Richard Neal: “Our economy needs immigrants.”

“I look back at the argument that we've seen during the Trump administration that anybody and everybody in the country whose status is being questioned is a criminal. That's not true. And I think that Our economy needs immigrants. them. I think that the latest issue as it relates to Haitians, for example, the way this has been done, I've supported legislation in the House with some Republicans, by the way, to grant temporary status for them.” (03:29–03:32)

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