Ryan Zinke Quotes
Canada has as much or more control of the border than we do. Getting into Mexico is a lot easier than getting into Canada.
Zinke, Ryan. Remarks at the House Committee on Homeland Security Hearing. Congressional Record, Government Publishing Office, 2015.
At the time, the United States required that Poles and many others from many countries were required to first get a visa (permission to travel to the United States). To do this the prospective visitors had to stand in long lines at the U. S. Embassy and or Consulates where there was never enough staff. Congress wanted to check on all potential visitors to make sure they were not terrorist affiliated and they would return to Poland. At the same time Congress wanted to promote tourism to the United States. But they also didn’t want to spend money for staff (usually non Americans overseas to make the visa process reasonable or have a process where people could obtain visas via Internet or mail. This is a classic case of Congressional incompetence in copying with their own conflicting objectives.
Larado in Texas and Neuvo Larado in Mexico are from a social and economic point of view, a single city. However, precisely because of the easy access and mobility, some Americans wanted a barrier to try and curtail the flow of illegal aliens coming to the United States to work. The nation was split between those who wanted the Mexican labor in the United States and those who opposed it.
this quotation illustrates that illegal immigration to the United States is not the desired solution on the point of view of all Mexicans. Many see it as a drain of the best and the brightest—those who are most self actualizing. It was good politics for the mayor can campaign on a program of strengthening the local economy so that people would not have to emigrate.
Canada’s immigration policies have tended to be more liberal than those of the United States.
The United States policies at the time encouraged tens of thousands of foreigners to study in America—especially mathematics, science and engineering. Then after they graduate we expel them despite the fact that we have a great labor shortage of these technical skill areas. The result is that the American economy lags in one of its most important areas, high technology for lack of qualified people to fill the jobs. Larger American companies then set up operations overseas and hire many of the people who we kicked out, so they do not pay any taxes to America. The best and most ambitious of these American trained foreigners, then start their own businesses abroad, create many jobs that never benefit Americans and then sell to America competing with American firms. New York City alone had tens of thousands of open jobs at very high salaries for which there were no Americans to fill while the New York schools had trained enough foreigners to fill the jobs, but our national policies forced the best and the brightest to leave and compete with us.
The Governor had sent the Federal Government a bill for $118 million to cover the cost of medical, educational, and other social services for illegal aliens.
Ryan Keith Zinke is an American politician and businessman who served as United States Secretary of the Interior in the Trump Administration from 2017 until his resignation in 2019. He previously served as the U.S. Representative for Montana's at-large congressional district from 2015 to 2017. From 2009 to 2013, he served as a member of the Montana Senate, representing the 2nd district.
