Rep. Jayapal slammed Trump and Republicans for their immigration policies, suggesting that opening more legal pathways would help soothe the border crisis.
Democratic Rep. Pramila Jayapal suggested in a Tuesday Interview on CNN that a great way to solve the illegal immigration crisis is to legalize more immigration.Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., suggested Tuesday on CNN that the best way to solve the illegal immigration crisis is to simply legalize more immigration.
Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., speaks with reporters outside the U.S. Capitol Building on Nov. 18, 2021 in Washington.She followed by suggesting that Republicans worsened the crisis and have no interest in solving it. "Number two, [Trump] put in place all these things that eliminated legal ways for people to come to this country. Let me just tell you that when we said to Haitians that they could actually come to the ports of entry and there was a legal way for them to be able to get into this country, then all of a sudden, that’s what they did. 97 percent of Haitians do it that way," she claimed.
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