1 00:00:04,760 --> 00:00:08,440 Speaker 1: On this episode of News World. My guest today is 2 00:00:08,520 --> 00:00:14,920 Speaker 1: Congresswoman Maria Salazaro. She proudly represents Florida's twenty seventh Congressional district, 3 00:00:15,320 --> 00:00:17,240 Speaker 1: serving the people of South Florida. I have to say 4 00:00:17,480 --> 00:00:21,440 Speaker 1: I'm particularly proud because she represents my daughter, my son 5 00:00:21,480 --> 00:00:25,000 Speaker 1: in law. She currently serves on the House Committee on 6 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:28,639 Speaker 1: Foreign Affairs and the House Committee in Small Business. She's 7 00:00:28,720 --> 00:00:31,639 Speaker 1: really remarkable. I've gotten the doer over the years. She 8 00:00:31,760 --> 00:00:35,879 Speaker 1: is a five time Emmy Award winning journalist. She has 9 00:00:35,880 --> 00:00:40,320 Speaker 1: spent her career holding the corrupt and powerful accountable. She's 10 00:00:40,360 --> 00:00:45,280 Speaker 1: gone toe to toe with Venezuela's Nicholas Maduro, Chile's Goes 11 00:00:45,320 --> 00:00:49,280 Speaker 1: to Pinochet, and most notably, Huban dictator for Del Castro. 12 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:53,159 Speaker 1: Starting at the age of twenty two, she's worked for 13 00:00:53,280 --> 00:00:58,440 Speaker 1: every major US Spanish language broadcasting network. She's joining me 14 00:00:58,480 --> 00:01:04,120 Speaker 1: today to discuss Venezuela, her note book Dignity Not Citizenship, 15 00:01:04,560 --> 00:01:07,760 Speaker 1: the truth about immigration no one is telling you, and 16 00:01:08,440 --> 00:01:13,080 Speaker 1: her proposed legislation, the Dignity Act. So I'm really pleased 17 00:01:13,520 --> 00:01:33,320 Speaker 1: to welcome my guest, Congressman Maria Salazar. Welcome and thank 18 00:01:33,400 --> 00:01:35,319 Speaker 1: you for joining me on News world. 19 00:01:36,160 --> 00:01:39,840 Speaker 2: Oh even more pleased, and thank you for those kind words. Yes, 20 00:01:39,920 --> 00:01:43,000 Speaker 2: I do represent your daughter and your son in law, 21 00:01:43,080 --> 00:01:45,640 Speaker 2: and I am delighted to be with you because when 22 00:01:45,680 --> 00:01:50,559 Speaker 2: you presented contract with America, I was a rookie journalist 23 00:01:50,920 --> 00:01:54,080 Speaker 2: and I admired so much what you did. After how 24 00:01:54,080 --> 00:01:57,560 Speaker 2: many years, four hundred and thirty five years of the 25 00:01:57,680 --> 00:02:00,680 Speaker 2: damse control in the house, you wrapped it back. And 26 00:02:00,720 --> 00:02:03,880 Speaker 2: that's why I'm delighted to be able to be talking 27 00:02:03,960 --> 00:02:06,360 Speaker 2: to you, because we need to do the same thing 28 00:02:06,440 --> 00:02:10,560 Speaker 2: now in twenty twenty six, in November. So my honor 29 00:02:11,040 --> 00:02:12,880 Speaker 2: and my deepest respect for. 30 00:02:12,840 --> 00:02:15,040 Speaker 1: You, sir, well, thank you, and I actually think you 31 00:02:15,639 --> 00:02:17,760 Speaker 1: have a very real likelihood of pulling it off again. 32 00:02:18,480 --> 00:02:21,360 Speaker 1: This I'm very excited. But I want to start with 33 00:02:21,400 --> 00:02:25,679 Speaker 1: your own background, because I think it's fascinating. You're the 34 00:02:25,760 --> 00:02:29,959 Speaker 1: daughter of Cuban political refugees. As you were growing up 35 00:02:30,320 --> 00:02:34,680 Speaker 1: in Miami's Little Hanga neighborhood, what were the conversations like 36 00:02:35,280 --> 00:02:38,520 Speaker 1: and what was the sense you got about what had 37 00:02:38,600 --> 00:02:40,720 Speaker 1: gone wrong in Cuba and what needed to be done? 38 00:02:42,040 --> 00:02:45,680 Speaker 2: Wonderful question. Three things come to mind. Number one, long 39 00:02:45,720 --> 00:02:49,639 Speaker 2: live the Yanties. We love the Americans, which is the 40 00:02:49,680 --> 00:02:53,079 Speaker 2: same sentiment that Marco Rubio has. You know, we come 41 00:02:53,080 --> 00:02:57,320 Speaker 2: from the same neighborhood. He is also the son, first 42 00:02:57,320 --> 00:03:01,240 Speaker 2: generation American, son of political refugees q Ubans who came 43 00:03:01,440 --> 00:03:04,480 Speaker 2: out of that island, which was the peril the jewel 44 00:03:04,520 --> 00:03:09,280 Speaker 2: of the Caribbean. They had fallen into socialism, into that dream. 45 00:03:09,440 --> 00:03:11,760 Speaker 2: They drank the kool aid, and then they had to leave. 46 00:03:12,520 --> 00:03:16,080 Speaker 2: And the sorrow, the sadness of living in exile is 47 00:03:16,080 --> 00:03:18,440 Speaker 2: something that we have in our DNA, and I'm sure 48 00:03:18,440 --> 00:03:21,360 Speaker 2: that Marco has it too. Number one, But then what 49 00:03:21,480 --> 00:03:23,840 Speaker 2: we are in the United States, Oh my god, what 50 00:03:23,880 --> 00:03:27,520 Speaker 2: a wonderful, glorious country. And that is the force and 51 00:03:27,600 --> 00:03:31,120 Speaker 2: the power inside of my heart that it's propelling and 52 00:03:31,200 --> 00:03:34,760 Speaker 2: sending me forward in order to help and protect the republic. 53 00:03:35,360 --> 00:03:39,520 Speaker 2: That's number one. Number two living in Lil Havana with 54 00:03:39,720 --> 00:03:45,480 Speaker 2: nothing in poverty but with hope, and number three Cuba socialism. 55 00:03:45,880 --> 00:03:49,440 Speaker 2: They drank the kool aid. They're really believed that Fidel said, oh, 56 00:03:49,480 --> 00:03:51,880 Speaker 2: we're going to be in eighteen months, we're going to 57 00:03:51,920 --> 00:03:56,160 Speaker 2: be conducting free and fair elections. Sure, and Fidel, we 58 00:03:56,320 --> 00:03:58,360 Speaker 2: know what he did with that island and we know 59 00:03:58,480 --> 00:04:03,960 Speaker 2: what the ideology does, the socialism. It's beautiful in theory, beautiful, 60 00:04:04,080 --> 00:04:06,600 Speaker 2: it's miserable in practice. 61 00:04:06,240 --> 00:04:10,440 Speaker 1: Sexual I said Rubio National Stradivis Erubio was deeply, deeply 62 00:04:10,480 --> 00:04:14,560 Speaker 1: shaped by his parents' experience and his own experience. And 63 00:04:15,280 --> 00:04:20,279 Speaker 1: I can't imagine anybody better prepared in this moment, with 64 00:04:20,400 --> 00:04:24,400 Speaker 1: everything going on in Venezuela and elsewhere. I can't imagine 65 00:04:24,440 --> 00:04:28,159 Speaker 1: anybody who would be better suited to be Secretary of 66 00:04:28,160 --> 00:04:29,080 Speaker 1: State at this point. 