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While the economic report for May was not as strong as it should be, we still added 138,000 jobs. Consumer confidence, which reached a nine-year high post 2016 election, has dipped slightly but remains at very healthy levels. Small business owners confidence also reached its highest levels since 2007. Yet, what about those people who havent been able to find a job? Well, politically, they favor Hillary Clinton, but want less illegal immigration and Obamacare out of their lives. Second, they havent succumbed to doom and gloom. Though they may still be in the waiting lines, 92 percent are hopeful. Express Employment Professionals, a headhunting organization, released a survey last month that polled 1,500 unemployed Americans over the age of 18 from March 14 to April 6 to gauge their feelings on the current economic climate.

They noted that 33 percent of this group agreed with the statement Ive completely given up on looking for a job, which is down from 43 percent in 2016, 40 percent in 2015, and 47 percent in 2014. Also, more blame themselves for being unemployed than the factors impacting the economy. The poll found that 50 percent took responsibility for their situation, while 26 percent blamed the economy. The group noted this is part of a trend. Thirty-four percent blamed the economy in 2016, 37 percent in 2015, and 45 percent in 2014.

Bob Funk, the CEO for Express Pros, said in a statement that while hes alarmed that one-third of the American workforce has said theyve given up, there are signs of a positive trend from previous years; fewer have given up, more are hopeful, fewer blame the economy and fewer are unemployed due to layoffs. Funk was the former chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City.

Concerning those who said they were jobless because of layoffs, 22 percent was the figure for 2017, down 23 percent in 2016, 28 percent in 2015, and 36 percent in 2014.

Now, in terms of politics, the unemployed favored Hillary over Trump in a 35/25 split. Thirty-four percent did not vote. Yet, even with unemployed America tilting towards Clinton, they want Obamacare gone by a 57/43 margin. Also, a substantial majority also thought that a crackdown on illegal immigration would help them find work by a 58/42 margin. Concerning whether government should spend more on a jobs program or cut corporate tax rates to spur job creation, more government spending is preferred but by a slim 52/48 margin. Its almost down the middle on that question.

Yet, one troubling indicator is the direction of the country; 40 percent of the unemployed said we were heading down the right path compared to 60 percent who disagreed. At the same time, while these voters broke for Hillary, theyre more aligned with Donald Trump on immigration and health care, which are two huge issues facing the country today. There are many inroads with these voters on economic issues and if Democrats craft a populist, job creating-centric agenda over the next couple of yearsthese people will vote for them. As Real Clear Politics Sean Trende has said in prior discussions about elections and demographics, there are many ways to skin the electoral cat. Republicans resonate with this group on illegal immigrants and Obamacare, while Democrats could gain traction with a serious job program. For now, the political Left seems more worried about Russia and whether were all going to die from global warming now that were withdrawing from a non-binding agreement with Europe. So, seriousness is not a quality visible in todays Democratic Party at present.

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The author, Dickinson College professor Crispin Sartwell, paints an idyllic image of the vibrant, intersectional culture of York Springs, Pa., where the streets are purportedly lined with Mexican food trucks and children playing ftbol and a bona-fide real estate revival is well underway thanks to townspeople [fixing] up old houses.

That is, until Donald Trump was elected president.

According to the author, stringent enforcement of immigration law by the Trump administration has precipitated the destruction of a rich, new rural culture and has sent York Springs spiral[ing] into a local depression that is personal, cultural and economic. He cites only 15 documented cases of immigration enforcement in the area but assures readers there have been many more.

Central to his narrative is the fact that Adams County is a national leader in apple production, and that York Springs 70-percent Hispanic population plays an essential role in the growth and harvest of Galas and Granny Smiths.

The thesis of Mr. Sartwells narrative, of course, is that the lawful detainment of unlawful migrant workers will devastate the local economy, to the detriment of all residents, legal and illegal. Sartwell goes on to explain how the devastation transcends economics:

This is separating families, and people are living in fear, he writes. Children arent playing out in the yard any longer. Parents are afraid to leave their homes ... the food truck is gone, and its been a while since I heard Mexican pop music.

