americans won t do. your reaction. they are still doing them, that s the irony. there s about 472 different occupations in this country, aliens make up the majority, of only six of those occupations. you could go to those cities who have not had a flood of low skilled immigration, find americans working the jobs that dick durbin says nobody will take. if they as hotel aides, this is an incredibly condescending attitude both toward americans and toward work. i think what parents would say to their children is you get to any job, all jobs are meaningfu meaningful. the idea that americans are
with, i think most american parents want their kids to get high wage jobs. i m not a fan of the argument that goes we ought to purposefully create an underclass of the workforce that are things we don t want to do that s the saudi arabia argument. that said, i think there is still a case to be made that in the words of abraham lincoln, the immigrants are the replenishing stream for the native population and if you look at our native population, it s not that high. i think i agree with her principal, let s ask what is good for the american nation. when you look at immigrants, the first thing we should ask is are these people who want to become americans? do they buy into the american way? if so, i feel a lot more leniency in trying to incorporate them into the economy than if it s just a permanent guest worker.
the american worker and i would hope before an immigration bill is passed that it would respect the whites of american workers and professional workers. laura: sanders is right, where is the congressional concern for the human dignity of america s low skilled workers today. they call them the working poor, people can support families on these jobs. they can live decent lives. in certain limited circumstances, in particular industries, guest workers do make sense. it shouldn t become the norm, it doesn t have to be. i was thinking about this as well. it s just once in a blue moon we heard somebody like a senator senator durbin speak in such emotional terms about innocent americans who lost their jobs or their lives at the hands of illegal immigrants.
worthless and lazy and we need new blood of immigrants, if people are coming here to become have to be realistic about economic consequences of low skilled immigration and it hurts above all people of color. native born americans, legal hispanics, blacks and hispanics that are finding wages cut out from under them. the mass low skilled immigration both legal and illegal is imposing massive social cost on taxpayers in the form of schools in the criminal justice system. laura: i did like an hour and a half on this on radio today because we kept getting inundated with calls from americans from wisconsin, texas, all over the country when they
wages are not rising. commensurate with how they are rising in other sectors, that was my point. as you ve been saying it s a question of cultural change. i would like to respond to austin s point. you can t look at wages as an aggregate. there is a minimal increase in well-being for americans, most of the benefits go to the immigrants themselves. when you look at the lowest wage americans, the people who have the high school education at the most, their wages are driven down by mass, low skilled immigration, and that s why it s so important not just to end the flow of illegal immigration but to change immigration flow overall. laura: production from both of you, is there going to be an immigration deal at the end of the week? yes or no. i don t think so. i agree with austin.