Kennedy questions Costa, Sequeira in Judiciary
Kennedy: give Biden border policy a grade! Costa: C for mostly secure; Sequeira: D-
Kennedy: Mr. Costa, what grade (A, B, C, D, F) would you give President Biden’s administration on combating illegal immigration?

Witness: I… I don’t know what grade I would give. I think they’ve made some useful improvements, but, um, you know, I think that the border… there’s so much money going to the border that I think the border is mostly secure. People are mostly turning themselves in, they’re not really crossing the border.

Kennedy: Yeah, you can’t give a grade. You’re an expert on immigration, or you can’t give a grade?

Oh, I guess if I had to, I’d probably be about a C, right in the middle somewhere. A C or a D. A C because they kept some Trump policies in place, they’ve made some improvements, they’re sort of in between.

Kennedy: Okay, how about you, Mr. Sequeira?
Sequeira: Are we grading on a curve, Senator?
Kennedy: No, sir.
Witness: I would be generous and say a D-minus.

Kennedy: open border or not qualified to manage a food truck? Costa: fully reject; Sequeira: lack of enforcement
Kennedy: okay. All right. Can we agree that either President Biden’s administration believes in open borders or the person that he has put in charge of making immigration policy is not qualified to manage a food truck?

Witness: I would fully reject the notion that the Biden administration believes in open borders.
Kennedy: Okay, how about you, Mr. Sequeira?
Witness: At the risk of being too lawyerly, I might be interested in the definition of open borders. I think it’s certainly fair to say there is a lack of significant enforcement at the border. And in fact, my clients who will probably

Kennedy: legal immigration long line but Biden open southen border Costa: No, mostly asylum
Kennedy: let me try to put a finer point on it. Right now, we have conscientious farm workers who live in other countries, some of whom have worked here before. We have Nigerian doctors, we have German engineers who are waiting years patiently in line, trying to follow the rules of legal immigration to come into our country. But yet, the Biden administration will welcome anybody who can either secretly or less than secretly come into the United States from the southern border. Is that not correct?

Witness: I don’t believe so. I believe that the people showing up at the border are mostly seeking humanitarian protections because there’s a dire need in this hemisphere.

Kennedy: How about you, Mr. Sequeira? Do you think that my description is correct?
Witness: I do, Senator, and that seems to be obvious from watching the evening news.

Costa: not appropriated funds; Kennedy: 24 million backlog! larger budget than ever in history!
Kennedy: Well, the agencies responsible for the legal immigration system, Mr. Costa, are they processing applications promptly?

Witness: I would say it depends. For low-wage work visas, they are mostly processing them quite quickly.
Kennedy: We’ve got a backlog of 24 million applications, what do you mean it depends?

Witness: I mean, it depends on which visa you’re talking about. I would say for H-1B, for instance, the USCIS prides themselves on how quickly they process those visas. When it comes to other things like work permits, they’ve been slow. And I think the problem is that Congress has not appropriated funds for them.
Kennedy: They have this money. We now have a larger federal budget, adjusted for inflation, than we’ve ever had in the history of the United States of America.

Costa: But with all due respect
Kennedy: it’s wasted the money

Kennedy: Biden admin 24 million legal long wait backlog, but millions illegally across the border
Kennedy: Mr. Sequeira. What kind of job do you think that the Biden administration has done with legal immigration, with the 24 million-person backlog?

Witness: I think any fair estimation is that it’s poor.

Kennedy: Well, can we agree that legal immigration is good and illegal immigration is bad?

Witness: I would think so. The country is founded on immigration, people coming here from other countries. Legal immigration is good, yes.

Kennedy: Does anybody disagree with that statement? Does anybody want to defend the Biden administration’s 24 million people backlog in legal immigration? But yet millions have come illegally across the border. Does anybody want to defend that? Anybody? Thank you for being here.

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Kennedy: Biden border mostly secure or D-? 24 million backlog & larger budget than ever in history!