@@spankyssurprise1361Yes, but legality isn't what's driving anti-immigration. It's immigration period. If legality was the issue, Republicans would fund adequate border staffing/resources, which Democrats do.
My grandfather immigrated here from the Netherlands in the early 1900s, married my grandmother, worked for a car company and raised my mother and aunt for 30 years.
The positive benefits he showed in the video happen regardless of whether the immigrants came her legally or illegally. Our government refuses to allow enough immigrants to come here legally for us to get the mentioned tax, social security, and economy benefits for our nation. So yes, if we were smart we would let them in legally, and enjoy all the benefits they contribute to our society. But I can’t picture our government or society allowing that. They are too blinded by their ignorance and hate.
Immigrants here legally are great. Anyone who is in the country illegally is breaking the law. I can’t break even simple laws, they shouldn’t be allowed to break the law either.
I agree. How can you ask people to pay taxes but not give them documents? Create a quick and simple documentation path, and establish a database with city council registration for everyone, also used for voting and tax.
You think white people here are legal? You think stealing Native American land was legal? Immigrants contribute more to society paying taxes and they cannot get anything out of the system for fear of being deported. While the u.s. born people get stimulus checks, unemployment checks and all sorts of benefits that drain the economy.
Thank you for this, my boyfriend fell for some of the fear mongering but is a good person so this is the video im gonna send him. I feel like there are undecided non crazies that this is worth sharing with
If you cannot detect the lies in this video your brain dead. Do you understand supply and demand? Do you understand how wages work? Do you understand how they are lying about the crime statistics and how they skew them? Why do you think Rome fell shortly after allowing a bunch of immigrants into the country? The only people who benefit from these are these massive corporations who get to pay you less and treat you like crap because they can replace you because they have a huge pool of people looking for jobs. It's not fear-mongering it's the truth. I have kids. My hometown has been destroyed by immigration. My kids have to go to school miles away from my home because no one even speaks English. If you're for the destruction of this country do us all a favor. Because the people whose families have been here for generations paying taxes. Should be the one to benefit from this country. Anyone who says this is a nation of immigrants has no understanding of what it is to become a people.
@@markcampbell9109 People still don't get it especially our government, President Reagan offered amnesty, but forgot to close boarders or at least check for illegals
More Gaslighting from the Left. Entering the country through a legal point of entry with proper ID . Shouldn’t be this difficult to understand. Millions of people take cruises or fly in and out of the country. Legal points of entry & passport ID. Not walking through a river or running through a field. How do Democrats not understand the difference??
Actually they produce the same results. The difference between them is if you're able to track the data or not. For every immigrants that entrance this country wages for Americans go down. It makes corporations a lot of money when they're able to pay them less. Not to mention they can just treat you like crap because they have a huge pool of people to pull from to replace you. Completely takes away every bit of bargaining power we have as americans. Think of it in terms of supply and demand. Americans should focus on the people whose families have been here paying taxes for generations.
He’s saying exactly what he means. “Immigrants of all statuses”. No wonder you support trump. You hear what you want and then spread it as propaganda instead of spreading facts.
Not illegal imagrents, ones that come here the legal ways. Tell our Government what you are trying to say here. They are handing out our money like crazy. They get more food stamps and cash then our legal Americans
There isn't really a plan to do that, just a system that's become so entrenched that anything larger than Bob's Neighborhood Accounting and Tax Service or Carol's Virtual Assistant has high hurdles to overcome. In the 1980s, when large numbers of Southeast Asian immigrants were the bogeymen and urban dwellers moved to smaller communities, the powers-that-be passed reactionary laws that favored local businesses. Bizarre requirements for licensing just to _be_ a beautician or mechanic or operate a laundromat. Those laws are still in place, even as the local hair cutters and car mechanics and laundromat operators retire.
If you listen to the Trump camp, our borders are so porous that it's amazing there's a single square inch of unoccupied land in this country. Because they're lying assholes. Any reform needs to be proper and modernized. The current system is built from assorted laws passed over time and is clunky as hell.
I am pro-immigration. We need it for job coverage, for prosperity, and to counterbalance our 1.64 fertility rate. I'm just of the mind that we should have LEGAL immigration.
@@harveygirl29 And that pathway should start the way it did on Ellis Island. Get permission, enter legally, get registered. Follow the laws of the land you seek to join.
@@oddish4352 plenty illegals came through ellis Island you just have a whitewashed memory of ellis island based on public schoolbook propaganda and childrens movies. As the video acknowledges our policies as to how easily immigrants can move into the society should be changing towards more free movement (dont freak out fantasizing about rampant bombings school shootings and bad customer service at the hand of bloodthirsty " immigrants ") as they have always increased the value of our country in particular. Ellis island brought over mobs of violent gangs and many individual petty criminals as well as world class artists and their children often went both directions as 2nd gen immigrants thats ALWAYS been the case.
We did once, but now they don't become a part of the community. Irish and Chinese were hated but they came in legal. They became part of they community. They didn't over run our school, take over NYC and other places.
I only have one question about immigration / emigration: Which country would you rather be? 1) The country everyone wants to emigrate from. 2) The country everyone wants to immigrate to. My Momma always had a way of explaining things so as I could understand.
my family and I are first generation immigrants, and personally, even and through my difficulties, aside from the support from the covid, I have never asked nor received any government benefits
There is nothing wrong with receiving government benefits. If people need government help at certain stages in their life e.g. old age, they should apply for it. It is there to make life workable because not everyone can be a highly successful rich person.
@@ralphacosta3891 You guys have never been to a doctor or a hospital? You guys have never gone to school? You guys have never drank the clean water or walked along the safe sidewalk. Never took a crap and benefited from a clean sewar system? Never drove on a highway and benefited from a maintained highway system, never took a train or visited a state park or national park? Who do you think pays for all of that stuff that you wouldn't have had unless you illegally immigrated into this county?
I'm an immigrant. My three wives are. My three kids are plus two more citizen born. After working, paying taxes for 33 years, while the rest of this family group have added another 284 work years to date with taxes paid, and consumerism, while continuing with higher education and planning new families. There are millions more like us. We brought our education's and disciplines with us, our principles of respect, and forthrightness, no one in this family group has ever been arrested nor created the slightest cost to the state based upon our presence in this country. Most of us vote and seek to improve ourselves. We read, self research facts, and don't believe the dogma that is so ignorantly in fashion.
If you are here legal than you became a citizen and had background checks and pay taxes like the rest of us. But don’t you think it’s unfair that you did the right way and they’re not but hide in a sanctuary city and avoid paying taxes or harboring criminals from justice
This country was founded on the principle of migration. If that principle didn't exist, the US simply wouldn't be a thing at all. What I meant by "founded on the principle of migration" is that the Native Americans had no part in the creation of the 13 English Colonies, in fact they were shunned away, and still bear that scar to this day.
That statement is ignorant. How many generations have been born in this country? Did they ask for never ending immigration which always feeds the rich. We didn’t keep tabs on the Godless corporatists and now the citizens suffer again with illegal immigrant insanity.....
@@WalterStanley-zf6lo It does. What makes no sense is make up lies about migrants being an incredible economic bonus when the only thing they do is lower wages & enrich the rich
@@WalterStanley-zf6lo That was then, it's like everyone tries to pull that out of their ass. Now it's crippling this nation, any country can only handle so much drain on it's finances, the United States can't solve the problem of every other country in the world.
@@WalterStanley-zf6loIf you're The history buff you should know that this type of immigration causes societal collapse in almost ninety five percent of the times that it is occurred.
Reich's point, while true enough, does not discuss the real point here: we need an immigration system that permits immigration but does so lawfully and without creating wage slaves of the persons who come in through job-controlled programs like H1B.
