is, that he made such a stupid state. A Democrat Senator, explains everything.
If the Biden economy was so great, why isn’t Kamala Harris President?
With all the negative coverage in media, the Dow is back where it was half a year ago.
Pretty much when it was obvious that Trump is going to be president.
And it is rising.
Plus, the economy is diversifying. Biden people blew up few stocks out of proportions, while the rest of the economy was stagnating or falling.
Now there is a growth in the REST!
This has to be one of THE biggest damned LIES ever told; right up there with Biden is as sharp as a tack! LOL
EEvery dollar spent by the FFeral government is part of the GDP. The more social aid, the higher the GDP.
Bingo
The money Padilla gets paid by the cartels is critical to HIM.
That’s what the senator really means.
Crock of shite.
These people are pathological LIARS.
Four lies in the headline alone.
Nonsense. GDP fell due to reduced government payments to fraudsters- their income is way down.
What a bunch of BS. GDP fell because of the reduction in Federal spending. Private spending actually rose a tad.
Alternative reality much?
Padilla is just another grifting little punk from the state of Californiwhackistan.
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