'Don't You Think It Would Be Better To Stop Funding Illegal Immigrants?': Donalds Presses Hochul

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At Thursday's House Oversight Committee hearing, Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) grilled Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY).

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00:00might be an Illinois problem. Governor Hochul, in your state you are spending

00:04about roughly four billion dollars on illegal immigration, and at the same time

00:08you are actually asking the federal government for four billion dollars to

00:12finish Penn Station. Don't you think it would be better to stop funding illegal

00:15immigrants in your state and actually use those resources to finish Penn

00:18Station as opposed to coming to the federal government for the money?

00:24Penn Station is owned by Amtrak, not by the state, so it's an appropriate

00:29use of their dollars and Donald Trump has agreed to spend upwards of seven

00:33billion dollars. I appreciated that very much. What we spend on immigrants, the

00:38immigrants who are here hard-working to live a life and working on our farms and

00:43taking care of our parents in nursing homes and taking care of our children,

00:47they have been coming here for 400 years and we don't keep track of individuals

00:52based on their status. We make sure that people have services so we don't end up

00:56with an unexpected. So essentially what you're telling me is that you keep no

01:01track of money that is going to people who are not legal in the United States,

01:05resources that are taken away from New Yorkers, resources that are taken away

01:09from Illinoisans. You guys do not keep track of any of this. You know what's

01:11really challenging is that many people came here with legal status, I mean

01:15temporary protective status, 300,000. Do you go along with the strategy from the

01:22Biden administration which massively expanded immigration protocols that

01:27overwhelmed your city and overwhelmed your state? Do you agree with that? We call

01:30for secure borders, we call for this body. I never remember you calling for secure

01:35borders at all Governor Hochul. That doesn't sound like him to my memory. Many

01:38conversations I had with the White House. We asked for federal resources. I mean

01:42you're putting a federal problem on our laps and you know what it gets old after a

01:46while. I wish you would just do your job. If your party actually would do the job of

01:50securing the nation the way President Trump has now had to do twice, we

01:54wouldn't be in this predicament. Wouldn't you agree? Do you agree or

01:59disagree that securing the nation's borders is the job of the President of

02:03the United States? President Trump has done that job twice now. Well, and

02:07previous Democrat presidents have not done that job. Wouldn't you agree with

02:10that? This has been a problem that's been in place since I was a young staffer

02:14here on Capitol Hill. We worked on immigration and Ronald Reagan signed amnesty for

02:18three million people. You know it's interesting you bring up Reagan's

02:20amnesty in 86. You know part of that deal was to actually build border war and

02:24secure it, but the Democrat party refuses to build border wall. You oppose it every

02:28single time. Is that your position? Do you now support border walls? There has been

02:31many times when bipartisan legislation is presented to this body and people just

02:37walk away from it. They refuse to do the hard work of governing like governors like

02:41us have to do every single day. When I leave here I'm gonna go home and

02:44govern a state. I'm not going to tweet about this experience because I have too

02:47much work to do taking care of New Yorkers. You're really not doing a good

02:50job Governor Hochul because a lot of New Yorkers are actually coming into my

02:53state, in Florida, many of them. They come all the time because they actually want

02:57to come to a state that is well-run, that protects citizens, does not allow

03:01illegal aliens to victimize citizens like they are victimized in the state of

03:05New York, like they are victimized in the state of Illinois, like they are

03:08victimized in the state of Minnesota. They choose states like Florida and Texas to find

03:12safer places to live and raise their families. Hold on Governor Hochul, we've had

03:16enough time. Our crime rates are much lower.

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