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Determine they shouldnt be here any longer. there is a lot of people we need to remove. mayors like that one in tennessee dont help. pete: speaking of enforcing the law and removal, down in mississippi there was a series of raids on poultry processing plants. ult matily 640 workers detained. we just learned that 300 of which were released. there has been a lot of spin and hyperbole about these actions. tell us what the context is and why they happen. >> well, first of all, ice has dramatically i...

Policies. im beginning to see evidence that trumps immigration policies are beneficial to the lower rungs of the employment ladder. i think hes been talking about it but i dont know if hes leaked into the immigration policy. as we see illegal immigration a client, theres been an increase in native-born employment, small increase, 1%. that doesnt mean whites. it means blacks and hispanics who are getting jobs. that may be why his popularity is rising among blacks and hispanics. something like 29%...

. president trumps approval rating has hit a new low, just 33%. now he is go back to his base and his campaign basics to try to shore up those numbers. they are looking to cut illegal immigration by 50% in ten years while moving to a merit based system. the new proposal was sponsored by tom cotton and david purdue. support on capitol hill doesnt extend far beyond that. >> the illegal immigration system has not been the focus or the problem for the last several years. >> there are no lines of p...

Merit-based immigration plan today. the white house proposed what it calls a merit-based immigration system that would effectively cut illegal immigration by 50%. he said unskilled immigration hurts american workers. what are your thoughts? >> all of these jobs filled by immigrants are jobs americans dont care to fill. picking crops out in the field, theres not a long line of americans wanting to do that. when you go to the packinghouses, the poultry processing plants, you find a lot of immigran...

If there are 12 or 13 million illegals here, dont you think if some of them werent here that americans would take some of those jobs? >> youre the economist. they have farmers now. do you know how much theyre offering some of the undocumented to work? 16 drars, $17 an hour. >> why is that? >> because the country has evolved. our country has e vold. people who traditionally held these jobs, like the african americans in the south, theyve gone up the food chain so to speak. they dont do the jobs i...