67 00:04:29,440 --> 00:04:32,719 Speaker 2: No, I agree. When it comes to the Western hemisphere, 68 00:04:33,240 --> 00:04:35,719 Speaker 2: we know what that story looks like. And we know 69 00:04:35,880 --> 00:04:42,800 Speaker 2: with Venezuela. Now that you mentioned that when he said stabilize, restore, 70 00:04:43,520 --> 00:04:46,120 Speaker 2: and transition, that is exactly what we're going to do. 71 00:04:46,200 --> 00:04:49,480 Speaker 2: And I was saying new to that. Trump has created 72 00:04:49,520 --> 00:04:54,159 Speaker 2: a new blueprint, like a new ground breaking model on 73 00:04:54,480 --> 00:04:58,480 Speaker 2: how to deal with the Western Hemisphere with our enemies 74 00:04:58,520 --> 00:05:01,960 Speaker 2: and with allies, which is different to what we did 75 00:05:02,600 --> 00:05:05,680 Speaker 2: in other parts of the world. This time, we're going 76 00:05:05,720 --> 00:05:08,360 Speaker 2: to use their resources, in this case the oil, We're 77 00:05:08,360 --> 00:05:10,400 Speaker 2: going to take it away from them. We're going to 78 00:05:10,520 --> 00:05:15,200 Speaker 2: use those resources to rebuild, to reconstruct civil society, the 79 00:05:15,279 --> 00:05:17,719 Speaker 2: electoral system, and then transition and give it back to 80 00:05:17,720 --> 00:05:18,599 Speaker 2: the Venezuelans. 81 00:05:18,920 --> 00:05:24,120 Speaker 1: Do something like eight million Venezuelans who have left the country. 82 00:05:24,520 --> 00:05:26,960 Speaker 1: Do you think a substantial number of them will go back? 83 00:05:27,360 --> 00:05:32,040 Speaker 2: Once there's stability, They're going to start trickling back little 84 00:05:32,040 --> 00:05:35,320 Speaker 2: by little because you know that you need political stability, 85 00:05:35,480 --> 00:05:39,280 Speaker 2: which will bring them economic stability. And it's very important 86 00:05:39,320 --> 00:05:41,919 Speaker 2: who is going to be running the show, which I 87 00:05:41,960 --> 00:05:44,919 Speaker 2: do believe there's going to be Machado, but with the 88 00:05:44,960 --> 00:05:48,479 Speaker 2: help and the support and the guidance of the Americans. 89 00:05:49,160 --> 00:05:53,359 Speaker 2: Very important to leave the Americans in place, because that 90 00:05:53,400 --> 00:05:56,279 Speaker 2: way she's going to be able to weed out the 91 00:05:56,360 --> 00:06:00,000 Speaker 2: scum that was created for twenty five years, the Chavis 92 00:06:00,440 --> 00:06:01,880 Speaker 2: destroyed the country. 93 00:06:02,240 --> 00:06:06,440 Speaker 1: You actually met with and interviewed Maduro, what was your 94 00:06:06,480 --> 00:06:07,520 Speaker 1: sense of him? 95 00:06:08,160 --> 00:06:11,200 Speaker 2: I interviewed Fidel Castro, so I do have a point 96 00:06:11,200 --> 00:06:13,920 Speaker 2: of reference, and I can say to you that Maduro 97 00:06:14,040 --> 00:06:17,919 Speaker 2: is no Fidel. Maduro was just a puppet that was 98 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:21,120 Speaker 2: following instructions from Havannah, because you know Havannah they do 99 00:06:21,240 --> 00:06:23,680 Speaker 2: this with pro quo. I give you, I send you 100 00:06:23,720 --> 00:06:26,880 Speaker 2: the book on how to repress chapter one, two, three, four, 101 00:06:26,920 --> 00:06:29,560 Speaker 2: and then you send me back resources that I need 102 00:06:29,600 --> 00:06:34,200 Speaker 2: because I have Hannah only produce represhon and Maduro was 103 00:06:34,320 --> 00:06:39,480 Speaker 2: just following, was just following the textbook, surrounded, mind you, 104 00:06:39,760 --> 00:06:43,200 Speaker 2: by Cubans that were helping him and guiding him. That's 105 00:06:43,240 --> 00:06:47,880 Speaker 2: why thirty two Cubans died protecting Maduro. There's no reason 106 00:06:47,960 --> 00:06:51,400 Speaker 2: why Cubans need to be protecting the Venezuelans. We know 107 00:06:51,480 --> 00:06:55,640 Speaker 2: the drill. He is nothing. Delsy is worse because he's 108 00:06:55,640 --> 00:06:59,520 Speaker 2: more intelligent. She is more an I gealogue, she is 109 00:06:59,600 --> 00:07:02,920 Speaker 2: better repaired, she speaks three languages. There were forces more 110 00:07:02,960 --> 00:07:06,040 Speaker 2: evil and more pernicious, so we got to be very 111 00:07:06,080 --> 00:07:09,680 Speaker 2: careful with her and her brother, who is a psychiatrist 112 00:07:10,040 --> 00:07:14,560 Speaker 2: who happens to be running. They ran the secret police, 113 00:07:14,720 --> 00:07:19,160 Speaker 2: they ran to the jails, and they ran the repressive apparas, 114 00:07:19,560 --> 00:07:23,720 Speaker 2: while Diosdado Cavello, who is also indicted by the United States, 115 00:07:24,320 --> 00:07:28,560 Speaker 2: was running the military along with Maduro and the Son's cartel. 116 00:07:28,880 --> 00:07:31,880 Speaker 2: So they had divided the chores, the division of labor. 117 00:07:32,920 --> 00:07:37,720 Speaker 1: Fidel actually, I guess, in part with Russian help, developed 118 00:07:37,720 --> 00:07:43,679 Speaker 1: a model of tautolitarian government which has been remarkably durable. 119 00:07:43,680 --> 00:07:46,400 Speaker 1: I mean, they have really survived a lot. 120 00:07:46,840 --> 00:07:50,000 Speaker 2: No doubt about a Fidel. Fifty years from now, historians 121 00:07:50,040 --> 00:07:53,080 Speaker 2: will look back and will look at Fidel as someone 122 00:07:53,120 --> 00:07:55,800 Speaker 2: who learned to know only how to obtain the power, 123 00:07:55,840 --> 00:07:59,520 Speaker 2: but how to maintain it. And unfortunately for the Cubans, 124 00:07:59,560 --> 00:08:02,520 Speaker 2: he is going to surpass lending and stalin because he 125 00:08:02,680 --> 00:08:07,640 Speaker 2: was able to create something that you call the invincibility 126 00:08:07,720 --> 00:08:10,800 Speaker 2: of the system in the hearts and minds of the Cubans, 127 00:08:11,200 --> 00:08:15,000 Speaker 2: meaning the Cubans know that it's better to go into 128 00:08:15,120 --> 00:08:19,120 Speaker 2: the Florida Strait and phase the sharks because they have 129 00:08:19,200 --> 00:08:22,600 Speaker 2: fifty percent chance of living, but they do know that 130 00:08:22,680 --> 00:08:28,040 Speaker 2: they have one hundred percent chance against them to confront verity. 