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Mulvaney says U.S. is ‘desperate’ for more legal immigrants
WaPo ^ | 2/20/2020 | Nick Miroff & Josh Dawsey

Posted on 02/20/2020 10:55:38 AM PST by semimojo

Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney told a crowd at a private gathering in England on Wednesday night that the Trump administration “needs more immigrants” for the U.S. economy to continue growing, according to a audio recording of his remarks obtained by The Washington Post.

“We are desperate — desperate — for more people,” Mulvaney said. “We are running out of people to fuel the economic growth that we’ve had in our nation over the last four years. We need more immigrants.”

The Trump administration wants those immigrants to come in a “legal fashion,” Mulvaney said, according to the recording....

Trump has waffled on the subject, at times suggesting that he would like to curb legal immigration and at times saying he would like to increase it.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: corporatewelfare; hireamerican; immigration
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To: semimojo

I have no problem with legal immigration as long as they prove that they will be a net positive to the country. We don’t need more uneducated, unskilled baby machines who are a drain on the economy. And we don’t need more Muslims. No matter what they bring, they will bring Islam.


21 posted on 02/20/2020 11:11:03 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (A socalist is someone that wants everything you have except your job.)
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To: Red Badger

But they don’t, so we do, sadly.


22 posted on 02/20/2020 11:14:29 AM PST by Unassuaged (I have shocking data relevant to the conversation!)
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To: semimojo

Put the BLM and Ferguson protesters to work get them off their asses


23 posted on 02/20/2020 11:18:53 AM PST by A_Former_Democrat (Guns up . . . We cominÂ’ PS: Eric The Blower CIAramella. PASS IT ON)
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To: semimojo
Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney told a crowd at a private gathering in England on Wednesday night that the Trump administration “needs more immigrants” for the U.S. economy to continue growing, according to a audio recording of his remarks obtained by The Washington Post.


We need immigrants with skills and resources. Not the criminals and the ignorant.
24 posted on 02/20/2020 11:19:44 AM PST by The_Media_never_lie ("The media is the enemy of the American people." Democrat Pat Caddell)
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To: dljordan

In other words more consumers especially for Amazon Costco Sam’s and Walmart

And more on the dole for Keysian economics


25 posted on 02/20/2020 11:21:37 AM PST by A_Former_Democrat (Guns up . . . We cominÂ’ PS: Eric The Blower CIAramella. PASS IT ON)
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To: Alas Babylon!
Yes, because God forbid wages for programmers, tech workers, accountants, bankers and the like go up like others wages are...

Pres. Trump/Steve—don’t listen to what the bums at AmazonAppleFaceBookGoogleMicrosoftOracleTwitter say.

There’s a ton of smart folks in STEM here at home. And any STEM worker is a short training program away from a new skill in his/her repertoire. Unlike India and Chinese workers, they don’t lie about their skills, either.

AMEN!!

26 posted on 02/20/2020 11:22:07 AM PST by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: semimojo

Bullshit.

Culture is more important.

Fire Mulvaney and everyone that thinks as he does.


27 posted on 02/20/2020 11:23:48 AM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: semimojo
We are running out of people to fuel the economic growth

Only if by "economic" you mean "corporate globalist wallet". Rising wages may be anathema to them, but it'll be great for America.

28 posted on 02/20/2020 11:25:42 AM PST by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: semimojo
Trump seeks deal on foreign workers that could anger base
29 posted on 02/20/2020 11:26:25 AM PST by Theoria (I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
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To: semimojo

What we need is American family’s having children.Careing for the rest of the world has killed the working family’s that would have been producing their offspring.

Cut the taxes and we won’t need more legal or illegal immigrants to keep our economy growing.


30 posted on 02/20/2020 11:27:35 AM PST by puppypusher ( The world is going to the dogs.)
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To: Red Badger
If companies can simply import more workers, there isn't a incentive to push for better students or workers.
31 posted on 02/20/2020 11:28:22 AM PST by Theoria (I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

“We need immigrants with skills and resources.”

No, we don’t.


32 posted on 02/20/2020 11:28:29 AM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: chris37; Alas Babylon!
White and nerdy is still a thing in this country. And yes, they can code. Better than Indians and Chinese, I can assure you.

I really do hope you are right about that, but I’m personally having a very hard time seeing that in any of the young people that I know.

What did the young people you know major in? Engineering schools are still producing STEM graduates.

33 posted on 02/20/2020 11:28:56 AM PST by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: semimojo

We have too many as it is. Ugh.


34 posted on 02/20/2020 11:29:34 AM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard; dljordan
Folks here may not want to hear this, but he’s right. Our pitiful economic growth rates (imagine CELEBRATING a GDP growth rate of 2.5%) are driven by an aging population and very little domestic population growth.

We are much closer to an endless deflationary cycle like Japan than a lot of people realize.

35 posted on 02/20/2020 11:29:50 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("Oh, but it's hard to live by the rules; I never could and still never do.")
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To: semimojo

On the contrary. The USA needs a twenty year moratorium on ALL immigration, From everywhere.

There’s a whole lot of assimilation that needs to take place before any more foreigners move in


36 posted on 02/20/2020 11:31:23 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: DesertRhino

It’s the kind of immigrants we need. Not poor welfare people, but able bodied, skilled people. And if they get any social services, back they go.


37 posted on 02/20/2020 11:31:48 AM PST by Rusty0604 (2020 four more years!)
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To: NobleFree

Nothing, they either are not yet of college age or didn’t go.

The most competent one, a female who just graduated high school and whose older sister is a rabid SJW feminist type, joined the Navy, so that is good, I think she’ll do well.


38 posted on 02/20/2020 11:32:00 AM PST by chris37 (Impeach Chief Obama Injustice Roberts, a fraud, a clown and a tyrant!)
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To: dljordan

Every Ponzi Scheme has to have a broadening base or reality steps in.


39 posted on 02/20/2020 11:32:50 AM PST by Chewbarkah
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To: semimojo

Mulvaney’s wish is coming true.
“Naturalizations Hit 11-Year High as Election Year Approaches”

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services naturalized 833,000 people — an 11-year high in new oaths of citizenship — in fiscal 2019, which ended Sept. 30. This (2019) fiscal year, USCIS administered the Oath of Allegiance to 60 of America’s newest citizens, from 51 countries, during a special naturalizing ceremony on September 30 at Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian.
https://www.voanews.com/episode/naturalizations-hit-11-year-high-election-year-approaches-4091371


40 posted on 02/20/2020 11:40:38 AM PST by Nero Germanicus
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