Cost Quote by Lamar S. Smith

If cheap immigrant labor is made unavailable, employers can hire Americans at a higher wage, or replace low-wage immigrant workers with technology and automation,…

— Jan C. Ting

It probably wouldn't be good for our economy for a bunch of these jobs to come back because, there's no way that people could…

— Barack Obama

And we'll build a path to citizenship for millions of immigrants who are already contributing to our economy!

— Hillary Clinton

Skilled shortages in America exist because we are shielding our skilled labor force from world competition. [Visa quotas] have been substituted for the wage…

— Alan Greenspan

Significantly opening up immigration to skilled workers solves two problems. The companies could hire the educated workers they need. And those workers would compete…

— Alan Greenspan

If we had those 40 million children that were [aborted] over the last 30 years, we wouldn't need the illegal immigrants to fill the…

— Tom DeLay

American workers won't be able to compete fairly for jobs until companies have to pay higher wages in countries like China and India.

— Andy Stern

One of the great dilemmas for America will be that American companies will do very well while American workers might not.

— Fareed Zakaria

You look at the Pew Hispanic Center study on the number of illegal aliens in America and the number of jobs they have, that's…

— Mo Brooks

Stopping illegal immigration would mean that wages would have to rise to a level where Americans would want the jobs currently taken by illegal…

— Thomas Sowell

If we open the borders tomorrow there would be 50 million people who came here, all good people, mostly good people. But they'd all…

— Michael Capuano

It is actually costlier to hire an immigrant. And yet the farm worker is almost invariably an immigrant. You can't pay an American to…

— Trey Gowdy