Immigration

Grace Segers, New Republic -   Rather than improving the economic situation for the native-born Americans Trump purports to prioritize, lower levels of immigration and migrant employment could reduce general economic productivity and diminish wage growth and job opportunities for those workers. “With lower immigration, I think it’s very likely that we would see slower workforce growth and slower economic growth and just decreased vitality overall,” said Julia Gelatt, associate director of the U.S. immigration policy program at the Migration Policy Institute...

With a relatively low American fertility rate, foreign-born workers are vital to maintaining growth in the labor force. A recent report by the Brookings Institute estimated that net migration to the U.S. was close to zero or negative in 2025, and will likely be negative in 2026. An influx of immigrants in 2022 through 2024 led to an increase in the number of jobs, but the reverse is also true: A decline in the immigrant population could lead to slower employment growth.

California Governor Newsom - Fox News and the Republican Party have a sad case of California Derangement Syndrome for one reason: our success runs completely contra to their entire worldview. We are the most diverse state in the United States of America; 27% of our state is foreign born and that offends these guys.

They can't take the fact that California recently went from the sixth largest economy in the world to the fourth largest.  They scream about taxes in California but middle class families in California pay less in taxes than in states like Texas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas.  Life expectancy, infant mortality, deaths of despair, wages and uninsured rates are all worse off in red states.

California is the dominant manufacturing hub in the United States of America -- 13.9% of United States' manufacturing compared to 2.9% in Ron DeSantis' Florida.

We are the dominant agriculture state -- you talk about farmers and ranchers, you're talking about my home state.

We have seen population increase of 108,000 people last year, 105,000 the year before that, and 49,000 the year before that. Republicans have to update their talking points.

California is #1 in manufacturing, #1 in farming, #1 in new business starts, #1 in tech and VC investments, #1 in Fortune 500 companies, and the #1 public higher education system in the country.

They can't take it. They hate California because of our success.