Immigration and Border Security

Baldwin was asked, “What should be the goal of immigration policy? Should it be strictly a national security matter or are their cultural and economic objectives? How does the government know how many immigrants is the right number of immigrants to let in?”

His response: “We’re the most generous nation in the world when it comes to immigration. We allow more legal immigrants into our country than all the rest of the world’s countries combined. Over one million immigrants a year migrate to this country, lawfully, including my chief of staff who came from Zimbabwe, Africa. I certainly support the immigration process, and it’s a very generous one, and it’s a very fair one.”

Baldwin stressed border security. He said we have open borders at both ends of our country and that the Canadian border might be more problematic than the Mexican border. “It is absolutely ludicrous that we would not secure our borders.”