We're a nation of immigrants. We're the most liberal on this issue of any nation on the face of our globe.
Rick Scott
The Public Record
Rick Lynn Scott is an American politician and businessman currently serving as the junior United States senator from Florida, a position he has held since January 3, 2019. A member of the Republican Party, Scott previously served as the 45th governor of Florida from January 4, 2011, to January 8, 2019. During his tenure as governor, he focused on job creation, economic growth, and education reform, implementing policies aimed at reducing taxes and regulations.
I come from an immigration state. I come from Florida, so we have a lot of primarily Latin America.
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…
If all of Guatemala comes tomorrow, they might be wonderful people, but we couldn't afford that.
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 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.





