nobody seems to pause and ask why can t young americans afford to get married and have children, afford to buy homes and cars and the solution is we ll bring in new people. what about the americans, the young people, the 30-year-old american who can t afford to have kids? does anybody care about that person? maybe there is a real problem i never hear that person addressed ever. it s an industrialized country. tucker: i m an american. hold on. i m an american. so my concern is for my fellow americans. and they can t afford to have children. but rather than fix their problems or even think about them we are like we ll just import new children. isn t that a backward way approach it? we should do both. in the last ten years american companies and stocks outperformed the rest of the world by a lot. the american economy has been so strong in the last ten years compared to anything else in the world. part of the reason for that is we have an economy that is constantly renewing itself.
ed it it doesn t matter where they come from or what they have done before. they re the heart of america. they are impressive and much more impressive than actual americans, most of whom are fat and racist. that is jim acosta s position. or it was. other channels are suddenly less eager to talk about immigration and de-emphasizing the issue. why is that? part of the problem may be the caravan which actually exists and is in tijuana, mexico, right now. now this should be good news for mexico. if you believe what they have been telling us on tv. if there is one thing we know for certain about the penniless central american immigrants they tend to found a huge number of wildly successful tech startups at the heart of the economy. yet the citizens of the tijuana don t appear to have gotten this message because they don t seem grateful to the caravan. instead they look annoyed that the city is invaded by strangers. the city s mayor noted if
thank you for coming on. thank you, tucker. i appreciate the opportunity to have an honest conversation on this. particular particularly, as we are particularly, as we are remembering george h.w. bush who taught us we can disagree on some of these issues. i went to the capitol after leaving the studio to see him. i took the kids. that is something we talk about. there are different perspectives on the issues but we can talk about them respectfully. what you laid out brings up legitnate issues. the question is tucker: hold on. that is what i like about what is happening in tijuana. i feel deeply for the people of tijuana. i think they are going through what a lot of americans have gone through. but because it is tijuana and it is mexico we can t dismiss them as anti-hispanic. we have to look for clearly at what the concerns are. so my question to you is simple one. looking at the concerns we just played on tape, those are real, does it make you a little more empathetic toward ou
europe. they are right. it s happening here, too. the new analysis of the census data shows that 63% of the noncitizens in this country receive some kind of welfare benefits. that is not what they told you but numbers from the census. even the legal citizens, ones two have become suths fully half are on the government assistance. that is well above the native average. leaving aside the moral considerations, does it work as a math question? it wouldn t work as a country with infinite resources. is america a country with infinite resources? look around. every night hundreds of thousands of our citizens, americans, sleep outdoors on the street. they are homeless. the country s middle class is shrinking and dying younger for the third year in a row. again, these are american citizens. some of them probably think they should have first dibs on he from the government but they are not getting it. looking forward, here is a question that no one is
very serious dynamic and has harmed her and her party. tucker: yeah, a female senator loses her seat in the name of female empowerment. interesting. do you see this taking three steps back, do you see this fervor the intensity accelerating in the next couple years or calming down and the rest of us regaining our senses like claire mccaskill? this is not unusual for the democrats. we can expect them to not know when to stop. they will want to accelerate. they will make the mistake of trying to do that. and especially since they took the house, they re going to think that all of this activity helped them. it didn t. i think this is up to the republicans and to fair-minded americans to remind their loved ones and their families that this is not what we do. that due process matters, that ideas matter. this is the republicans have to deliver. the president is going to have to really step up to make sure that, you know, this