[Owen]

Would you guys for God's sake go read the demographic/age breakdown of the US Census.

There Are Not Enough Americans Of Working Age For An Economy This Large. The ageing of the population has consequences and this is one of them. It's not "jobs Americans won't do". It's "there aren't enough Americans of the right age to do the jobs".

Foreign workers have got to be managed one helluva lot better than they have been, but the nation's economy cannot survive a reduction in their numbers to zero.

This is a very good speech. The door needs to close. Period. Aspiring Americans have to toe the legal line, and then get to work. Crack down on legal enforcement, but if you try to outlaw all foreign manual work workers, the economy at its current size simply cannot tolerate that.

Now if you'd like to see a Depression magnitude reduction in the economy's size, maybe by 50% with your mother on the street selling apples like in 1930, then go ahead and reduce foreign worker count to zero.

[CommieCutter]

Yeah there's a shortage of Americans, you are correct. There's a shortage because we've aborted about 30 million people.

[kabar]

Now if you'd like to see a Depression magnitude reduction in the economy's size, maybe by 50% with your mother on the street selling apples like in 1930, then go ahead and reduce foreign worker count to zero.

We take in 1 million legal immigrants every year, more than any other country in the world combined. Our birth rate is above replacement thanks to immigration, legal and illegal. If we need more people, we should be the ones doing it, not allowing the poor, uneducated of Mexico and Cetnral America to self-select themselves. We are creating a permanent underclass who will not be assimilated.

[Spiff]

Now if you'd like to see a Depression magnitude reduction in the economy's size, maybe by 50% with your mother on the street selling apples like in 1930, then go ahead and reduce foreign worker count to zero.

Didn't the President just denounce nonsense fear mongering related to the immigration issue.

Few here are stupid enough to buy that hyperbole. Give it up.

[nopardons]

Well said.

[Tammy8]

"there aren't enough Americans of the right age to do the jobs"

I haven't looked at demographics, but I have been wondering if there are enough Americans to fill all the jobs; if that is the case I wish he would explain it that way- the way he says it now makes me want to throw rotten eggs at him and I still support him, just don't agree with parts of his plan about the border and illegals. His jobs Americans won't or aren't doing wording is an insult to Americans who have and are doing those jobs every day. I wish someone would explain that to him.