Kathryn Anne Edwards

And it needs to decide whether it slams the door in the face or not.

But the way that we phrase it and talk about it seems to be a calculus that forgets that these were people struggling that we decided to help.

I don't know if that should have an economic benefit.

I don't know if it needs to.

My human self would say...

And my economist self would say like, oh, yeah, of course, it does have an economic benefit.

More people get some workers.

This is great.

But I mean, as a human, like, do you need that?

Do you need me to show you it's good for the economy for you to, you know, help someone in need?

That's fine if you do.

But at some point, codify that into immigration law.

I think it's legitimately hard for people to understand that someone who doesn't look like them can be an American.

And it was actually George W. Bush, when he was president, early in his first term, he said something.

I don't remember the exact quote, but it's roughly, Americans have no race but creed.

Right.

We don't have one way that we look or that we have looked, you know, from the beginning.

And that's that's very hard for people to handle.

You prefer people that look like you.

Everybody does the degree you're willing to accept other ones.