Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) endorsed the idea of mass amnesty for illegal aliens during Friday’s episode of “Real Time” with Bill Maher.
Maher began by pointing to recent legislation passed in California that would give illegal immigrants up to $150,000 in state funding towards buying a home. The bill, AB 1840, would require the California Housing Finance Authority’s home purchase assistance program, or California Dream for All Program, to consider applications from illegal immigrants.
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“Giving government assistance to undocumented immigrants to buy houses; that’s kind of a different place than the Democratic Party used to be on immigration,” Maher noted.
Pelosi responded by claiming that assistance for illegal aliens has always been a “bipartisan” issue. “Well, it’s not free housing. It’s the American dream, being available to more people. But understand this about immigration. The best speech on immigration was by President Ronald Reagan,” she said.
The former House speaker then trotted out a familiar Democrat talking point about the Statue of Liberty. Democrat leaders and pundits have long seemed to insinuate that the statue of some sort of legal mandate for illegal immigration, which it is not.
“And he talked about the Statue of Liberty and the beacon of hope it is to the world and what America was preeminent in the world because our door was always open. And we will cease to be preeminent when we shut the door,” Pelosi said.
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“So you’d vote for this law?” Maher followed up.
“Well I don’t – I’m not familiar with exactly what it is, but making the American dream of home ownership available to all people is something we have to do for people who are here now,” Pelosi replied, at which point Maher noted that the tax-payer funded housing will be going to “undocumented” immigrants while California deals with a housing crisis.
“Well, what I would like to do is move them to documented. One of the best things that we can do for our economy is to pass comprehensive immigration reform,” Pelosi said.
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