Ro Khanna
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a path to legalization.
If they're here, no criminal record and paid their taxes.
And I've seen him sometimes suggest that.
I'm a Democrat willing to work with him on that.
And the second would be on this green card thing, which he said explicitly, which is, look, people are here.
If they've gotten a college degree, we're paying for their education.
We want them here.
Someone comes, 600,000 students come from, 300,000 from China.
I'm glad, by the way, the president pushed back against his own base and said that those students should still come because he got a hard time saying that they should still come.
Well, they come here, they study at Stanford, they study at Berkeley, they study at MIT or Harvard or at a state college.
We're basically financing in some way their education because all these universities get federal subsidies.
Wouldn't you want them to stay here and create the jobs here and invest here instead of going back to China and doing it in Shanghai or Beijing?
Well, yeah, and I'm a progressive Democrat, but what I am is a progressive Democrat who tries to call balls and strikes.
And like I said, I don't agree with all of the policies he's done to shut down the border, but it would be –
just foolish to think that we didn't have a problem on the border, that we didn't have too many people coming in, and that we didn't do enough to strengthen the border.
I think that should have been Vice President Harris's answer of what she would have done differently.
And she could have even said, I learned.
We made a mistake.
We didn't have the right approach on border security.
Look, today I tweeted out something about how I agreed with what Trump's doing on the prescription drug issue, that he has a government website that is basically going to sell pharmaceutical drugs at a cheaper price.