Posted on 12/08/2016 3:57:39 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Labor strongly defended immigration reform in remarks several years ago and also criticized border security as a waste of money and overly intrusive — positions that put him at odds with the president-elect’s campaign promises to crack down on immigration.
Andrew Puzder, CEO of the fast-food chain conglomerate CKE Restaurants, said that passing immigration reform that offered a path to legalization for many of the millions of undocumented immigrants in the country was “the right thing to do” and would boost the economy, in a question-and-answer session organized by conservative think tank the American Enterprise Institute in 2013.
Puzder’s belief that immigration reform could be an economic boon was once firmly implanted in the Republican mainstream, with Republicans willing to join a bipartisan effort to pass comprehensive immigration reform as recently as 2013. But the victory of Trump, who campaigned on building a giant wall on the U.S.-Mexico border and said that Mexico has sent “rapists” to the United States, demonstrated that the Republican base rejects that thinking.
“If we had immigration reform and were able to hire these people who really want to work, we’d have a more diverse, incentivized and productive workforce,” Puzder said in 2013. “You’d really reinforce this idea that the United States is the land of opportunity, the land of entrepreneurial vision — and that could use some reinforcing.”
Puzder said that his fast-food chain’s workforce in California, where a greater share of employees were Latino, was more productive and motivated than some of his employees in other areas of the country.
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Great. Open Borders Pudzer, I’d like to meet open borders Haley
Is everyone in Mexico now going to be a citizen of the U.S.?
That was before he has robots to work the counter and fry machine. !! FTW !!!
Realize what the drive bys are trying to do. They are pulling out any and all old comments from these people, who WILL HAVE TO DO WHAT TRUMP SAYS REGARDLESS.
So stop freetting. FFS I have never seen so many worry warts, especially from a victorious, dominant winner like Trump. Holy cow people.
yeah the breitbarters are going nuts, as usual
Review Rush’s take on Trump going Machiavelli from earlier this week. It was brilliant. Trump ownes his opposition.
If they are “immigrants” they are already here legally. Problem solved. However if he is talking about “illegal aliens” he should say that.
True, but why pick a guy who you know said this stuff voluntarily without being under pressure to say it, he believes it, or did. To me it would show a real lack of insight and understanding and for a guy who’s that old to be that screwed up that late in life, man, you don’t take a chance on him, cuz you have to question his thought process.
Never in the history of mankind has Diversity aided a society. The British, Roman, Asian and American empires rose and dominated by celebrating and forming a uniform or monolithic society.
Legalizing Illegals is un-American. ESAD you filthy lazy welfare supporters.
Schadenboner. An extreme degree of pleasure from the misfortune of Never Trump A$$holes.
A bad pick!
He won’t be/better not be deciding immigration policy.
It does make me nervous that Trump is picking Cheap Labor Express Republicans.
Legalizing immigrants is a lot different than legalizing “illegal” immigrants.
The main thing is to knock down this $17 and hour for serving french fries with no education and using robots so my hamburger doesn’t cost more the $2 !
It really would be a good idea streamline immigration of the cream of the crop from Europe and the Far East; granting asylum to ME Christians would also be a boon to the US.
I’m sure there are quite a few French, Germans and Scandinavians that have had enough of the Muslim invasion.
Remind me again what influence the Labor Secretary has on immigration policy and enforcing the border. I’ll wait patiently...
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