Potential presidential candidate Rick Santorum, visiting Council Bluffs, supports reducing legal...

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Rick Santorum at a meet-and-greet at the Council Bluffs Public Library on Monday. The two-term Pennsylvania senator is on a two-day swing through southwest Iowa and mulling another run for president.


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POSTED: TUESDAY, MARCH 24, 2015 12:15 AM
By Robynn Tysver / World-Herald staff writer

COUNCIL BLUFFS — Rick Santorum isn’t just against illegal immigration. The potential Republican presidential candidate also would like to reduce the number of legal immigrants who come to this country each year.

Santorum, whose grandfather immigrated to America from Italy in the 1920s, said he believes the nation’s immigration policies need to be reformed so that fewer unskilled laborers are admitted into this country to compete with blue-collar Americans.

Each year about 1.1 million legal immigrants are allowed into the United States. Santorum said many of them are taking jobs that Americans could fill.

“We need to be on the side of the American worker — people who are struggling today,” Santorum told an audience of about 50 on Monday.

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Former Republican presidential candidate and U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum poses for photos after a meet and greet event at the public library in Council Bluffs.