Unsurprisingly, the narrative propagated by Mr. Sartwell aligns closely with the left-wing orthodoxy on this topic. It is rooted in the common misconception that American agriculture cannot function without illegal immigrant labor and that the concerted enforcement of federal immigration law will result in the collapse of the farming industry altogether.

According to the Pew Research Center, the U.S. civilian workforce includes 8 million unauthorized immigrants, but only 4 percent of that population is employed in agricultural jobs like farming, fishing, and forestry.

While illegal immigrants do comprise a larger share of the agricultural labor force compared to other industries, the vast majority of the American farming workforce is comprised of legal workers, foreign and native-born.

This fact alone calls into question Mr. Sartwells assertion that the removal of unauthorized immigrant labor (not to be confused with legal immigrant labor) will have an adverse impact on the domestic farming economy.

It also goes far in discrediting the leftist clich that illegal immigrants are needed to perform the dirty, blue collar jobs American citizens are allegedly unwilling to do.

Sure, labor-intensive fruit-and-vegetable farming does attract illegal immigrant workers, but those commodities constitute a relatively small part of the overall U.S. farm economy. Bigger crops wheat, cotton, and corn, for example account for a far greater share of total agricultural output. The production of these major crops is largely automated and can be performed with minimal human inputs.

Bottom line: the modern agriculture economy is diverse and dynamic. Most farmhands are working legally and agribusiness in general is becoming less reliant on manual labor. The enforcement of federal immigration law will never stop Americans from engaging in one of the oldest forms of organized economic activity known to the human race.

Mr. Sartwell, and others who share his worldview, use scary rhetoric about vanishing children and food trucks to obfuscate economic reality and perpetuate the wink-and-nod immigration policies of the Barack Obama administration. In doing so, they defend a broken system which has bankrupted taxpayers and endangered American communities.

Laissez-faire immigration enforcement has resulted in dramatic population growth, not only in our cities but in rural pockets of America like York Springs. Costs in public education, healthcare, social welfare programs, and the criminal justice system all borne by American taxpayers have increased correspondingly.

The American opioid epidemic, which claims the lives of 10 Pennsylvanians each day, has been fueled in part by the unmitigated trafficking of heroin across the porous southern border.

Sartwell observes in his column that the migrant labor community of York Springs has been quick to adopt rural American values ... which are instinctively traditional and oriented toward family and hard work.

Before authoring opinion pieces which decry the enforcement of federal immigration law, he should be reminded that an abiding respect for the rule of law is another value rural Americans hold dear.

Illegal immigration is not a victimless crime.

Sen. Mike Regan is a member of the PA Senate Agriculture & Rural Affairs Committee and previously served as U.S. Marshal in the Middle District of Pennsylvania.

