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J. D. Vance: “The Democrat model was important. Low wage immigrants. And I…”

Featuring: J. D. Vance, Republican | Vice President of the United States | National

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JD Vance: This was a HUGE political mistake

Published | Video Starts at 16:48

But this is an interesting point though, Sean, because if you go back to, you know, there really are, I think, two different models of how you make people more productive, of how you create economic growth, of how you make people better off. The Democrat model was important. Low wage immigrants. And I really do think that hurt the jobs of our construction workers. It hurt the wages of a lot of our blue collar workers. But their idea was the way that we get more prosperity is that you import more and more low wage servants. (16:48–16:57)

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Asserts that the Democratic model of importing low-wage immigrants harmed construction workers' jobs.

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