Tulsi Gabbard

I looked at it and there was no way that I could have supported that if I was in Congress then because the bill's intent was to secure our border.

That's what they sold it as.

The problem was it institutionalized illegal immigration.

It basically said, well, we will—there were a lot of reasons wrong with it, but the crux of it was up to 5,000 illegal immigrants a day will be okay.

will be acceptable.

Anything beyond that, then we're gonna shut down the borders.

And in my mind, like, okay, well, let's go and look at the cartels who are the ones who are profiting off of our open borders.

All that says to me is they'll look at all of their customers and say, okay, well, we got 5,000 through today, you gotta wait till tomorrow.

It institutionalizes it in our laws to say, well, we will accept illegal immigration up until this point.

That is not a solution.

Illegally crossing our border.

Not 5,000 people coming to our border and showing papers or applying for a work visa or any of these other things.

It was up to 5,000 people illegally crossing our border.

What ended up happening was President Biden signed an executive order that essentially did that same thing, which he is now touting.

And there has been a reduction of people illegally coming across our border since he did that.

like two months ago, after three years of saying our border is secure, obviously an election year ploy.

But once again, it doesn't actually solve the problem, just like the legislation didn't solve the problem.

You and me and most people.

And this is, you know...

Here's why I'm hopeful and why I'm doing all that I can to get out and talk to people, share my own experiences with people, answer their questions and concerns wherever I can, on any platform I can, is because I know that there are so many people who feel as you and I do, incredibly frustrated.