Marcia L. Fudge Quotes

Stopping illegal immigration would mean that wages would have to rise to a level where Americans would want the jobs currently taken by illegal aliens.

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

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

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

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?

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

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.

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.

Immigration has a huge cost on social programs, and it lowers salaries and drives up unemployment.

Americans don't believe that we have a surplus of jobs. They believe that we have a surplus of job seekers, and they are competing for these jobs.

We shouldn't bring in foreign workers to do jobs that belong to U.S. citizens.

You look at the Pew Hispanic Center study on the number of illegal aliens in America and the number of jobs they have, that's 7.4 million, illegal aliens in America. A quick way to create jobs in America is to remove those illegal aliens from our community. That frees up 7.4 million jobs that American can seek.

More Missourians are working than ever before.

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

I define genuine full employment as a situation where there are at least as many job openings as there are persons seeking employment, probably calling for a rate of unemployment, as currently measured, of between 1 and 2 percent.

We obviously would like to get unemployment as low as we possibly can.

The priority of my government’s action is the creation of jobs, lots of jobs.

When you have 7 percent unemployed, you have 93 percent working.

Immigration has made free white laborers more easy to be procured.

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

Americans underemployed or unemployed and a President Trump will put them back to work.

I ask to be judged on the issue of unemployment.

Our country needs to produce 250,000 net new jobs every month just to keep even with population growth.

There are a number of people who are not in the workforce who have given up looking for jobs, and that's the real economic crisis in America.