Mike DeWine: The Policy to Revoke TPS for Haitians ‘Is Wrong,’ They Fill Jobs in Manufacturing Cities Like Springfield

DEWINE: “I think there is a consensus behind the need to do a good job on the border. I think the president gets high marks for doing that on the border. But once you get beyond that, I don’t think there is a consensus for taking people who are working, who are supporting their family and we have kind of seen it almost in a microway with the Haitian community that has come into Springfield. Springfield is an industrial city, manufacturing city, that was down. It has been coming back. And frankly one of the reasons it is coming back is because of the Haitians who are working there. These are people who, if you talk to the employers, they were filling jobs that were not being able to be filled in any other way. It has been a big boost to the economy. So, if one day that tps is taken away, no employer can hire them anymore. And so you have have all these people who are unemployed. I think the policy there is wrong. If I can say this, I think that this is a real opportunity for the president in regard to immigration. Probably after the election after the election, because nothing is going to get done before —”

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Mike DeWine: The Policy to Revoke TPS for Haitians ‘Is Wrong,’ They Fill Jobs in Manufacturing Cities Like Springfield‘It has been a big boost to the economy’News & PoliticsRUSH EXCERPT:DEWINE: “I think there is a consensus behind the need to do a good job on the border. I think the president gets high marks for doing that on the border. But once you get beyond that, I don’t think there is a consensus for taking people who are working, who are supporting their family and we have kind of seen it almost in a microway with the Haitian community that has come into Springfield. Springfield is an industrial city, manufacturing city, that was down. It has been coming back. And frankly one of the reasons it is coming back is because of the Haitians who are working there. These are people who, if you talk to the employers, they were filling jobs that were not being able to be filled in any other way. It has been a big boost to the economy. So, if one day that tps is taken away, no employer can hire them anymore. And so you have have all these people who are unemployed. I think the policy there is wrong. If I can say this, I think that this is a real opportunity for the president in regard to immigration. Probably after the election after the election, because nothing is going to get done before —”Video filesFullCompactSort byDateSummaryRelevancePopularityPer page81216Audio filesFullCompactSort byDateSummaryRelevancePopularityPer page81216Recipient e-mailMessage (optional)Preview

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