Arnold Schwarzenegger: ‘We Have a Country that Needs Workers’

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SCHWARZENEGGER: "Well, this is what I’m talking about, is immigration reform. Comprehensive immigration reform will address all these issues."

KIMMEL: "Will do that?"

SCHWARZENEGGER: "Yes, and also we’d then be able to hand out more visas, temporary working permits, permanent working permits, the green card, citizenship, all of those things. And we would know who comes into the United States rather than not knowing and having so many people here that they don’t even know who they are, what kind of criminal activities they’re participating in and all this. So it’s a shame, the whole thing. We have a country that needs workers. And when you look at south of the border, they want to work. So it’s a perfect match. But let’s do it legal and let’s do it in a coherent way, rather than doing it the way it is right now, which a disaster. I told you, that’s what makes me so disappointed in both of the parties. Both of the parties do not want to go and solve this problem once and for all and create good immigration reform the way, you know, like Senator Kennedy and John McCain worked it out, and they had a really great, great bill there. But then they didn’t go for it."