131 00:08:28,920 --> 00:08:32,200 Speaker 2: And that's Fidel's genius, unfortunately for evil. 132 00:08:33,080 --> 00:08:37,760 Speaker 1: So given the collapse of Venezuela as an ally, how 133 00:08:37,840 --> 00:08:40,800 Speaker 1: much pressure does that put on Cuba, on the current 134 00:08:40,840 --> 00:08:44,800 Speaker 1: dictatorship and to what degree does it weaken its survival ability? 135 00:08:45,440 --> 00:08:48,800 Speaker 2: So we consider tremendously because now they are not receiving 136 00:08:48,800 --> 00:08:52,000 Speaker 2: any more oil. At one point, Chavis gave fid dial 137 00:08:52,080 --> 00:08:57,600 Speaker 2: one hundred thousand barrels a day for free, one hundred 138 00:08:57,600 --> 00:09:01,840 Speaker 2: thousand a day for free, for years and years and years. 139 00:09:01,920 --> 00:09:04,960 Speaker 2: When the barrel was one hundred and twenty dollars. So 140 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:09,880 Speaker 2: the Cubans survived for twenty years living off Tavis and 141 00:09:09,960 --> 00:09:13,800 Speaker 2: the Venezuelans. Now that has ended. But unfortunately we hear 142 00:09:14,080 --> 00:09:17,080 Speaker 2: that Shane Baum from Mexico is saying, hey, I'm going 143 00:09:17,120 --> 00:09:20,600 Speaker 2: to step in why And that's another issue we have 144 00:09:20,720 --> 00:09:24,200 Speaker 2: now with Mexico. But that's another story. But right now, 145 00:09:24,320 --> 00:09:28,199 Speaker 2: Venezuela and Oil zero no more, and that is definitely 146 00:09:28,240 --> 00:09:30,120 Speaker 2: But you know, the Cubans are at the beginning of 147 00:09:30,160 --> 00:09:34,040 Speaker 2: the end as well, because that regime is just hanging 148 00:09:34,080 --> 00:09:34,720 Speaker 2: by a thread. 149 00:09:35,400 --> 00:09:39,720 Speaker 1: Standing with Marco, we literally were chatting about the strategy 150 00:09:39,760 --> 00:09:43,080 Speaker 1: for getting rid of the dictatorship, so I know that 151 00:09:43,120 --> 00:09:46,320 Speaker 1: it's very high on his list of what he is 152 00:09:46,400 --> 00:09:47,920 Speaker 1: determined to try to accomplish. 153 00:09:48,920 --> 00:09:52,840 Speaker 2: Of course, we owe it to our grandchildren. I mean, 154 00:09:52,880 --> 00:09:55,160 Speaker 2: we owe it to our grandchildren and we owe it 155 00:09:55,200 --> 00:09:56,920 Speaker 2: to our grandparents. 156 00:09:57,440 --> 00:10:00,040 Speaker 1: That's actually a very good line. That is both the 157 00:10:00,080 --> 00:10:03,000 Speaker 1: generation that fled and the generation that may have a 158 00:10:03,080 --> 00:10:03,920 Speaker 1: chance to go back. 159 00:10:04,640 --> 00:10:09,479 Speaker 2: Correct. I always think that it's impossible for my grandchildren 160 00:10:09,559 --> 00:10:13,959 Speaker 2: to live what my grandparents left behind, which is my concern. 161 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:18,320 Speaker 2: That's why I'm doing this immigration movement because we need 162 00:10:18,360 --> 00:10:22,880 Speaker 2: to secure the Anglo American agenda. The American agenda needs 163 00:10:22,920 --> 00:10:27,400 Speaker 2: to continue going forward for the benefit of my grandchildren, 164 00:10:27,559 --> 00:10:33,319 Speaker 2: because my grandparents fled and I remember, and Marco remembers 165 00:10:33,400 --> 00:10:38,440 Speaker 2: his grandfather, who was extremely influential in his life, because 166 00:10:38,480 --> 00:10:40,440 Speaker 2: I'm not sure if you know this. While his parents 167 00:10:40,559 --> 00:10:44,080 Speaker 2: went to work, he was taking care of by his 168 00:10:44,320 --> 00:10:49,600 Speaker 2: grandfather who was telling him the horrors of communism and 169 00:10:49,679 --> 00:10:52,440 Speaker 2: teaching him Spanish. Was the same thing in my house. 170 00:10:52,880 --> 00:10:57,559 Speaker 2: My grandmother, Elvira, took care of me, taught me Spanish 171 00:10:57,640 --> 00:10:59,800 Speaker 2: and explained to me. I could see it in her 172 00:10:59,800 --> 00:11:04,480 Speaker 2: face the sorrow of what communism did to her. 173 00:11:05,320 --> 00:11:07,560 Speaker 1: Well, and I think those of us who did not 174 00:11:07,720 --> 00:11:12,480 Speaker 1: grow up in Cuba really don't appreciate what a remarkable, 175 00:11:12,679 --> 00:11:16,840 Speaker 1: beautiful place it was prior to Fidel. As you said, oh, 176 00:11:16,880 --> 00:11:19,240 Speaker 1: it was sort of the pearl of the Caribbean at 177 00:11:19,240 --> 00:11:21,840 Speaker 1: the time. Was one of the great success stories. And 178 00:11:21,880 --> 00:11:24,360 Speaker 1: I think the highest income in Latin America. 179 00:11:24,280 --> 00:11:28,200 Speaker 2: The highest had the highest per capita income in Latin America, 180 00:11:28,320 --> 00:11:34,200 Speaker 2: close to Italy Argentina with perone It was the jewel 181 00:11:34,240 --> 00:11:37,000 Speaker 2: because of the proximity and since we had the sugar 182 00:11:37,080 --> 00:11:41,880 Speaker 2: quota that we were guaranteed the Cubans had an influx 183 00:11:41,920 --> 00:11:44,960 Speaker 2: of dollars coming in in order to use it to 184 00:11:45,120 --> 00:11:48,719 Speaker 2: the creation of that beautiful capital. If you look at 185 00:11:48,720 --> 00:11:52,319 Speaker 2: Havana right now, is the perfect testament to Fidel Castro. 186 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:55,439 Speaker 2: The whole capital speaks about himself. 187 00:11:55,800 --> 00:11:57,959 Speaker 1: If you look at the cars that are there, it's 188 00:11:58,000 --> 00:12:03,200 Speaker 1: a fossilized economy. It's just astonishing when you're talking to 189 00:12:03,240 --> 00:12:07,440 Speaker 1: folks who don't understand what just happened in Venezuela. How 190 00:12:07,480 --> 00:12:12,160 Speaker 1: do you explain the difference between the things we did 191 00:12:12,200 --> 00:12:15,360 Speaker 1: in the Middle East and the thing we just achieved 192 00:12:15,360 --> 00:12:16,880 Speaker 1: in Venezuela. 193 00:12:17,280 --> 00:12:21,560 Speaker 2: It's like Marco said, is apple to oranges Western hemisphere. 