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March back into the black: 196,000 jobs added, unemployment steady at 3.8% hotair.com/archives/2019/…
So much for the winter doldrums. After an unexpected pothole in job creation in February, the US economy rebounded in March to add 196,000 jobs.
Wage growth continued at a modest pace, ticking up four dollars a week, and the average workweek expanded a little as well. The revisions to previous months were all modestly positive, adding in 14,000 more jobs than previously reported in the last two months combined.
Altogether, it’s a good but not spectacular report. The three-month rolling average now stands at 180,000, which exceeds the maintenance level needed for population growth but doesn’t indicate a rapid expansion.
That was better than the 175,000 Dow Jones estimate and comes after a dismal February that had economists wondering whether the decade-old economic expansion was nearing an end. The unemployment rate met expectations.
“Make no mistake: Our personnel resources are overwhelmed. They are drowning. And as each day passes, the threat to our country and rule of law worsens.
....The loopholes in our asylum laws and nonsensical judicial precedent has driven what has devolved into, essentially, an open border policy for a certain demographic.”-Mark Morgan
Morgan continued on to claim that “Central American families are incentivized and rewarded” to enter the country unlawfully “because they know the DHS, by law, has to release them within 20 days into the interior of the United States,” where they can stay “indefinitely”:
"They know they set one foot on American soil, say the magic words, and they’re allowed into the U.S. And they know it. Through social media, smugglers, and family members who have successfully exploited our laws and remained in the U.S. legally, they are well-informed.”
The former Border Patrol chief then raised the point that the “tens of thousands” of people “we know virtually nothing about” who are entering the country illegally every day cannot be “properly vetted.”
Morgan took a torch to the argument that immigrants attempting to cross into the country illegally were “fleeing from extreme violence and persecution,” pointing out that “only 15 percent” of the claims from asylum seekers were valid.
