Pelosi: We Need a Better Plan than Title 42 to Secure the Border

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PELOSI: "Well we hadn’t made any decision about how we go forward, but let me just say about Title 42, President Biden did the right thing to substitute something that is more effective at the border, to protect our border, and to respect our responsibility to welcome refugees or asylum seekers to our country. We need a better plan than the Bush — excuse me, the Trump Administration had in effect. I always like to quote two people. One is the person who represented the evangelical community, the association of evangelicals, when he said the United States program of refugee resettlement is the crown jewel of American humanitarianism. That’s what we have to get back to a place like that. 42 is not in furtherance of that. But we have to have something else if the President is taking that away, and his administration is putting forth a better way to go. The other one that I like to quote, and you've heard me time and time again, is Ronald Reagan. Read his last speech to a country. 'This is the last speech I will make as president of the United States and I want to communicate a message to the country I love,' and he talked about immigration in such a beautiful way. I don’t want do it — I won’t do it justice in quoting the great communicator Ronald Reagan, but you should Google it."