Yes, the people who are responsible for that have also been
responsible for policy that just permitted 50,000 people legally to
come here; and those 50,000 people are people not selected by a
rational process but instead by a lottery. The terrorist murderers in New York, of course, were here. That
terrorist murderer, and maybe murderers, they were here on the lottery
visa. They weren't here because they had been selected. In fact, the
lottery selected this Uzbeki fanatic Muslim, and he didn't have the
skills and the education necessary to live a decent life, and he ended
up killing a lot of people in New York. Surprise, surprise. We should know about these people who are coming into our country,
period, whether those people are coming illegally. We have had millions
of people pouring into our country illegally, and then what do our
liberal left politicians on the other side say? ``Oh, we need sanctuary
cities to protect them, the ones who are here illegally and have come
here illegally,'' which, of course, does nothing but encourage more
people to come here illegally. And the more who are here illegally are
people who we don't know what they are all about. Do you think the fanatic Islamic terrorists that I am referring to
today didn't notice that our border was porous and that people were
pouring across our border from our Southern border? Well, we should know about everybody who is coming into the country,
and we should choose the very best people who can contribute to our
country. I have no problem with a very robust legal immigration into
our country, no problem at all, and neither do the Republicans that I
know. What we have a problem with is a flood of illegals coming in, bidding
down the wages of our own citizens, some of them criminals attacking
and killing the citizens like we saw in San Francisco--a young lady who
was killed by an illegal who had been sent home. But also, even within
the system that is legal immigrants, we need to know who those people
are and select the very best people to come here. The plan that I offered the President, which will make it easier for
him to accomplish this mission, is a plan that would take that slot in
our lottery, 50,000 people who now come in under a lottery like the guy
who just killed those people in New York, instead, let's use that slot,
those 50,000 places in our legal immigration system and offer it to
foreigners who are very wealthy, who can be given the privilege of
paying $1 million each to come here and eventually become a citizen. If we can do that, that $1 million and those 50,000 slots will give
us all the money we need to build that wall, and it is fitting that we
build that wall and we secure our borders and beef up our system of
immigration to protect our citizens, and that we actually have people
who want to come here and immigrate here pay for that reform. We need to implement immigration policies that serve the American
people. That is what should be first and foremost, not some crazy
notion that we are going to, oh, build--get some kind of better spirit
by opening up the immigration into our country to anybody who can get
here, and let's let a lottery decide, let's not do it rationally. No. We need to make sure everybody who comes here is going to contribute,
and they are good people. Unless we can all stand together--and the
most important thing is they are coming here because they want to be
Americans, like almost all the legal immigrants who come here, people
who want to be Americans, and we will open our arms, as we have, and as
Republicans who are opposed to illegal immigration have said over and
over again. Well, I have proposed H.R. 2724, and I call on President Trump to pay
attention to this. I call all of my colleagues to pay attention to
this.
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