194 00:12:21,800 --> 00:12:26,920 Speaker 2: Venezuela highly Western Nize, very most pro American, had a 195 00:12:27,080 --> 00:12:32,439 Speaker 2: very strong democratic system. They knew how to conduct elections 196 00:12:32,559 --> 00:12:37,760 Speaker 2: and what civil rights meant. So they had a platform 197 00:12:37,840 --> 00:12:42,719 Speaker 2: already of knowledge on where to sustain and to understand 198 00:12:42,760 --> 00:12:45,600 Speaker 2: what is that we're trying to bring back. So it's 199 00:12:45,640 --> 00:12:48,800 Speaker 2: not hard when you talk to Maria Karina and she 200 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:52,640 Speaker 2: proved to the world that they had won eighty twenty 201 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:56,400 Speaker 2: because that eighty percent of the Venezuelans were voting to 202 00:12:56,480 --> 00:13:01,200 Speaker 2: go back to democratic institutions. Look at Panama. It's just 203 00:13:01,240 --> 00:13:05,840 Speaker 2: the perfect example Panama. It's Grenada with Reagan, but Panama 204 00:13:05,920 --> 00:13:09,000 Speaker 2: with Bush. I was there, I covered it, and when 205 00:13:09,040 --> 00:13:12,760 Speaker 2: the Marines were coming in, the Panamanian girls would just 206 00:13:12,920 --> 00:13:16,040 Speaker 2: throw themselves at the Marines, at the co heads like 207 00:13:16,160 --> 00:13:17,920 Speaker 2: you and say please marry me. 208 00:13:18,040 --> 00:13:19,160 Speaker 3: Marry me, marry me. 209 00:13:19,400 --> 00:13:26,080 Speaker 1: You know that's wild. I did not know that story. 210 00:13:40,440 --> 00:13:45,320 Speaker 1: A year ago, you welcomed Edmundo Gonzalez RuSHA, who is 211 00:13:45,800 --> 00:13:49,400 Speaker 1: the legitimately elected president of Venezuela, to the US capital. 212 00:13:49,840 --> 00:13:51,520 Speaker 1: What did that feel like? I mean, there, you are 213 00:13:52,280 --> 00:13:55,360 Speaker 1: at a moment in history when it looked like Maduro 214 00:13:56,160 --> 00:13:59,120 Speaker 1: was probably permanent, and yet here's the guy who clearly 215 00:13:59,160 --> 00:13:59,880 Speaker 1: had won the election. 216 00:14:00,880 --> 00:14:05,600 Speaker 2: I felt how unfair. But I knew that under the 217 00:14:05,640 --> 00:14:09,320 Speaker 2: Trump administration things were going to change. And even more 218 00:14:09,400 --> 00:14:13,240 Speaker 2: when I would talk to Maria Karina via satellite from 219 00:14:13,280 --> 00:14:16,199 Speaker 2: somewhere in a tunnel in Caracas and she had been 220 00:14:16,240 --> 00:14:21,600 Speaker 2: there for sixteen months, someone who not only Maduro, said no, 221 00:14:22,080 --> 00:14:24,560 Speaker 2: even though you won the primary, you are not going 222 00:14:24,640 --> 00:14:27,160 Speaker 2: to be able to be the presidential nominee because I 223 00:14:27,240 --> 00:14:30,520 Speaker 2: just don't like But she won and you, Maduro, you 224 00:14:30,640 --> 00:14:34,880 Speaker 2: signed an agreement with the Biden administration to call the 225 00:14:34,920 --> 00:14:39,080 Speaker 2: Barbados Accord. And you, Maduro, you committed to do free 226 00:14:39,120 --> 00:14:41,960 Speaker 2: and fair elections and whomever won was going to stay. 227 00:14:43,080 --> 00:14:47,720 Speaker 2: But no, now Maduro changes his mind. And then Mario Karina, 228 00:14:48,040 --> 00:14:49,960 Speaker 2: who then said, okay, I'm not going to be the 229 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:52,880 Speaker 2: presidential nominee. Then what do we give that opportunity to 230 00:14:52,920 --> 00:14:56,360 Speaker 2: a Mundo? I'm going to be the vice president. And 231 00:14:56,440 --> 00:15:00,640 Speaker 2: she orchestrated this whole organization where she proved that the 232 00:15:00,760 --> 00:15:04,400 Speaker 2: tallies proved that they had won eighty to twenty, and 233 00:15:04,440 --> 00:15:06,400 Speaker 2: then on top of that she had to go into hiding. 234 00:15:07,080 --> 00:15:10,240 Speaker 1: In the long run, to allow her to stay in 235 00:15:10,280 --> 00:15:15,119 Speaker 1: power would be a huge mistake. She is the machine. 236 00:15:15,560 --> 00:15:16,320 Speaker 1: It seems to me. 237 00:15:17,040 --> 00:15:20,800 Speaker 2: She is the machine. She has all the resources and 238 00:15:20,920 --> 00:15:24,960 Speaker 2: the people, hundreds of thousands of people all around Venezuela 239 00:15:25,560 --> 00:15:29,960 Speaker 2: who were able to take pictures with their phones of 240 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:35,400 Speaker 2: the tallies and count the votes truthfully and proof to 241 00:15:35,440 --> 00:15:38,800 Speaker 2: the world that they had with numbers won the election. 242 00:15:39,680 --> 00:15:43,040 Speaker 2: So she was smarter than Maduro and the whole repressive apparatus. 243 00:15:43,040 --> 00:15:46,280 Speaker 2: That's why she deserves our respect. 244 00:15:46,960 --> 00:15:53,160 Speaker 1: To the United States basically bring back RuSHA. 245 00:15:53,640 --> 00:15:57,480 Speaker 2: I think that we should call for three fair elections 246 00:15:57,840 --> 00:16:01,440 Speaker 2: with international observers the way we know how to do this, 247 00:16:01,880 --> 00:16:05,880 Speaker 2: and just let the Venezuelan speople speak, allow for those 248 00:16:05,920 --> 00:16:08,520 Speaker 2: who are out of the country in Europe and in 249 00:16:08,520 --> 00:16:11,320 Speaker 2: the United States to be able to vote through the consulates, 250 00:16:11,720 --> 00:16:16,160 Speaker 2: and just let them speak, and all the political parties 251 00:16:16,200 --> 00:16:18,560 Speaker 2: that want to organize to be able to go back, 252 00:16:19,000 --> 00:16:21,280 Speaker 2: and you know, just do it the old fashioned way, 253 00:16:21,360 --> 00:16:23,960 Speaker 2: the way we do it according to the United States Constitution. 254 00:16:24,720 --> 00:16:26,440 Speaker 2: That's what I think we should do. And I do 255 00:16:26,560 --> 00:16:29,000 Speaker 2: believe that she will be the winner once again. 