Ro Khanna
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and say that we need to make sure that there is a secure border.
Now, I don't agree with Trump in the way he's shut down basically all asylum claims, and he's just taken it to zero.
And I don't agree with that approach.
But do I think we needed to do things to secure the border?
More I do.
Now, the question is, OK, he's done that.
I disagree with how he secured it in that he's basically made asylum impossible.
But will he take some of that goodwill that he's earned in terms of the trust and do two things that I think can be bipartisan in terms of immigration reform?
One is in industries like agriculture, food production, construction for people who are here, who are paying their taxes, who have been undocumented for a long time, give them a path to legalization.
By the way, if you want to see food prices come down, that would be one way to do that in terms of giving those folks
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.