The entire H1B Visa program needs overhauled and reduced significantly because it suppresses wages of skilled US workers the same way offshoring impacts the workforce. It should only be used to fill jobs requiring a masters or doctorate degree.
Robert Reich is not a journalist. He's an Economist who has been the Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley since January 2006. He has also held many public positions as an economist in several administrations. He actually knows what he's talking about.
@@americanablues I know very well who Mr.Reich is. I have followed his career and have much respect and admiration for him. Hopefully someone who doesn't know who he is will read your post and develop an appreciation for him as well.
@@ecezar7297 Did you read my comment??? I didn't say ANYthing about immigrants. In my statement, I was literally talking about the press, like the short clip of FAUX News and their ilk. Try not to read something into my statement that simply isn't there.
I have been looking into it for years yes there are some a fringe of them, both legal and illegal Immigrants tend to work harder and not break the secular laws, they are far more law abiding than American citizens.
Fentanyl are being trafficked to America by the hate groups [skin heads, white nationalist/supremacist, proud boys,etc] again and again one of these groups has been arrested for carrying through the border from Mexico kilos of fentanyl returning with and guns they didn’t sell to their drug lords in South America [guns are made in America not Mexico].
Sorry I was trying to reply to someone else and clicked yours by mistake.i completely agree with you and that’s exactly what i was explaining in details today
I love how the “progressive” argument for immigration is that we essentially need them to work peasant jobs for low wages that Americans don’t want to work…. So basically an argument for legalized slavery 😂😂😂
I love you Bob, but NO- we need HIGHER WAGES, not more laborers! The last 60 years have been a bloodbath for unions and laborers generally, because an endless supply of slaves has kept our wages artificially suppressed.
But surely you see that the fundamental issue there lies with the employers, not immigrants? There's nothing obligating them to pay people less because there are a lot immigrants, and their own pay isn't based on some illusionary "market value", so why should anyone else's? Besides, you know what's going to happen if they lose their endless supply of slaves. The public is going to be blamed for the "labor shortage", "nobody wants to work anymore" and all that, and they're going lobby with the government to lower/get rid of the minimum wage and requiring the unemployed to work even if it's for effectively nothing. And because the public voted for a government based on misattributing their problems to migration, that government is going to do it, too. Meanwhile, illegal immigration will only increase, because companies themselves will be trying to get them to come, which they'll get away with because of their cushy relationship with the government. Of course, by then undocumented immigrants will have even fewer rights than they do now, making them all the more easy to exploit and underpay.
.I live in WA State and the local LEGAL migrants and Local American Citizens are no longer being hired by these large farming Institutions. Large Farmers are no longer putting up adds, hiring events, taking Apps, they Displacing the local people to buss in huge amounts of foreign Cheap labors, they use temp agencies , government agencies to supply workers and ten of thousands of locals are NO longer needed or hired because new wave of 'legal" slaves coming in. Plus they expect us to Train these foreign Spanish speakers that don't know our standards and work ethics. we training our own replacements that bring wages down here locally not up . Seasonal work is no longer being offered to the hard working people (mexicans) that kept them afloat for decades. SAD
@zeitgeist5134 the Dallas is unique u have a Damm and Riger access for import export to ocean. I notice ur either affluent or the opposite but that's what se strive for to contribute and add to community not bring other countries bad habits. Love the Dallas god bless
Thanks, Bob, for your oration on this subject. My grandfather came into this country without documentation at the turn of the last century. He worked here all his life, got married, raised 5 children (which in turn generated 20 grandchildren of which I am one). If the government would like to deport him for this crime, they have the family's permission. Of course. they'll have to exhume him first. Thanks again.
@@augustmosco That’s why Italian immigrants were called “WOPs”! With Out Papers! A huge number of immigrants from all over the world have come into the US without proper documentation, including my grandmother who came from Poland as a small child to escape Nazi’s and spoke “broken-English” mixed with words from various other languages her whole life.
I live in a community thats at least 40% immigrant. The big problem is that they send their money “home” instead of investing it into the community. This town has tanked in the past 15 years.
@@jdizzle22396 my point is no one accounts for the reality that everyone at some point was an immigrant. All anyone cares about is their problems right now and no pride in history that got us here. We certainly have not learned anything from the past.
Legal immigration is a valuable asset to any country, illegal immigration is a strain on the economy. Kind of like over loading a cabinet shelf with too many dishes, eventually the support collapses.... I.e. the economy.
We were not because America was found by settlers. A immigrant goes to land that already build. A settlers found new land to build upon. One thing that true for immigrants in America that immigrants help build America.
@@guy_who_like_draw_and_stuf1977 FYI, America was much more advanced and settled / developed by the native Indian's they were killed & butchered and we stole their land!!! Watch land of 500 Nations. th-cam.com/video/E7Ls57OFhaM/w-d-xo.html IT WAS NOT FOUND BY THE SETTELARS!!!
The immigrants aint the problem, the USA system IS. instead of paying us more, instead of improving work conditions, and giving us a tiny bit of credit for all the work we been doing for Decades in harsh conditions , we are forced to train our own replacements so legal slavery can continue to benefit large farming institutions while driving local wages down and excluding the locals in what we been keeping afloat for years. Immigrants aint the problem how they are used against us is.
Mr. Reich, I am a liberal Democrat and have read and agreed with your commentary for many years. But as a past union organizer in low paid service industries, I am concerned about the effects of the large percentage of immigrant workers in these industries. In my experience these workers are generally afraid to vote for unions in certification elections. Do you think with the current rate of undocumented workers flowing into this country, it will ever be possible to increase the unionization rate of our workforce enough to reduce our socioeconomic inequality back to what it was in the 1970s?
@@bertog1217 Exactly 💯. If we give them citizenship then tada. So ok say what he says is true. Still, they pay rent to someone. They buy things from places. They get no government funds. So at WORSE they are working and living. That's it. That's fine. I know some US born who get payed under the table AND get benefits. Now that is what people should be looking at.
So important to understand this - we NEED immigrants! They make this country BETTER because they provide the diversity that makes us a great place to live!
@@CarlGerhardt1 Why are you blaming the immigrants? Why couldn't you just use that anger of yours and take it out on the elites who are the real culprits of driving down your hard earned check?
@@aganib4506 If you try and fix them, by taxing them more, they are just going to lay off more workers, and either run with even more of skeleton crew, or hire an immigrant whos willing to eat the peanuts out of their own shit, and live with 15 other people, and send the majority of their money home. I mean I'm all for taxing the wealthy like crazy, they would still be rich, but until they can't retaliate by laying off more workers, it isn't practical. Now if they didn't have the immigrant to hire ... that would at least lessen their options. On the other hand, these assholes have grown so greedy, that reducing their taxes doesn't guarantee they will hire more people, unless that is part of the deal. And that being part of the deal is to "Commie" and Socialist" and "Controlling" for most of them to accept.
There was a time when Legal Mexican workers were allow to work in the United States. These workers were seasonal workers. They did the jobs which most American don't want to do. Once the season was over, the Mexican workers return home back to Mexico. Than one day, a politician who was desperate to get re-elect began to claim that many of the season workers were Illegal immigrants. While Illegal immigrants were a problem, this politician and others claim that a large part of the legal workers were illegal immigrants.
@@rgreed20081 I don't want the Bracero Program to be reinstated. These legal seasonal workers were not housed in decent shelter, they were exposed to pesticides, there was child abuse through child labor, they had no medical insurance and faced discrimination. Their wages were very low and insufficient. After planting and picking our food for the profit of an American grower they were shipped back home having been treated badly for lousy pay. It was a bad program.
Thank your for your informative and helpful insights! It certainly sheds light on the presenter’s data “Immigration is good for America (because we know how to exploit human beings while clearly distinguishing between modern immigration policies and the slavery policies of pre-antebellum Southern plantations).”
