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Jake Auchincloss: “Americans like immigration and what they don't like is when…”

Featuring: Jake Auchincloss, Democratic | U.S. House Massachusetts, District 4

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Treating cost disease with Congressman Jake Auchincloss

Published | Video Starts at 47:09

Whereas in the United States we actually have a much stronger track record than Europe does of both assimilation of immigrants and of public support for immigration. This is a very easily elided fact these days given the politics. But in fact, Americans like immigration and what they don't like is when 5 million people cross the border in the space of 12 months with no process or documentation. What happened with immigration in America, at least I'm speaking about America, is a failure of the Biden administration. It's not a failure of the American public. (47:09–47:19)

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Asserts that Americans support immigration but oppose undocumented mass immigration.

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