Steve Hilton
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Well, let's just talk about the issue for a start.
I mean, you've got
I mean, I hear this story the whole time.
And I want to put a few things together.
Going back to what I was saying earlier, highest unemployment rate, highest poverty rate, all of this.
So you've got, there's a story that is told, which is we need illegal immigration because we have a labor shortage.
And who's going to do these jobs?
And that's particularly strong in California, some of the industries that, you know, like agriculture and agriculture.
construction and all of this well i mean i all the time i come across story i was at the sac the the california state fair in sacramento went up to a couple as i do just saying hi i'm steve i've got into a conversation and it was a family it was the mother and a couple with their three children and they just we just started chatting and i said what do you do he said well i work construction oh i used to work construction
Why do you say that?
Well, I can't get a job anymore.
Well, they don't want to employ people like me.
And he didn't want to say it.
And I said, what do you mean?
He said, local people.
And what he meant by that, and we got into it, was, and the mother chimed in as well, and how he can't get a job.
He's now living with his mother.
Humiliated, right?
He's a man trying to provide for his family.