We are immigrants and certainly supported the of this country from within as well as abroad. Taught thousands of students or represented in trade missions including the first to co communistic China in 1978
Of course we need immigrants, but allowing millions in at once like in France, Germany and Canada is a disaster. There should be checks and balances and yearly quotas that don't turn areas of a country into ethnic ghettoes. That is not good for the country.
We don’t care about making our immigration pathway “faster” or “easier”. It’s not our problem that you want it to be faster. It’s our country, so we’ll take as long as we want. Don’t like it? Try another country, stay in your own, or come legally. It’s really not rocket science.
They pay 6 billion in taxes and use 60 billion. All my family are legally here and the millions of people coming in and not adapting will be the fall of America
Professor Bob forgot about the history of scabs and replacing workers that want higher wages, regardless of ethnicity or nationality. We have more homeless than ever before, and he does not admit our unemployment numbers have been fudged for years, since it does not include those of us blacklisted and disabled and never used unemployment, yes we exist in the millions. They also dont like to talk about that half the population gave up on voting, not because we are lazy or cant do anything, but because for millions the system does not allow us to have a living wage; due to the inflated cost of living. The MIC likes it this way.
@@burlingo burlingo usually it's the government's job to enact laws about migration. You are right about that. US government is made by corporations and capitalists close to corporations. Even social democrats are related to corporations.
Easy to say when you're a professional politician. I've seen plenty of hard-to-regulate industries go from middle class to subsistance class wages due to the lower of cost of immigrant labour. Great for the wealthy though, lots of cheap labour.
2:48 and wouldn't those jobs becoming better paying if labor had more leverage instead of being filled by a constant flow of desperate people willing to be exploited? Just a thought.
Nope, because MAGA has no problem with LEGAL immigrants. Do you really want people to enter the country with criminal records? Be honest, and think independently for a change.
More people working for less money is wonderful for struggling Americans most of all. They can learn to work for less money while owning fewer things like our beautiful friends from Africa and South of the Rio Grande.
This is what I've been saying for years. We do not replace our numbers. Like every other advanced nation we choose to have fewer children and the old outnumber the upcoming generation. Except that we have fresh infusions of ambitious immigrants who make up the demographic decline. They pay taxes. They are hard working and ambitious. We need 'em. They are our future. My father was an immigrant. He and my first generation American mother produced two children who earned doctorate degrees and an activist who produced more educated and productive citizens. My immigrant uncles fought in WWII and Korea. None of us were a drain on this country. No other native born American was as patriotic as my father. He loved being American even as he acknowledged our warts and defects. Immigrants make us stronger, they bring new perspectives and they quickly become Americans. They are us. We were all descended from immigrants unless we are Native American. Everyone else originated somewhere else and all those places and people are woven into America now. It's good and we should to welcome immigrants not hurt as low wage workers but as the future of our country.
Yeah, but what does that say about how your own people are doing? I'm an immigrant, and part of the decision to stay is whether or not a family lineage can be established here. It looks to me that the prospects for that aren't good! Do you think we really want our kids to adopt American culture? It kind of looks like that's a dead end for your family. And, if you're being discriminated against in education and business, your kids are likely going to have to work harder to get ahead, and harder for the same paycheck. The America you imagine is one in which America has better government and social services than everyone else. What you're going to find is that other countries around the world followed the American/Soviet model of investing in their own people, instead of the American/post Soviet model of pure financialization. Being late to the game on that one has turned out to be advantageous! The best option for most immigrants now is to send the money home. It's the exchange rates that are holding up this immigration arrangement, not American government and social services. America looks like a second world country with an overvalued currency at the moment.
We didn’t choose to have fewer children the economy fundamentally changed when the majority of women entered the workforce. Now two incomes were needed to make ends meet, and little to no time was left for raising kids. So the options are outsource to a nanny, wing it with minimal parental supervision, or just don’t have them. Americans are choosing the third option and it’s a national tragedy.
@@apastasauce5905 Women were always in the workforce. This story of women engaging in employment at higher rates, have you tried plotting that against debt levels? Put debt in the background of all your social theories, then come back to me and tell me a better representation of the economic story. Your story is supporting evidence for my claims.
@@apastasauce5905 The baby boomer generation sold their kids into financial servitude. They're clinging on to power, and different stories of debt are emerging in the politics of the next generations. These stories are only going to get louder and more pressing over time. The political economy perspective seems quite clear to me, here. As does the absence of productive rhetoric by the existing regime. You've got a big fat debt issue, and the parameters of the political debate have been highly circumscribed. Personally, I'd tell the central banks that they've completely sabotaged developed governments in an entirely unstable way. If they're going to set interest rates, they're also going to tax capital, and send the proceeds back to their governments, to enable some semblance of left wing politics. No government that's configured like this can last. Any economist that can't grapple with the real consequences of their tax and politics regime need to be discredited and exposed. These people are accountants, and their bad accounting has resulted in the destabilization of politics across the west. The debt game has reached its conclusion for the west. Look how hard it is to turn this system around, now! This configuration always breaks, and it's a real shame the central banks never fired their economists and got some people in there that actually know how to govern. You don't understand money and the trouble it causes, otherwise. A government in which debts only go up, and taxes on non workers only go down, makes sense only to a certain group of people. It's not the people that understand how governments works, it's the people that understand government as working for them.
Immigration is good for those spending their $$ and taking a complete leap of faith to make a better life. They get here & see they are political talking points. And not always positive. Could you walk in their shoes? 🗳️💙🗳️
Many of them would have been better off staying back home, but our own country is partly at fault for the troubles in other countries. Our meddling foreign policy has come back to bite us.
In a broad sense legal immigration is good but what we've had since 1996 is total non enforcement of immigration law leading to an overwhelming tidal wave of unchecked illegal immigrants, asylum seekers and work visa abusers. This has put a massive strain on local state and federal resources. It has also increased crime. I'm not saying illegal immigrants commit more crime than non immigrants but just saying more people leads to more crime. Illegal immigration also leads to stagnating wages for low wage workers and also many others. The low wage jobs they take stay low wage because of illegal immigrants. This has a ripple effect that keeps the wage floor low which keeps wages from rising in other income groups Cheap immigrant labor is a boon only for the corporate establishment elite. I love how the founder of Home Depot goes on Fox news and brags about how he's a self made billionaire. His empire wouldn't exist without the flood of immigrants that came in between 1996 and 2006 which led too excessive overbuilding and suburban sprawl. The most infuriating ommision by Reich in this video is the fact that 10,000 illegals come into this country every day. Thats 300,000 a month, and way over 3 million a year. Let's just enforce the laws we have and retain some semblance of sovereignty over our boarders.
Rich people and homeowners want slave labor since they pride themselves on being as cheap as possible. They don’t care nor respect skilled laborers right to a good wage and their skill level. Greed to the max that the rest of us subsidize via welfare to supplement under the table slave wages.
I know very few people who are against immigration. I know plenty of people who are against illegal immigration and want us to be careful and picky on who we allow in and want assimilation programs for those that we do. Those who are against all immigration are a very extreme and very small minority of people.
Thank you for this video. I wish there was a shorter version that Democrats could use as an ad to educate voters. Rino's understood this concept, it is a shame how some in the US do not understand how maga is using this to cover bad policies that support the wealthiest and hurt the middle class.
@@phil20_20 Lol what most smart voters or Americans want is a secure border. Well veted immigrants thst come in through the proper locations. Not herds comin in with who knows who. Pretty simple to understand.
