let's talk about nonprofessional skills, or unskilled workers. there is an h2a program for agricultural workers. when it comes to non-agricultural workers seeking visas, there are no work visas for folks that have skilled or unskilled workers to stay and work in this country your round. -- year round. the non-agricultural nonprofessional jobs are only for seasonable or peak need jobs. if an employer or to contact me and say, i need to ramp up my second shift in my manufacturing facility. someone wants to hire someone in food service, retail, all kinds of different jobs like that. there are no workpieces under our current -- work visas under our current system for folks to come and work. perhaps one reason why we have 8 million undocumented workers is because there is not currently, under the u.s. immigration law, an option for those folks to live and work legally. there are other challenges too in the imitation of the laws that we have about work visas. one of the work visas that is help to multinational companies is the l1 visa. it allows compan

. >> it's unskilled. it's important to understand that, not everybody goes to college these days, so far the port has interest from other types of businesses, containers and auto and energy and distribution, businesses have two more weeks to submit their applications, the deadline is november 18th. >> when we are done here, we are in competition with new york and also with world ports because of what we are able to do here and export here, our relative proximity to rail and freight and to air. >> the port authority hopes to have the south port development underway by 2017. in the navy yard, eva pilgram, channel 6 "action news." >>> there is bad business news tonight, for the lehigh valley, the craft heinz company announced they are shutting down their plan in mack macungie. the closures will take place over the next one to two careers, philadelphia mayor, michael nutter, held a news conference to highlight the importance of my brothers keeper initiative. known as mbk philly, it's part of a national effort

to help unskilled workers learn a trade, instead of going on welfare. so what do you say ? my family does not accept charity. - please ! - this isn't charity. - it's a trade. you get a worker for free. and that person learns a commercial skill. and you do all this just so that maria can finish high school ? - yes ! - then what ? - then she can go on to college. - and will the city pay for college ? if maria keeps her grades up she'll be certain to get a scholarship. what if she doesn't ? all these hopes, all this work. all this time wasted dreaming empty dreams. she needs to look at life for what it is. you mean she should spend the rest of her life as a seamstress ? it has been good enough for our family for a long time. besides, soon she will marry have children of her own. she doesn't need to go to college for that. come, maria. i'm sorry. hi, everyone. time for my afternoon coffee break. what's there to take a break from jess ? you're retired. - carol's "honey-do" list. - her what ? you know. honey, do this; honey, do that. she's got a list that keeps growing no matter

when you raise the minimum wage all the people who are unemployed, unskilled, they're unable to get jobs because they're not able to get into the marketplace. when an employer has to have a high minimum wage he has to find somebody who can fit that page. people without job skills can't find a place to meet them halfway. >> even a republican voter saying, yeah, we ought to raise the minimum wage. >> santorum for raising that federal minimum wage. >> a lot of this is magic wand thinking. rauts the magic wand, raise the minimum wage, employers say, great. no, they say, look, we can put in at mcdonald's, rather than have somebody there taking your order, we'll have a machine taking your order. you go to places like drugstores now and there are machines there to do your own checkout. at the airport, instead of somebody checking you in you check yourself in. this is automation and robotics. you'll see more and more as the cost of labor goes up. >> what's interesting about that moment is marc committee rubio was asked a different question but he went pack to minimum wage because he wanted to ad

we're talking about unskilled people. some argue there are significant negative effects on people who compete at the lower end of the wage scale. i think there is evidence for that. there are also others who argue that actually if you look at it very, very carefully they are complementary to a lot of the other workers. it can be positive or negative depending on your welfare state. how whether they're employed and in many countries immigrants tend not to be very successful. if you bring in highly skilled doctors the effects will be totally different. there is a simple proposition that you can drive from the evidence. it depends. >> pleasure to have you on. >> pleasure. >>> next, the land of the free and the home of the brave. that's america, right. one new study set out to find out if the united states really is the freest country in the world. is it? we'll tell you when we come back. gs to the fast. and to help you accelerate, we've created a new company... one totally focused on what's next for your business. the true p

