“Should we let in 100,000? 500,000? No one wants to answer that hard question,” Bossert said.
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David J. Phillip/AP. FILEImmigrants are helped by a volunteer at the bus station after they were processed and released by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, June 22, 2018, in McAllen, Texas.
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Bossert was referring to congressional Democrats’ contention that they support comprehensive immigration reform although Congress cannot agree on such a bill.
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“They’re up there [on Capitol Hill] fighting over e-verify [a program for businesses to confirm employees’ eligibility to work] and fighting over how many agricultural workers we need to allow in,” but not addressing the broader questions, Bossert said.
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The former White House adviser suggested that liberals “want to have compassion, but the compassion and the shortsighted decisions have long-term negative consequences” on immigration.
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Bossert also said the U.S. needs to invest in countries such as Guatemala that are racked by violence to help stem the flow of refugees and migrants.
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That means putting “real, sustainable, buildable money into the institutional reforms in those three northern-triangle countries — Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras — that they need to prevent this plague from coming into America.”
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