will work for lower wages than american workers and drive wages down even lower than they are right now. so let me ask you as the larger philosophical question, how do you balance compassion at the border with compassion for americans and their wages? what i said about that and the reason why i voted against that immigration bill is they were there were a number of groups, including leading latino groups that understood that the guest worker program in that legislation was akin to slave labor. the guest workers had no rights at all. so i don t apologize for that vote. but right now what we need is a comprehensive immigration reform package. which does a number of things. number one, it leads to a path toward citizenship for the 11 million who are undocumented and provides legal status for those
know why we need people to come into this country as guest workers who will work for lower wages than american workers and drive wages down even lower than they are right now. let me just ask you, the larger philosophical question, how do you balance compassion at the border with compassion for americans and their wages? what i said about that one, the reason why i voted against that immigration bill is there were a number of groups, including leading latino groups, that understood that the guest worker program in that legislation was akin to slave labor. the workers coming in had no rights at all. so i don t apologize for that vote. but right now what we need is a comprehensive immigration reform package, which does a number of things. number one, it leads to a path toward citizenship for the 11 million who are undocumented right now. that s what we ve got to do. it provides legal stats for the 1.8 young people who are in the
something bipartisan. hi. let me say it s good to be back with you. i didn t come to congress to impeach the president. i came to congress to work on health care, on criminal justice reform, the reduction of gun violence, immigration, developing a comprehensive immigration reform package but this is the hand that we ve been dealt. if you read the mueller report there are clearly, at least, ten incidents where the president attempted to obstruct justice or obstructed justice. since the mueller report has been released, the president has continued to obstruct justice by totally disregarding lawful subpoenas that s been issued to him or persons in his administration or piersons no longer with the administration. clearly, i understand the speaker s views on this. i have the utmost respect for
health care, on criminal justice reform, the reduction of gun violence, immigration, developing a comprehensive immigration reform package but this is the hand that we ve been dealt. if you read the mueller report there are clearly, at least, ten incidents where the president attempted to obstruct justice or obstructed justice. since the mueller report has been released, the president has continued to obstruct justice by totally disregarding lawful subpoenas that s been issued to him or persons in his administration or persons no longer with the administration. clearly, i understand the speaker s views on this. i have the utmost respect for her. as a former law enforcement officer, when we see wrong doing and clearly the president has been engaged in wrong doing in private and in public, we take action. i just believe that we re at a point where we have run out of
i came to congress to work on health care, on criminal justice reform, the reduction of gun violence, immigration, developing a comprehensive immigration reform package but this is the hand that we ve been dealt. if you read the mueller report there are clearly, at least, ten incidents where the president attempted to obstruct justice or obstructed justice. since the mueller report has been released, the president has continued to obstruct justice by totally disregarding lawful subpoenas that s been issued to him or persons in his administration or persons no longer with the administration. clearly, i understand the speaker s views on this. i have the utmost respect for her. as a former law enforcement officer, when we see wrong doing and clearly the president has been engaged in wrong doing in private and in public, we take action. i just believe that we re at a point where we have run out of options and i think we should begin impeachment proceedings.