Tulsi Gabbard

But there are so many different examples of how broken our legal immigration system is.

There have been a few serious efforts over the years toward actually solving it.

Ultimately, they have, I think the hyper-partisanship often has been what tanked it, where

In order to pass legislation like that, you're going to have to have a give and take from both parties who have very different views on what that solution should look like.

by its nature, you're going to end up with probably like a 70% solution.

And ultimately, there was famously, and I forget what year it was, I think it was in the late 2000s, there was the gang of eight senators, four Republicans and four Democrats.

They came very close to passing reforms, but ultimately it failed.

Some will point to a recent effort that was underway under the Senate to secure our border.

It was bipartisan.

The mainstream media and Democrats blame Donald Trump for that legislation failing.

But that, to me, was...

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.