Illi­nois Con­gress­man claims migrants are need­ed to grow econ­o­my despite push­back

A Demo­c­ra­t­ic Con­gress­man rep­re­sent­ing Illi­nois claimed that immi­grants are nec­es­sary to grow the econ­o­my of the Unit­ed States.
Rep. Mike Quiq­ley’s (D‑IL) state­ment comes as res­i­dents of major U.S. cities, includ­ing Chica­go, New York City, and Wash­ing­ton D.C., have pushed back on receiv­ing migrants who have been trans­port­ed from the South­ern bor­der — a tac­tic used by Repub­li­can gov­er­nors to try and draw the atten­tion of Pres­i­dent Joe Biden in order to secure the bor­der. Quiq­ley argued that the U.S. would not be where it is now with­out migrants.
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“With­out migrants where are we?” Quiq­ley told MSNBC Sat­ur­day. “This econ­o­my, this labor mar­ket needs migrants. So, if I can’t appeal to your heart by see­ing these lit­tle kids. who all they’ve been is migrants, and try­ing to help them, I want to appeal to your brain — how impor­tant these migrants could be to our econ­o­my and grow­ing it.”
“Chica­go and New York,” the Demo­c­ra­t­ic con­gress­man con­tin­ued, “they have a long his­to­ry of wel­com­ing migrants, and under­stand­ing just what they meant to grow­ing the economies of world cities.”

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