when you look at the amount of money that will be spent to incarcerate these people for an indefinitely amount of time, the past administrations, even under george w. bush, they phased out these raids because they felt it was not really worth it. when you look at our broader immigration system, the backlog of immigration cases, a single immigration case can take over 700 days, that s the average. and by the trump administration s own data, we have something like 800,000 cases in the backlog. i mean, one of the things we ve heard from this administration when they talk about the situation at the border is that throughout the country detention facilities are overloaded. if they are, why are they funneling more people, noncriminals moms and dads into these types pfaof facilities? and they say undocumented people should not be working here without authorization. which is true. in my view and what many immigration applicants will say is if you want to target unauthorized workers, go after t
he will, you know, develop this whole new elaborate scheme, a whole new red herring, a whole new way of addressing something when he doesn t know really where to start. that s what this is really about. he doesn t know how to solve this other problem. he s assigned jared kushner, who is known for i mean, you can shake your head and that s fantastic, but the truth of the matter is simple, this bill or this these border principles, these immigration principles don t address the diversity visas. they want to eliminate them completely. these border principles don t deal with daca, which is also a crying shame and a crisis. this bill these principles, because there is still no bill, and they criticized aoc for doing the same thing, does not deal with the fact that when you look at the military, the fact that folks fight in the military for our safety, for our protection. the number of immigration applicants that have been accepted who have been allowed to become citizens have gone d
that folks fight in the military for our safety, for our protection. the number of immigration applicants that have been accepted who have been allowed to become citizens have gone down more than 70%. there s nothing addressing that. all of these are crises, and here is our reality, chris. the reality is the president is tapping more into the fear of this country, playing footsie with the numbers usa folks who say immigration makes our wages go down when really people can always increase wages. we have to be real about what s going on and this is the same conversation we were having last night and it s simple, you cannot develop policy absent people and compassion. it does not work. it results not just in hurt individuals but also hurt families. they are now putting at a lower scale the idea of families being able to be brought in and admitted into this country because they already have a family member here. they are instead preferring people who are highly skilled