Jim Sensenbrenner Quotes

I think Americans are probably getting sick of us Australians trying to take their jobs.

There is a large change coming in the jobs of America and competition from abroad. We should prepare for it rather than let history overwhelm us.

There are not enough good jobs for the skill levels we have.

To be honest a great deal of the job problem is connected to foreign born immigrants

The population feels the physical pressure of the foreigners coming and working here, some [of whom] are prepared to work longer hours or accept less.

You can't keep bringing people in from other countries, finding them jobs when Americans need jobs first.

Donald Trump has had several foreign wives. It turns out that there really are jobs Americans won't do.

There are jobs that American citizens will not do. We can talk about why that is. We can talk about how our welfare state is broken, how we encourage people not to work, but that doesn't help the farmer pick his peaches this summer.

As the number of available jobs has decreased in border states like Texas, cities halfway across America have begun to see an influx of illegal immigrants in search of employment.

People are worried about what’s going to happen to their jobs. There’s a lot of off-shoring and out-sourcing taking place. There’s a lot more mobility of labor and of people. Unless we explain what’s happening, people will resort to protectionism and xenophobia.

If there are not sufficient jobs to go around then government must create jobs to give everyone an opportunity

As we lose manufacturing jobs across the country, the burden falls disproportionately on Black Americans.

Jobs in America are the key to a stable environment.

The way the market works it is always cheaper to hire an illegal immigrant then to hire a legal immigrant.

Many of the worst off, native-born Americans are hurt by immigration—especially immigration from Mexico. Because Mexican immigrants have much less education than the average U. S. worker, they increase the supply of less-skilled labor, driving down the wages of the worst-skilled Americans..

For instance, twelve men are struggling for employment in a trade where there is only room for eight ; four are driven out of that trade, but they are not trampled out of existence. A good deal of competition merely decides what kind of work a man is to do though of course when a man can only do one kind of work, it may easily become a struggle for bare life.

There is this real divisive theory that if we allow more immigrants to come into this country, that they're going to take our jobs. It is simply not true. Every person I know who wants to work in a hotel and change sheets can do it.

The jobs Americans don't want are the ones the migrants fill.

We should absolutely train up U.K. workers - but it takes time to do that. And the reality is that there are a lot of E.U. workers that come here to do jobs that British-born workers will not do.

The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.

In Washington State, the immigrant population has grown by 42 percent in the five years between 2000 and 2005 - which is an increase from 8 percent to 10.6 percent of the overall population - and the jobless rate in the state has hit a 6 year low.

Immigration isn't always good for the economy or jobs.

Because a person has to be either working or looking for work to be counted as part of the labor force, an increase in the number of people too discouraged to continue their search for work would reduce the unemployment rate, all else being equal - but not for a positive reason.

If cheap immigrant labor is made unavailable, employers can hire Americans at a higher wage, or replace low-wage immigrant workers with technology and automation, which will create a smaller number of skilled jobs for Americans.

Two new workers are being added to the population for every one job that is created.