Rick Santorum Goes After Legal Immigrants

Posted by | January 20, 2015 19:30 | Filed under: News Behaving Badly Politics Top Stories

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Usually, when you accuse someone of being anti-immigrant, that person points out that he or she is anti-“illegal” immigrant. Rick Santrorum has an issue with workers who are not natives. (h/t Karoli at Crooks and Liars).

Rick Santorum’s grandfather came to America in 1923 as an immigrant but that fact does not deter him from thinking that we have a big problem in this country that’s “almost as bad” as illegal immigration.

Here’s some of what Santorum said:

Let me ask you a question. Since 2000 there have been a little over six million net new jobs created. What percentage of those net new jobs are held by people not born in this country? Half? Sixty? All of them. There are fewer native-born Americans working today than there was [sic] in 2000, in spite of 17 million more workers in the workforce. So when people tell me the problem is just illegal immigration, they’re wrong. They’re wrong… We are almost at the same level of non-native born in this country they were at in 1920. And in 1920 they realized, wait a minute, it’s affecting our workers. Wages have stagnated, everybody knows that. Why? Part of the reason. Median income is going down. Why? Part of the reason is that we’re bringing floods of legal, not illegal, legal immigrants into the country. 

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16 responses to Rick Santorum Goes After Legal Immigrants

  1. tracey marie January 20th, 2015 at 19:35

    old frothy is showing his ugly again.

  2. tracey marie January 20th, 2015 at 20:35

    old frothy is showing his ugly again.

  3. Antigone January 20th, 2015 at 19:46

    Oh cra*, just when I thought it couldn’t get any crazier. Who here is not descended from an immigrant, legal(?) or not?

  4. Antigone January 20th, 2015 at 20:46

    Oh cra*, just when I thought it couldn’t get any crazier. Who here is not descended from an immigrant, legal(?) or not?

  5. Angelo_Frank January 20th, 2015 at 20:00

    It’s Pat Buchanan all over again!

  6. Angelo_Frank January 20th, 2015 at 21:00

    It’s Pat Buchanan all over again!

  7. KABoink_after_wingnut_hacker January 20th, 2015 at 20:09

    Hate, division, fear and bigotry always gets lots of votes from those lovely white Christian folks. Frothy Santorum knows the formula well.

  8. KABoink_after_wingnut_hacker January 20th, 2015 at 21:09

    Hate, division, fear and bigotry always gets lots of votes from those lovely white Christian folks. Frothy Santorum knows the formula well.

  9. Suzanne McFly January 20th, 2015 at 20:41

    Dumbass, wages are stagnant because of the party of fools that he is a part of, not because of immigrants. Hypocritical fool.

  10. Suzanne McFly January 20th, 2015 at 21:41

    Dumbass, wages are stagnant because of the party of fools that he is a part of, not because of immigrants. Hypocritical fool.

  11. William January 20th, 2015 at 23:27

    Asshat.

  12. William January 21st, 2015 at 00:27

    Asshat.

  13. allison1050 January 21st, 2015 at 06:31

    Dumb ass.

  14. allison1050 January 21st, 2015 at 07:31

    Dumb ass.

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