give an assessment of the trump administration. later, a discussion on the ongoing opioid crisis. host: it's the "washington journal" for august 8. "new york times" reporting this morning that a federal report on climate change shows u.s. temperatures have risen dramatically since the 1980's, and that recent decades have not warmest in over 1,500 years. this report not yet formally released. no indication from the trump administration either on if they will endorse the report. it was earlier this month that the president endorsed legislation that would change the way legal immigration is conducted in the united states, with a priority being offered on skills of those legal immigrants coming to the united states. the trump administration argues that this is done in part to promote economic stability and growth in the u.s.

our first hour this morning, we want to talk about legal immigration, particularly if you might think it's good or bad for the economy. we'll show you what the trump administration wants to do for this legislation as far as that is concerned. but if you think those coming into the u.s. legally gives something a benefit to the u.s. economy or not, here's your chance to let us know. if you make less than $30,000, call us at 202-748-8000. if your income falls between $30,000 and $50,000, 202-748-8001. and if you make over $50,000, 202-748-8002. we've set aside a line for legal immigrants, too, 202-748-8003. and as always, you can post on ur social media pages, twitter, facebook. it was the trump administration's endorsement of legislation created by two senators, david purdue out of georgia and out of arkansas, the raise act, as they call it. here's some of the endorsement

from the white house, saying in part, their philosophical approach saying a surge in unskilled immigration for decades in the united states has surged, depressing wages and harming america's most vulnerable citizens, adding that our system does not prioritize the most highly skilled immigrants. just one out of every 15 immigrants comes here is because of their skills, and on average, one million immigrants are accepted into the united states for legal permanent residency annually, and most of them are low or unskilled workers. this influx is the equivalent of adding more than the population of san francisco to the country every year. there's more at the white house website if you want to see the endorsement of this raise act by the trump administration. to give you some specifics, it would do a couple of things. it would, first of all, retain immigration preferences for thousands of minor children of u.s. citizens and legal permanent residents. it would establish a skills-based point system for entry into the u.s.

it would eliminate preferences for certain categories of extended or adult family members. it would limit the number of refugees to offer permanent residency to 50,000 per year. and applicants would earn points based on education, english language ability, high-paying job offers, age, and other factors as well, including entrepreneurial initiatives being a factor there too. so legal immigration and those coming in legally, and if you think it is a benefit or not to the u.s. economy, and we want to get your thoughts on it. again, we divided the lanes differently. for those of you who make 30,000 to $50,000, 202-748-8001. if you're over, 202-748-8002. legal immigrants, we have set side a line for you as well, 202-748-8003. you can post on our social media pages too. trump was at a rally in west virginia last week, where he touted this proposal, what he thinks it would do for the economy and the united states. here's what he had to say.

president trump: for many years, america has issued most of its green cards to lower skilled immigrants. and people that had no hope of getting a job. undermining blue-collar workers and wages and costing taxpayers billions and billions of dollars a year. the raise act switches to a erit-based system. you come in largely based on merit. doesn't that sound nice? wouldn't that be nice? it's about time. our proposal prevents new immigrants from going on welfare for at least five years, so you don't come in and go on welfare. host: again, you can see more of that if you go to our

website, see the full speech. your thoughts on legal immigrants coming to the united states, and if it's good or bad for the economy. again, lines are different. we'll start in maryland today. bonnie is up first. bonnie, good morning. what do you think? caller: i think this -- it's faulty reasoning, because what he's trying to do is bring in people who are going to compete with recent college graduates who are desperately in need of good paying jobs. when a lower income immigrant comes into this country, they usually come in for better opportunities for their children, and they work hard. their children are given an opportunity for an education. i just think that it's going about it the wrong way, because i have a niece who graduated from texas a&m in engineering, and she got blocked by someone they brought in from india.

