00:00Pero mi opinión es que hay gente que quiere venir a los Estados Unidos de América y algunos de ellos,
00:13estoy seguro que pueden enrichir los Estados Unidos de América por venir aquí, pero tenemos que tener
00:18nuestros números overalles muy, muy, muy bajos. Muchos han llegado a los Estados Unidos de América.
00:24I am married to the daughter of immigrants who came to the United States in the 1980s.
00:29I do believe that some immigrants, many immigrants do in fact enrich the United States of America.
00:45But here's the problem. We have got, we don't even know how many illegal aliens we have.
00:50We don't even know. The best guess is probably 25, 30 million people.
00:55I've heard estimates as high as 50 million. When something like that happens, you've got to allow
01:01your own society to cohere a little bit, to build a sense of common identity for all the newcomers
01:07to assimilate, the ones who are going to stay, to assimilate into American culture. Until you do
01:12that, you've got to be careful about any additional immigration, in my view.
01:20If you ask the question, what is the exact right number of immigrants for the United States to let in,
01:32it is just very specific on the context. If you go back to the 1920s, the United States passed an
01:39Immigration Reform Act that effectively cut down immigration to close to zero for 40 years in this
01:44country. And what happened over those 40 years, the many, many people who had come from many different
01:50foreign countries and different foreign cultures, they assimilated into American culture. And there
01:55was an expectation that they would assimilate into American culture.
01:59So the honest answer to your question, what is the exact number of immigrants America should accept in
02:03the future? Right now, the answer is far less than we've been accepting. We've got to become a common
02:09community again. And you can't do that when you have such high numbers of immigration,
02:14which is one of the reasons why we have the immigration policy we do.
