It’s been a minute since former president Bill Clinton has weighed in on current policies, but the illegal immigration crisis has become too great for him to keep quiet. Clinton agreed with Democrat New York Governor Kathy Hochul that the city’s “Right to Shelter Law” must be changed.
Clinton told radio host John Catsimatidis on 77 WABC radio’s “The Cats Roundtable” show “it’s broken. We need to fix it” Adding that that liberal law “doesn’t make any sense” he also stated “Governor [Kathy] Hochul thinks it should be modified, and it probably should under the circumstances.”
Clinton did say migrants should begin to work. “They ought to work,” Clinton said. “They need to begin working, paying taxes and paying their way. Most of these people have no interest in being on welfare.”
“They come here, and we’re supposed to shelter people who can’t get work permits for six months. We need to change that,” he said, insinuating migrants have a right to begin “paying their way” in American society.
What else is his solution? In line with standard liberal thinking, Clinton doesn’t mind if other areas, just not his state, continue to feel the burden: “We should build more housing just over the Rio Grande, and Mexico, I think, would support that,” he said. “Keep people there, and let them in as quickly as possible if they are going someplace where we know they can get a job, and they’ll be welcome.”
Strangely, Clinton said the “chaos” around the migrant crisis has been “very beneficial for the Republicans,” especially since the “immigration system that is not well manned and there are not enough facilities along the border.”
Speaking about Democrats’ political losses in New York, Clinton did admit, “But the Democrats lost enough seats in New York because of reaction to the crime problem here and the sense that — we didn’t have — we, my party — didn’t have a good commonsense approach to it,” he said, referring to the overwhelming influx of migrants to the state.