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Responsibility is to americans but i wonder is a macro question if we are automating a lot of jobs and you just that we are going to, why do we need 1.1 million legal low skill workers everywhere and an unknown number of illegal ones? what are they going to do exactly? if jobs are going away why are we importing all these people? has anyone ever stopped to ask that question? >> net illegal immigration has been flat for a period of time. its been going down under president trump with his rhetoric...

11 million or 12 million coming in now. the other rational says that people with a high school education, that is half of the legal flow, theyre an enormous fiscal drain. people with that skill level in the modern american economy dont make much and they or their children qualify for a host of programs. right now about half of households headed by immigrants so the idea behind this is help the poor and let the taxpayers have a break. >> first of all, two things. first, industry after industry be...

Hillary clinton wants to double down and make it more expensive and its not going to work. >> how does she respond? >> she will have to communicate what she will do differently than what is done right now to keep these rates from going up. these are problems that both republicans and democrats have had since really early in the campaigns. donald trump has not been able to communicate clearly what he will do to decrease these rates or to replace obamacare after he repeals it if he wins. >> donald...

Cents every day understand this stuff better than people in academia and people detached from the real world. these people have to make up the money somehow or they are going out of business. lets give everyone $15. lets give everyone $500 an hour. guess what, your business shuts down. and who suffers? low skill workers suffer and people are out of jobs and the prices of things go up to a point where your business doesnt sustain itself. people either wont go to you, or you wont be able to afford...

And the evidence is it does cost jobs. doesnt cost huge amounts of jobs. it cost jobs for low skill workers who are largely in eating and drinking and retail trade. and 500,000 jobs, thats about a years worth of job growth in those industries. we cant afford to do that to a population that needs work and incomes. >> its going to be very hard to get republicans to come around to this. well see if thats reflected on the hill. thank you both of you. you can watch the presidents remarks on this ve...

♪ if i gave one to you? ♪ the senate judiciary committee is holding a hearing right now to continue the markup on the gang of eights immigration bill. today theyre focusing on the new guest worker program designed to attract high-tech labor and low skilled workers. republicans are looking to make the legislation friendlier to businesses while democrats are pushing for prolabor amendments to the bill. states are also look agent the rights of low skill workers. new yorks assembly just pass a...

Stamps, because in fact a majority of snap households do in fact have people working, often, woing full time, often working for walmart, but in fact the other low-wage jobs, but working full time is not enough to feed their family. >> yes, they are on foot insecurity. they feel insecurity about food, because theyre every secure about their employment and we are doing everything we can to discourages or z everyone. we have $2,000 that they have to pay if they dont have the right kind of health in...

Immigration reforms, visaings for low skilled workers and restrictions on companies that hire skilled workers. >> we had a break through agreement last week specifically about low skill workers, were very excited about that about business and labor, support of the bill is critical. this bill is in the interest of every american, whether youre a union member, whether youre a small business owner, whether you work for a big company, were talking about making our country stronger, were talking abou...

Speaker yon boehners point, its not a solution to the problems of our economy, but it is one thing we can do that helps very, very low skill workers, people at the bottom of the income ladder, get a little bit more from what are at this moment very profitable, very profitable period in corporate profits. >> its not just about a little bit more because thats a good idea. if you look at -- i mean, one in three american families is living near poverty. i mean, the census number -- the number of ame...

At the number, 71%, what the president got of the latino vote and that has been in many ways spurring this conversation. but do they seem to really want a pathway to citizenship, or is it they want to do something, so in the end they can sort of say well heres what we did. >> its not totally clear who the audience for these proposals is. the problem for the gop is their base, their core voters, the people who come most reliably for them, are really opposed to anything that seems like amnesty, sm...