i just don't see the good reasoning for this. host: let's go to dan, independence, oregon. good morning, dan. hello. caller: good morning. i was basically going to say much what the last caller who called in said, but i want to add on that a lot of these places come from free colleges, countries that go to free college so. they come here without doubt. so they can pay them less. they're not saying they can't find people here. they just don't want to pay them as much to pay for their college debt. that's our biggest problem, thank you. host: off of twitter, highly skilled immigrants flood high-tech market and push down high-tech wages, adding the question trump is for this, and this is jim, who says legal immigrants would need skills if they contribute to the g.d.p. and require goods and services from current residents. we'll go next to daniel, washington, d.c., hi. good morning. caller: yeah, i think that they

need to increase opportunities for american citizens to get education so they can compete against the individuals that are coming in from other countries. there's so many barriers here in this country that prevent individuals from being able to be successful, like student loan debt holding them down. they need to be able to give individuals high-quality education so they can do and compete with the global economy. host: that's the thoughts from washington, d.c., this morning. if you go to cbs news, they have a series of charts taking a look at this idea of legal immigrants and their impact on the u.s. economy over a series of charts. one of them, weekly earnings by educational attainment. you'll see that in almost every category, native-born workers do better as far as weekly earnings except for one. those with a bachelor degree or higher with those foreign-born workers that show edging out slightly over those who are

born natively here in the united states. that's just one of the series of charts that you can go to cbs news. again, the impact on the u.s. economy and seven charts is what you're looking for, if you want to see it online. lucille, atlantic city, new jersey. you're next up. caller: hi. host: you're on. go ahead. caller: i just that that was so interesting what i just heard, it kind of changed my opinion of this, because i didn't take into consideration all those aspects of how the people had come in, whether they're educated or whether they're not, and how it affects the people and blue-collar workers, for instance. host: as far as this proposal, this legislation that the president wants to endorse, that would make these changes in lower numbers and look at skills, what do you think about that effort? caller: i think they need to give back to those of us who have worked here. i do have a bachelor's degree,

and i probably would agree with you there as far as the -- there are more offers to international -- put it like this. i worked at valley park place for 23 years. when i became disabled, i went back to apply for this position that i could work in, and the international h.r. was so much bigger and takes more notice of you there than the one that's for the national citizens here. so i just wanted to tell you now, i'm not even sheer of my opinion. i think they need to give back to us before. they offer so much, and i'm not sure if those that are skilled should come in to push the citizens down here or if they should come in somewhat more skilled so that they don't ride on welfare. thank you. host: one other chart to show you from this cbs money watch

website, it talks about immigrants that start businesses in the united states. according to this chart, it says forever 10,000 immigrants to the united states, about 62 of those will start a business. that's more than double the rate for the native born. this is taken from 2013, courtesy of cbs money watch. again, go to the website if you want to see more for yourself. this is alice in illinois. alice, good morning. what do you think about this idea about legal immigrants and their impact on the economy? caller: i'm really opposed to this new act. i've been concerned about the visas, the ones that bring in people because we supposedly don't have the skill here. first of all, it offends me, because our people are capable, but we aren't giving them the training and the opportunities to learn, to get trained. i know personally of a company

here in illinois that has -- that lays off people they had worker for a long time every few months and replaces them with people that they contract to i.b.m. for. and this is just -- it's just wrong, and i think this is the president's way to get around that, because one thing i thought he was doing good was when he campaigned that those visas needed to be stopped. now this will just go right around his little -- his saying to stop those visas and find another way of doing this. host: again, this is legislation that's been proposed by two senators. no indication on if this even pass the senate. some senators saying this legislation is a nonstart when her it comes to activities of the senate. overall, as far as the topic of legal immigration and the impact it has on the u.s. economy, we're getting your thoughts again this morning. we divided the lines differently, economically, or at least by what you earn.

for those who earn less than $30,000, 202-748-8000. if you earn between $30,000 and $50,000, 202-748-8001. if you earn over $50,000, 202-748-8002. legal immigrants here in the united states, your perspective welcome, too, 202-748-8003. alice is up next in illinois. hi there. caller: hi, i just talked, but i do have one more thing. i think it's really important. i think on these visas, if a business cannot find someone to do the job, they could bring somebody in on one of those visas as long as they also put the money into training one of their people to take over the job in two or three years when the visa expires. host: let's go to colchester, vermont, you're next up. good morning. caller: good morning. thank you, c-span. i have a concern.

number one, president trump, i didn't vote for him, and i didn't support him, but really i'm impressed. on going to do the best ms-13. democrat, i was democrat. it's getting worse. they are trying to prevent and thing, the progress, this country all america. democrat, republican, independent, all america. we have to work together, united. if you have a good chance, you make me think. i never vote for democrat. let's do thanks that they prevent progress.