pat: unemployment among the unskilled -- there's another issue that splits the republican party from the time they run for the nomination and the general election. in the nomination run if you say the minimum wage does kill jorks it does kill some. you raise it to 15 bucks a an hour, wal-mart said if you do that in d.c., we're not going to open a store. eleanor: maybe then the wal-mart employees wouldn't all be on government programs. they're not playing -- paying enough. it's a subsidy to corporations. >> very quickly, i seriously think, statistics will come out. i tend to think, having worked in a restaurant, the problem is that the people, the lowest suffer. the people who are on the minimum wage, utility, what's the cost equivalency for other families. eleanor: having worked in a restaurant doesn't make you an authority. >> but it gives you personal perspective. it gives you perspective about the manager's choices about who they're giving shifts to. >> i've been to the middle east four -- there have been four times in the middle east where minimum wage was raised and unemployment

because what happens when you raise the minimum wage, all the people who are unemployed who are unskilled, they're unable to get jobs because they're not able to get into the marketplace. but people who don't have job skills, they're not able to get that job because the employer just can't find a place to meet them halfway. >> even republican voters say, yeah, we ought to raise the minimum wage. >> santorum is for raising that federal minimum wage. >> a lot of this is magic wand waving. look, we can put in at mcdonald's, for example, rather than have someone take your order, have a machine take your order. you go to drugstores. there's machines so you can do your own check out. you go to the airport. you check yourself in. this is automation and robotics. you'll see more of that as the cost of labor goes up. >> marco rubio was asked a different question, but he went back to minimum wage because he wanted to address the minimum wage. that's different for a republican because they're typically on the defense when it comes to these income inequality questions. he had a fantastic answer. >> j

when you raise the minimum wage all the people who are unemployed, unskilled, they're unable to get jobshey're not able to get into the marketplace. when an employer has to have a high minimum wage he has to find somebody who can fit that page. people without job skills can't find a place to meet them halfway. >> even a republican voter saying, yeah, we ought to raise the minimum wage. >> santorum for raising that federal minimum wage. >> a lot of this is magic wand thinking. rauts the magic wand, raise the minimum wage, employers say, great. no, they say, look, we can put in at mcdonald's, rather than have somebody there taking your order, we'll have a machine taking your order. you go to places like drugstores now and there are machines there to do your own checkout. at the airport, instead of somebody checking you in you check yourself in. this is automation and robotics. you'll see more and more as the cost of labor goes up. >> what's interesting about that moment is marc committee rubio was asked a different question but he went pack to minimum wage because he wanted to address mini

united states, for people interested in coming for economic purposes, whether that's coming for unskilled work, semi-skilled work, high-skilled work or small-level entrepreneurship. there simply aren't enough visas available, whether you're talking about temporary visas or permanent visas, and i think that's a fundamental flaw in the system and one that has created a range of pathologies leading to immigration enforcement, economic problems, kind of locally, and otherwise, and i think that's something that needs attention. and the 2013 bill in the senate went significant ways towards remedying that by creating a new, non-immigrant visa category that would allow larger numbers of temporary workers to come to the united states to work temporarily. they wouldn't have to be beholden to some specific employer, there was a visa portability which is another feature that needs to be introduced into the employment-based immigration system. so i think that's a tension that just needs to be worked out. it is complicated, because there are a lot of different imperatives when we're talking about forei