Laws are subjective to power, The U.S. founders are British defectors who broke the law and technically took Englands land, many years later when they are leagues more powerful no one sees it that way. Illegal immigration is in a similar boat, unless you are powerful enough to stop it, it’s just talk
Florida in particular Miami has also been an immigrant hub. Many Cubans hoping to escape Castro and people from other latin American countries too. California? Obviously. So too Texas and other southern states across the Mexican border. Northerly states that share a border with Canada? That counts too. It’s hard to think of a US state that isn’t or wasn’t at one point an immigrant hub.
That was when we needed more workers to build a critical-mass sized industrial economy. Today there is a huge shortage of good, PRODUCTIVE jobs for the people who are already here.) Almost all the 'job growth' has been in worthless jobs like government bureaucracy, education 'administrators', D.E.I. Dept. employees, healthcare paper-pushers and electronic data-diddlers for Obamacare, etc,.. etc...
In 2023, Mar-a-Lago brought on a total of 136 foreign workers for seasonal work, according to Department of Labor data.
Were they legal?
And you found this where and how?
Republicans take hypocrisy to new levels
Department of Labor is a public data base. Go get the facts and open your eyes.
@@spankyssurprise1361Yes, but legality isn't what's driving anti-immigration. It's immigration period. If legality was the issue, Republicans would fund adequate border staffing/resources, which Democrats do.
My grandfather immigrated here from the Netherlands in the early 1900s, married my grandmother, worked for a car company and raised my mother and aunt for 30 years.
what a waste, he'd of been a better man knowing that youd be his offspring!
Quit sure he followed the rules . My Grandfather migrated here in 1927 . He followed American rules
@@jhonviel7381You're so edgy and cool dude, my god how are you so special and different?
@@thetidewaitsforme my family is here illegally and we are Jewish paid communist to destroy the white race.
Respect to immigrants!
I have no problem with immigration. Legal immigration!
They still change your culture and eventually become powerful enough to replace your western value laws with their own.
White legal immigrants
The positive benefits he showed in the video happen regardless of whether the immigrants came her legally or illegally.
Our government refuses to allow enough immigrants to come here legally for us to get the mentioned tax, social security, and economy benefits for our nation. So yes, if we were smart we would let them in legally, and enjoy all the benefits they contribute to our society. But I can’t picture our government or society allowing that. They are too blinded by their ignorance and hate.
This is a 4 minute video. How did you find the time to comment but not actually watch it.
Immigrants here legally are great. Anyone who is in the country illegally is breaking the law. I can’t break even simple laws, they shouldn’t be allowed to break the law either.
I agree. How can you ask people to pay taxes but not give them documents? Create a quick and simple documentation path, and establish a database with city council registration for everyone, also used for voting and tax.
@@carolinezz8589 What about this: Anyone who takes US SAT with more than 1400 points gets the green card.
You think white people here are legal?
You think stealing Native American land was legal?
Immigrants contribute more to society paying taxes and they cannot get anything out of the system for fear of being deported.
While the u.s. born people get stimulus checks, unemployment checks and all sorts of benefits that drain the economy.
Nobody asked them to pay taxes.seems like you have no idea what is going on try educating yourself or you could pay an extra tax
demographic altering immigration, legal or illegal, is cultural and societal poison
Legal immigrants, not illegal immigrants!!!
We are saturated with illegal immigration
Thank you for this, my boyfriend fell for some of the fear mongering but is a good person so this is the video im gonna send him. I feel like there are undecided non crazies that this is worth sharing with
If you cannot detect the lies in this video your brain dead. Do you understand supply and demand? Do you understand how wages work? Do you understand how they are lying about the crime statistics and how they skew them? Why do you think Rome fell shortly after allowing a bunch of immigrants into the country? The only people who benefit from these are these massive corporations who get to pay you less and treat you like crap because they can replace you because they have a huge pool of people looking for jobs. It's not fear-mongering it's the truth. I have kids. My hometown has been destroyed by immigration. My kids have to go to school miles away from my home because no one even speaks English. If you're for the destruction of this country do us all a favor. Because the people whose families have been here for generations paying taxes. Should be the one to benefit from this country. Anyone who says this is a nation of immigrants has no understanding of what it is to become a people.
Your bf sounds like he has common sense and should find a based woman who understands consequences instead.
Legal immigration yes. NO ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION NO NO NO!!!
Did you pay any attention to the video? Lol
@@markcampbell9109 People still don't get it especially our government, President Reagan offered amnesty, but forgot to close boarders or at least check for illegals
Then make it easier to legally immigrate.
@@mil-ns3rc do you know that we are immigrants too but we born in America
@@ajadams5231the world has become very complicated. Today, legal immigration is the best course of action.
Conflating "legal immigration" with "illegal immigration" is intentionally deceptive. They both produce totally different results.
More Gaslighting from the Left.
Entering the country through a legal point of entry with proper ID . Shouldn’t be this difficult to understand.
Millions of people take cruises or fly in and out of the country. Legal points of entry & passport ID.
Not walking through a river or running through a field.
How do Democrats not understand the difference??
Actually they produce the same results. The difference between them is if you're able to track the data or not. For every immigrants that entrance this country wages for Americans go down. It makes corporations a lot of money when they're able to pay them less. Not to mention they can just treat you like crap because they have a huge pool of people to pull from to replace you. Completely takes away every bit of bargaining power we have as americans. Think of it in terms of supply and demand. Americans should focus on the people whose families have been here paying taxes for generations.
Someone paid Reich to produce this video.
Yes, legal immigrants, not illegal.
Listen and comprehend the video he continually says undocumented immigrants don’t change the statistics
White legal immigrants 😌
He’s saying exactly what he means. “Immigrants of all statuses”. No wonder you support trump. You hear what you want and then spread it as propaganda instead of spreading facts.
No, we don't need any immigrants. Israel doesn't need immigrants, so why does the West?
Yeah illegal immigrants destroy country@@nicbruno7706
Not illegal imagrents, ones that come here the legal ways. Tell our Government what you are trying to say here. They are handing out our money like crazy. They get more food stamps and cash then our legal Americans
Lies!
Watch the video again...Bob is one of the most reliable and knowledgeable sources online
Except our richest have crushed new businesses.
That's true
That's one way to stop immigration--monopolization, making competition impossible, so no one wants to start businesses in the U.S. anymore.
That’s becoming people vite for republicans and expect different results
There isn't really a plan to do that, just a system that's become so entrenched that anything larger than Bob's Neighborhood Accounting and Tax Service or Carol's Virtual Assistant has high hurdles to overcome.
In the 1980s, when large numbers of Southeast Asian immigrants were the bogeymen and urban dwellers moved to smaller communities, the powers-that-be passed reactionary laws that favored local businesses. Bizarre requirements for licensing just to _be_ a beautician or mechanic or operate a laundromat. Those laws are still in place, even as the local hair cutters and car mechanics and laundromat operators retire.
@@KerryJohnston-w6p that is simply not true. Utah is a haven for entrepreneurs. Starts everywhere.
I hate Biden's immigration policy, which is a continuation of Trump's immigration policy. The US needs immigration reform.
Agreed we need to completely shut down immigration from non European countries and do very strict vetting
There is that bill before congress
Wait a minute trump was builden walls biden is letting people illegally flow across the border.
Biden likes to fly them in, so they can replace you at the workplace. I say good, Americans reap what they sow.
If you listen to the Trump camp, our borders are so porous that it's amazing there's a single square inch of unoccupied land in this country. Because they're lying assholes.
Any reform needs to be proper and modernized. The current system is built from assorted laws passed over time and is clunky as hell.
I am pro-immigration. We need it for job coverage, for prosperity, and to counterbalance our 1.64 fertility rate. I'm just of the mind that we should have LEGAL immigration.
He said we need to make pathways for citizenship
@@harveygirl29 And that pathway should start the way it did on Ellis Island. Get permission, enter legally, get registered. Follow the laws of the land you seek to join.