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Natalia Castro Guest Columnist President Trump has given victims a voice through VOICE the Victims of Immigrant Crime Engagement office. This office acts at the Department of Immigration and Customs Enforcements (ICE) first line of defense when an illegal immigrant commits a crime, and allows victims a place to find comfort and recovery. While this step by Trump was important to create an additional means of tracking illegal immigrant crimes, more must be done to prevent them from entering our country in the first place. President Trump made the creation of VOICE a major component of his immigration agenda since the State of the Union, proclaiming that this office would recognize those silenced by the media and special interests groups. Trump placed specific emphasis on those in law enforcement such as Deputy Sheriff Danny Oliver and Detective Michael Davis, who were killed in the line of duty by an illegal immigrant with a criminal record and two deportations. VOICE, through the offices hotline, allows victims and their loved ones the opportunity to report crimes and receive custody information on their perpetrators to better understand the unique immigration process. VOICE also connects victims and victim families with local contacts to continue offering support services. But as seen with the slain members of law enforcement, when an illegal immigrant can easily reenter the country, these great programs do little to actually prevent crime. The Government Accountability Office reported in 2011 that criminal histories of a quarter million illegal immigrants showed they had committed close to three million criminal offenses. With 68 percent of those in federal prison and 66 percent of those in state prison being from Mexico. Their crimes ranged from homicide and kidnapping to drug possession and larceny. This problem is not getting better, with the GAO reporting that this is a 35 percent increase in the number of illegal immigrants in state and local prison systems since 2003. As the Heritage Foundations Hans Von Spokovsky explains in the Hill explains, The issue isnt non-citizens who are in this country legally, and who must abide by the law to avoid having their visas revoked or their application for citizenship refused. The real issue is the crimes committed by illegal aliens If there were a way to include all crimes committed by criminal aliens, the numbers would likely be higher since prosecutors often drop criminal charges against an illegal alien if immigration authorities will deport the alien. Aside from the domestic safety crisis this causes, these illegal immigrants place a high cost on the country as well. The Federation for American Immigration Reform reported that the federal government spent $1.5 billion on programs to combat illegal immigrant gun crimes and violent gangs from 2001 to 2007 alone. State and local law enforcements have had an administrative cost burden of $7.8 billion dollars annually in order to service criminal illegal immigrants. For Americans safety and fiscal responsibility, illegal immigrants cannot be able to continue entering this country. With an estimated 80 percent of Californias violent gang members being illegal immigrants from Mexico or Central America, border security must be a priority. After Trump discussed the necessity to protect victims of illegal immigrant crime, he reminded Americans of his most famous campaign promise at his February address to Congress, For that reason, we will soon begin the construction of a great, great wall along our southern border. As we speak tonight, we are removing gang members, drug dealers, and criminals that threaten our communities and prey on our very innocent citizens. Bad ones are going out as I speak, and as I promised throughout the campaign. And while deportation have increased, only a border wall can actually prevent illegal immigrants from entering the country. Former Border Patrol deputy chief, Donald Colburn and former acting commissioner of Customs and Border Protection, David Aguilar both testified to the Senate Homeland Security Committee about their experiences with border walls. According to Fox News, Aguilar called physical barrier an integral part of an enforcement system. While Colburn explains that since a fence was put in place in spanning from southwestern Arizona to southeastern California, his patrol sector saw a decrease in violent border bandits gangs who sexually assault, rob, and murder Mexican migrants living near the border-from 200 attacks the year previously to zero. Building a wall and supporting the border patrol agents whose lives are being places at risk, is integral for the safety of the American people living in border states and across the country. President Trump has worked hard to keep this promise, now Congress must do the same. The funding for a wall and increased security on our Southern border has already been demanded by the American people and requested by President Trump, now Congress must prove to victims that their voices were actually heard, not just to react to crime but to prevent it. Natalia Castro is a contributing editor at Americans for Limited Government.

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The Verify First Act by Rep. Lou Barletta (R-PA) would subsequently end American taxpayer-funded money going to illegal aliens in the form of healthcare insurance credits. The plan is being supported by NumbersUSA, a group which has staunchly advocated for Trumps America First agenda.

We applaud Rep. Lou Barletta for introducing the Verify First Act to ensure that illegal aliens cannot qualify for taxpayer-funded health insurance credits, NumbersUSA Peter Robbio said in a statement. We are grateful that the Ways and Means Committee and House Republican Leadership agreed to move this important bill forward.

Since Obamacares enactment, illegal immigrants received more than $700 million in healthcare insurance credits by 2015, according to the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

In Barlettas plan, healthcare insurance recipients through the American Health Care Act (AHCA) would have their citizenship and immigration statuses verified by the Social Security Administration (SSA) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

Hard-working Americans and legal residents already are struggling to pay for their own health care, Robbio continued. There is simply no excuse for the Federal government to force them to subsidize health care for illegal aliens through taxpayer-funded credits.

The Verify First Act is one of the only immigration-related bills that seems to be moving forward through the Congress which is in-line with Trumps America First agenda.

For instance, Rep. Tom Cottons (R-AK) major legislation, the RAISE Act, which would cut legal immigration by 50 percent to reduce the foreign competition American workers often must compete with, has yet to even move through the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Similarly, Rep. Steve Kings (R-IA) Birthright Citizenship Act, which would end birthright citizenship for the children of illegal immigrants, has yet to make it out of the House Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.

John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart Texas. Follow him on Twitter at@JxhnBinder.

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