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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 aren't americans available or willing to do such jobs. >> part of the reason americans aren't 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 prepared to work for in the field. so these are all economic issues that one has to consider. sure, the...

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 he's the perfect person, why so many voted for him to do so, why doesn't he do it? >> stephanie, i believe he is doing it and i think he's going to do it more when worng with us and congress to find that disconnect between our education system and the economy and immigration system based more on lottery than it is based on ...

Value black lives. do we value immigrant workers? do we value a woman's 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 been an agenda of hostility. and i think that is what the resistance is, uniting people in resistance....

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. >> jenna: as we mentioned, awaiting the daily white house press briefing such as dart peered we ke...

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 they're telling me the solution lies in economic investment in the area. they believe the city is not doing enough. >> great reporting. thank you, cnbc's aditi roy on the numbers behind it. thank you. tomorrow marks the start of may. and with that comes may d...