Thank you, Mr. Chairman. President Trump
has made it clear that he only opposes
lawful immigration when non-white people
immigrate to the United States. His
immigration agenda isn't about public
safety or economic stability or jobs.
It's about racism. It was racist during
his first administration. It's racist
now. And like his first administration,
he's hired a bunch of races to carry it
out. In fact, I'mma pause here really
quickly. I know we're talking about TPS,
but I don't know if anyone else has
mentioned the fact that ICE agents were
literally dragging a pregnant woman just
this week in a viral video. So, don't
tell me that this isn't about cruelty
because it is. Moving on. The president
is now on record admitting to calling
majority black and brown nations quote
hole countries. He consistently
refers to black and brown people as
quote low IQ, stupid or nasty. His
agenda is about one thing, giving racial
preference to specific people seeking to
immigrate to America, which is illegal
and unconstitutional. But nevertheless,
they are going to keep trying to get
y'all to believe that immigrants are the
cause of all your problems. But here's
the truth. Immigrants are not
responsible for a billionaire CEO
refusing to increase your wage. The
corporation you work for isn't replacing
your job with artificial intelligent
intelligence because of Haitian
refugees. Your landlord isn't increasing
your rent because someone who's fleeing
gang violence in Central America moved
into your community. A Palestinian kid
who was afforded a scholarship to study
at an American university isn't
responsible for your child's tuition
increasing. Latino farm workers aren't
responsible for prices of your groceries
increasing. Let's be clear, blaming
migrants and deporting migrants and
ending TPS won't improve the lives of
most Americans. As you can see, we're in
the middle of the largest, most inhumane
deportation program in American history.
And guess what? Housing is still
unaffordable. Health care is still too
expensive. Groceries are still too
expensive. Wages aren't keeping up with
inflation. Jobs are still being
outsourced. So maybe it's not the
immigrants. Maybe it's the failed
Republican policies. In my state of
Texas, the Republicans control the
House, the Senate, and the Governor's
Mansion. In the United States, the
Republicans control the House, the
Senate, and the White House. Maybe it's
the fact that Republicans would rather
give permanent tax cuts to billionaires,
but won't even give middle class
Americans temporary health care
benefits. Maybe it's the fact that
President Trump has the wealthiest
cabinet in American history, and these
people are out of touch with the
American public. Now, Mr. Williams, will
ending TPS help or hurt the finishing
trades industry your union members work
It will hurt the construction industry
as a whole. Let me tell you this or let
me ask you this. This ain't in here. Has
it already hurt the construction
It has because of the fear and
There's a lot of fear. There are workers
that are not showing up to their jobs
regardless of their status because of
how immigration is being carried out
under this administration. Is that
Will ending TPS help or hurt job site
It will hurt job site safety. Will
ending TPS help or hurt affordability in
It will hurt affordability in our
Exactly. As people are complaining about
the fact that housing is up, you've got
to think about what those input costs
look like. Those input costs besides the
fact that he's been reckless and
ridiculous and not been reigned in as it
relates to the tariffs. And we know that
we get a lot of lumber out of Canada. We
want to fight with Canada. We want to
fight with Mexico. And then we want to
tell people that have come here and are
going through the process. And I'm not
going to say that any process is
perfect. But the last time that I
checked, Republicans continue to offer
us concepts of a plan instead of actual
plans because they would rather campaign
on the chaos instead of fixing it.
Listen, none of us sitting here, whether
you're a Democrat or a Republican, wants
to be unsafe in our country. I want to
be clear. I don't want a criminal in my
neighborhood either. But going after all
of these countries, when we talk about
um it looks like they want to end TPS
for Burma and El Salvador and Ethiopia
and Haiti and Lebanon and Somalia and
South Sudan and Sudan and Syria. Um they
actually do have Ukraine got extended a
little bit and Yemen got extended a
little bit. But the vast majority of
these countries, there's one thing in
common. A lot of those people from those
countries have a little bit of melanin
in their skin. Uh, with that I will
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