Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-FL) says he agrees with Republicans that there shouldn’t be any illegal immigrants in the U.S., but his solution is to grant them all legal status rather than deport them.
“To my Republican colleagues who say I don’t want any undocumented people in this country, I actually agree with you,” the 28-year-old progressive lawmaker told reporters in a clip that was widely circulated on Wednesday. “So let’s document every single one of them with a speedy path to citizenship.”
Frost is offering what might be the most straightforward amnesty proposal in over a decade. Most comprehensive immigration reform proposals in the Bush and Obama administrations attached more conditions to legal status, would have applied to closer to 85% of illegal immigrants already in
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