Republican Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley confronted American Immigration Council senior fellow Aaron Reichlin-Melnick during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday about how flooding the job market with illegal immigrants benefits Americans.
Melnick previously stated in October that mass deportations would be detrimental to many American industries, including hospitality, construction and agriculture. During a hearing on President-elect Donald Trumpâs mass deportation policy, Hawley argued during a heated exchange with Melnick that Democrats plan to continue hurting the economy and allowing wages to go down by allowing illegal immigrants to be part of the American workforce.
âWhy would you want American citizens and those who are here lawfully to have to compete against illegal immigrants who by the way are not always paid minimum wage, who are not given the federally mandated benefits precisely because they are here illegally. Why would you want to drive down the wages of millions of working Americans who canât get those jobs in construction, infrastructure and hospitality because illegal immigrants are getting them [and] suppressing wages in the meantime. Why would you want to do that?â Hawley asked. âI read your testimony word for word, and Iâve been watching it and I know what the answer is. You donât actually care about working people because youâre absolutely hellbent on this ideological agenda of opening our border.â
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