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Result of this historic flow of unskilled immigration, a shift in wealth from the working class to wealthier corporations and businesses, and its been very unfair for american workers, but especially for immigrant workers, african-american workers, and hispanic workers, and blue-collar workers in general across the country. at the same time, its cost taxpayers enormously because roughly half of immigrant-headed households in the united states receive some type of welfare benefit, which i know is...

Act will help ensure that new comers to our wonderful country will be assimilated and will succeed and achieve the american dream. id like now to invite senator cotton and purdue to say a few words. thank you very much. >> thank you, mr. president, very excited to be here to be introducing the new version of the raise act. our legal immigration system should accomplish two main goals. it should help american workers get a decent pay raise and have a higher standard of living and promote economic...

The most important question when it comes to the u.s. immigration system is who gets a green card. a green card is the golden ticket of u.s. immigration. every year we issue a million green cards to foreign nationals from all the countries of the worl, but we do have without regard to whether that applicant has demonstrated the skill that can add to the u.s. economy, whether they can pay their own way or be reliant on wealth fair or whether theyll displace or take a job from an american worker. ...

Promise, that he would cut down on illegal immigration, and would target skilled workers to try to build up the american workforce to make it more robust and effective, thats part of the messaging youll hear a half hour from now. >> i do find this stunning, today mike bloomberg joined on "morning joe" and talking about small business growth in the united states. one of the things that helps drive small businesses is immigrants, immigrant workers both low skilled and higher skilled. if you look a...

Cross the border illegally. its not worth the risk and expense and the difficulties of coming to the united states without legal status. >> between 2009 and 2016, the obama administration deported 3 million undocumented immigrants. the current trump administration has conducted a surge of arrests. the national bureau of economic research says removing all unauthorized farm workers would hit u.s. agriculture with more than $19 billion in losses. thats a 9% decline in output. >> were going to cont...

In a law, they put in regulation where they said we are not going to use immigrant workers this year. guess what the losses were in that year alone? $140 million, a 40% shortage of workers. there simply arent americans available or willing to do such jobs. >> part of the reason americans arent willing to do those jobs because we have a social safety net for american citizens which does mean that the money you get from social welfare programs is greater than the money illegal immigrants are prepa...

Immigrant workers makes him the perfect person to help us wade through the aspects of legal immigration, visas and everything in north dakota, we need more h1b visas for microsoft campus and other high tech industries. we need something with his breadth of experience. >> if hes the perfect person, why so many voted for him to do so, why doesnt he do it? >> stephanie, i believe he is doing it and i think hes going to do it more when worng with us and congress to find that disconnect between our e...

Value black lives. do we value immigrant workers? do we value a womans right to choose? do we value having clean air or clean soil, clean water? those thing that is we value, are we willing to fight for them? and i think that is what the resistance is about, what do we value and what are we willing to stand up for? we all get a job, but we also want to live in safe, clean air, clean communities, and without hostility. and i think what we have seen out of the trump agenda up to this point has bee...

Says they are speaking out on behalf of immigrants and immigrant workers, not only do they want their voices heard, but they also say they are demanding action. they are calling on congress to withhold funding for some of the key things this administration has said. they wanted to do when it comes to immigration, they want congress to withhold funding for the border wall as well as additional money to pay for i.c.e. agents. >> jon: allison barber covering that protest in the d.c. area, thank you...

Of whites with the same level of education. for the hispanic population, the challenge remains working poverty. so the employment numbers there are a little bit higher. but those jobs are not high paying or high quality. i have talked to a lot of community groups including community coalition which has done a lot of work in the area and theyre telling me the solution lies in economic investment in the area. they believe the city is not doing enough. >> great reporting. thank you, cnbcs aditi roy...