Jesse Watters Quotes

To assert, as some have, that illegal immigrants do not depress wages because they do the jobs Americans refuse is the kind of nonsense economists speak when they strain to be counterintuitive. It is similar to saying that cheap imports do not hold down prices.

If you lose your job because there has been an influx of labour from another country, that is a legitimate cause for concern.

Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants.

Businesses should no longer be allowed to depress wages by hiring illegal labor and then falsely claim that Americans don't want to do the jobs.

The intelligence and prosperity of the American working man is endangered by the present immigration.

Mexican men and women are doing the jobs that not even the Blacks want to do there in the United States..

… employers use newcomers [illegal immigrants] to drive down wages because they are … in the shadows.

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..

… immigration reduces the wages of domestic workers who compete with immigrants. That’s just supply and demand: we’re talking about large increases in the number of low-skill workers relative to other inputs into production, so it’s inevitable that this means a fall in wages.

Michael Bennet can't possibly understand the impact of flooding our job market with workers that aren't citizens of this country, and when we fight, they call us racist. When did wanting to feed your family become racist?

When illegal labor is used, that almost always depresses wages paid to all workers. The illegal workers can be exploited, and they will usually accept lower wages. As a result, all workers in the plant, including U.S. citizens, will see their wages go down.

When I go running, I see Mexicans working hard.

Donald Trump is saying the right thing. We're bringing in so much labor, it's pulling down working people.

Average real wages in Mexican manufacturing are lower than they were 10 years ago, if you can believe that.

Open the borders to willing workers from any and all nations. They will create businesses that pay taxes, especially payroll taxes to fund Medicare and Social Security benefits of retiring baby boomers.

Uncontrolled, mass immigration displaces British workers, forces people onto benefits, and suppresses wages for the low-paid.

We can't deny the financial toll illegal immigrants take on our communities.

What I wonder is what would happen in California, say, if all the Mexicans left from one day to the next?

The evidence is inarguable that Australia is becoming too expensive and too uncompetitive to do export-oriented business. Africans want to work, and its workers are willing to work for less than $2 per day. Such statistics make me worry for this country's future. We are becoming a high-cost and high-risk nation for investment.

I don’t buy the argument that there are certain jobs that American just will not do.

This is not the 1890's. We can't have open borders any more.

While the American can out-work the alien, the alien can so far under-live the American as to force him out of all competitive labor.

One of the greatest gifts that our founders bestowed upon us is open borders … the founders gave us one of the largest free trade zones that man has ever seen.

Protect and foster American industries … Democrats are willing to risk our manufacturing interests in the face of the starving hordes of pauper labor in other countries.

Letting guest workers in America doesn’t create an underclass. It moves an underclass and makes the underclass better off.