House Speaker Nancy Pelosi won’t support a border wall, but she’s in favor of using taxpayer money to provide food, clothing, and medical supplies to illegal aliens.
While speaking at the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities on Wednesday, the California Democrat spoke about the border security package that congressional conferees are currently putting together.
Pelosi claimed that the conferees agree that there should be “sizable funding for food, clothing, medical care for immigrants” who come to the United States, including those who broke the law to illegally enter the country.
“We’re hoping that we can find common ground as soon as possible so that we can not only meet our responsibility to protect our border, to treat people coming here with dignity and respect but also to keep government open. Some of the things that we have in there I think will be very acceptable, goes on both sides of the ledger,” she said.
“We both care, all of us on either side of the wall question — but all care about treating the people who come, so there will be sizable funding for food, clothing, medical care for immigrants coming across the border so we don’t have people dying in our custody – children,” Pelosi added.
She continued: “There’ll be sizable funding for additional judges to more quickly adjudicate these cases so that it doesn’t become, well, they’re here such a long time. Well, it’s because we have such a backlog too, so we’ll have that.”
She also voiced her support for sending taxpayer money to Central America to “alleviate” the conditions there that made them flee.
“There’ll be funding to send money to the countries where most of these people are coming from – the northern triangle – to try to alleviate some of the conditions that have exacerbated the situation there, to mitigate for the horror that some of them face,” Pelosi said.
The California Democrat then claimed that thousands of migrants attempt to illegally enter the country every single day because they “have no choice” and are just looking for better opportunities.
“They come here, because they have no choice. It’s just a matter of life or death or danger for their families,” Pelosi said, adding, “there are other areas where we can find common ground, but those three are very personal in terms of the adjudication of the case, the care and feeding of them coming, and trying to help them stay at home.”
Pelosi then spoke about asylum seekers, saying when they illegally cross the border into the U.S., “that’s okay, too.”
She claimed that foreign nationals who enter the United States — even unlawfully — have the right to seek asylum, “under international law and any sense of decency.”
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