00:00I understand your view on illegal immigration as it should be a top priority,
00:04strengthening our southern borders and fighting the massive drug trafficking
00:07that's taking place while securing jobs for the working class Americans.
00:11Also, deporting every single person who's invaded our country illegally,
00:17which I 100% agree on.
00:19My question to you is, what is your view on legal immigration?
00:23Personally, I have a girlfriend who's studying in America off a visa.
00:27Our hope is eventually getting a green card.
00:28So what is your view on legal immigration?
00:31Should we reduce it?
00:32Also, what is your plan for a merit-based system?
00:36Yes, sir.
00:36Well, I appreciate the question.
00:38And look, my honest view is that right now, America, thanks in part to the Biden border invasion,
00:44but also thanks in part to a lot of bad immigration policy,
00:47right now we have let in too many immigrants into the United States of America.
00:51That is just a fundamental reality.
00:53Now, look, legal immigration is complicated because we let in about a million legal immigrants
01:01into the United States of America every single year,
01:03and I think the evidence is pretty clear that a lot of those immigrants are actually undercutting
01:07the wages of American workers.
01:09It's one of the reasons why the President of the United States,
01:12it's one of the reasons why the President of the United States and a lot of us in the administration
01:15have encouraged H-1B reform, because if you look at the H-1B visa, what it's supposed to be,
01:22what it's supposed to be is that you have a super genius who's studying at an American university,
01:27who's working at a great company.
01:29You want that super genius to stay in the United States of America and not go somewhere else.
01:34What it's actually used to do is hire an accountant at a 50% discount to an American citizen.
01:40And I don't think that we should be hiring accountants from foreign countries
01:45when we've got accountants right here in the United States that would love to work for a good wage.
01:54Now, you asked about, I think, your girlfriend, you said,
01:57and I obviously don't know the full details about your situation,
02:01but my view is, look, there are people who want to come to the United States of America,
02:05and some of them, I'm sure, can enrich the United States of America by coming here,
02:10but we have got to get our overall numbers way, way down.
02:15Too many people have come into the United States of America.
02:18I am married to the daughter of immigrants who came to the United States in the 1980s.
02:23I do believe that some immigrants, many immigrants do, in fact, enrich the United States of America,
02:29but here's the problem.
02:30We have got, we don't even know how many illegal aliens we have.
02:34We don't even know.
02:35The best guess is probably 25, 30 million people.
02:39I've heard estimates as high as 50 million.
02:42When something like that happens, you've got to allow your own society to cohere a little bit,
02:48to build a sense of common identity for all the newcomers to assimilate,
02:52the ones who are going to stay, to assimilate into American culture.
02:55Until you do that, you've got to be careful about any additional immigration in mind.
02:59Hello, Mr. Vice President.
03:01Thank you so much for giving this opportunity to talk here today.
03:04I did not agree with many of the things that you said right ahead of this,
03:09but I don't think that's my point to discuss here.
03:12What I want to ask is, you are married to a woman who is not Christian.
03:18In her Wikipedia, I mean, I just looked that up.
03:22I wanted to know what her faith was.
03:23I didn't know this before, but she still calls herself Hindu.
03:27You are raising two kids, three kids in interracial, cultural, racial, religious household.
03:37How are you maintaining or how are you teaching your kids not to keep your religion ahead of their mother's religion?
03:47Or how are you teaching them that your kind, their dad kind, who got here just a few years or a few decades ago is different or is better than your mom's kind who got here just a generation before?
04:04Or how are you balancing that?
04:06And when you talk about too many immigrants here, what is, when did you guys decide that number?
04:14Why did you sell us a dream?
04:17You made us spend our youth, our wealth in this country and gave us a dream.
04:23You don't owe us anything.
04:25We have worked hard for it.
04:27Then how can you as a vice president stand there and say that we have too many of them now and we are going to take them out to people who are here rightfully so by paying the money that you guys asked us.
04:43You gave us the path and now how can you stop it and tell us we don't belong here anymore.
04:50And one more thing, I'm sorry, one more thing.
04:52Do you have to be...
04:53There's a lot there.
04:54I don't know if I'm going to remember all this, but I will try.
04:56I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
04:57I had to say all of this and please take it with due...
05:00I mean, I'm saying all of this with due respect.
05:02Of course, no, no, go ahead.
05:02I have no intention of causing a scene here or anything, but...
05:07We're not close to causing a scene, don't worry.
05:09But we talked about Christianity, all of this.
05:13I'm not even Christian and I'm here standing to sow support.
05:18Why are we making Christianity one of the major things that you have to have in common to be one of you guys?
05:25To sow that, I love America just as you do.
05:28Why is that still a question?
05:31Why do I have to be a Christian?
05:33Okay.
05:34So there was a lot there and I'm going to try to respond to as much of it as I can.
05:39So on the question of immigration, so first of all, I can believe that we should have lower immigration levels, but if the United States passed a law and made a promise to somebody, the United States, of course, has to honor that promise.
05:56Nobody's talking about that.
05:57I'm talking about people who came in in violation of the laws of the United States of America, and I'm talking about in the future, reducing the number, reducing the number of people...
06:08Sorry, what?
06:10Can I continue on that?
06:11Because when you just said you are not stopping with the people who came here legally, right?
06:18But you are pushing out policies that hurt us, and these policies are not even solving the problems.
06:26These policies are just creating chaos.
06:28Ma'am, okay, so again, I'm going to finish answering the question, and then if I've answered all nine of your questions in less than 15 minutes, then we can keep on going.
06:43We've got to have a little fun, right?
06:45So here's the thing.
06:47I can believe that the United States should lower its levels of immigration in the future while also respecting that there are people who have come here through lawful immigration pathways that have contributed to the country.
07:02But just because one person or ten people or a hundred people came in legally and contributed to the United States of America, does that mean that we're thereby committed to let in a million or ten million or a hundred million people a year in the future?
07:17No, that's not right.
07:18We cannot have – I'll go and finish.
07:21We cannot have an immigration policy where what was good for the country 50 or 60 years ago binds the country inevitably for the future.
07:29There's too many people who want to come to the United States of America, and my job as vice president is not to look out for the interests of the whole world.
07:36It's to look out for the people of the United States.
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