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@@oddish4352 plenty illegals came through ellis Island you just have a whitewashed memory of ellis island based on public schoolbook propaganda and childrens movies. As the video acknowledges our policies as to how easily immigrants can move into the society should be changing towards more free movement (dont freak out fantasizing about rampant bombings school shootings and bad customer service at the hand of bloodthirsty " immigrants ") as they have always increased the value of our country in particular. Ellis island brought over mobs of violent gangs and many individual petty criminals as well as world class artists and their children often went both directions as 2nd gen immigrants thats ALWAYS been the case.
@@oddish4352and be able to support your family.
We did once, but now they don't become a part of the community. Irish and Chinese were hated but they came in legal. They became part of they community. They didn't over run our school, take over NYC and other places.
Because only QUALITY immigrants are a benefit. There's nothing wrong with having standards for entry.
News flash.....yes all people are immigrants if you look back far enough. That does not mean it is always good numpty.....
Robert R. Should watch some "Cash Jordan"
You're telling the truth . I watch TH-camr Cash Jordan . He tells it the way it is . Without the political spin .
Nobody’s telling us “otherwise.“ Immigration is important. The US allows up to 1 million LEGAL immigrants into our country each year.
I only have one question about immigration / emigration:
Which country would you rather be?
1) The country everyone wants to emigrate from.
2) The country everyone wants to immigrate to.
My Momma always had a way of explaining things so as I could understand.
I would only challenge the implication that USA is "the country" and "everyone" wants to immigrate there.
a good followup question could be: how many people from country 1 can move to country 2 before country 2 changes state and becomes like country 1?
@@BurtTurboby everyone he means desperate third worlders, which is apparently the only demographic our politicians represent these days.
@@ghostlight69420
Since wealth isn’t measured in money, but rather in people, I would claim that number is Aleph 0.
@@dylanhunt3855 who has more worth? ten career criminals or one ER nurse?
and who said anything about money?
my family and I are first generation immigrants, and personally, even and through my difficulties, aside from the support from the covid, I have never asked nor received any government benefits
There is nothing wrong with receiving government benefits. If people need government help at certain stages in their life e.g. old age, they should apply for it. It is there to make life workable because not everyone can be a highly successful rich person.
@@ralphacosta3891 You guys have never been to a doctor or a hospital? You guys have never gone to school? You guys have never drank the clean water or walked along the safe sidewalk. Never took a crap and benefited from a clean sewar system? Never drove on a highway and benefited from a maintained highway system, never took a train or visited a state park or national park? Who do you think pays for all of that stuff that you wouldn't have had unless you illegally immigrated into this county?
@@paperthinpizzashieeet i never thought bout dat
If it weren't for the Irish, we wouldn't have Irish pubs.
Fuck yes! And _Guinness!_ I love Guinness extra stout.
News Flash....a lot of Irish pubs are not owned by Irishman..😮
The Irish know how to use a toilet
@@KoneKlubKultthe bog
Robert you are an embarrassment to anyone who can think......
We want then to come in through legal and proper channels, not flooding our country.
Absolutely 💯!!! USA is a nation of immigrants, but we do need to vet who comes in.
We need to vet those who gets to make policies and laws far more
And they must come in legally, (what a Biden administration hack, (trying to buy votes are we)?
I'm an immigrant. My three wives are. My three kids are plus two more citizen born. After working, paying taxes for 33 years, while the rest of this family group have added another 284 work years to date with taxes paid, and consumerism, while continuing with higher education and planning new families. There are millions more like us. We brought our education's and disciplines with us, our principles of respect, and forthrightness, no one in this family group has ever been arrested nor created the slightest cost to the state based upon our presence in this country. Most of us vote and seek to improve ourselves. We read, self research facts, and don't believe the dogma that is so ignorantly in fashion.
I didn't know there was such a thing as Mormon immigrants
Came in here and you're a legal immigrant I am glad to welcome you
What does this have to do with anything? Most people who came to this country can say the same same thing. We’re talking about illegal immigration.
None of that matters all that matters is if it’s legal that’s the point
If you are here legal than you became a citizen and had background checks and pay taxes like the rest of us. But don’t you think it’s unfair that you did the right way and they’re not but hide in a sanctuary city and avoid paying taxes or harboring criminals from justice
This country was founded on the principle of migration. If that principle didn't exist, the US simply wouldn't be a thing at all.
What I meant by "founded on the principle of migration" is that the Native Americans had no part in the creation of the 13 English Colonies, in fact they were shunned away, and still bear that scar to this day.
Founded by people trying to get away from other people and land ruined by human exploitation. Having more of us is not a good idea.
I'll bet they weren't fond of immigrants.
That statement is ignorant. How many generations have been born in this country? Did they ask for never ending immigration which always feeds the rich. We didn’t keep tabs on the Godless corporatists and now the citizens suffer again with illegal immigrant insanity.....
If immigration is so good for a country, why arent the home countries of these people taking advantage of their labour?
Because they typically have terrible economies and the ultra rich in those countries have no reason to try to improve their countries.
@@WalterStanley-zf6lo they shouldn't have terrible economies if migrants improve economies. Don't go against the narrative
@@nostro1940 You don't realize that your comment makes no sense at all?
@@WalterStanley-zf6lo It does. What makes no sense is make up lies about migrants being an incredible economic bonus when the only thing they do is lower wages & enrich the rich
@@nostro1940wait so a sea of uneducated and unskilled people would be bad for an economy? who woulda thunk it
"Immigrants are good for the economy" is the most shortsighted and asinine take economists have ever come up with.
What makes you say so? Are you completely ignorant of American history?
@@WalterStanley-zf6lo That was then, it's like everyone tries to pull that out of their ass. Now it's crippling this nation, any country can only handle so much drain on it's finances, the United States can't solve the problem of every other country in the world.
(((economists)))
@@WalterStanley-zf6loIf you're The history buff you should know that this type of immigration causes societal collapse in almost ninety five percent of the times that it is occurred.
Please provide a reputable study showing that undocumented immigrants damage the economy more than help it. I'll wait...
Reich's point, while true enough, does not discuss the real point here: we need an immigration system that permits immigration but does so lawfully and without creating wage slaves of the persons who come in through job-controlled programs like H1B.
Yes!
Most people come here legally and overstay their visa, especially my fellow Canadians, I know dozens of them in the US illegally right now.
@@phil20_20 No!!!
The entire H1B Visa program needs overhauled and reduced significantly because it suppresses wages of skilled US workers the same way offshoring impacts the workforce. It should only be used to fill jobs requiring a masters or doctorate degree.
Exactly. Why can't all the jobs he discussed be made safer and pay better?
Journalists used to have integrity and were proud of it. Now it's all about the brand and how many likes you can get. Truth be damned.
Robert Reich is not a journalist. He's an Economist who has been the Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley since January 2006. He has also held many public positions as an economist in several administrations. He actually knows what he's talking about.
@@americanabluessounds to me like he is bought and paid for to support the destruction of America.
@@americanabluesDon’t tell him that he wants to keep living in his internet echo chamber and blame immigrants for every problem he can think of
@@americanablues I know very well who Mr.Reich is. I have followed his career and have much respect and admiration for him. Hopefully someone who doesn't know who he is will read your post and develop an appreciation for him as well.
@@ecezar7297 Did you read my comment??? I didn't say ANYthing about immigrants. In my statement, I was literally talking about the press, like the short clip of FAUX News and their ilk. Try not to read something into my statement that simply isn't there.
ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION costs BILLIONS to tax payers each year. It also bills LEGAL IMMIGRANTS who CHOSE TO COME LEGALLY.
I have been looking into it for years yes there are some a fringe of them, both legal and illegal Immigrants tend to work harder and not break the secular laws, they are far more law abiding than American citizens.
