FOX News and Senator Lankford get remarkably candid: Trump sabotaged a solid bipartisan border deal because Trump didn't want it fixed.

[Jerome Silberman]

That's because you don't understand...

We should be processing applicants at a rate that we dictate, not the rate that they want to show up,.. The Lankford bill attempted to increase our processing capacity, which simply pushes the problem onto other areas of our society which isn't able to accommodate the excessive flow...

This is our country, we get to call the shots....

Wouldn't setting a daily limit with an actual law, not an EO, be calling the shots in the most traditional way?

It seems like you just don't feel comfortable with any sort of compromise, or the reality that the population must increase to keep our economic model viable and the birthrate isn't keeping up with demand.

 

[Rifler]

Wouldn't setting a daily limit with an actual law, not an EO, be calling the shots in the most traditional way?

It seems like you just don't feel comfortable with any sort of compromise, or the reality that the population must increase to keep our economic model viable and the birthrate isn't keeping up with demand.

I'm very much in favor of legal immigration, but we need immigrants that provide the skills that we're looking for,.. Our economy isn't looking for unskilled labor.

 

[sober_teacher]

That's because you don't understand...

We should be processing applicants at a rate that we dictate, not the rate that they want to show up,.. The Lankford bill attempted to increase our processing capacity, which simply pushes the problem onto other areas of our society which isn't able to accommodate the excessive flow...

This is our country, we get to call the shots....

We do process applicants at a rate we dictate…trouble is that process takes years to be completed because the resources to handle them faster.

 

[theiacowtipper]

I'm very much in favor of legal immigration, but we need immigrants that provide the skills that we're looking for,.. Our economy isn't looking for unskilled labor.

Then why does our economy hire immigrants, documented and otherwise, for unskilled labor?

 

[globalhawk]

A couple of the worst elements were a daily acceptable quota for illegal border crossings, and the allowance of far too much executive discretion over actual enforcement...

This has been debunked.

 

[globalhawk]

A couple of the worst elements were a daily acceptable quota for illegal border crossings, and the allowance of far too much executive discretion over actual enforcement...

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/im...0-illegal-border-crossings-per-day-rcna136656

 

[SI_NYC]

The bill that Lankford participated in was a fiasco and didn't deserve passage,... Would have made things even more difficult to fix.

Did you read the bill?

 

[Jerome Silberman]

I'm very much in favor of legal immigration, but we need immigrants that provide the skills that we're looking for,.. Our economy isn't looking for unskilled labor.

It sure as sh!t is.

 

[Scott559]

Our economy isn't looking for unskilled labor.

Farmers in California and Florida would like to have a word with you.