256 00:16:29,720 --> 00:16:32,960 Speaker 1: Good I've always admired you, and I first time I 257 00:16:32,960 --> 00:16:35,720 Speaker 1: saw you as a Canada and I thought you clearly 258 00:16:36,480 --> 00:16:41,640 Speaker 1: no television. I had no idea how deep your knowledge was. Frankly, 259 00:16:41,680 --> 00:16:44,760 Speaker 1: you look so young. It's impossible to believe that you've 260 00:16:44,800 --> 00:16:45,920 Speaker 1: done all the things you've done. 261 00:16:46,240 --> 00:16:49,080 Speaker 2: Thank you. Well. You know it's because this country gives 262 00:16:49,120 --> 00:16:53,200 Speaker 2: you the opportunity. It's equality of the opportunity. And I 263 00:16:53,440 --> 00:16:56,120 Speaker 2: knew because of what I had heard back at home. 264 00:16:56,320 --> 00:16:57,040 Speaker 2: Just like Marco. 265 00:16:57,080 --> 00:17:00,360 Speaker 3: Look at Marco Marcus, the Secretary of State eight, he's 266 00:17:00,400 --> 00:17:05,239 Speaker 3: the National Security advisor to the United States President in 267 00:17:05,359 --> 00:17:08,879 Speaker 3: one generation only in the United States. 268 00:17:08,880 --> 00:17:11,280 Speaker 2: So we believed it and I grabbed it, and that's 269 00:17:11,280 --> 00:17:14,080 Speaker 2: why I'm here serving this for twenty seven Believe me, 270 00:17:14,480 --> 00:17:18,560 Speaker 2: I could be on television working a lot less and 271 00:17:18,720 --> 00:17:21,240 Speaker 2: making a lot more. I didn't want to mention that, 272 00:17:21,400 --> 00:17:23,280 Speaker 2: but you are absolutely correct. 273 00:17:23,320 --> 00:17:25,160 Speaker 1: No, but it's true. It's true. 274 00:17:25,920 --> 00:17:28,760 Speaker 2: But you see the country, We the Cuban Americans, need 275 00:17:28,800 --> 00:17:31,800 Speaker 2: to pay back as much as we can to this 276 00:17:31,920 --> 00:17:35,040 Speaker 2: fantastic country and create the platform for the future. 277 00:17:35,720 --> 00:17:39,359 Speaker 1: You know, when you first came to Congress, you said, quote, 278 00:17:39,400 --> 00:17:42,720 Speaker 1: I'm coming to Washington to fix immigration. You have a 279 00:17:42,880 --> 00:17:45,919 Speaker 1: unique perspective on this, and I really like you to 280 00:17:46,080 --> 00:17:49,080 Speaker 1: sort of share with all of us you're thinking about 281 00:17:49,160 --> 00:17:53,000 Speaker 1: immigration and how we need to move on from where 282 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:55,720 Speaker 1: we are now to get to a stable system. 283 00:17:56,359 --> 00:17:58,040 Speaker 2: Yes, and I would love for you to help me 284 00:17:58,200 --> 00:18:01,160 Speaker 2: because if you understand it, I'm sure that you can 285 00:18:01,280 --> 00:18:05,439 Speaker 2: definitely influence and explain to the powers that be. I'm 286 00:18:05,480 --> 00:18:08,560 Speaker 2: gonna explain to you why the Hispanics are the largest 287 00:18:08,800 --> 00:18:12,479 Speaker 2: minority in the country and the fastest growing. These are numbers, right. 288 00:18:12,520 --> 00:18:16,520 Speaker 2: The Hispanics are twenty three percent of the population. There 289 00:18:16,560 --> 00:18:21,199 Speaker 2: are sixty million votes available from the Hispanic community. The 290 00:18:21,240 --> 00:18:25,560 Speaker 2: Democratic Party has failed the Hispanics repeatedly for the last 291 00:18:26,040 --> 00:18:29,480 Speaker 2: thirty years. They have played political football with the Hispanics. 292 00:18:29,480 --> 00:18:31,720 Speaker 2: And I can't prove it. And if you want, we 293 00:18:31,720 --> 00:18:36,320 Speaker 2: can go Biden, Obama, Clinton, we can go there. Right now. 294 00:18:36,520 --> 00:18:40,160 Speaker 2: We have an issue with national security and with immigration 295 00:18:40,240 --> 00:18:43,440 Speaker 2: and with the economy. Number one, we need to secure 296 00:18:43,480 --> 00:18:46,119 Speaker 2: the border. The border is secured now. We need to 297 00:18:46,160 --> 00:18:49,560 Speaker 2: see who and know who our neighbors are. We need 298 00:18:49,600 --> 00:18:52,040 Speaker 2: to make sure that everyone around us is the good 299 00:18:52,119 --> 00:18:56,040 Speaker 2: umbring so national security. Number two, the economy, we need 300 00:18:56,080 --> 00:19:02,239 Speaker 2: to provide to key sectors construction, hospital, agricultural, healthcare, the 301 00:19:02,280 --> 00:19:07,479 Speaker 2: butcher houses, agricultural We need to provide a stable labor force. 302 00:19:07,920 --> 00:19:12,840 Speaker 2: That labor force is in here. That's the economy. Number four. Immigration, 303 00:19:13,040 --> 00:19:16,240 Speaker 2: we have a broken immigration system, the catch and release, 304 00:19:16,560 --> 00:19:20,159 Speaker 2: the asylum system, the border, all that it needs to 305 00:19:20,200 --> 00:19:24,080 Speaker 2: be revamped and rewritten by the United States Congress. So 306 00:19:24,119 --> 00:19:26,960 Speaker 2: since I am a legislator, I said, okay, so let's 307 00:19:27,040 --> 00:19:31,080 Speaker 2: write something that fixes the problem. And on top of that, 308 00:19:31,680 --> 00:19:34,680 Speaker 2: we need to welcome the Hispanics back to the GOP 309 00:19:35,359 --> 00:19:39,640 Speaker 2: and make them and marry them and have them marry us, 310 00:19:40,040 --> 00:19:42,520 Speaker 2: because we have the same values that are enshrined in 311 00:19:42,560 --> 00:19:47,520 Speaker 2: the Republican Party, god fearing, law abiding, tax paying, small government, 312 00:19:48,400 --> 00:19:53,520 Speaker 2: pro family, pro god. So welcome them, bring them, and 313 00:19:53,560 --> 00:19:57,879 Speaker 2: if they have the voting card in their hand, even better. 314 00:19:58,640 --> 00:20:03,600 Speaker 2: So that's why I create the Dignity legislation. Right now, 315 00:20:03,640 --> 00:20:06,440 Speaker 2: you know that the word amnesty. What does that mean? 316 00:20:06,720 --> 00:20:09,560 Speaker 2: No one really knows, but well let's say that it's 317 00:20:09,600 --> 00:20:14,359 Speaker 2: path to citizenship. Okay, amnesty. So no amnesty in dignity. 318 00:20:14,480 --> 00:20:18,200 Speaker 2: This is not amnesty. This is dignity. Dignity is not amnesty. 