Virgil Goode Quotes

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

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.

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.

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.

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?

I intend to fight to ensure that Connecticut workers have a level playing field when competing for jobs.

The laws should be rigidly enforced which prohibit the immigration of a servile class to compete with American labor, with no intention of acquiring citizenship, and bringing with them and retaining habits and customs repugnant to our civilization.

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

If we have no foreign workers, our economy suffers; our own lives suffer.

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.

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.

Quite frankly, I think if a man or a woman likes their American job, wherever they were born, they should be able to keep that job. We need a clear path to citizenship for workers who are already here and a fair and efficient on-ramp for those who want to come here.

A good proportion of foreign nationals in jobs in the UK are in semi or low-skilled occupations.

Workers come to America to fill jobs unwanted by Americans, but they are staying and they are not going home.

Your Irish railways employ thousands of men, whose working hours average twelve per day. Were they restricted to a forty-eight-hour week of labor, employment would he provided for thousands of Irishmen who at present are driven exiles from their native land.

Our nations workers are our nation’s greatest asset.

The great question will forever remain, who shall work?

Jobs in America are the key to a stable environment.

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.

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

it seems to me absolutely scandalous to try to set wage levels which wipe out jobs. I mean these are people who are not on the dole. They want to work and if you price them out of the market, its gonna be a lot worse for them and for the economy.

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.

Hispanic citizens know that illegal labor is taking jobs from their children and their legal immigrant friends.