host: ok, p.j. on twitter says when the u.s. gets enough third-world people, we will be a third world. they're dragging the u.s. down, not building it up. again, post comments on twitter, @cspanwj, and on facebook. shortly after this proposal was released, editors of "the washington post" said this about it, saying with the u.s. birth rate at a historic scomplow baby boomers starting to retire, it's a simple truth that the united states will need an infusion of immigrant labor to maintain economic growth, let alone expand it. to bar immigrants while the birth rate dips is to emulate japan, whose own fading prospects of a direct result of such conditions of policy --

host: w showed you some of the details of the raise act, and it's also available online at whitehouse.gov. that's their comments from august 3 of this year. paul is next, brighton, massachusetts. go ahead, paul. you're on. caller: thank you for taking my call. good morning. host: good morning. caller: as a former u.s. customs inspector, let me say that i know the games that play with immigration goals. and it really doesn't matter whether they're legal or illegal as far as the job market goes. people either are going to work to give you an honest job for a day's work or they're not. you get that whether you're all people. the whole thing is there are so many jobs the market can absorb for a year. and testifying for that, look what happened to flint and detroit.

g.m. closed a plant or sunbeam was going crazy. they were selling like hot cakes. they couldn't sell it to the foreign market. they closed the plant. the job market isn't there, so you have to train people to be plumbers and electric i guesses and carpet layers, brick layers, and they're just starting to get around and saying, gee, we made a mistake, not everybody has to go to college. host: paul, that should be focused on those here in the u.s. then as far as those skills training that you talk about are concerned? caller: say that again please? host: as far as what you're talking about, should that be focused on those here in the u.s., or are you ok with certain amounts of legal immigration? caller: oh, no, you have to have legal immigration ever ear.

that's the gene pool if you want to get down to that area. and you do need some people coming in to the market that have an expertise or skill that we don't have, but that's our fault for not training our own. host: let's hear from kevin. niece alexandria, virginia. kevin, good morning. caller: hi. how are you? this bill will take us in the wrong direction. i mean, we've got an aging population. we're going to double the retirees by 2050. we've got a low fertility rate going forward. we're going to need these low-skilled workers into the future to keep the economy growing. studies from the national academy of sciences and the cato institute, they show low-skilled workers complement, by and large, the u.s. workforce and don't conflict with it, don't compete with it, so it helps move the economy forward. so the other point i'd like to make is we're not canada.

we're certainly not australia. the president wants to make us great again, but why do we have to be like canada? we have the largest economy in the world, hands down. we have the most diverse economy in the world, hands down. we need all skill sets to make the economy go forward. this is really going to take us in the wrong direction. the last point i'd like to make is the president likes to tout low unemployment in the last 17 years and the stock market is hitting a record high. so what's the problem? that's my rhetorical question to the president f. we're doing so well, why are we changing the formula now? host: that's kevin giving his thoughts from alexandria, virginia. your thoughts are welcome as well on the phone lines and on our social media pages. california, audrey, hello. caller: hello. am i on the air? i don't know.

host: you are on the air, go ahead. caller: all right, well, i watched this for all my life. i'm a senior. i'm retired. i was table get a union job. the unions are being busted in this country, and the low-income jobs, everything is becoming a low-income job. and a lot of immigrants are coming into this country and being allowed to work on farms and everywhere else to keep the osts down for everybody. i just don't understand how we were getting along just fine until recently with all of this, and now we have a problem. i mean, these talk radio shows, like rush limbaugh, have stirred people up to believe that these immigrants that pick fruit in this country are somehow taking our jobs.

there's so much that doesn't make sense to me. host: that's you'd flee california. another thought being offered is by robert long, opinion piece at the hill website. he is with the federation for american immigration reform, talks specifically about the raise act, in which he says, in part --

host: the hill website is where that's located. the raise act being endorsed by the trump administration, making these significant changes, and we'll show you some of those changes as we go along. brian, who is in taiwan. brian, good morning. go ahead. caller: yes, good morning. yeah, i'm an american citizen who actually lives overseas, and i'm very grateful that i've been able to live and work in another country. i wish the u.s. and all countries would have more of an open-border policy. host: what do you think about this idea of selecting who comes to the u.s., particularly for skills and what they could offer as far as the u.s. economy is concerned? caller: well, near taiwan, pretty much everyone's allowed.