319 00:20:18,840 --> 00:20:23,240 Speaker 2: So what's the plan out of this legislation? Peppy, you've 320 00:20:23,240 --> 00:20:26,199 Speaker 2: been here for more than five years, which does not 321 00:20:26,440 --> 00:20:30,879 Speaker 2: include the Biden migrants. If you have been here for 322 00:20:30,920 --> 00:20:35,719 Speaker 2: more than five years and you have been working, and 323 00:20:35,800 --> 00:20:39,720 Speaker 2: you do not have a criminal record, then you can 324 00:20:39,800 --> 00:20:42,719 Speaker 2: come out of the shadows. Come out of the shadows, 325 00:20:43,160 --> 00:20:46,600 Speaker 2: and we'll give you the dignity status. You need to 326 00:20:46,600 --> 00:20:50,760 Speaker 2: buy your own health insurance, no federal programs available to you, 327 00:20:50,800 --> 00:20:53,960 Speaker 2: meaning no Medicare or no Medicaid, no Social Security, no 328 00:20:54,040 --> 00:20:58,400 Speaker 2: food stamps, nothing. Then you pay seven thousand dollars as 329 00:20:58,400 --> 00:21:00,840 Speaker 2: a fine for your crime. Can you give you one 330 00:21:00,880 --> 00:21:05,360 Speaker 2: percent of your salary for the next seven years one 331 00:21:05,400 --> 00:21:08,639 Speaker 2: percent of your salary, then you get to stay. You 332 00:21:08,680 --> 00:21:11,159 Speaker 2: go home for Christmas or bari your mom, and you 333 00:21:11,200 --> 00:21:14,520 Speaker 2: get to stay in the country. In the meantime, you 334 00:21:14,560 --> 00:21:17,600 Speaker 2: will never be deported, and we will have secured a 335 00:21:17,800 --> 00:21:22,240 Speaker 2: stable labor force. We will know who is everyone living 336 00:21:22,800 --> 00:21:25,560 Speaker 2: in the country, and then ICE will have the opportunity 337 00:21:25,640 --> 00:21:28,879 Speaker 2: to use the money that we gave them from the BBB. 338 00:21:29,359 --> 00:21:32,520 Speaker 2: We have the opportunity to use those resources to concentrate 339 00:21:32,600 --> 00:21:35,800 Speaker 2: on the bad own brace and everyone who's illegal, that is, 340 00:21:35,840 --> 00:21:38,600 Speaker 2: the illegal who has a criminal record or is a 341 00:21:38,680 --> 00:21:41,879 Speaker 2: murder or a rapist, then we can find you and 342 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:42,520 Speaker 2: kick you up. 343 00:22:02,800 --> 00:22:07,000 Speaker 1: I voted for the nineteen eighty six Act. At the time, 344 00:22:08,080 --> 00:22:09,919 Speaker 1: we thought you had to control the border, and we 345 00:22:09,960 --> 00:22:14,720 Speaker 1: thought you had to have some kind of orderly process 346 00:22:14,800 --> 00:22:18,240 Speaker 1: for people, some kind of way of knowing that people 347 00:22:18,280 --> 00:22:20,760 Speaker 1: who were here legally could get a job and could 348 00:22:20,760 --> 00:22:24,080 Speaker 1: be part of the system. I look back on it, 349 00:22:24,119 --> 00:22:27,680 Speaker 1: and frankly, in part because the business community wouldn't cooperate, 350 00:22:28,280 --> 00:22:32,760 Speaker 1: the huge opposition to actually defining whether or not somebody 351 00:22:32,840 --> 00:22:37,919 Speaker 1: was legally here. I worry very much. Lincoln said in 352 00:22:38,040 --> 00:22:43,399 Speaker 1: eighteen fifty eight that with popular sentiment, nothing can fail. 353 00:22:44,200 --> 00:22:49,240 Speaker 1: Without popular sentiment, nothing can succeed. And I'm watching the 354 00:22:50,320 --> 00:22:56,360 Speaker 1: aggressiveness of ICE begin to lose popular sentiment, and it's 355 00:22:56,400 --> 00:22:59,919 Speaker 1: not going to be sustainable. And I don't think people 356 00:23:00,240 --> 00:23:05,040 Speaker 1: understand yet in the administration that there was huge support 357 00:23:05,240 --> 00:23:10,200 Speaker 1: for controlling the border. There is substantial support for getting 358 00:23:10,240 --> 00:23:14,359 Speaker 1: rid of criminals, but there's remarkably little support for going 359 00:23:14,400 --> 00:23:18,520 Speaker 1: after people who've been working hard, raising families, going to 360 00:23:18,560 --> 00:23:23,520 Speaker 1: local pta, participating voluntarily in Red Cross blood drives me. 361 00:23:24,280 --> 00:23:28,520 Speaker 1: Going after those folks is going to rapidly destroy any 362 00:23:28,600 --> 00:23:33,520 Speaker 1: kind of majority for an effective immigration program. And I 363 00:23:33,520 --> 00:23:38,360 Speaker 1: think your book and your legislation is really important. That's 364 00:23:38,359 --> 00:23:41,919 Speaker 1: why I think it's really important that you've written a 365 00:23:42,040 --> 00:23:47,320 Speaker 1: book designed to allow people to start reapproaching thinking about 366 00:23:47,320 --> 00:23:50,359 Speaker 1: this and this idea of dignity is really important because 367 00:23:51,720 --> 00:23:55,920 Speaker 1: being an American involves a sense of being endowed by 368 00:23:55,920 --> 00:24:01,960 Speaker 1: your creator. That makes you different than countries where you're 369 00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:04,479 Speaker 1: just under the control of the government. On our two 370 00:24:04,560 --> 00:24:08,199 Speaker 1: hundred and fiftieth edt ursery, we really do believe that 371 00:24:08,320 --> 00:24:13,440 Speaker 1: power comes from God to the citizen and then goes 372 00:24:13,480 --> 00:24:17,200 Speaker 1: from the citizen to the government. But it doesn't come 373 00:24:17,240 --> 00:24:20,320 Speaker 1: from the government to the citizen. And I think your 374 00:24:20,359 --> 00:24:23,919 Speaker 1: new book, Dignity not Citizenship, the truth about immigration. No 375 00:24:23,920 --> 00:24:26,919 Speaker 1: one is telling you. I think that's a very important contribution, 376 00:24:27,480 --> 00:24:30,320 Speaker 1: and I hope you will as much as you can 377 00:24:30,760 --> 00:24:33,919 Speaker 1: go out and talk about it, because I think we 378 00:24:34,040 --> 00:24:36,680 Speaker 1: have to break out of the current moment and get 379 00:24:36,720 --> 00:24:40,120 Speaker 1: back to a much more constructive and much more positive 380 00:24:40,119 --> 00:24:43,960 Speaker 1: approach which does get us to legality, does get us 381 00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:47,840 Speaker 1: to a controlled environment, but does so with people having 382 00:24:47,840 --> 00:24:51,880 Speaker 1: a sense that we're treating human beings fairly and with dignity, 383 00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:53,840 Speaker 1: We're not just running over them. 384 00:24:54,320 --> 00:24:56,280 Speaker 2: I would have not been able to say it better. 