During an interview that took place during MSNBC’s coverage of President Donald Trump’s speech before Congress, Rep. Lateefah Simon (D-CA) stated that the Trump administration and the President in his speech are “pitting immigrants who have come to this country seeking asylum to meet a broken immigration system” against those in the working class “who are literally working 15 hours a day trying to make ends meet.” And the immigration issue doesn’t have anything to do with egg prices.
Simon said that the government doesn’t work for a lot of people, and “this administration — and tonight we saw it — pitting immigrants who have come to this country seeking asylum to meet a broken immigration system that Congress and the federal government were supposed to fix a long time ago, and they haven’t done it, have been pitted against working-class people who are literally working 15 hours a day trying to make ends meet.”
She added, “The cost of the cost of eggs has nothing to do with the fact that we have an immigration problem.”
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