I must have missed it, who is forcing these people to come here illegally and work?
Via CNS News:
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said the estimated 11 million people who are in the country illegally should get the rights of U.S. citizens because of the work they do.
“I don’t think we as a country want to be a country that says, ‘You can do our work, but you can’t have the rights of a citizen in our country,’” Pelosi said on Tuesday at the Peter G. Peterson Foundation annual economic summit in Washington, D.C. “It’s more about who we are as a nation.”
Pelosi joined other politicians, including New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Sens. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and Rob Portman (R-Ohio) to discuss the economy and other topics, including immigration reform.
Nancy Cordes, a congressional correspondent with CBS, asked Pelosi if she would be open to the House Republicans introducing legislation that would put pieces of immigration reform up for consideration that might not include a “pathway to citizenship.”
“It has to be comprehensive immigration reform,” Pelosi said. “Now, the Senate bill is not a bill that I embrace lovingly.