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Marco Rubio: “If your economy is demanding 2 million people a year to fill 2 million new jobs at a certain level, but you're only…”

On the recordMarch 19, 2013
If your economy is demanding 2 million people a year to fill 2 million new jobs at a certain level, but you're only allowing a million people to come in, you have a supply-and-demand problem.
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Marco Rubio
Republican · Florida

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Rubio highlights the mismatch between job demand and immigration limits.

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