Fentanyl are being trafficked to America by the hate groups [skin heads, white nationalist/supremacist, proud boys,etc] again and again one of these groups has been arrested for carrying through the border from Mexico kilos of fentanyl returning with and guns they didn’t sell to their drug lords in South America [guns are made in America not Mexico].
Sorry I was trying to reply to someone else and clicked yours by mistake.i completely agree with you and that’s exactly what i was explaining in details today
Did you listen to the video? Did you read the statistics he showed? Your post completely ignores the math he showed in the video.
I love how the “progressive” argument for immigration is that we essentially need them to work peasant jobs for low wages that Americans don’t want to work…. So basically an argument for legalized slavery 😂😂😂
@Mike Don't look now but lots of people in America are working as slaves.
“I have certain rules that I live by. My first rule? I don’t believe anything that the government tells me. Zero. Zip. Nada.”
- George Carlin
I love you Bob, but NO- we need HIGHER WAGES, not more laborers!
The last 60 years have been a bloodbath for unions and laborers generally, because an endless supply of slaves has kept our wages artificially suppressed.
The US is overpopulated. One second these talking heads say we need laborers and the next they say 40% of jobs will be lost to automation.
But surely you see that the fundamental issue there lies with the employers, not immigrants? There's nothing obligating them to pay people less because there are a lot immigrants, and their own pay isn't based on some illusionary "market value", so why should anyone else's?
Besides, you know what's going to happen if they lose their endless supply of slaves. The public is going to be blamed for the "labor shortage", "nobody wants to work anymore" and all that, and they're going lobby with the government to lower/get rid of the minimum wage and requiring the unemployed to work even if it's for effectively nothing. And because the public voted for a government based on misattributing their problems to migration, that government is going to do it, too. Meanwhile, illegal immigration will only increase, because companies themselves will be trying to get them to come, which they'll get away with because of their cushy relationship with the government. Of course, by then undocumented immigrants will have even fewer rights than they do now, making them all the more easy to exploit and underpay.
They don’t care about union workers, only when their own jobs are at risk will they care.
I think the people in New York, Chicago, San Francisco and a host of other cities would strongly disagree with him.
.I live in WA State and the local LEGAL migrants and Local American Citizens are no longer being hired by these large farming Institutions. Large Farmers are no longer putting up adds, hiring events, taking Apps, they Displacing the local people to buss in huge amounts of foreign Cheap labors, they use temp agencies , government agencies to supply workers and ten of thousands of locals are NO longer needed or hired because new wave of 'legal" slaves coming in. Plus they expect us to Train these foreign Spanish speakers that don't know our standards and work ethics. we training our own replacements that bring wages down here locally not up . Seasonal work is no longer being offered to the hard working people (mexicans) that kept them afloat for decades. SAD
BINGO. And thank you for using honest terminology to expose what the pro-immigration folks are really engaging in functionally “legalized slavery”.
@zeitgeist5134 the Dallas is unique u have a Damm and Riger access for import export to ocean. I notice ur either affluent or the opposite but that's what se strive for to contribute and add to community not bring other countries bad habits. Love the Dallas god bless
@@zeitgeist5134 they sell badays heard they nice lol
Agreed, you should house some of them in your living room. Crickets 😂
Thanks, Bob, for your oration on this subject. My grandfather came into this country without documentation at the turn of the last century. He worked here all his life, got married, raised 5 children (which in turn generated 20 grandchildren of which I am one). If the government would like to deport him for this crime, they have the family's permission. Of course. they'll have to exhume him first. Thanks again.
@@augustmosco That’s why Italian immigrants were called “WOPs”! With Out Papers! A huge number of immigrants from all over the world have come into the US without proper documentation, including my grandmother who came from Poland as a small child to escape Nazi’s and spoke “broken-English” mixed with words from various other languages her whole life.
@@ET.1014 Thanks Eileen, WOP is a title I didn't think of and proves my point.
@@augustmosco Exactly!
I live in a community thats at least 40% immigrant. The big problem is that they send their money “home” instead of investing it into the community. This town has tanked in the past 15 years.
What retailers are in that town?
@@emilyfeagin2673what’s your point
@@Anne-zl1ij break my heart.
@@jdizzle22396 my point is no one accounts for the reality that everyone at some point was an immigrant. All anyone cares about is their problems right now and no pride in history that got us here. We certainly have not learned anything from the past.
@@SharonCaldwell-b2cso you want me to accept drastic reduction in standard of living...because it gives you the warm fuzzies?
Thiers a difference between immigrants and illegal immigrants
THANK YOU, SIR, FOR TELLING THE TRUTH
Legal immigration is a valuable asset to any country, illegal immigration is a strain on the economy. Kind of like over loading a cabinet shelf with too many dishes, eventually the support collapses.... I.e. the economy.
I mean, he addresses undocumented migrants several times throughout the video if you actually paid attention
We are the land of Immigrants!!!! and nothing less!!!
We were not because America was found by settlers. A immigrant goes to land that already build. A settlers found new land to build upon. One thing that true for immigrants in America that immigrants help build America.
@@JagSun But when my ancestors came here , they stayed here . They wanted to become U .S. Citizens. Not go back and forth across the border at will
@@guy_who_like_draw_and_stuf1977
FYI, America was much more advanced and settled / developed by the native Indian's they were killed & butchered and we stole their land!!!
Watch land of 500 Nations.
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IT WAS NOT FOUND BY THE SETTELARS!!!
They came legally and were not paid more than the average American makes per year tax free
My ancestors were colonists, and society spread by settlers
Brought to by The Soros Foundation
If theyre LEGAL immigrants then im all for it dont break our laws then expect me to accept you!
The only difference between your definition of legal and illegal is literally paperwork - you’re just a racist dumbass 🗣️
Where are the sources about “crime is down”
Keep pushing Yuden, you obviously don't remember history. Our patience has its limits.
The immigrants aint the problem, the USA system IS. instead of paying us more, instead of improving work conditions, and giving us a tiny bit of credit for all the work we been doing for Decades in harsh conditions , we are forced to train our own replacements so legal slavery can continue to benefit large farming institutions while driving local wages down and excluding the locals in what we been keeping afloat for years. Immigrants aint the problem how they are used against us is.
I trained a robot to do my job but it wouldn't join our union and it is totally subservient to it's corporate overload.
You'd get paid more if there was a scarcity of labor. All the issues you listed area because of mass third world immigration.
And RETHUGS are the SOLE cause of the wage problem.
@JeiBurke BS. RETHUGS are the SOLE cause of wage problems in this country.
Mr. Reich, I am a liberal Democrat and have read and agreed with your commentary for many years. But as a past union organizer in low paid service industries, I am concerned about the effects of the large percentage of immigrant workers in these industries. In my experience these workers are generally afraid to vote for unions in certification elections. Do you think with the current rate of undocumented workers flowing into this country, it will ever be possible to increase the unionization rate of our workforce enough to reduce our socioeconomic inequality back to what it was in the 1970s?
Ah!...a THINKING liberal Democrat...very rare today!....very good comment, Sir!
this is just sad
Yes but they take the money they earn back to their home country.
And companies like Walmart take money from your community and send it to Bentonville Arkansas
Which do you think hurts your local economy more?
@@emilyfeagin2673 we’re talking about US Economy as a whole. Your local economy is not a big player as far as the whole country is concerned.
They still have to pay rent taxes and eat
@@seanabbottband and rest goes to their home country unlike mine in which is all to in the US economy
@@bluefire10169 who’s gonna run Mar-a-Lago? lol
Most are paid under the table and DO NOT pay taxes come on now!!
And whose fault is that?
