Here's Schumer on meet the press:
MR. GREGORY: Senator Schumer, is immigration reform dead then?
SEN. SCHUMER: I don't think so. First, let's look at how desperately we need it. Fifteen thousand people cross our border illegally every day. Most of them take jobs from Americans. And yet, at the same time, there are certain people we need in this economy to help us grow, and we can't get them--engineers, doctors, farm workers. So the system is broken--it lets the wrong people in, excludes the wrong people--and so we need to fix it.
Now here's Greg on Schumer:
Now here's Greg on Schumer:
This is both inaccurate and unhelpful. "Most" illegal crossers do not take jobs away from Americans. But if Schumer believes they do, then it is not useful to say we "desperately" need them to take away those jobs. Overall, he seems to think the U.S. economy needs only a tiny fraction of the workforce that is attracted to it, which ignores demography and common sense. Which "wrong people" does he think are being let in?
In short, if Schumer is the point man for immigration reform, then it is in trouble.
Kudos, Sir!
Kudos, Sir!
1 comment:
I agree with Greg's conclusion in that Schumer is confused and mistaken. To be fair, Greg himself mistakes Shumer's quote that "we 'desparately' need them to take away those jobs." Schumer said "let's look at how desperately we need it." "it" is clearly immagration reform -- not immigration.
In any event, we are all better off when Schumer is not speaking.
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