Political Quotes

“Just do the math; 140,000 EB visas and 226,000 family visas per year and 5 million people waiting. If you think you can solve this without changing the number of green cards, you can't. You may address it from one angle or another. You may help some who are waiting as opposed to others. You only give assistance to some at the expense of some other group. I understand the Senator's position. I don't quarrel with the fact he made it clear from the start that, from his perspective and perhaps from his side of the aisle, there is just no appetite for increasing the number of green cards, even for these people who have been living and working here in the United States for years and sometimes decades, even for physicians from India and other countries who are literally risking their lives today on COVID-19 patients. The Senator told me there is no appetite for giving them additional green cards so they can stay here on a permanent basis. I think that is unfair, and that is my position. The Senator made it clear--and I am not saying otherwise--that he disagrees with me. So what I tried to do is come in and say that at least during the pendency, while they are waiting for green cards-- which could be decades unless the law is changed--let's at least protect their families. That is all I basically said. He has come back and said: I want to put in a provision that takes out the hold-harmless protection.…”