bootstrap, and corporate tax havens, known as the section 936 benefit; deliberate mass migration of unskilleders to the united states; a limited form of self-government and cultural autonomy by creating the estado libre asociado, returning the spanish language to the public schools, allowing puerto ricans to elect their own governors, but still all under the control of congress; and a social democratic labor policypan, tierra, y libertadthat was meant to defuse the revolutionary movements in latin america and establish the showcase of the caribbean. it was also marked by the building of a string of military bases as a bulwark of the cold war. in its early years, the dual policies of industrialization and mass immigration did improve conditions in puerto rico. combined with the carrot-and-stick approach of granting limited self-government, returning the use of spanish and overtly pro-labor policies, the commonwealth's first social democratic governor, luis muÑoz marin, did co-opt and deflect much of the nationalist, independence and radical labor movements that had spread in the 1930s. and com

sense i get of the american debate and every immigration flow is different, here we're talking about unskilledtates -- some argue there are significant negative effects on people who competing with them at the lower end of the wage scale. and i think there is evidence for that. but there are also others who argue that actually if you look at it very, very carefully they're comp my men mealimentar other workers. fiscal effects can be positive or negative, nature of your welfare state, the nature of your tax regime. in many countries immigrants tend to the to be successful in being employed. if you bring in highly skilled doctors from india, the effects are going to be totally different. it's really, really hard to generalize on the impact of immigration. there isn't a simple -- simple proposition that you can derive from the evidence on plus or minus in general. it depends. >> martin wolf, pleasure to have you on. >> pleasure. >>> next on "gps, the land of the free and the home of the brave. that's america, right? well, one new study set out to find out if the united states really is the freest

maria: bob -- >> we're basically in tail of two economies from unskilled economy, there is certainlyble out there, and the people are -- are rl discouraged about looking then we have semi scale, skilled jobs, there is is a demand that hear, i.t., accounting cnc separators, plumbers those unskilled those semi skilled jobs, there is a real demand out there we are having difficulty finding those people, who have skills we are encouraging everyone go back to community college, career techs, other schools get retraining, to fill jobs. maria: you are right in order to get jobs you need new training. >> bob one more question, let's say the fed does raise by 25 base points december if they do they will clearly signal not about to go on crank and rates up slow process how much on main street does it hurt that 25% basis hike? >> certainly need to think it through, and take it slow activity in relation to that it will affect business. businessmen borrow at certain rate know what bottom lines bottomlines thin if it costs too much will not hour any more people you have to be very, very careful. >

but what about the issue of unskilled workers?uest: again, precisely the same problem as the tech workers. the reality is not everybody in the united states has the skill to become a computer programmer, and so there are going to be people who are going to be doing manual labor type jobs. if we are going to do anything about poverty we have to improve the conditions for them. in theory a free market should allow that to happen but congress is not allowing a free market to work by bringing in more foreign labor. we only have 56,000 these v workers for non--- jesus -- isas issued for nonagricultural workers. in the same way that these tech companies are always cackling about a shortage you will also hear that in the agricultural industry as well. guest: i saw an article just recently where the writer was someone $13paying was an absurdly high wage. kerry is in canton, north carolina. republican. is that in raleigh durham area? caller: no it is a national area. my best friend would be so jealous. because i get to talk to you this mor

however, if you are unskilled, if you are in manufacturing and retail. it's hard to find a job going forward. and it's time to think about going back and getting different training. now, you see the acceleration in hiring. if you haven't been hired in all those feels it's not going to happen. martha: the labor par is rate, they have an interesting dynamic. it limb states in jobs and you have people who don't want to get in. reporter: people say the reason the participation rate is lower is because baby boomers are retiring. but it's also younger people who don't have the right skills for the right jobs where people are looking. melissa, thank you very much. great to see you. bill: vladimir putin will suspend all russian flights into egypt after a recommendation by his chief of intelligence. 45,000 russians in egypt today. what is moscow learning. martha: this is one of the biggest story lines in the political scene. dr. ben carson being questioned about the stories he has told about his growing up in detroit. >> it's a smear campaign. but i'm not going t

