Bill Maher argued that while some immigration is good for the US, the current system is not working positively based on the reaction of sanctuary cities to migrants being bused there.
Maher said “some immigration” is “the lifeblood of this country.”
When Van Jones said immigration is generally good, Maher disagreed, noting the hypocrisy of liberal cities opposing receiving migrants.
Van Jones said, “Immigration is good for America. It’s positive for America.”
Maher replied, “Not the way we’re doing it.”
He continued, “And you would also allow, I would imagine, that the sanctuary cities, the hypocrisy was exposed there. Because when they started to send the immigrants to those cities…some of the most liberal people are like, oh, this doesn’t work for us.”
Jones said, “People have been coming here and gaming our system. That is true. It’s like if somebody figured out a quasi-legal way to jump the turnstiles into the subway, and suddenly now, the subway is full of people who didn’t pay. That’s what’s going on at the border, people are jumping the turnstile. And you need to fix that.”
Jones acknowledged people are “gaming” and circumventing the current border system illegally like jumping subway turnstiles.
Both agreed sanctuary cities did not want to accept bussed migrants.
Maher further stated that low-skilled workers near the bottom of the economic scale tend to lose out with more immigration, though most immigrants are ambitious.
Maher said later in the show, “There [are] winners and losers. It’s true, the people who are just above immigrants on the economic scale, they always get [expletive] when immigrants come into the country.”
Adding, “most of the people who get here are the ones who are most ambitious.”
The discussion centered on perceived flaws in the current US immigration system and policies rather than principles of immigration itself.
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