Massive Blow to $3.5 Trillion Stimulus Plan | Immigration

hey everyone me kevin here proponents of

immigration change in the united states

just got dealt a massive blow as part of

the three and a half trillion dollar

infrastructure package now just to

preface many of you know before i

announce this news here many of you know

that as part of my campaign in

california for governor which was

unsuccessful sadly as part of the

campaign i was suggesting that hey one

of the reasons we have a horrible

illegal immigration problem is because

our legal immigration process sucks you

need a lot of money a lot of time

attorneys you can only get sponsored by

companies if you have a certain skill

set or a certain degree or certain

profession it is very very difficult so

for example if i wanted to hire somebody

right now from new zealand and have them

work here in california i'd be able to

provide them housing a job or whatever

it would be very very difficult to

actually get them to be here legally

unless of course they happen to be here

and then happened to marry an american

then they'd be able to slip into well

america pretty much right away which is

crazy i'm not suggesting people should

go get married to stay here especially

since the us government is on that and

they they actually check and and uh quiz

people's relationships to make sure

they're actually having a legitimate uh

marriage which is crazy uh and then

there's like this whole industry of kind

of doing like fake photos for those

people as well like fake trips and all

it's like it's nuts

the reason you have such big problems

again in illegal immigration is

literally because the legal immigration

process is horrible it sucks so as part

of joe biden's buildback better plan he

included a pathway to citizenship for

about 11 uh well we have 11 million

illegal or undocumented people living in

america and his pathway to citizenship

or amnesty would have opened up a door

for about eight million of them

including two and a half million working

women and of course becoming a citizen

or at least getting a green card gives

you a social security number it gives

you the opportunity for better jobs

schools wealth building opportunities

lowers the racial wealth gap and sure

there are some

undocumented individuals here now who do

pay their taxes through a taxpayer

identification number not having a

social puts a lot of constraints on your

ability to move up in society especially

in america so the goal was carving out

essentially a quote essential critical

infrastructure workers pathway so you

would create this new category of

undocumented workers and as long as you

were an essential critical

infrastructure worker like a farm worker

regular essential worker with a whole

bunch of categories for these not so

important right now because the ruling

that just came out uh those with

temporary protected status or deferred

action for childhood arrivals like

dreamers or daca recipients these folks

would have all had an opportunity to get

a green card

and then after a certain amount of years

being here with a green card you would

become a citizen i know that because

that's exactly what i went through as a

child but anyway the senate

parliamentarian elizabeth mcdonagh just

ruled that the democrats are not going

to be able to include this immigration

reform as part of the three and a half

trillion dollar stimulus package because

democrats are trying to pass the three

and a half trillion dollar stimulus

package

via budget reconciliation budget

reconciliation actually has to

meaningfully affect the budget and of

course the democrats argued well i will

it's gonna add about 137 billion dollars

to our deficit

see it affects the budget and of course

there was a positive argument as well

that hey look if we have a bunch more

legal americans

with green cards or citizenship

we might actually be able to grow our

gdp by one and a half trillion dollars

over a decade and that reforms could

potentially add 150 billion dollars in

spending

which of course when you spend 150

billion dollars we have the velocity of

money and this is how you can raise your

gdp by a larger number like one and a

half trillion over 10 years right and so

the idea was look it does affect the

budget because immediately it's going to

hurt our budget by 137

billion dollars but in the future it'll

make us some money back and kind of like

be like making an investment personally

i kind of agree i mean more people you

have that are actually capable of

operating in society then generally the

more you can grow your economy the

problem is really though a question of

fairness should somebody who came here

illegally and sort of worked under uh

the covers of the existing broken

immigration system we have be able to

get a pathway to legal citizenship or

should there be some kind of new

citizenship option opened up which was

actually one of the things that i had

proposed in california that why don't we

just have a thing where you can apply

and if you can come and if you could you

could prove that you can come to america

from wherever you are you don't already

have to be here you could already be

here but it should be fair to everybody

else outside the country as well right

like what about the people in brazil who

want to come here or in germany who want

to come here or in china kind of want to

come here whatever who don't have a lot

of money but can get a job and provide

value to society why not create some

kind of option

for anyone to apply and get a response

within like two to four weeks as to

whether or not hey can we come here and

get you essentially on the path to

citizenship as long as you come here and

provide value by providing labor

essentially and look we need labor here

people are like no no immigrants

shouldn't be taking our jobs and i

understand that argument as well but the

issue is we have a shortage of

electricians plumbers contractors we

have a shortage of nurses we have a

shortage of farm workers we have a

shortage of a lot of jobs and sure the

unemployment rate right now is a little

bit higher but that's also because a lot

of people who are unemployed don't have

the exact skills that we necessarily

need and so this is where we also open

up that can of worms of well we should

