Bob Good Rails Against Liberal Witness: You Want To ‘Let Lawlessness Reign’

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On Wednesday, Rep. Bob Good (R-VA) questioned witnesses on the continued entrance of immigrants into the U.S. during a House Budget Committee hearing.

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00:00 your line of thinking and comments and associate myself with them. And now we're going to continue

00:08 on the Republican side with Mr. Bob Good from Virginia for five minutes.

00:15 Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and I appreciate all of our witnesses who are here today.

00:21 I have a question. I would like to try to get four succinct answers. I go down the row,

00:25 starting with Ms. Kirshner. What percentage, in your opinion, estimation, your research,

00:31 what percentage or what number of the world's non-U.S. population would come to America if

00:37 they could? In other words, we've got roughly 350 million Americans, some 7 billion plus people who

00:43 don't live in the United States. So if they could, what percentage of the world's population or what

00:48 number, which is just kind of a guesstimate based on, would come here if they could?

00:53 Yes, sir. I'm a fortunately I didn't know it would be a pop quiz, but I know Gallup.

00:57 I didn't know there would be math in this. No, no, no. I do know Gallup has done some surveys

01:01 and I know it's I think it's probably a third. So you're saying somewhere in the 2 billion range,

01:08 I'm just assigning a number to a third, maybe 2 to 3 billion, something like that.

01:11 No, that would be my guess. You couldn't get me to it.

01:15 Okay. Mr. Blair, if you had to guesstimate a number, if they could, the world's population

01:22 that would come to the United States if they could. The US is the greatest country in the world,

01:26 so I would probably put it maybe 50 percent or more. Okay. You're saying 3, 4 billion. Mr. Smith.

01:32 I'm making it close to 70 percent. Close to 70 percent. So you're saying in the 5 billion type

01:39 range and then down at the end, Mr. Beer. Oh, it's certainly be over 100 billion,

01:45 but we can focus on the people who have already gotten the process.

01:48 We don't have 100 million. You meant 100 million. You're saying only 100 million.

01:52 You think we could. You're saying only 100 million. Well, that's about what Gallup.

01:56 Only 100 million. Yeah. What's the population of Africa? What's the population of South America?

02:01 What's the population of Asia? And you think only 100 million of them. There's what,

02:06 5 billion between those just roughly making it up. So you're saying in the range of 2 percent

02:11 would come here. 2 percent would come here if they could. I mean, wages equalize over time. So look

02:17 at what we have. Okay. Thank you. I think you know where I'm going. Thank you. I reclaim my time.

02:22 Thank you. Okay. All right. So how many should we let come to America? I think that's a fundamental

02:29 question. How many should we let come to America? Meaning legal, illegal, someone to mix the two

02:36 together, which is offensive. I wish Mr. Glencott was still here. How many should we let come?

02:44 Yes, sir. We believe that current immigration rates are about as much as we can sustain as

02:53 a nation. We would, however, advocate that those immigrants be skilled. We think for the national

03:00 interest, it would benefit. Respectfully, I'm going to apologize because I've only got two

03:04 minutes and I'm going somewhere. I apologize, Mr. Christian, for that. I think the question,

03:08 okay, what percentage would come if they could? How many should we let come? And what number would

03:12 make us no longer America? And is it worth preserving what makes us distinctly, uniquely

03:18 America? Is that worth preserving? The fundamental question relative to the illegal

03:24 alien invasion, or for those who support the illegal alien invasion, first of all,

03:29 as others have said, there's no such thing as illegal immigration. Immigration is a legal,

03:34 lawful process. For that matter, legal immigrants are Americans, aren't they? Legal immigrants are

03:41 Americans, of course. They wanted to be Americans. They earned their citizenship.

03:45 They pledged their allegiance. They learned our language. At least everyone that I have

03:49 interacted with at the naturalization ceremonies they have the privilege of going to has learned

03:54 our language. They've had the means and the ability to contribute to our economy and our

03:58 society to make us stronger, make us better. In fact, this Friday, two days from now, I look

04:02 forward to welcoming another group among the million or so that we legally allow into this

04:06 country every year. I'm going to welcome them at Patrick Henry's Red Hill Home in my district. I

04:12 have the most historic district in the country, I would submit. So the fundamental question for

04:16 those who support the illegal alien invasion is, does everyone around the world have the right

04:23 to come to America? Or does America have the right to decide who gets to come to America?

04:30 How about those two questions? Does everyone around the world have the right to come to America? Or

04:33 does America get to decide who has the right to be in America? Ms. Kirchner.

04:38 Americans should be able to decide the future of their country. Thank you, sir.

04:42 Americans should decide. Mr. Smith.

04:44 Same. Mr. Beir.

04:46 America should decide, but there should be a presumption in favor of liberty.

04:50 And that's the question that does indeed make us very far apart from what Lloyd said.

04:55 Because what many on the other side believe, and I would submit Mr. Beir believes this if he was

05:01 being honest with us, that they believe that because of the statements that he said in his

05:05 opening remarks, they believe they have the right to be here. And then the ranking member talked

05:10 about the triangle countries coming here. You know, we cannot, and he said the problem is we

05:15 got to go fix those triangle countries. So they don't want to come here anymore from Guatemala,

05:19 Honduras, and El Salvador. The only way we can do that is to let lawlessness reign,

05:24 destroy our economy, defund and undermine our police, you know, destroy our institutions,

05:29 so that we become as bad as some of these countries around the world. And then the

05:32 journey and the cost of the journey, the difficulty is no longer worth it. I submit

05:36 that's Democrat policies carried through. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I submit, I yield back.

Bob Good Rails Against Liberal Witness: You Want To ‘Let Lawlessness Reign’

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