it depends on what sort of job ou want to go for. if you're unskilled, there's a certain set of jobs you're allowed to get. if you have skills, then there are jobs you're allowed to get. i don't necessarily see something bad about restricting things, but restricting people, i do have a problem with that. host: what kind of work do you do in taiwan? caller: i teach english. host: how long have you been doing that? caller: almost 30 years now. host: so tell me, how are you listening to this program? caller: well, i used to listen over the short wave, but wasn'tly i've been listening over the internet -- but recently i've been listening over the internet. host: through the c-span

website? caller: yes. host: great. brian joining us via the c-span website out of taiwan, giving his thoughts this morning on legal immigration. brian, thanks a lot for your contribution. brad up next, unityville, pennsylvania. caller: i think a better question would be is washington, d.c., good for our economy? who's to blame for not training our workers? we pay more for a college education than just about every other country, yet everyone states our workers, they aren't trained, so who's to blame for that? our government can't fix illegal immigration, nor do they want to. you know, washington, d.c., everyone thinks there's democrats and republicans, and the reality is there's one big depreesy wheel, and they all get their hands dirty from that grease. host: so as far as the topic of legal immigrants and what they offer to the economy specifically, what do you think?

caller: if it's good for the economy, what does that do for all the people that are here already that can't find a job? i mean, yeah, it might boost g.d.p., but where's the -- what about the rest of the people? you're still not putting them to work. i mean, you have people starving in chicago. they're literally starving. they're hungry. they're killing people because they're hungry. and we don't take care of them, and yet that's a sanctuary city. come on. they don't want to fix the legal or illegal immigration. it's just a systematic way to pull down the american people. host: claude is next, fort lauderdale, florida, identifies himself as a legal immigrant. claude, hello. caller: good morning. how are you? host: i'm well, thank you. caller: my comment is, it's larger than what you're talking about. public-private partnership doesn't work. i'm a legal immigrant here. i work for a company that is contracted through the federal government, but i and many

other make less than the national poverty rate. it's ridiculous. host: what company did you come from? caller: haiti. host: what type of work do you do? caller: i drive paratransit vehicles. i drive basically a paratransit city bus. but it's not through the county agency. it's through a state agency. the federal government is putting the money there, but the corporations are not paying the employees a living page. and fortunately, i speak english properly, but my parents and my cousins and brothers and other immigrants that are legally here, they hold their head down and they don't fight the company for a living wage.

that's where, in the mindset of the corporations are they'll hold their head down, they won't fight. they're here, they're happy, and we can exploit the workers. that's my comment. host: what part of haiti did you emigrate from? how long have you been here in the united states? caller: oh, 15 years. host: what kind of wage do you make here versus what you possibly could make in haiti? caller: well, there's no comparison for wages. there's no comparison. the people, the reason for immigrants to come here is for a higher wage. but when you get here, your expenses are astronomical. it's the same. you're just working. host: gotcha. raymond is up next. he's in michigan. southfield, michigan. raymond, hello. caller: hi. how you doing? host: fine, thank you. caller: i'm a design engineer

in aerospace and auto body, and have a story. in the automotive business, thing i gineering, one noticed, when i -- i've never been out of the country, but in germany, -- and i talked to the manager, and he said i like your resume and i like talking to you, and we would like to bring you on. but you're in germany. we cannot bring you on until all the engineering spots are filled. and i said to myself, i like that. that's the one. two, and i had a aerospace job

n florida. and the person got next to me, and he's indian, and nice guy, and we're talking, and all the there e said, raymond, are two other guys from india in the cubicle next to ours. he said watch your job. and i said why? he said, well, i know those guys. they call them rate busters. what they do is these companies, they bring in -- i'm making $50 an hour, say. they'll bring these guys in, two of them, $25 an hour. host: ok. that's raymond giving his thoughts this morning from

michigan. if you're just joining us, we spent our first half-hour talking about legal immigration, the u.s., trump administration has endorsed a piece of legislation out of the senate that would make changes to legal immigration, including looking at those with skills and what they bring to the united states. their argument is it would improve the economy, and we're asking the overall question, when it comes to those coming legally from other countries if it's good or bad for the u.s. economy. you can give us your thoughts on the phone lines this morning, or you can post at our social media pages, too, and then give your thoughts there. we'll continue on for the next half-hour. we'll show you a couple of other stories that are of note. this includes what's concerning over north korea, especially with the introduction of those sanctions that you heard about. the "financial times" this morning saying north korea has vowed to inflict a "thousands-fold revenge" on the u.s. as it condemned the latest u.n. sanctions on pyongyang, saying it will never give up the nuclear program.

