Transcript for White House chief of staff John Kelly: Immigrants don't 'integrate well'

So white house chief of staff John Kelly must not have read the invitation to immigrants on the statue of liberty because he claims that the vast majority of undocumented immigrants are uneducated, don't speak English, don't integrate well and don't have any skills, and a conservative pundit, Tommy laren went even further. It's a privilege to be a an American, and it's not a right. You don't get to come into this country with low skills, low intelligence, and not speaking the language because it makes them feel nice. We are based on the rule of law, and we believe in bringing the best people into this country to make it even better. We don't believe in importing poverty. I live in California. We have enough poverty. We have enough issues. We don't need anymore. Boy. So when did the perception of immigrants go from people trying to find their American dream to Ed freeloaders? Because true, people have always come from other countries. They were fleeing programs or awful thing. But many of them are well educated and well versed in many things, but not necessarily in English, and when they got here, they became peddlers, or they became people that opened small stores. Laborers. Right. Or laborers, and the idea they don't know anything, and they are bringing us down, is crap. We all come from immigrants, including you, tomilaren. I don't know your family, and I don't know Mr. Kelly's family, and I can tell you. Folks came, and no, they didn't necessarily speak English. They came and theed and maybe you don't have a grandma twice. A great gram to remember. She talks about low skills. What exactly are her skills? Does anybody know? She is certainly not a historian. What's interesting is someone did do some research on Tomi laren's family and I have it in front of me. Her second great grandmother had been her for ten years and yet spoke no English. My gosh. A baptism, recorded only in Norwegian because they didn't speak any English. Tomi's three times great grandmother had been here for 40 years and still spoke German. She didn't speak English either. She doesn't even know her own history. What happened to give me your tired and your poor and your weak and we'll welcome you with open arms? Two things that jump out at me is there is a contradiction of argument. Either they are stealing American jobs or they are uneducated. You can't have both arguments. Or unskilled. Or unskilled, and they hone in on education and language. This oversimplifies someone's values they bring to the work force including work ethic. In a study I found, because I thought I would much rather have someone who doesn't have as much education, but is a hard worker. In a study of ten decades of labor statistics, immigrants have better work ethic, pungt yut, more reliable, and I'll take any of those skills over a degree any day. What she is saying is red meat to trump's base. That's what I believe is 50% of what got him into office. She has a huge following. She just does, especially online and with hard core trump supporters. There is a difference between being for people going through the proper channels to get here legally and not being for open borders and having compassion for those of us that want to come here. My dad talked about immigration saying these are god's children. They are coming here to seek a better life. Anyone who has toured the border, women die pregnant trying to get here. They come by themselves. It's okay to be -- to have a hard line stance and say, we want you to go through the proper channels and still have compassion for the people wanting to come here. I recall that Donald Trump would like Norwegians to come here. A lot of this is about race. And I can say black immigrants are one of the most educated immigrant groups. Nigerian in particular are the most educated. Here's the bottom line. Quit messing with the immigrants because you are incorrect. And we will be right back.

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