probably fix our educational system and

actually teach careers in financial

education our schools so that way the

people who are unemployed here can get

skilled to provide value and go to work

but in the meantime you'd think there

should be some kind of door open for

people who do have those skills to come

here and actually work but right now we

don't have any of that that's why we

have such a disaster that's why whether

you're on the left or right whether

you're for immigration or against

immigration whether you're for hey kick

the illegals out or keep the illegals

here whatever calling him illegal or

calling him undocumented it doesn't

matter right this is all just like

jargon the point is the country's

literally freaking failing okay our

schools suck and our immigration process

sucks if we could agree on those two

things here then we know those two

problems create the vast majority of

issues that we have in our country right

now specifically around careers

unemployment education and immigration

very very big and so anyway this year

was an attempt to at least get some

folks on the path to legal uh

immigration and so of course you've got

nancy pelosi the white house chuck

schumer they're all disappointed uh

chuck schumer says hey look we've had

people working here who are undocumented

they put their lives on the line during

the pandemic and they remain locked out

of federal assistance for federal help

whatever

by the way some versions that have been

negotiated as well is hey if people are

going to come here and they want to be

legal have them waive their right to get

any kind of social program assistance

trust me even if you did that you'd have

plenty of qualified people coming in

here but yeah look some people do need

help as well

and so then it gets to hold that whole

like a social helping people aspect

which is like oh my gosh how do you

balance all the madness right and at the

moment our government sucks so much they

can't figure out how to do anything

budget reconciliation was clearly not

the way though because as mcdonough said

quote such a change would far outweigh

the budgetary impact scored to it and is

not appropriate for inclusion and

reconciliation and essentially

she mentions or what she's trying to

convey

is look if you're gonna do immigration

reform don't just try to slide it in

for one group of people and pretend that

it's for the budget if you're going to

do an immigration bill how about you

work with republicans you work together

in a bipartisan manner to get the 60

votes that you need in the senate and

you actually do a real large immigration

reform package rather than trying to

squeeze immigration reform as sort of a

you know line item into a larger

infrastructure bill even though it is

social infrastructure like the child tax

credit and taxation and so on so forth

so overall

big blow to advocates of immigration uh

personally i am a fan of big immigration

reform and i think we need it but i

think that door should be opened up

fairly and equally for everyone again

like if you could come here and provide

value prove you can get a job and not

use social services that tour should be

wide open for people it's slammed shut

right now in the meantime our schools

suck and our existing immigration

process is horrible and so you have

states like california where if you are

undocumented you can

you can get a lot of benefits like in

some cases you can get full medical care

you can get other bet there there's so

much of a mess happening it's not even

worth going down that road right now

but this is also renewing calls again

for ending the filibuster which

democrats will not end the filibuster

it's just a great kind of way to kick

and scream over we're frustrated we want

the filibuster ended so we could pass

whatever laws we want uh with just 51

votes which would be 50 democrats in the

senate plus kamal harris i do not see

the filibuster ending anytime soon

because if they got rid of the

filibuster then

and then let's say republicans took

power they would just undo literally

everything and they would have just as

much of a field day but it would go in

the opposite direction right so

that's where democrats and republicans

at least the higher up ones have kind of

come to that acceptance then yeah we're

not gonna end the filibuster this is why

you don't really hear nancy pelosi chuck

schumer or joe biden talking about

ending the filibuster it's just

something that's really popular for

other individuals to talk about so i

don't think the filibuster is going

anywhere but anyway this kind of gives

you an

update that bottom line out of all this

the immigration portion the path to

citizenship for those who are here and

undocumented dead gone not going to be

included in this and uh you know if

democrats want to get something done

they've got about a year and a couple

months to get it done uh before we've

got those 2022 elections coming up and i

expect uh

i expect biden's going to have a lot of

work to do to cling onto power

because you've got full democrat control

right now right house presidency and

senate and we've got some really close

margins there in the house and senate so

no matter which side you're on 2022 is

going to be a race to watch we obviously

also expect donald trump to be heavily

involved in it but we'll see what

happens uh the next presidential

election isn't until 2024 but obviously

donald trump if if he is going to run in

24 which we expect would be heavily

inclined to uh help bolster

the odds of uh more republicans winning

in 2022 which could strip a lot of power

from biden again in as little as a year

and a half so uh we'll see what happens

i'm not really taking a side on the damn

verse rupp hub issue i think i'm pretty

neutral with my immigration comments as

well because i quite frankly think we

can probably 95 of us agree with what i

said but we'll see i'll i'll hear from

you in the comments like i always do

which i appreciate it's good i like to

hear what everybody else thinks but

anyway i just want to give you this

update thank you so much for watching i

forgot to pitch something in this video

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thanks folks we'll see you bye

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