comments yesterday followed a weekend u.n. vote backing the strongest economy sanctions. they coincided with a call to stop missile tests as a precursor to the talks. according to the official korean central news agency, the sanctions were "a heinous u.s. plot to isolate north korea" and said the country would not be forced to negotiate over its nuclear weapons. the secretary of state, rex tillerson, traveling, was in thailand talking and addressing these sanctions, talking about the potential talks with north korea, the recent sanctions that were imposed by the security council. here's rex tillerson from monday. >> the best signal that north korea could give us that they're prepared to talk would be to stop these missile launches. you know, we've not had an extended period of time where they have not taken some type of provocative action by launching ballistic missiles, so i think that would be the first and strongest signal they could send to us would be to

stop the missile launches. obviously we have other means of communication open to them, to certainly hear from them if they have a desire to want to talk. in terms of these most recent round of sanctions, i think your point is well taken, when do these actually have a practical bite on their revenues? i think perhaps the more important element of that is just the message that this sends to north korea of how unacceptable the entire international community finds what they're doing to be, and i think also it sends a strong message to two parties that we think can have influence on how the north koreans come to the grip with the reality behalf they're facing, that being china and russia. so i think, again, their support for the security council resolution itself i think also sends a message. but i think the world is also expressing a view to china and

russia that we do have an expectation that you will do everything you possibly can to help north korea understand the reality of the future as well. host: rex tillerson from monday. next call, william from north carolina, hi. caller: hello. i was listening -- in fact, i i had a ng about it, general contractor license in north carolina. and that opened the door for a lot of job creation. this is not something that happened over the last two, three years. i'm retired military, so you can't say that you're a thug or something, but i had a top-secret clearance. i like communications. i'm still impeded, although the

military, like i said, i'm yearly o have a income, but still, -- host: when it comes to those coming to the u.s. from other countries, good or bad for the economy? caller: i'm not saying it's bad. people here in america, the people here are not afforded opportunity. i mean opportunity. i don't have a finance problem. i have a race problem. see, it's not that i need some money to go in business. i need somebody to get out of my way so i can be in business. that's all. host: let's hear from ronald, baltimore, maryland, hi. caller: hi. i'm calling to make a statement. and my statement is that we in

america have to make a decision about ourselves, the history of the country, and have to understand, especially those people who are involved with the immigration ruling that has been made by the current president. we have to remember one thing, , and jority of caucasians they are the descend he wants of immigrants -- descendants of immigrants, if immigration is bad for society, how is it that it's so good for the caucasians in america? i am an american of slave ancestry. and my contribution, or my family's contribution to this country has been a great imitation, if you understand what i'm saying. we have participated in just about every major growth of this country, from 1700's to

the current day. host: so ronald, i get your point, but the topic that we're addressing as far as those coming here scompleal what they do for the economy, what are your thoughts on that? caller: no, but what i'm saying to you, what i'm saying to you, the majority -- even at that rate, the majority of people that came to this country came here illegally. they clearly probably, the father and mother, if you understand what i'm saying to you. we don't know to this day whether the father became a citizen of this country. host: got your point. let's go to walter in butler, indiana, hello. caller: thanks for taking my call n. answer to your question, i think immigration is bad for this country. from the inception, we use ad lot of manual labor to build the railroads, skyscrapers, bridges, etc., farming, so we needed a lot of low-skilled workers to come to this country to help build a thriving, new,

bolstering economy. but with 330 million people in this country, with robotic technology, you don't need as many manual laborers. i think if you look statistically of immigration over the last 50 years, if you took 50 years alone, most of the immigrants that are coming to this country are actually a burden upon the country. they have to get on welfare. they need food stamps. they need medical. they need dental. they can't speak english. and etc. so i think what we have to do, we have to look at it as far as, if we say that we need immigrants to come to our country to do jobs, then the question should be, why can't americans do jobs? of course we can. we don't need a doctor from india to be here. we can have an american doctor. we don't need a pakistani gas station owner. we can have an american gas station owner. and what i think we have to do is put a complete moratorium, a complete shutdown on all immigration for at least a 50-year period and let the

