Numnbers USA $1M ad push tackles immigrants, jobs
POLITICO.com reports that NumbersUSA, an advocacy group that supports restricting immigration, will spend more than $1 million to run television and online ads in states with key Senate races in a campaign that launched last week. Many immigration-centered ads this midterm cycle have focused on border security, but the new campaign from NumbersUSA zeroes in on immigrants competing for jobs with U.S. citizens.
“Finally, the economy is starting to crank out new jobs, but who should get those jobs?” the narrator says in the 30-second ad. “Government data show nearly all job growth since 2000 has gone to immigrant workers. So should Congress continue adding more than 1 million immigrants every year to compete for jobs? Or should the jobs go to the millions of Americans and legal immigrants already here, still looking for work?”
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