Somebody weaponizes that against me. Like, I got it off the scoop, Santos person. No, I do not support this version of the bill.
It does not solve what it sought after to go solve when it was originally discussed, and therefore it's a massive, massive amnesty bill. If this bill is still in the direction it was in 2023, it means almost 4 million people would be put on a pathway to residency in the United States, opening a chain migration nightmare that can 10x that, creating 40 million new residents to soon then become citizens. Hey, George, so you were in these conversations, you were in these groups.
What was the conversation whenever we were having this open border, when I'm saying 10 million, what was, like, how did they try to put this in the package? Here's a package, Anna. I like the, what sparked this was very good. Democrats want to give DACA recipients green cards.
I'm not opposed to that if we're using it as a bargaining chip to strengthen the border and create long-lasting border policy and legislate on the border instead of allowing it to be a nuclear football on the executive branch, where every executive that comes in changes policy at the border. So I thought it was a great opportunity. I was willing personally, personally, okay, and I know some people will disagree, but I was willing personally to hit my hand on a blade and say, fuck it, I'll give these 800,000 people who came here underage and really didn't have a say, their parents broke the law, an opportunity in the benefit of the doubt.
They are already taxpayers under DACA. Let's just make them permanent and let's not waste what's already been invested in them and make them residents, right, not citizens. But in return, there was steep, steep requirements at the border, and one of them was that the Dignity Act status, this is my writing, my personal writing.