trump administration get out the people that don't belong here. it's very simple. if you're not here legally, you must be go home. and once we get that all sorted out, then we can turn around and look at labor. i would rather pay extra for oranges, tomatoes, whatever the case may be, for an american citizen to were a wage and get off welfare and food stamps and go pick the tomatoes. growing up, there was always little jobs young people used to do. now u the left wing saying if you work at mcdonald's you're 40 years old, you should geted 15 an hour. if that's the best you can do, then shame on you. host: that's walter. thank you, walter, for calling in. another story related to immigration, this comes out of the city of chicago, their reaction from the justice department over sanctuary cities. the city has filed in u.s. district court for the northern district of illinois, the lawsuit arguing that requirement to federalize local

jail and violates their constitutional and the rights of i am mates. chicago will not be blackmailed, and we will remain a welcoming city. the federal government should work to provide necessary resources to improve public safety, not con cocketting new schemes -- host: again, this story is in "the washington post." let's go to louisiana. angelina, you're next. caller: hello. how are you doing today? host: fine, thank you. go ahead. caller: thank you so much for taking my call. i really appreciate that, and

god bless you for that. on nt to give a statement the belief that we the people of america. just heard a guy say something about the burden of immigrants to america. i think people need to understand, america is built on immigrants. that's what makes america beautiful, because there are so many different races in it. that's really what america is about. and i don't really know whether it's good or bad to legalize immigration. i mean, who's to say that in the beginning? i'm going tell you, in my community, my husband has to drive an hour away just to get work. in our community, it's mostly just mexicans here that are illegal that's getting all of the work that the people with no education, which that's the problem here in louisiana. people are really uneducated, and that's not really their fault. i mean, your system and your

surroundings, i mean, it's what causes people to not be able to get educated. host: so in this case, however, we're talking about legal immigrants to the united states and their impact on the economy. what do you think? caller: they're doing good. they helped build america. it's just the point that they're getting paid cash. they're not having to report this. so it's mostly the working up under i'm going say caucasians, they're paying them cash. so they don't have to report this to the government. that's the problem here. the people are getting paid cash to go to work for cheap, and they're doing it. that's how come the immigration has the problem that they're having. they need to up the status on all that right there. i mean, everyone is getting paid cash around here, under the table. nothing is being reported. host: ok, let's hear from kwame in ashburn, virginia. caller: hi. thanks for taking my call. i was just listening to some

one gentleman talking about, you know, we built america's roads and bridges on the backs of grants, and now they need to go back home. it's ridiculous. . u know, we don't have robots you still need low-skilled workers to do those jobs. look at the economy as my water, my fish tank that i have at home. you know, you have your expensive fishes on top, and when they eat, some falls on the gravel, and you need to bottom feed it. you know, your crabs and stuff, you go in and take care of that. it helps clean your system. that's what it is. when i came here and i was a bottom feeder, even when the economy cries, i still have two or three jobs, not because it was great jobs, but it was

under the table jobs or it was jobs that nobody wants. nd some of us get up and start making good money, you know? immigration reform is to give a raise to americans, this is not the right way to do it. if you bring them in, people already a good education and skills, then you're actually taking money from americans. that's what you're doing. host: so what kind of work do you do now? caller: i'm a manager at a grocery store. scommoip how long have you been doing that? caller: i've been doing that for seven years. host: what's business like? caller: it's good. business is good. you know, i started, like i said, i've done all jobs. i've cleaned bathrooms. i've washed dishes. i've done a lot of things. i started as a grocery -- i was pushing carts, and i worked

myself all the way up to the top. you know, i have people who have college degrees working for me. but that's what we bring to this country. we come in. we very hungry. we come from a very bad situation, so when we come here, we don't play, you know? you need people like that, not back for this country. host: that's qualm knee ashburn, virginia. we're going to hear from mike, woodbridge, virginia, describes himself as a legal immigrant. good morning, mike. caller: good morning. yeah, my problem is that we family o bring -- the usiness. people who have family, so when they come in, they cannot bring a r family, it's like,

group of people from the valley. we were trying to bring in more -- yeah. i was -- e in here, people were happy. and we were working. and in the morning, they would get up and go again. and now i have my own transportation business. that's the way it is. e come here, work hard, and we trying to have the citizens, through the citizens will go in and pick up the crumbs, . migrants who do it host: and so, mike, tell us what country you came from, how

