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For the First Time in History, America Has More Jobs Than Job Seekers

And yes, you can thank Donald Trump for that.

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Jul 05, 2018
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by Rod D. Martin
July 5, 2018

Yes, in the Trump era there are -- for the first time in history -- more jobs than job seekers. You simply could not have imagined such a headline in the Obama years, and rest assured, you never got one.

But the pro-amnesty crowd quickly turns this historic victory into "and therefore we need millions of illegal immigrants", when what they should be saying is "oh goodie, real wages will now increase," something leftists claimed to care about until Trump made it happen.

Indeed, supply and demand is a rather large part of Trump's "crazy" idea that we should actually enforce our immigration laws: if you don't flood the market with cheap unskilled illegal labor, everyone's jobs are worth more money. And yes, that includes the jobs held by the 1.1 million new legal immigrants America admits every single year.

Yes, that's more legal immigrants than the entire population of Florida just since 9/11. And that's a lot of jobs that have to be created, and that obviously …

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