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Harry Enten

This feels more like a base speech to me, with perhaps the exception of that LGBTQ line.
Micah Cohen

So who is this speech aimed at? Swing voters? The base? Suburban married women?
Ben Casselman

Trump says immigration has “produced lower wages and higher unemployment for our citizens, especially for African-American and Latino workers.” This is a hot topic in economics right now. Economists generally agree that immigration is good for the economy as a whole, especially at a time when the population is aging and Americans are having fewer children. But there’s less agreement over how low-skilled immigration — a category that includes most though not all illegal immigration — affects less-educated American workers.

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