“The idea that [illegals] are the engine of our economy growth is laughable,” said Mark Krikorian, the director of the Center for Immigration Studies. Illegals comprise less than five percent of the nation’s workforce, and have fewer skills and less education than Americans, he added.
The head of the Democratic National Committee told 140 million American workers Tuesday that eight million illegal foreign workers are “part of the backbone of our economy.”
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz made the remark during an interview with George Ramos on the Fusion channel, when she was asked about Democrats’ response to the arrival of 200,000 illegal immigrants from Central America.
The Democrats’ welcome for the Central Americans “isn’t about politics at all,” Wasserman Schultz insisted, even though new immigrants overwhelmingly vote Democratic.
“It’s not about politics for the president, nor is it about politics for any of us who care about making sure that young people or people in general, who have come to this country simply to make a better way of life for themselves and are of no threat to our country, and actually, essentially have become a part of the backbone of our economy, that we create a pathway to legal status for them, to citizenship,” she said.
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