long you've been here. caller: i've been here for almost 13 years. i came from ghana. host: mike in woodbridge, virginia, sharing his story. about the raise act, which the president endorsed, again, some of the elements of the act that were legislation from two senators, one from arkansas, one from georgia, it would retain immigration preferences for the minor children of u.s. and legal preponderates. it would establish a skills-based point system. it would limit the number of refugees offered permanent residency to 50,000 per year. applicants would earn points based on education, english language ability, high-paying job offers and other elements. we'll continue all of these questions the next 15 must not or so. want to point you to other stories this. one looking at healthcare, particularly out of nevada, saying that anthem insurance has announced they are going to pull out of the nevada exchange, saying that in june, that residents in 14 counties out of 17 in the state would

not have access to qualified health plans on the state exchange. anthem's decision leave the the does not decrease number of counties -- host: that's out of the fork new york times and "washington post." out of the "new york times," a meeting going on of insurance commissioners in philadelphia. one of the discussions being quite frequent there at that meeting is about those subsidies. this is the story --

host: more on that in the "new york times" this morning. from new york, this is jordan. hello. caller: hey, good morning. how are you? host: fine, thank you. caller: we're having a great conversation. two things. i just wanted to say, i wanted to remind especially to comment on that other gentleman again who was talking about the country being way down on jobs, reminding people that in california, all of the cabbage pickers, housekeepers, lawnscaping, anything of that nature, is all legal and illegal mexicans for the most part. i'm not trying to be racist or anything like that. and if they left california, california would fall apart. secondly, hispanic, that's probably a better word. here in new york, in the restaurant industry, all of the

line cooks, some of the soux chefs, and the food preps are all mostly hispanic. the people, the porters who clean the restaurants at 3:00 and 4:00 in the morning, they're all from africa and varying states within africa, and they're all, for the most part, legal immigrants. and as long as they put money in their own pockets doing jobs that they're willing to do, and then they go back out and buy an iphone, they're contributing to the economy. that's the whole cycle. as long as they're ending up in taxicabs and paying the cabbies, and cabdrivers in new york, where are they from? bangladesh, anywhere in india, these are all legal and possibly illegal immigrants. that's not to mention the people who end up coming to america to go to harvard and yale and become doctors and physicists. that's the problem with a narrow mindset that doesn't see

the bigger picture of other people coming from other countries who come to america to get ahead, to get smarter, to contribute whatever it is they have to get back. host: that is jordan from new york, giving thoughts on the topic of legal immigration, good or bad for the u.s. economy, we'll engage in this about 10 minutes or so, if you want thoughts on our social media pages, our facebook page, also want to keep you posted to c-span.org, lot of information there about goings-on in washington, even as the house and senate are formal on the their break for august. several things happening in d.c. and things that we are regular the covering, and then again, we invite you to go to our website at c-span.org. you heard one viewer who is managing to watch us from -- i forget the country, but he was watching us from that other country, -- taiwan, thank you. he was watching us courtesy of our website. if you go to c-span.org, you'll

find all that there. we heard from rex tillerson earlier. when it came to the topic of north korea, the president himself weighing in on a tweet when it comes to the topic as well, saying this on twitter, after many years of failure, countries are coming together to finally address the dangers poised by north korea. we must be tough and decisive. carol in virginia, good morning to you. go ahead. caller: yeah, i think the administration and the senators that proposed this race thing are circumventing, helping the trump administration. because they're looking to immigrants with educated, speak english, or safer than refugees. i went on the daniel boone trail, gateway to the west here at the tampa community, and i can throw a rock from my porch to the original daniel boone trail. and what they're doing is,

these are going all from a meal, throw a rock at them. i just don't understand the and ess, conservatives trump administration on this immigration deal. immigration, this country's got to have it. it's always had it, always will. and if they're going to stop immigration like that, why don't they just take the statue of liberty down, give it back to france so the conservatives can save millions of dollars of that on the statue of liberty, because it don't pay for itself. host: from bronx, new york, this is julie. julie, good morning, go ahead. caller: good morning. i am just calling to voice my opinion. mber one, listen up, all you rump supporters. host: julie, go ahead. you're on. legal immigration if it's good

