Senate Committe examining UAC crisis - FAIR's Hannah Davis has the latest

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hannah Davis joins US now from the Federation for American
Immigration Reform. And what's happening now is the Trump administration
is pushing for assimilation through naturalization test.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
What is going on with this? Hannah, welcome in, Thanks.

Speaker 3 (00:12):
For having me. Yeah. You know, the whole point of
legal immigration is for these people to come here better
our society, better themselves, and to assimilate. And that's been
a big issue for decades now that a lot of
legal immigrants aren't assimilating. That's why the current administration is
pushed for English to be the national language, and he's
making this assimilation test a little bit harder. It used

(00:33):
to be that they only had to get I think
six questions correct, and now you know, it's up to
twelve out of twenty questions instead of six out of ten. Yeah,
and some of the questions are going to be tougher,
basically to ensure that these citizens know the laws of
the land, they have a good knowledge of English, the
US history and government before they come here and naturalize.

(00:54):
I believe the test is only going to be administered
in English as well.

Speaker 1 (00:58):
Well, let's talk about where we're at with the process.
And you know, the whole thing with reform with our
immigration system seem to be the driving point with the
Democrats and the Republicans were always saying, it's a different
issue than securing our border. Let's secure the border and
then have the discussion on reform. What are the biggest

(01:21):
talking points at this point when it comes to reform
with our immigration system. I saw a recent number that
said somebody paid close to one hundred thousand dollars and
it took years to become a US citizen. Are they
working on speeding up that process and lowering the cost
to get that done?

Speaker 3 (01:41):
Is?

Speaker 2 (01:42):
Where are we on changing anything in the process.

Speaker 3 (01:46):
Yeah, you know, people who come here legally, it does
take a long time. We've been so you know, we've
had to backburn our legal immigration and streamlining that process
because of how much you know, the amount of a
legal immigration we've been dealing with. Yeah, and I do
agree that it shouldn't, you know, But it comes down
to what type of visa you're here on. Different visa's

(02:06):
at different price targets for applying and renewing. It comes
down to whether or not they had an immigration lawyer.
Immigrant lawyers are expensive, especially immigration lawyers, and so it
can get pricey. But I see this, you know, as
even reforming the assimilation I'm sorry, the naturalization test. I
see that as a process were over streamlining and and
clarifying what we want here in America when it comes

(02:28):
to legal immigration. So I see this as a good,
good starting point. Actually. But yeah, that's that's a big
talking point of the left, is that hey, you know,
we make it so hard, and that's what people have
been coming here illegally. But I don't think that's a
strong point. I do think that, you know, immigration is
not a right but rather a privilege. And in America,
at the end of the day, if they never reformed
their legal immigration and and and if they never streamline it,

(02:49):
that's that's the right of American government to do so.
So do I now do I inherently agree that, you know,
it should be such a costly thing and that it
should take so long, not necessarily, but at the end
of the day, if it stays like that forever, then
you know, that's the US prerogative. I guess you usuld to.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
Say, well, I can tell you right now, every person
that's come to this country legally and gone through the process,
not one of them has said to me, See, this
is why I think it's okay to sneak in here.
Every one of them has said, look, I had to
go through it.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
I did it.

Speaker 1 (03:20):
I really wanted to be US citizen, and I did
it legally. And they have zero sympathy for people breaking
in here and taking jobs away, not only from American citizens,
but these new citizens as well.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
They're getting jobs.

Speaker 1 (03:32):
And I came here and did this right, I should
be rewarded with good jobs instead of these people that
are illegals getting these jobs. It really infuriates a lot
of these people that have come here.

Speaker 3 (03:42):
And done it the right way, that's exactly right, been proud,
and they have every right to be so.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
Yes, all right, let's talk about these unaccompanied alien children
the UACs. Where are we on this, because that's another
sticking point that's being discussed on.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
What do we do with the kids that have come
in here a lot?

Speaker 3 (04:00):
Yeah, if we can find them, right, I mean, the
previous administration they had such lacks of betting when it
came to sponsors. Sponsors are people that are in America
that are going to sponsor and house these children when
they cross The previous administration gave them, these children a
pathway across. It wasn't inherently legal, but they were doing

(04:20):
it anyways. And now we're missing missing them were there're
tens of thousands of them we cannot locate. And I
remember talking to you just a couple of weeks ago
about raid out there in California on the marijuana plant, right,
and we found some of those unaccompanied children there. They
shouldn't be working. They don't have work authorization, and if
they are going to be working, they shouldn't be doing
it at a marijuana plant, I mean. And so to

(04:41):
make matters worse, there were cartel connected individuals at that
same plant. So these children are coming here under the
Biden administration, we don't know where they're at, and when
we find them, we find them in horrible conditions. And
so the current administration is trying to do the exact
opposite of what the Biden administration did. So, if you're
an unaccompanied child and you have a spon in America,
now they're going to ensure that that sponsors who they

(05:03):
say they are. They're going to fingerprint that sponsor to
make sure they're not a criminal, to make sure they're
not connected to a criminal organization. They're actually going to
fingerprint everyone in the home because you have to put
down an address for these individuals, make sure they're actually
here legally, because in the previous administration there was a
legal alien sponsoring these children, which is just absolutely ridiculous,
and so, you know, it's designed to prevent children from

(05:27):
being released into unsafe conditions, and that's the exact opposite
of what the previous administration did. Actually, there was a
huge fraud amount within this program. There were thousands of
unaccompanied children linked you know, when we were examining where
they were going based off of their addresses that were
put down by the sponsors, they were at random storage

(05:47):
units or gas stations or fraudulent businesses. So we truly
didn't know where these children were. And the previous administration
was absolutely direlective duty to allow this to happen. And
so there's been a lot of Senate Judiciary subcommittees on
Border security and unaccompanied alien children, and they're really trying
to get down to the root of it and really
examine the past fraud. But right now the current administration

(06:09):
is doing everything in their power to ensure that that
same fraud can't happen again.

Speaker 1 (06:13):
Yeah, there's the legalities of it all, but there's also
the Hey, by the way, Joe Biden, your administration and
your policies are putting these children in harm's way. I mean,
it's dangerous for these kids going through what they're going
through thanks to your open border policies. All right, Annah,
thank you for the update. I sure do appreciate you