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Determine they shouldn't be here any longer. there is a lot of people we need to remove. mayor's like that one in tennessee don't 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 increased their enforcement actions over the last year. this year over the last year. literally 2,...

Policies. i'm beginning to see evidence that trump's immigration policies are beneficial to the lower rungs of the employment ladder. i think he's been talking about it but i don't know if he's leaked into the immigration policy. as we see illegal immigration a client, there's been an increase in native-born employment, small increase, 1%. that doesn't 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% among blacks. they have to show may be trump's policies are having a definite effect on empl...

. president trump's 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 doesn't 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 people lining up to pick fruit, work in slaughter houses, or poultry processing plants. >> this imm...

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 don't care to fill. picking crops out in the field, there's 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 immigrants taking these dirty, hot, sweaty jobs and there aren't a lot of americans standing in line tryin...

If there are 12 or 13 million illegals here, don't you think if some of them weren't here that americans would take some of those jobs? >> you're the economist. they have farmers now. do you know how much they're 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, they've gone up the food chain so to speak. they don't do the jobs in the meat packing plants and the poultry processing plants. they've moved on. i've said this ...