These are folks who supported President Trump in his last election, who came to me and said what nobody else would say out loud. We need immigrants to build America and we cannot do it without immigrant labor. We have a labor shortage in this country. We especially have a labor shortage in carpentry, in framing, in brick and tile land. And I know people say, well, we need to build our workforce. (01:52–01:55)
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Asserts that there is a labor shortage in the U.S.
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