Sanctuary Cities

Mark wrote:

"Of course, thinking people know Trump is simply abusing his office to punish his political opponents. Can you imagine if Obama said he was going to send all illegals to red states while they wait for their asylum hearings?"

Obama didn't announce that he was going to send immigrants to other states. He just started doing it. The same thing was happening in 2014. Tens of thousands of immigrants from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras were making their way through Mexico to cross the border into America. Southern Texas could not deal with the number of people, so Obama had some of them flown to San Diego, then bused them to Murrieta. This was before California was a sanctuary state. The people of Murrieta didn't want the infusion of immigrants, with good reason. It was planned to continue until who knows when. Murrieta Police Chief Sean Hadden said he was told to expect 140 immigrants every 72 hours. https://www.cnn.com/2014/07/02/us/california-immigrant-transfers/index.html 

PJ, companies who need more employees must pay more for those employees.  Illegals simply drive down wages for those who reside within the United States legally.  Higher wages will encourage many people to begin looking for jobs again.  Millions and millions would like work, yet are no longer listed as unemployed.  You know this truth, yet you lie about the facts in order to promote your agenda.

How come these people you speak of in Texas aren't picking up the open construction jobs employers say are unfilled?     And this is on top of the 8% workforce already in place that is illegal immigrants.   

So you want to remove the 8% of immigrants....and somehow replace them with 4% of the unemployed people who already ignore the open positions that exist now.   Thats your premise.

I'm sorry, I'm too good at basic arithmetic to entertain you.

 "It is basic Freshman economics 101." 

Optimal economic growth is between 2 & 3+%.  Obama's economic growth was under 2% & he said the US could never exceed 2%.

President Trump's growth is just under 3%; which is optimal.

mark just admitted that tax cuts work!

Because wages aren't high enough.  Eliminate the illegals, and wages increase.  It's simple economics 101.