Rep. Jordan: Hire Foreigners Because Americans are on Drugs

When asked about his opinion on the numbers of immigrants coming into the United States, Rep. Jim Jordan justified the numbers in a curious way.

“I hear from all kinds of employers, they say they can’t find people to work,” Jordan said, “And one of the reasons they cite… is that there’s a number of people who can’t pass the drug screen.”

The assertion is significant because the Freedom Caucus was partially responsible for the recent installment of House Speaker Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), who has a two-decade history of pushing open borders immigration policies, opposed by more than 9 in 10 Republican voters. By his own terms, Ryan would have withdrawn his consideration of the Speaker’s position if he did not receive the support of Freedom Caucus members.

Eric Cantor, Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) and Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) were ejected or blocked from the Speakers’ role in large part due to a populist voter revolt against open borders trade and immigration policies. However, as Breitbart News, Politico, The Washington Post, The New York Times and many others have documented, Paul Ryan was an architect of both the effort to pass Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)’s amnesty and Barack Obama’s trade agenda through the House— more so than Cantor, McCarthy, or Boehner. As such, the decision of the Freedom Caucus’ members to back Ryan has resulted in the selection of a Speaker, who even more strongly rejects the views of the GOP voters, who created the House majority in the first place.

“Ninety-two percent today of GOP voters want future immigration rates reduced,” Laura Ingraham told Jordan during the interview Friday. “Given the fact that overwhelmingly our voters want immigration reduced… how do you work with Ryan when the people are completely at odds with where leadership—both in the Senate and the House of Representatives—is on the issue of legal immigration?”

Jordan either dodged Ingraham’s question or did not understand it. Even though most immigrants from poor nations are voluntarily imported into the United States on visas— and can therefore legally replace American workers, access welfare, and vote in U.S. elections— Jordan instead gave common talking points about border security.

“As I’ve said all along— and our group believes in— do the security you need to do on our Southern border… and follow the rule of law, but the other thing that’s so important… is we need to reform our welfare. You reform our welfare system, then there is this discouragement out there for people who want to come here for the wrong reason. We only want people who want to immigrate for the right reason: who want to learn our language, be a part of our culture, and chase the American dream. We don’t want people who want to come here because there’s a social safety net that’s way too generous.”

 Given Jim Jordan’s statements, paired with the immigration policy of Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, it will be interesting to see where these influential men take the immigration policy of the United States.

Source: Breitbart