or bad for the economy. what do you think? caller: i think it's good for the economy. and all these trump supporters, they need to realize that the ones who vote for him, he's not helping them. he's not helping them at all. they're the one who really needs a job, and they don't even realize it. they are just, how should i say t, um -- how should i say? ignorant to the fact. his wife doesn't even speak english, and she is an illegal immigrant, you know? so she got a chance, so why shouldn't others get a chance? host: the raise act is what we've been showing you. that was sent by two senators, cotton out of arkansas and out of georgia. marco rubio, in an interview did he in florida, which was picked up in front by the bradenton herald there, saying

he threw cold water over a plan backed by the president that would curtail legal immigration. he said, "that pill is not goes going to pass." rubio expressed support for prioritizing immigrants with skills after the white house backed the plan last week, but stopped short of endorsing the bill that was authored by senators cotton and purdue of georgia, saying that it actually has the elements of it that were part of the 2013 proposal, referring to the bipartisan immigration effort which failed after the house decided not to vote on it. n 2013rk the gang of eight proposed moving to a merit-based system. he supports a point-based system. but it wouldn'ten entirelyly measure the based, but it would be more and has to be in the 21st century. ain, taking a look at that

interview, that by marco rubio of florida. janice from san diego, legal immigrant. tell us what country you came from. caller: yes, i came from poland. i'm now legal here. and i think that the legal immigration policy of last 60 years are total failure. let me first address the issue of unskilled immigrants. we bring the unskilled people from all over the world to pick up the progress, who will never develop machinery that do it automatically and move forward behind and behind and behind. china will become the second technological power after china and india. so that's the issue of legal immigration and unskilled workers, ok? now is the issue of immigration of so-called skilled workers, right? we brought millions and millions of engineers from asia

, and by the same token, we enied the education of millions of americans, ok? the indians would get the education from pennies from the government, ok? take n the u.s., we say $200 to become an engineer. here we will never pay this long to become an engineer, because here you have to compete with an engineer coming from india, willing to work for 15 bucks an hour, and this is the reality, ok? engineer in this country. host: sorry about that. i think we lost the signal, but thank you for participating this morning. it was last week that they

wanted him to declare it a national emergency, and make effort toward that, the president himself talking about the crisis in a tweet, again, released this morning. saying he's going to hold a briefing on the crisis. that will be at 3:00, that located in bed minister there in new jersey, while the white house goes on a renovation, and he stays there. in new york, hello, you're on, o ahead. caller: well, if they want to worldly the economy, why don't they have a worldly rage of benefits and these people won't bother coming here for 7.5 and go through misery and pain and suffering and a lot of other things that a lot of americans go through here also. host: glen from tallahassee,

florida, you're up next, hi. caller: thank you very much. i want to congratulate c-span. i think you're one of the best journalists organizations in the country. the problem is it's been out of control for 20 years, i suppose and what's going to happen is america is going to become more and more third-world nation. and there will be morales like be ligarchy, and there will relatively few very wealthy eople here and a mishmash of vulcanized people in the country fighting with each her, want really assimilated

with a co-heat si culture, and i'm afraid it's going to go and america doesn't seem to me like it's going to last. host: that's glen in tallahassee, florida. the "new york times" has a story looking at immigration laws, but those being passed on a state by state level. they write --

host: one more call, and this will be from james in greensboro, north carolina. caller: hello. how you doing this morning? host: fine, thank you. go ahead. caller: you know, a lot of americans, i live in california back in the 1980's and 1970's, i start seeing different changes in the geographic of the area, with chicanos and asian, and then everybody was working without realizing what was really going on, and california and new york was this pyramid about immigration.

so when they filed the corporation and everything workers and placing them with hispanic. you see all of the foreigners. it's good for the economy. it's leaving us out of the equation. that's what people arctic off about. -- arctic off about. they are taking from us. i don't like that. a lot of americans don't like that. i went to get a cell phone the other day and when i was in california, you don't even see us behind the counter. that's unfair. all of us are americans. that was my comment read i am

sorry i spout off like that caller: host: that was james in north carolina. next we will hear from john fund as he discusses the current presidency. later on, the council of human rights. she was a justice department official and she will discuss civil rights issue. those conversations are coming up as washington journal continues. >> c-span has been on the road meeting winners from the student documentary competition. wyoming, she

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