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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If deporting them is wrong, I don’t want to be right.
FTW? For the win, or Fort Worth?
because every CEO, the chamber of commerce and the WSJ is for it. That’s the way it is. Every CEO wants to lower costs.
He has to take off his CEO hat off and put his American hat on.
He knows all of the other regulations that the Dept of Labor imposes to increase labor costs, including pro union boss rules.
Luckily, he ain’t gonna be in charge of that . . .
Cheap labor!
Well he’s not going to be making immigration policy. As long as Trump carries thru I’m happy.
Secretary of Labor doesn’t make immigration policy.
This one is beginning to look like the weak link. Didn’t Burger King wrap its burgers in rainbow paper?
Yeah because this guy is going to run immigration, huh?
A cabinet isnt expected to be 100000000000% in agreement with each other. God only knows where some people on this site got that idea.
LOL. Like I am supposed to trust Yahoo News.
I’ll think the SecLab will represent the views of POTUS.
This is FR.
Increasingly a place where people fight to do their best impression of DU commentators.
Dittos....although he may be in charge of enforcement of labor laws (E-verify), which I’m confident will be part of the plan. One truth he spoke referenced the work ethic that he witnessed as head of CKE—it sounded like the entitlement society has created lots of kid too entitled to work at Hardees. This much we know is correct.
For one thing, they are illegal aliens not undocumented residents
They expect the Cabinet to be like a liberal college campus, where everyone thinks the same way
Immigrants are legal and do not require being legalized, he was talking about illegal aliens being given amnesty.
I don’t want bleeding heart liberals anywhere near the reigns of power. This is our last chance to get it right.
“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.”
Mexico should be anxious to get back these human earning fireballs.
There will be a long line of legal applicants wanting to replace them.
This guy never ran Burger King.
Enforcement such as E-verify will self-deport many.
So people who don't want pro amnesty people in the cabinet are like liberal college campuses?
That's quite a twist in logic.
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