Nicole Malliotakis

We've been

also pushing for a meeting with the president himself to talk about the need for immigration reform.

I represent a district where we have a very diverse population.

And even this Ukrainian parole program, that's now, when people have to renew for that, it's taking a very long time.

And these people are here legally and working, and they end up losing their jobs because they can't get their parole renewed.

And we're seeing the same thing with work authorizations and visas.

People who are here doing the right thing, follow the rules.

They're working hard.

They're paying taxes.

And you know what?

They lose their legal status and then they lose their job.

And unfortunately, we need to figure out a system that improves that and also gives more employers opportunities to hire foreign workers for jobs that they cannot fill with Americans.

Quite frankly, I think the Democrats are playing politics here with this.

I think that, first of all, we just gave billions of dollars to our ICE to be able to carry out these deportations in the reconciliation bill.

Were you going to see some impact?

if they choose to take this route.

Coast Guard, for example, is going to get hurt.

These are serious other federal law enforcement.

They're the ones that are going to get impacted.

Counterterrorism, cybersecurity, our coastline, those are the areas we're going to see some impact if they don't work with us to get the job done and fund the government.