@@bertog1217 Exactly 💯. If we give them citizenship then tada. So ok say what he says is true. Still, they pay rent to someone. They buy things from places. They get no government funds. So at WORSE they are working and living. That's it. That's fine. I know some US born who get payed under the table AND get benefits. Now that is what people should be looking at.
@@bertog1217the immigrants and the business that hire them
@@ghostlight69420 Okay if you could do work and get paid under the table you would do the same thing. Don't lie to yourself
@@bertog1217 the choices an individual makes for his own benefit is no basis for running a country
Illegally means against the law. We are not blind. We see with our own eyes what has happened.
So important to understand this - we NEED immigrants! They make this country BETTER because they provide the diversity that makes us a great place to live!
Mass immigration ALWAYS drives down the wages of everybody who's already here. (Except for the rich and super-rich of course).
@@CarlGerhardt1 Why are you blaming the immigrants? Why couldn't you just use that anger of yours and take it out on the elites who are the real culprits of driving down your hard earned check?
@@thinkharder9332 and if you are getting paid under the table you aren't paying any taxes
no ones buying it
@@aganib4506 If you try and fix them, by taxing them more, they are just going to lay off more workers, and either run with even more of skeleton crew, or hire an immigrant whos willing to eat the peanuts out of their own shit, and live with 15 other people, and send the majority of their money home. I mean I'm all for taxing the wealthy like crazy, they would still be rich, but until they can't retaliate by laying off more workers, it isn't practical. Now if they didn't have the immigrant to hire ... that would at least lessen their options. On the other hand, these assholes have grown so greedy, that reducing their taxes doesn't guarantee they will hire more people, unless that is part of the deal. And that being part of the deal is to "Commie" and Socialist" and "Controlling" for most of them to accept.
There was a time when Legal Mexican workers were allow to work in the United States. These workers were seasonal workers. They did the jobs which most American don't want to do. Once the season was over, the Mexican workers return home back to Mexico. Than one day, a politician who was desperate to get re-elect began to claim that many of the season workers were Illegal immigrants. While Illegal immigrants were a problem, this politician and others claim that a large part of the legal workers were illegal immigrants.
What politician?
Oh well maybe you should figure that out!@spankyssurprise1361
@@rgreed20081 I don't want the Bracero Program to be reinstated. These legal seasonal workers were not housed in decent shelter, they were exposed to pesticides, there was child abuse through child labor, they had no medical insurance and faced discrimination. Their wages were very low and insufficient. After planting and picking our food for the profit of an American grower they were shipped back home having been treated badly for lousy pay. It was a bad program.
Thank your for your informative and helpful insights! It certainly sheds light on the presenter’s data “Immigration is good for America (because we know how to exploit human beings while clearly distinguishing between modern immigration policies and the slavery policies of pre-antebellum Southern plantations).”
Sorry that's not how it works
We need immigrants, yes. We don't need 20 million.
Legal immigrants.
The Democrats do
@@brianjohnson6053 They seem to 'need' power, yes.
Great video. Thanks, Pat.
No soy migrante solo regreso a mi tierra punto 👍🏻
Large-scale immigration puts downward pressure on GDP per capita, which is an accurate measure of rising living standards.
Israel should get more foreign immigrants, especially undocumented ones.
And also lowers American wages. Corporations love it. Law of supply/demand. There reasons every country has immigration laws
Lack of unions lowers wages.
What percentage of this country’s immigrants are taking corporate jobs? Most of them are doing the jobs Americans don’t want to do.
@@heatherl8063
Precisely.
@heatherl8063 America knows and spoke. Look at the results of the election
We are immigrants and certainly supported the of this country from within as well as abroad.
Taught thousands of students or represented in trade missions including the first to co communistic China in 1978
I remember an illegal who worked where I worked told me I had to learn how to work the system? 🤔
After I found out who sponsored this video, I couldn't bear to hear a single more word, not worth my time.
Soros
Of course we need immigrants, but allowing millions in at once like in France, Germany and Canada is a disaster. There should be checks and balances and yearly quotas that don't turn areas of a country into ethnic ghettoes. That is not good for the country.
BS!!!! I live about 2 hours from the border and this video IS NOT ACCURATE IN THE LEAST
Legal Immigration!
We don’t care about making our immigration pathway “faster” or “easier”. It’s not our problem that you want it to be faster. It’s our country, so we’ll take as long as we want. Don’t like it? Try another country, stay in your own, or come legally. It’s really not rocket science.
🇺🇸Trump 2024!🇺🇸
They pay 6 billion in taxes and use 60 billion. All my family are legally here and the millions of people coming in and not adapting will be the fall of America
They are able to start new businesses because they can get more assistance than a citizens.
Professor Bob forgot about the history of scabs and replacing workers that want higher wages, regardless of ethnicity or nationality. We have more homeless than ever before, and he does not admit our unemployment numbers have been fudged for years, since it does not include those of us blacklisted and disabled and never used unemployment, yes we exist in the millions. They also dont like to talk about that half the population gave up on voting, not because we are lazy or cant do anything, but because for millions the system does not allow us to have a living wage; due to the inflated cost of living. The MIC likes it this way.
Cheap labour. Which government doesn't like it?
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But he said it's not taking any jobs away from Americans...brain short circuit
You misspelled "corporation" as "government"
@@burlingo burlingo usually it's the government's job to enact laws about migration. You are right about that. US government is made by corporations and capitalists close to corporations. Even social democrats are related to corporations.
@@brianbailey462 @brianbailey462 dude wtf. I never said they take jobs. Do you know anything about demand and supply?? Read some damn Adam Smith
Easy to say when you're a professional politician. I've seen plenty of hard-to-regulate industries go from middle class to subsistance class wages due to the lower of cost of immigrant labour. Great for the wealthy though, lots of cheap labour.
Then be angry with those companies and CEOs, not the immigrants.
@@martaholmes4287 What a daft knee jerk response, they weren't employed by companies, they independents.
Reminder that these are the exact same arguments used to support slavery
2:48 and wouldn't those jobs becoming better paying if labor had more leverage instead of being filled by a constant flow of desperate people willing to be exploited? Just a thought.
Labor can have all the leverage it needs if more people unionize. Unorganized workers are far too easy to exploit.
There are Monday American born citizens being exploited as well
@@doughousholder6047 Tough to unionize with people that don't speak you language.
@@doughousholder6047Tell that to the former meatpackers union that was destroyed by immigrants willing to work for slave wages.
@@ShantyIrishman so true
All the things you just described, make MAGA froth
Nope, because MAGA has no problem with LEGAL immigrants. Do you really want people to enter the country with criminal records? Be honest, and think independently for a change.
Yes it does make them froth but, but bet most of those Magas have immigrants working for them, Go figure
I know! Isn’t it wonderful!
Who is padding your pockets with these lies??????
Should be seen by all!
Thank you, Mr. Reich.
More people working for less money is wonderful for struggling Americans most of all. They can learn to work for less money while owning fewer things like our beautiful friends from Africa and South of the Rio Grande.
😂terrific
This is what I've been saying for years. We do not replace our numbers. Like every other advanced nation we choose to have fewer children and the old outnumber the upcoming generation. Except that we have fresh infusions of ambitious immigrants who make up the demographic decline. They pay taxes. They are hard working and ambitious. We need 'em. They are our future.
My father was an immigrant. He and my first generation American mother produced two children who earned doctorate degrees and an activist who produced more educated and productive citizens. My immigrant uncles fought in WWII and Korea. None of us were a drain on this country. No other native born American was as patriotic as my father. He loved being American even as he acknowledged our warts and defects.
Immigrants make us stronger, they bring new perspectives and they quickly become Americans. They are us. We were all descended from immigrants unless we are Native American. Everyone else originated somewhere else and all those places and people are woven into America now. It's good and we should to welcome immigrants not hurt as low wage workers but as the future of our country.
