Rick Scott

So if you come here legally, right now. If you come here legally, the 2.1 million people who came here legally, let's just take them, they come here. They come here legally. They get their green card. Do they cost us money?

I come from an immigration state. I come from Florida, so we have a lot of primarily Latin America.

I'm pro-immigration.

I think we have to do two things. We have to get Americans back to work, and two, we have to figure out how we incentivize, create a system where we get people that want to come here to work, and not be dependent.

It's completely unfair to someone who comes through the legal process.

Do the people that come here illegally get more than benefits?

So if you come here legally, right now. If you come here legally, the 2.1 million people who came here legally, let's just take them, they come here. They come here legally. They get their green card. Do they cost us money?

Our economy is over the last, you know, especially 50 years, a lot of it has been developed based on legal immigration.

I come from an immigration state. I come from Florida, so we have a lot of primarily Latin America.

Many of these people have an eighth grade education. And what they actually do in my perspective is to push out the lowest skilled American workers.

President Biden took an oath to enforce our nation's laws, and yet he's not doing that on the subject of immigration.

We're a nation of immigrants. We're the most liberal on this issue of any nation on the face of our globe.

No one benefits from mismanaged borders, policies that incentivize illegal immigration, and poor implementation of legal immigration programs.

I think we have to do two things. We have to get Americans back to work, and two, we have to figure out how we incentivize, create a system where we get people that want to come here to work, and not be dependent.

It has to impact jobs.

So if you come here legally, right now. If you come here legally, the 2.1 million people who came here legally, let's just take them, they come here. They come here legally. They get their green card. Do they cost us money?

If all of Guatemala comes tomorrow, they might be wonderful people, but we couldn't afford that.

It's completely unfair to someone who comes through the legal process.

Well let me ask you a question. So what you see in the news is places like New York. They're saying that all these illegal immigrants have come up there, and now there's housing in hotels, and they're giving food vouchers and things like…

Do the people that come here illegally get more than benefits?

It's absolutely unprecedented.

Many of these people have an eighth grade education.

I come from an immigration state. I come from Florida, so we have a lot of primarily Latin America.

Are they productive citizens day one?

There's not one thing that Joe Biden has done to fix it.