Glenn Beck

So let me just, I want you to, unless you're driving, close your eyes for just a minute, and I want you to imagine a twilight world, shadowed and stilled, where the hum of life is faded to a whisper. Picture the sprawling farmland, its fields once ablaze with golden wheat and beautiful verdant rows of produce. Just, it's a painting. Except now it's desolate.

So let me just, I want you to, unless you're driving, close your eyes for just a minute, and I want you to imagine a twilight world, shadowed and stilled, where the hum of life is faded to a whisper. Picture the sprawling farmland, its fields once ablaze with golden wheat and beautiful verdant rows of produce. Just, it's a painting. Except now it's desolate.

Stocks are brittle, fruit rotting where it falls on the ground. Zoom closer in. A construction site. Skeletal beams rising like bones of some forgotten beast abandoned mid-creation. A restaurant. There, on Main Street, in your own hometown, its windows dark, its tables bare. The aroma simmering spices replaced now just by the dust of neglect. Oh, you might say, I'm finding that hard to imagine.

Stocks are brittle, fruit rotting where it falls on the ground. Zoom closer in. A construction site. Skeletal beams rising like bones of some forgotten beast abandoned mid-creation. A restaurant. There, on Main Street, in your own hometown, its windows dark, its tables bare. The aroma simmering spices replaced now just by the dust of neglect. Oh, you might say, I'm finding that hard to imagine.

Stocks are brittle, fruit rotting where it falls on the ground. Zoom closer in. A construction site. Skeletal beams rising like bones of some forgotten beast abandoned mid-creation. A restaurant. There, on Main Street, in your own hometown, its windows dark, its tables bare. The aroma simmering spices replaced now just by the dust of neglect. Oh, you might say, I'm finding that hard to imagine.

But it is the precipice which we teeter upon when we contemplate casting out the undocumented souls who breathe life into our nation's veins. Let's really look at her case. These workers, vilified, yet so rarely beheld, are the unseen architects of our own prosperity. Yes. Consider the ledger here of reality. Over 70% of those who tend our fields are foreign born.

But it is the precipice which we teeter upon when we contemplate casting out the undocumented souls who breathe life into our nation's veins. Let's really look at her case. These workers, vilified, yet so rarely beheld, are the unseen architects of our own prosperity. Yes. Consider the ledger here of reality. Over 70% of those who tend our fields are foreign born.

But it is the precipice which we teeter upon when we contemplate casting out the undocumented souls who breathe life into our nation's veins. Let's really look at her case. These workers, vilified, yet so rarely beheld, are the unseen architects of our own prosperity. Yes. Consider the ledger here of reality. Over 70% of those who tend our fields are foreign born.

And of that number, nearly half lack the papers we demand. They're not peripheral. They're foundational. In 2023, their labor fueled an economy that extracted $128 billion in taxes from their sweat. And these are funds that they will never recover from Social Security or Medicare. Their unemployment rate stands at 3.2%, outpacing the native-born. Right? You might say, well, that's not really good.

And of that number, nearly half lack the papers we demand. They're not peripheral. They're foundational. In 2023, their labor fueled an economy that extracted $128 billion in taxes from their sweat. And these are funds that they will never recover from Social Security or Medicare. Their unemployment rate stands at 3.2%, outpacing the native-born. Right? You might say, well, that's not really good.

And of that number, nearly half lack the papers we demand. They're not peripheral. They're foundational. In 2023, their labor fueled an economy that extracted $128 billion in taxes from their sweat. And these are funds that they will never recover from Social Security or Medicare. Their unemployment rate stands at 3.2%, outpacing the native-born. Right? You might say, well, that's not really good.

That means jobs aren't... No! They're just willing to work. These are not the idle... They are the relentless, filling the chasms in our agriculture and construction and hospitality. Can you imagine going to one of your rich banquets held in some banquet hall, the belly of some corporate monstrosity hotel chain? Where are you going to get the servers to feed you, you corporate fat cat?

That means jobs aren't... No! They're just willing to work. These are not the idle... They are the relentless, filling the chasms in our agriculture and construction and hospitality. Can you imagine going to one of your rich banquets held in some banquet hall, the belly of some corporate monstrosity hotel chain? Where are you going to get the servers to feed you, you corporate fat cat?

That means jobs aren't... No! They're just willing to work. These are not the idle... They are the relentless, filling the chasms in our agriculture and construction and hospitality. Can you imagine going to one of your rich banquets held in some banquet hall, the belly of some corporate monstrosity hotel chain? Where are you going to get the servers to feed you, you corporate fat cat?

American sectors would buckle without them. The American Farm Bureau calculates that expelling the undocumented labor would slash agricultural output by 60%. Your breakfast, orange juice, price triples. The milk in your coffee doubles overnight. Construction costs soar as half the workforce, 1.5 million strong, just vanishes. stalling homes and highways all throughout the country.

American sectors would buckle without them. The American Farm Bureau calculates that expelling the undocumented labor would slash agricultural output by 60%. Your breakfast, orange juice, price triples. The milk in your coffee doubles overnight. Construction costs soar as half the workforce, 1.5 million strong, just vanishes. stalling homes and highways all throughout the country.

American sectors would buckle without them. The American Farm Bureau calculates that expelling the undocumented labor would slash agricultural output by 60%. Your breakfast, orange juice, price triples. The milk in your coffee doubles overnight. Construction costs soar as half the workforce, 1.5 million strong, just vanishes. stalling homes and highways all throughout the country.

Hospitality, already fragile, loses 1.2 million workers. Go ahead, see if you can find somebody that will wash the dishes. Restaurants, clothes, hotels, just mothball rooms. This isn't just speculation. It's the arithmetic of survival. Cato Institute pegs the GDP loss at $1.6 trillion over a decade if we purge these contributors that you call illegals. Who bears that burden?

Hospitality, already fragile, loses 1.2 million workers. Go ahead, see if you can find somebody that will wash the dishes. Restaurants, clothes, hotels, just mothball rooms. This isn't just speculation. It's the arithmetic of survival. Cato Institute pegs the GDP loss at $1.6 trillion over a decade if we purge these contributors that you call illegals. Who bears that burden?

Hospitality, already fragile, loses 1.2 million workers. Go ahead, see if you can find somebody that will wash the dishes. Restaurants, clothes, hotels, just mothball rooms. This isn't just speculation. It's the arithmetic of survival. Cato Institute pegs the GDP loss at $1.6 trillion over a decade if we purge these contributors that you call illegals. Who bears that burden?