Bob Beckel Quotes

Immigration isn't always good for the economy or jobs.

I don't know what it's like in the U.S. but immigrants in the U.K. do the jobs the citizens won't do.

Because a person has to be either working or looking for work to be counted as part of the labor force, an increase in the number of people too discouraged to continue their search for work would reduce the unemployment rate, all else being equal - but not for a positive reason.

We cannot get control of our borders until we do something about… a man or woman who is making 50¢ an hour in Mexico and can make 10 bucks an hour and the United States for a job that Americans will not do.

I don’t buy the argument that there are certain jobs that American just will not do.

To these economic refugees, maybe we should tell them, 'We'll call you when we need you.'

The truth is, most undocumented immigrants come here for economic opportunity and the American Dream. They aren't seeking tax credits or handouts.

Millions of Americans are either underemployed or unemployed.

I define genuine full employment as a situation where there are at least as many job openings as there are persons seeking employment, probably calling for a rate of unemployment, as currently measured, of between 1 and 2 percent.

Workers come to America to fill jobs unwanted by Americans, but they are staying and they are not going home.

We need the immigrants.

The priority of my government’s action is the creation of jobs, lots of jobs.

As a nation that values immigration, and depends on immigration, we should have immigration laws that work and make us proud. Yet today we do not. Instead, we see many employers turning to the illegal labor market. We see millions of hard-working men and women condemned to fear and insecurity in a massive, undocumented economy.

To be honest a great deal of the job problem is connected to foreign born immigrants

The way the market works it is always cheaper to hire an illegal immigrant then to hire a legal immigrant.

The reduction of working hours is a decisive means of creating a sufficient number of jobs.

Americans underemployed or unemployed and a President Trump will put them back to work.

I'm not picking up my phone and calling anyone for employment.

What America needs is jobs. Lots of jobs.

That border wall's not going to put one single West Virginian to work.

We are fighting to bring more jobs to the people of Missouri.

For me, it is all about people having jobs, and that is why I make no apology for having focused relentlessly on employment and job creation.

So long as there is one [person] who seeks employment and cannot find it, the hours of work are too long.

I think it's important to focus on our economy, on jobs, on getting America back to work.

That's an interesting paradox to think about. Make it legal and it's no good. Why? Because as long as it's illegal the people who come in do not qualify for welfare, they don't qualify for social security, they don't qualify for the other myriad of benefits that we pour out from our left pocket to our right pocket. So long as they don't qualify they migrate to jobs. They take jobs that most residents of this country are unwilling to take. They provide employers with the kind of workers that they cannot get. They're hard workers, they're good workers, and they are clearly better off.