think why do we, essentially, need to bid down wages to the minimum wage by bringing in an influx of unskilleder two, we should be really clear, the real persecuted ones in syria are the christians. and the christian -- it's one thing to say we'll accept the christian minority in this country because they're being beheaded and attacked, and it's another thick -- another thing to say let's let people in that maybe should be fighting isis over there to protect their own country. i really have a problem with fact that we have to let people in that should be maybe back home and fighting for their freedom. except, listen, unless you're a christian minority there, you belong -- neil: we're going to have a constitutional battle on our hands, that's obvious. you've got six states now saying we don't want 'em, and we've got an board that say -- an ambassador that says truth be told, they don't have any say in the matter. it's a little weird. >> yeah, it is a little weird. neil: we remember the cuban boat people, many of them ended up in arkansas, then a governor named bill clinton was furious at the pr

what about the issue of unskilled workers, bringing in more? >> they're facing the same problem as the tech workers are. i mean, the reality is not everybody in the united states really has the skill to become a computer programmer, and so there are going to be people who are going to be in america who are going to be doing labor -- manual labor-type jobs, and i mean, if we're going to do anything about poverty, we have to improve the conditions for them, and in theory the free market should allow that to happen, but congress isn't allowing the free market to work by bringing in more foreign labor. >> we already have 66,000 visas that are issued for nonagricultural season workers and another 117,000 every year for ag workers. in the same way that these tech companies are always talking about a shortage, you also hear that in the agricultural industry as well and it's just a suspect. >> i saw an article recently in a newspaper where the writer was saying that paying someone $13.59 was an absurdly high wage. i mean, that person could barely make

there's a whole generation of syrian children who are out of school, and you know, in danger of being unskilled and at loose ends. >> to what -- do we have an estimate of the total population of syrian refugees that will need to be permanently resettled? that are not going to be going back to syria? >> i don't think we have an estimate of that. it's very much done on a case-by-case basis. and we work unhcr to identify the most vulnerable cases. they sought to, starting in september 2013, they started to look at targeting a certain number of syrians, and it's now up to 130,000 syrians as a goal, and they have referred 20,000 of that number to us. in recent months it's climbed to 22,000. the u.s. will probably end up taking most of the syrian refugees who are referred for resettlement, but we are also trying to convince other countries to also do their share. >> right. and i want to get to that. but the number we have decided, the president announced, is 10,000. is that not correct? >> that's correct. for this fiscal year. >> right. how do we arrive at that number? based on what? >> well, we had

but what about the issue of unskilled workers?guest: again, precisely the same problem as the tech workers. the reality is not everybody in the united states has the skill to become a computer programmer, and so there are going to be people who are going to be doing manual labor type jobs. if we are going to do anything about poverty we have to improve the conditions for them. in theory a free market should allow that to happen but congress is not allowing a free market to work by bringing in more foreign labor. we only have 56,000 these v workers for non--- jesus -- isas issued for nonagricultural workers. in the same way that these tech companies are always cackling about a shortage you will also hear that in the agricultural industry as well. guest: i saw an article just recently where the writer was someone $13paying was an absurdly high wage. kerry is in canton, north carolina. republican. is that in raleigh durham area? caller: no it is a national area. my best friend would be so jealous. because i get to talk to you this mo

there's a whole generation of syrian children who are out of school and, you know, in danger of being unskilledneed to be permanently resettled? that are not going to be going back to syria? >> i don't think we have an estimate of that. it's very much done on a case by case basis, and we work with the unacr to identify the most vulnerable cases. they sought to -- starting in september 2013, they started to look at targeting a certain number of syrians. it's now up to 130,000 syrians as a goal. and they had referred 20,000 of that number to us. and in recent months it's climbed to 22,000. the u.s. will probably end up taking most of the syrian refugees who are referred for resettlement. but we are also trying to convince other countries to also do their share. >> right. and i want to get to that. the number we decided, the president announced, is 10,000. is that not correct? >> that's correct for this fiscal year. >> how do we arrive at that number, based on what? >> we had been planning to bring between 5,000 to 8,000 and the president pushed us to stretch and really gear up to take more. and t