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Pete Buttigieg: “The whole American economy almost designed to need more…”

Featuring: Pete Buttigieg, Democratic | Former Secretary of Transportation, Former Mayor of South Bend | National

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I think I'm gonna avoid doing that because I'm here already and I'm one of 380 million people, so I'm probably just gonna kind of bleed into society and not make myself an object of deportation. But that doesn't speak to The whole American economy almost designed to need more labor than we're able to supply. And one thing that I want to say, too, is that there's a notion that Americans wouldn't want to do farm labor. You know, they say only immigrants would want to do these jobs. (52:50–53:01)

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Asserts that the U.S. economy is structured to require more labor than is available domestically.

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