population than they've had in a hundred years you have to go back well over a hundred years to arrive at this same level of immigration realities in our state so in other words you know what's going on right now is not  to minnesota we've been through this before it was different people it was germans and their regions that cetera but but it's the same in many ways the same thing it's just it happened so long ago that people have forgotten what it's like to live in a society with so many immigrants immigrants are no way to regenerate and economy they have always been d m g and of economic growth of the united states always of course not alone they do it in combination with democracy democratic institutions constitutional law great education and business opportunities without tremendously the economic impact is great a lot of people don't realize it you know some of the food that we have with the farmers we would be able to have on our table  lot of the meat packing companies and manufacturing companies that are low level entry jobs a lot of people do not want to direct that type of paper and we wouldn't be able to get the produce that we have out to whether they're undocumented or not is irrelevant to the fact that they become part of the economic activity of a community in business for us and so we have like street in minneapolis is an example i remember legs from thirty years ago it was plus hiring lots of regular citizens to be able to do their work as well when it comes to labor the thought is that undocumented people compete with other workers and i think the better way to think about it is that all workers compete with other workers but the even better way to think about and there's been a lot of studies about this is that the labor markets don't work the way people think they work or it's a zero sum game you know where you know there's only ten jobs they're going to take it away from ten other people who are citizens that's our works the way it works is that if you have good labor hard working skilled labor people that show up on time and do good work they're going to generate activity that's going to create even more jobs and frankly if you're talking about for many are documented workers you really are talking about a lot of entry level hard labor jobs those become the jobs and make it possible for people further up the food chain of you well you know managers accountants attorneys financiers makes it possible for them to have jobs because they don't have to do that work they're able to make their income off of that work and then open up more opportunities for them there so there's a real struggle issue between the hard labor of undocumented people and the rest of the labor force for the most part a lot of them are paying taxes so which will you know also stir the economy for growth they didn't receive the amount of taxes that they're paying we would have probably a lot of the funds to fix our roads to help with some of the schools to help better and the growth of our economy those taxes contribute a lot to helping improve the economy overall there is a misunderstanding on the part of the general public about undocumented workers not paying taxes if a company hires an undocumented worker they have to collect taxes and for example there is a and amount that is estimated you know nobody knows for sure how much comes from the payments of taxes of under community workers but that fun represents the last time that i check d a few years ago about fifty billion dollars in social security research so that's a huge amount of money and a lot of it we don't know how much a lot of workers they don't collect the benefits because there are undocumented put in documented workers are paying into a system the social security system that is creating benefits for citizens here so right now we have elderly american citizens who are able to receive a monthly truck in part because the earnings that undocumented workers are putting into that s of the interesting things that minnesota faces and actually the whole nation faces it but in many ways minnesota faces that more is that we have a very very rapidly aging workforce we are heavily white that if we're going to maintain prosperity into the future we're going to have to go elsewhere to look for people to like dissipate in the labor markets and that's just the hard labor but all they were mark is the communities that are growing because they have younger members are the minority populations such as the latino population which grew by seventy five percent in minnesota between the year two thousand and two thousand and ten quire the european american majority grew by one point six percent during that same period so do you obvious and best solution to long term is to have those young people joined the workforce and find jobs that will be good enough to pay for social security for processing is huge in our state these are big parts of the minnesota economy and without the labor needed and i know some people think of it as unskilled it's actually skilled work work hard a skill without th sectors would be a real trouble which means the state of minnesota will be in real trouble if you don't have facts then you tend to judge emotionally and if you think for example some people do that undocumented immigrants are people who violate the laws or come here to to look for social services you're going to be offended and you're going to be afraid and you're going to be wrong because the facts at test to something else i think it's very important for people to understand  that immigrant workers aren't here to take our jobs aren't here to try to do harm to us they want to be productive people and there again they start off with jobs that perhaps many of  us do not want to take on their they they want to work hard and they want to contribute and we have to be open minded and if we don't understand we need to ask i think that people need to be informed i think many people have myths about what an immigrant worker coming into the u s is is you know that they're not bringing us more harm but they're helping us to grow and keep the economy us that could hurt us i would be the last to humanities people but also status to these folks who are here to work are doing a terrific job feeding our economy and if we don't really understand that we don't understand the reality we can make the world decision the wrong decision not only hurts them but also hurts us and hurts our economy so it's important for us to demystify all the messages that we're getting about unfortunately about undocument workers as people who take away with their people who we need to know the truth about that so that we can take full advantage of that of course in a humane way but so that we can make really smart intelligent decisions