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Santorum Campaign Press Release - Senator Santorum Speaks About His Immigration Plan on Fox News

August 21, 2015

Over the past twenty years, nearly 35 million legal and illegal immigrants have come to our shores. This is the largest mass immigration America has seen in our history – even surpassing the Great Wave from the turn of the 20th Century. These immigrants are largely unskilled and low-skilled labor and they are competing for the same jobs as the 74% of Americans who do not have a college degree.

Every net new job created since 2000 for people between 18 and 65 is held by someone who wasn't born in this country. This needs to change.

The American family is the first economy. Just like a business, each family needs revenue, pays expenses, and at the end of the month the books must balance.

As families struggle in this ever competitive labor market, we must make sure our policies do not throw up further roadblocks and dead ends to their ability to succeed. We must rebuild this first economy, and one step is to ensure we have a responsible immigration policy that puts the American worker and their families first.

We must reduce immigration levels to the United States in order to protect American workers from foreign labor that is taking jobs that Americans could otherwise hold.

Rick Santorum, Santorum Campaign Press Release - Senator Santorum Speaks About His Immigration Plan on Fox News Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/311982

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