SCOTT JENNINGS: Polling is clear, by the way, politically. I don’t think the American people are in a pro amnesty mood right now.
You look at what Trump is proposing. There’s a lot of polling that shows majority support for what Trump is saying, including among Hispanics in the United States of America.
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JIM ACOSTA: What about detention camps and mass deportations? What about that?
SCOTT JENNINGS: Mass deportations has majority support in the United States and among Hispanic voters right– No, that’s not true, Scott.
It’s recent polling. You can look it up. No, no, it is at Maria. Maria. It is absolutely true. When we get off the air and you Google it. You’re going to be embarrassed! But it’s absolutely true.
MARIA CARDONA: I will send you the actual polling from pollsters who actually know how to poll on this.
SCOTT JENNINGS: You’re going to be embarrassed!
MARIA CARDONA: I will send this to you.
JIM ACOSTA: We are showing the CBS poll 53% – 47%.
MARIA CARDONA: I have issues with that poll because of exactly the same. But, but but I do want to answer. Scott.
SCOTT JENNINGS: Wait, wait. Whoa, whoa. Who’s right?!? I’m just I want I just want to make sure people understand who was right? (laughs)
MARIA CARDONA: I want to answer Scott because he actually posed an interesting question. Why didn’t Biden do this the first day in office? Actually, Scott, President Biden did try to do this the first day in office.
The very first thing he did when he walked into the Oval Office was he put a bill together that actually does strengthen border security and expands legal pathways because he wants to do this right!
He wants to do this the way that it’s supposed to be done working with Congress. But then guess what? Congressional Republicans slam the door on any opportunity that would expand any legal pathways. And what we know from what happened under four years of President Trump.
And this is something that republicans lie over and over about, about, is that he eviscerated all of the legal pathways, including our asylum system, and he did nothing to eradicate illegal immigration. His numbers on illegal crossings went up his last year in office.
So when President Trump was in office, he did nothing to fix this. He made it worse. And now it’s actually kind of rich because what this also does, Scott and Jim, this keeps American families together.
When Republicans scream that that kids need a father and a mother. Well guess what then join us. Because this is exactly what this executive action is doing.
And again, the vast majority of Americans, and I will send you the polling on this, Scott, from pollsters who know how to poll on this, absolutely agree with this.
It is upwards of three fourths of the American people support a balanced approach of strong border security, which I know you agree with, but also expanding legal pathways, especially for the long settled immigrants that have been here who have contributed more than $7 trillion to our economy.
JIM ACOSTA: Scott.
SCOTT JENNINGS: Yeah. You know what? I’m actually just going to give in and say that I think Maria should go over to the white House today and encourage Joe Biden to run on as much amnesty as possible. I think if that’s the way you want to read the polling, if that’s the way you want to interpret the mood in the country–.
MARIA CARDONA: It’s not amnesty, Scott.
MARIA CARDONA: I think you should. I think you should go over there and say, you know what, President Biden, the American people are behind you. Let’s let’s say.
MARIA CARDONA: They are behind him!
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SCOTT JENNINGS: Think, you know, I think you on a I’m all in! I’m all in! (laughs)
MARIA CARDONA: No, Scott. Here’s the thing, Scott. They are behind him on this action, and it’s not amnesty. Scott, you know better. You’re a smart guy!
Calling it amnesty is a lazy and incorrect way to describe what’s going on.
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