385 00:24:56,880 --> 00:25:01,639 Speaker 2: I'm not asking our friends on the GOP side, my 386 00:25:01,720 --> 00:25:07,240 Speaker 2: friends in Congress to vote for citizenship. I'm not talking 387 00:25:07,280 --> 00:25:11,359 Speaker 2: about becoming an American, talking about giving them dignity so 388 00:25:11,440 --> 00:25:15,760 Speaker 2: they can continue working for us. And this is like 389 00:25:15,840 --> 00:25:18,720 Speaker 2: what I call solemonic now that you quote the Bible 390 00:25:19,280 --> 00:25:22,439 Speaker 2: and Lord Almighty, this is what the Lord gives to 391 00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:27,600 Speaker 2: every single individual, dignity to live a dignified life in 392 00:25:27,640 --> 00:25:31,720 Speaker 2: the promised land. That's all they want. And what does 393 00:25:31,720 --> 00:25:36,040 Speaker 2: that entail, no government programs, not becoming an American ever, 394 00:25:36,640 --> 00:25:39,040 Speaker 2: but being able to come out of the shadows and 395 00:25:39,240 --> 00:25:43,240 Speaker 2: raise their head and not feel ashamed or in anxiety 396 00:25:43,320 --> 00:25:46,280 Speaker 2: or in fear that they are going to be disappeared 397 00:25:46,359 --> 00:25:50,119 Speaker 2: after twenty three years of working on the fields. The 398 00:25:50,280 --> 00:25:53,199 Speaker 2: problem is that there's a lot of fear among the 399 00:25:53,280 --> 00:25:56,760 Speaker 2: legislators because there are other groups that will accuse them 400 00:25:56,800 --> 00:25:59,920 Speaker 2: of you're in favor of mnis, you're in favor of amnesty. 401 00:26:00,080 --> 00:26:03,159 Speaker 2: What does that mean? Amnesty is what the legals have now, 402 00:26:03,560 --> 00:26:07,760 Speaker 2: free schools, free roads, and free hospitals. So what I'm 403 00:26:07,800 --> 00:26:10,000 Speaker 2: saying is, why don't we bring them out of the shadows, 404 00:26:10,119 --> 00:26:12,640 Speaker 2: make them pay for their crime, and make them pay 405 00:26:12,720 --> 00:26:16,719 Speaker 2: taxes and stop giving them anything for free while they 406 00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:20,520 Speaker 2: are contributing to those sectors that need them construction, hospitality, 407 00:26:20,520 --> 00:26:24,160 Speaker 2: and agriculture. This is good for the average American person. 408 00:26:24,840 --> 00:26:27,000 Speaker 2: If you are traveling for business, you're going to go 409 00:26:27,040 --> 00:26:29,560 Speaker 2: to a nice hotel where it's clean and it's cheap, 410 00:26:29,960 --> 00:26:31,600 Speaker 2: and you're going to be able to go buy fruits 411 00:26:31,600 --> 00:26:36,200 Speaker 2: and vegetables and meat and poultry cheap because the slaughterhouses 412 00:26:36,359 --> 00:26:39,800 Speaker 2: are working, and they are being manned by people that 413 00:26:39,880 --> 00:26:42,760 Speaker 2: are willing to do jobs that other Americans are not 414 00:26:42,800 --> 00:26:46,320 Speaker 2: willing to engage in. No one is taking a job 415 00:26:46,400 --> 00:26:50,159 Speaker 2: from the Americans. There are a lot of jobs available 416 00:26:50,400 --> 00:26:52,480 Speaker 2: that Americans do not want to do. I mean, you've 417 00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:56,159 Speaker 2: heard this before. But then on top of that, we 418 00:26:56,280 --> 00:26:59,600 Speaker 2: have the Democratic Party. Now let's get into politics that 419 00:26:59,680 --> 00:27:02,399 Speaker 2: has been and infiltrate it by this type of ideology 420 00:27:02,640 --> 00:27:06,080 Speaker 2: which is not very American, which is Mondami. This is 421 00:27:06,119 --> 00:27:10,199 Speaker 2: democratic socialism. What do you mean socialism? And then my 422 00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:12,879 Speaker 2: concern is that that is going to come all the 423 00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:15,919 Speaker 2: way up to Washington and we may have a democratic 424 00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:23,200 Speaker 2: socialist present. The founding fathers will be very concerned if 425 00:27:23,200 --> 00:27:25,840 Speaker 2: that were to happen. So what I'm trying to do 426 00:27:25,920 --> 00:27:28,920 Speaker 2: is I'm trying to tell that pool of voters in 427 00:27:28,960 --> 00:27:32,960 Speaker 2: the middle, the Hispanics that are growing, growing and growing 428 00:27:33,440 --> 00:27:35,160 Speaker 2: to be part of the GOP. 429 00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:40,160 Speaker 1: People who want to know more about the Dignity Act. 430 00:27:40,560 --> 00:27:42,280 Speaker 1: How can they find all the details? 431 00:27:42,880 --> 00:27:46,640 Speaker 2: They can go to my website, representative salos Are. They 432 00:27:46,640 --> 00:27:49,320 Speaker 2: can just Google, or they can buy the book. They 433 00:27:49,320 --> 00:27:52,840 Speaker 2: can go to Amazon and go to Salos or dignity, 434 00:27:52,920 --> 00:27:55,600 Speaker 2: and it's in English and in Spanish, and it's one 435 00:27:55,800 --> 00:27:59,639 Speaker 2: nine nine, one ninety nine the digital copy, and I 436 00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:03,879 Speaker 2: have written in a television style the legislation and the 437 00:28:04,040 --> 00:28:08,040 Speaker 2: explanation as to why this is needed in this country 438 00:28:08,200 --> 00:28:11,119 Speaker 2: at this time. But to be honest with you, this 439 00:28:11,240 --> 00:28:15,879 Speaker 2: is an audience of one President Trump, and if you 440 00:28:15,960 --> 00:28:19,040 Speaker 2: have an opportunity to talk to him, please explain what 441 00:28:19,240 --> 00:28:22,400 Speaker 2: you'll think. You will pick the words that you need 442 00:28:22,480 --> 00:28:25,919 Speaker 2: to use because you are highly influential. All I'm helping 443 00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:30,040 Speaker 2: everybody is to help me help the Republic. And why 444 00:28:30,080 --> 00:28:33,120 Speaker 2: it's an audience of one because the guy comes from 445 00:28:33,160 --> 00:28:38,680 Speaker 2: construction and hospitality. He knows, and he's a business guy, 446 00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:41,880 Speaker 2: and he dares to do things. Look at Venezuela and 447 00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:44,920 Speaker 2: no one else theirs. He will be for immigration what 448 00:28:45,120 --> 00:28:49,440 Speaker 2: Lincoln was for slavery and Reagan was for communism. I mean, goop, 449 00:28:49,600 --> 00:28:51,960 Speaker 2: I wrote it here. It is, sir, Now, it's yours. 