Critics called this "touchback amnesty."Rex Tillerson, Trump’s nominee for secretary of http://www.jiayunaluminium.com/product/aluminum-tubing state, has lobbied for comprehensive immigration reform bills derided as amnesty by opponents since at least 2006. This includes the bipartisan legislation backed by Ted Kennedy and John McCain that was ultimately blocked by House Republicans and the Gang of Eight.Defense Secretary nominee James Mattis slammed Trump’s campaign comments about Muslim immigration.

Harvard economist George Borjas makes the case that immigration at its current high rate and disproportionately low skill levels benefits employers at the expense of workers, especially at the lower end of the earning spectrum.

"Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, the designated secretary of energy, savaged Trump on immigration when the two were briefly rivals for the Republican presidential nomination. "Donald Trump the candidate is a sower of division, wrongly demonizing Mexican-Americans for political sport," Perry declared.

Asked about how they were received in the Middle East, the retired Marine general replied, "They think we’ve completely lost it."Betsy DeVos, Trump’s nominee for secretary of education, complained to reporters about Trump and mass deportations. She didn’t seem to buy into the wall either. She told the Hill that the "notion that we put walls up around our nation is just not a tenable position."Elaine Chao, Trump’s pick for secretary of transportation, has spoken favorably of comprehensive immigration reform in the past.

"It is wrong to paint with a broad brush Hispanic men and women in this country who have fought and died for freedom from the Alamo to Afghanistan. He scapegoats Hispanics to appeal to our worst instincts, when we need a president who appeals to our best."Donald Trump is the modern-day incarnation of the know-nothing movement," Perry continued. "He espouses nativism, not conservatism." In 2012, Mitt Romney beat back Perry’s push for the GOP presidential nomination by running to his right on immigration."

As secretary of labor under President George W. Bush, Chao defended the administration’s guest-worker proposals and "streamlining the process so that willing workers can efficiently be matched with employers ... [when] there are no willing U.S. workers.

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