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The United States needs a policy of \u201chigh-value migration,\u201d not a continuation of the post-1990 easy-migration policies that create endless fights over migrant crimes, economic damage, and business-backed amnesties, according to White House aide Stephen Miller.<\/p>\n
\u201cPresident Trump has said we want to have high-value migration into this country, not low-value migration,\u201d Miller told Fox News, adding:<\/p>\n We have to deal with the fact that we have millions and millions of people here who are on welfare, who are not contributing, who commit a lot of crime, who consume a lot of public resources, and it\u2019s in the best interest of this country for those people to be humanely returned home. That\u2019s the big conversation. And so this old Washington conversation about amnesty is missing the whole point. The real conversation is, \u2018How do we have an immigration policy that makes America stronger and more unified, not weaker and more divided?\u2019<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Miller also downplayed public debates over the costs and benefits of migrant amnesties. \u201cPresident Trump has always been clear in his opposition to amnesty\u2026 but I want to, I want to reframe this whole conversation\u201d toward the costs and benefits of migrants, he said.<\/p>\n His comments are a dismissal of the mass amnesty<\/a> and cheap-labor<\/a>\u00a0\u201cDignidad\u201d bill being pushed by business groups<\/a>, Rep. Maria Salazar (R-FL), and a handful of business-funded GOP legislators.<\/p>\n Miller\u2019s comments counter the establishment\u2019s framing of migration policy as \u201clegal good\/illegal bad\u201d and also emphasize\u00a0Trump\u2019s periodic support<\/a> for a greater national focus on technology-aided productivity over migration. \u201cWe\u2019re going to need robots\u2026 to make our economy run because we do not have enough people,\u201d Trump\u00a0told<\/a> Breitbart News, adding:<\/p>\n We don\u2019t enough people to do it. So we have to get efficient\u2026 we\u2019ll probably add to [the existing workforce] through robotically \u2014 it\u2019s going to be robotically\u2026 It\u2019s going to be big. Then, somebody is going to have to make the robots. The whole thing, it feeds on itself\u2026 we\u2019re going to streamline things. We need efficiency.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Miller also made a national security argument against the current inflow of migrants that lowers Americans\u2019 productivity while China invests in technology:<\/p>\n How do your schools work? How do your hospitals work? How does your economy work? How do you have a society that can win all these great civilizational struggles against our adversaries [such as China] around the world, if you have to feed, house, clothe, educate, support, give affirmative action to millions and millions of people from failed states around the world?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n \u201cMass legal and illegal migration has driven down wages and crippled Americans\u2019 ability to provide for their families [and grow their] productivity,\u201d Jay Palmer, an expert who works with law firms to eradicate labor trafficking and forced labor, told Breitbart News. \u201cA poultry manager at a plant in Alabama told me, \u2018Why should I hire Americans when I can hire two Haitians\u2026 at a lower cost?\u201d<\/p>\n\n
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