450 00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:53,080 Speaker 2: Dignity is yours, sir. 451 00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:55,440 Speaker 1: I love the way you just described that. That's good. 452 00:28:55,840 --> 00:28:58,640 Speaker 1: That would appeal to Trump, that he can be for 453 00:28:58,720 --> 00:29:03,160 Speaker 1: immigration with Reagan was for communism and Lincoln was for slavery. 454 00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:06,160 Speaker 1: You've got the rhythm here. If I didn't know better, 455 00:29:06,200 --> 00:29:08,880 Speaker 1: i'd say that your TV years had taught you a 456 00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:12,200 Speaker 1: lot about communicating. I'm going to encourage everybody who's listening 457 00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:16,520 Speaker 1: to both go to the book, but also consider writing 458 00:29:16,560 --> 00:29:20,440 Speaker 1: your own congressman and your own senators about the Dignity Act, 459 00:29:20,440 --> 00:29:23,440 Speaker 1: because it's really important that we have this kind of 460 00:29:23,440 --> 00:29:28,480 Speaker 1: a conversation. Dignity not citizenship, the truth about immigration. No 461 00:29:28,520 --> 00:29:32,080 Speaker 1: one is telling you it's available and Amazon and elsewhere, 462 00:29:32,560 --> 00:29:37,480 Speaker 1: and what Maria Salazar is doing is an important act 463 00:29:37,520 --> 00:29:41,240 Speaker 1: of leadership that I think is vital, and I hope 464 00:29:41,240 --> 00:29:44,160 Speaker 1: that everybody who listens to us today will decide they're 465 00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:47,479 Speaker 1: going to get involved. Also because the more people who 466 00:29:47,560 --> 00:29:50,160 Speaker 1: speak up about this, the better off we're going to be. 467 00:29:50,560 --> 00:29:54,400 Speaker 2: Yes, we have the Evangelicals, we have the Southern Baptists, 468 00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:57,160 Speaker 2: we have the United States Chamber of Commerce, we have 469 00:29:57,280 --> 00:30:00,960 Speaker 2: the manufacturings. Of course, the agriculture, we have those sectors 470 00:30:01,200 --> 00:30:04,080 Speaker 2: that are desperate for hands. There's no way that we're 471 00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:05,680 Speaker 2: going to be able to continue being the number one 472 00:30:05,680 --> 00:30:08,400 Speaker 2: ecconomy in the world with the number one military in 473 00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:11,720 Speaker 2: the world if we do not have economic growth, and 474 00:30:11,760 --> 00:30:15,360 Speaker 2: how can we grow if people work, it's impossible newt 475 00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:18,800 Speaker 2: The National Association of Manufacturers has told us that they 476 00:30:18,840 --> 00:30:23,080 Speaker 2: have four hundred thousand jobs available. Four hundred thousand jobs. 477 00:30:23,360 --> 00:30:26,600 Speaker 2: You need to fill those jobs, and those people are here. 478 00:30:26,640 --> 00:30:28,800 Speaker 2: And on top of that, like you were saying about ice, 479 00:30:29,600 --> 00:30:32,880 Speaker 2: we do not have enough agents to deport ten twelve 480 00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:36,280 Speaker 2: million people. We may deport what ten percent, twenty percent? 481 00:30:36,320 --> 00:30:37,680 Speaker 2: What about the other eighty percent? 482 00:30:38,040 --> 00:30:42,600 Speaker 1: The country won't tolerate it. You can't have that level 483 00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:47,320 Speaker 1: of turmoil. You got to do things people will support 484 00:30:47,720 --> 00:30:50,440 Speaker 1: because they believe they're right. And I think your approach 485 00:30:50,480 --> 00:30:54,960 Speaker 1: with dignity is very very important and actually very wise. 486 00:30:55,480 --> 00:30:58,160 Speaker 1: So I want to thank you, Maria. You've been a 487 00:30:58,200 --> 00:31:01,800 Speaker 1: great guest. You're always a man. You've certainly lived up 488 00:31:01,800 --> 00:31:04,160 Speaker 1: to your billing, and I will report to my daughter 489 00:31:04,160 --> 00:31:06,400 Speaker 1: and my son in law of it. They're very fortunate 490 00:31:06,720 --> 00:31:10,280 Speaker 1: to have such an intelligent and competent member of Congress. 491 00:31:10,720 --> 00:31:13,960 Speaker 2: Listen, we're fortunate to live in the United States of America. 492 00:31:14,080 --> 00:31:17,400 Speaker 2: I have not asked the Cubans, the Iranians, the Venezuelans, 493 00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:21,560 Speaker 2: the Nicaraguans, from the North Koreans. We count our blessings 494 00:31:21,560 --> 00:31:24,719 Speaker 2: that we're grateful, and that's why we need to do 495 00:31:24,760 --> 00:31:27,480 Speaker 2: what we're doing so we can continue being grateful to 496 00:31:27,560 --> 00:31:30,000 Speaker 2: the laure Almighty and may the Lord Guide descend. Thank 497 00:31:30,040 --> 00:31:33,040 Speaker 2: you very much for those words. They come from a 498 00:31:33,280 --> 00:31:36,400 Speaker 2: very important member founder of the GOP the way we 499 00:31:36,480 --> 00:31:39,320 Speaker 2: know it. I'm going to deputize you so you can 500 00:31:39,360 --> 00:31:43,320 Speaker 2: help me. Ah. 501 00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:48,160 Speaker 1: Thank you to my guest Congressoman Maria Salazar. Mute World 502 00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:51,720 Speaker 1: is produced by Gingers Sweet sixty and iHeartMedia. Our executive 503 00:31:51,720 --> 00:31:55,920 Speaker 1: producer is Guardnesie Sloan. Our researcher is Rachel Peterson. The 504 00:31:56,080 --> 00:31:58,320 Speaker 1: art work for the show was created by Steve Penley. 505 00:31:59,040 --> 00:32:02,239 Speaker 1: Special thanks to team at gingishree sixty. 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