Maria Salazar
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No path to citizenship, no right to vote in our elections, and no access to federal programs.
It's called the Dignity Act, where they can work and live without fear.
It's the right thing to do.
It's the Christian thing to do.
It's the American thing to do.
We give them dignity.
At some point in the future, another legislator will write another law to give them path to citizenship.
Right now, what we need to do is to buy peace for these people, allow them to stay, to continue working, because they are needed.
You see, what I'm trying to do is to bring some common sense, which is the least common of all senses, to this conversation.
The economy needs them.
What is wrong with that?
We need them.
They could have two jobs or three jobs.
When the budget was released, I was shocked to find out that Prime Minister Carney is cutting $7 billion between Indigenous Services Canada and Crown Indigenous Relations.
They provided $0.00
to deal with the ongoing genocide of MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+.
This is abhorrent.
This is callous.
This is callous because the very liberal government that has stripped organizations of life-sustaining funding has now promised, committed $13 billion, $13 billion on military spending.
We give them dignity.