Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-N.Y.) said Wednesday on ABC’s “The View” that she believes Republicans are to blame for the immigration crisis after the border bill failed.
“We are a nation of immigrants,” Hochul said. “I’m sitting here because my grandparents were teenagers in Ireland and left behind extreme poverty. My grandfather lived in an elementary school in South Dakota. I started working as a migrant farm worker in the wheat fields myself.”
She continued. “Your question today is, we’re doing our best to manage the influx and provide housing for people, but this is very expensive and New York State has lost about $4.3 billion. We’re covered. We want federal money. And guess what the federal funding is and why it’s being withheld?”
Hochul added, “Republicans in Congress and the Senate said no, because Donald Trump called him one night and said, “I’m going to send 2,000 more Border Patrol agents and Border Patrol agents to the border.” “There should have been a vote to send him,” he added. We also need it on the northern border, where it borders Canada, it would have been very helpful if states like New York had the money, to have another path to citizenship, to consider asylum facilities, which are now too lenient. Just consider whether and how it’s being used and perhaps abused. So I’m blaming Republicans now, but before that the chaos was bipartisan. Neither Democrats nor Republicans have been successful in finding a path to legal citizenship because employers want it. ”
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