Yeah, but what does that say about how your own people are doing?
I'm an immigrant, and part of the decision to stay is whether or not a family lineage can be established here.
It looks to me that the prospects for that aren't good!
Do you think we really want our kids to adopt American culture? It kind of looks like that's a dead end for your family.
And, if you're being discriminated against in education and business, your kids are likely going to have to work harder to get ahead, and harder for the same paycheck.
The America you imagine is one in which America has better government and social services than everyone else.
What you're going to find is that other countries around the world followed the American/Soviet model of investing in their own people, instead of the American/post Soviet model of pure financialization.
Being late to the game on that one has turned out to be advantageous!
The best option for most immigrants now is to send the money home.
It's the exchange rates that are holding up this immigration arrangement, not American government and social services.
America looks like a second world country with an overvalued currency at the moment.
We didn’t choose to have fewer children the economy fundamentally changed when the majority of women entered the workforce. Now two incomes were needed to make ends meet, and little to no time was left for raising kids. So the options are outsource to a nanny, wing it with minimal parental supervision, or just don’t have them. Americans are choosing the third option and it’s a national tragedy.
@@apastasauce5905 Women were always in the workforce.
This story of women engaging in employment at higher rates, have you tried plotting that against debt levels?
Put debt in the background of all your social theories, then come back to me and tell me a better representation of the economic story.
Your story is supporting evidence for my claims.
@@ywtcc I said majority of women! Not that they’ve never been in the workforce 🤦♂️
@@apastasauce5905 The baby boomer generation sold their kids into financial servitude.
They're clinging on to power, and different stories of debt are emerging in the politics of the next generations.
These stories are only going to get louder and more pressing over time.
The political economy perspective seems quite clear to me, here.
As does the absence of productive rhetoric by the existing regime.
You've got a big fat debt issue, and the parameters of the political debate have been highly circumscribed.
Personally, I'd tell the central banks that they've completely sabotaged developed governments in an entirely unstable way. If they're going to set interest rates, they're also going to tax capital, and send the proceeds back to their governments, to enable some semblance of left wing politics.
No government that's configured like this can last. Any economist that can't grapple with the real consequences of their tax and politics regime need to be discredited and exposed. These people are accountants, and their bad accounting has resulted in the destabilization of politics across the west.
The debt game has reached its conclusion for the west. Look how hard it is to turn this system around, now!
This configuration always breaks, and it's a real shame the central banks never fired their economists and got some people in there that actually know how to govern. You don't understand money and the trouble it causes, otherwise.
A government in which debts only go up, and taxes on non workers only go down, makes sense only to a certain group of people. It's not the people that understand how governments works, it's the people that understand government as working for them.
Take note Canada, especially Indian indigenous and white born Canadians.
Take some of ours in Australia, please.
Then open borders in Israel
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"The (Democrat) Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."
Immigration is good for those spending their $$ and taking a complete leap of faith to make a better life. They get here & see they are political talking points. And not always positive. Could you walk in their shoes? 🗳️💙🗳️
Many of them would have been better off staying back home, but our own country is partly at fault for the troubles in other countries. Our meddling foreign policy has come back to bite us.
This is the shit there teaching in colleges, this needs to be shut down
But what about the illegal immigrants who are getting benefits like housing and food and some small cases government credit cards?
Those cases are not small.
@@BlackFemaleAnd50 how many have been given out?
Thank you Robert. You have a wealth of knowledge and insight. I appreciate you. 👍❤️💙
In a broad sense legal immigration is good but what we've had since 1996 is total non enforcement of immigration law leading to an overwhelming tidal wave of unchecked illegal immigrants, asylum seekers and work visa abusers. This has put a massive strain on local state and federal resources. It has also increased crime. I'm not saying illegal immigrants commit more crime than non immigrants but just saying more people leads to more crime. Illegal immigration also leads to stagnating wages for low wage workers and also many others. The low wage jobs they take stay low wage because of illegal immigrants. This has a ripple effect that keeps the wage floor low which keeps wages from rising in other income groups Cheap immigrant labor is a boon only for the corporate establishment elite. I love how the founder of Home Depot goes on Fox news and brags about how he's a self made billionaire. His empire wouldn't exist without the flood of immigrants that came in between 1996 and 2006 which led too excessive overbuilding and suburban sprawl.
The most infuriating ommision by Reich in this video is the fact that 10,000 illegals come into this country every day. Thats 300,000 a month, and way over 3 million a year.
Let's just enforce the laws we have and retain some semblance of sovereignty over our boarders.
Rich people and homeowners want slave labor since they pride themselves on being as cheap as possible. They don’t care nor respect skilled laborers right to a good wage and their skill level. Greed to the max that the rest of us subsidize via welfare to supplement under the table slave wages.
I know very few people who are against immigration. I know plenty of people who are against illegal immigration and want us to be careful and picky on who we allow in and want assimilation programs for those that we do. Those who are against all immigration are a very extreme and very small minority of people.
people neglect to mention Jimmy Carter took in all of castro's criminally insane and prisoners...
If we welcome immigrants, aren’t they taking jobs that could employ the people who already live here that can’t find jobs?
Then why are they all on lifelong welfare.
Good for the economy doesn’t mean good for the nation as a whole and I’m tired of being gaslighted otherwise
@CaligulatheEmperor
Get your facts straight or you will be cleaning toilets and mowing your own lawn 😅
Thank you for this, Prof. Reich!
Thank you for this video. I wish there was a shorter version that Democrats could use as an ad to educate voters. Rino's understood this concept, it is a shame how some in the US do not understand how maga is using this to cover bad policies that support the wealthiest and hurt the middle class.
Bs all it is about is legal well veted immigration. Not herds of who knows crashing the border.
Hahaha
I wish there was a shorter version that Republican voters can understand!
@@phil20_20 Lol what most smart voters or Americans want is a secure border. Well veted immigrants thst come in through the proper locations. Not herds comin in with who knows who. Pretty simple to understand.
It’s a little over four minutes long
Have attention spans gotten that short?
That’s why they’re not not showing the dislikes
If they are legal fine. Illigals should be sent back. They broke a law by coming in illegally. Go back and go through the legal process.
Exactly. Nobody is "anti-immigrant" when it's done *legally* . He made a video about something that nobody is arguing about.
Laws are subjective to power, The U.S. founders are British defectors who broke the law and technically took Englands land, many years later when they are leagues more powerful no one sees it that way. Illegal immigration is in a similar boat, unless you are powerful enough to stop it, it’s just talk
We were founded by immigrants. What was Ellis Island for? Welcoming immigrants.
Alot of the hardest working people in this country are immigrants.
Florida in particular Miami has also been an immigrant hub. Many Cubans hoping to escape Castro and people from other latin American countries too. California? Obviously. So too Texas and other southern states across the Mexican border. Northerly states that share a border with Canada? That counts too. It’s hard to think of a US state that isn’t or wasn’t at one point an immigrant hub.
That was when we needed more workers to build a critical-mass sized industrial economy. Today there is a huge shortage of good, PRODUCTIVE jobs for the people who are already here.) Almost all the 'job growth' has been in worthless jobs like government bureaucracy, education 'administrators', D.E.I. Dept. employees, healthcare paper-pushers and electronic data-diddlers for Obamacare, etc,.. etc...
*vetting immigrants
I will just wait for someone with more free time to spend to dissect this nonsense. There so many going on here.
the small hat lies as easily as he breathes
too much of anything is bad. uncontrolled immigration is **not** a good thing.
Why? Do you think that a billion people would come to the US if there were no immigration enforcement?
Like the Mayflower...
Then please tell New York and Chicago to stop complaining and suck it up.
Babies are good for the country.