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unidentified
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Hotel in New York. | |
| So obviously we were taking care of those people. | ||
| So it is true that the abuse assisted, especially after we have so many immigrants, you know, having crossing the border. | ||
| So that's you gotta be fair. | ||
| And what happened the last couple of years before Trump came to power was very unbelievable. | ||
| I mean, it's like the American third world country, you know, people just crossed the border. | ||
| And, you know, and I think that was not right. | ||
| I mean, you immigrate, you come to the U.S., you gotta, you know, go through the whole process, you know, be a good citizen and, you know, don't do the best thing on the crime, don't kill people, you know, all this stuff. | ||
| And that's what I wanted to say. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Come back to Washington Journal. | ||
| We'll get right back to your calls. | ||
| This is Open Forum and go to Gregory, Casa Grande, Arizona, Democrat. | ||
| Good morning, Gregory. | ||
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unidentified
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Good morning. | |
| I just have a question. | ||
| If Trump continues to fire heads of departments of independence and puts loyalists in, what do you see happening to our economy as far as investors? | ||
| All right. | ||
| And this is Dennis in Indiana, Republican line. | ||
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unidentified
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Good morning, Dennis. | |
| I just wanted to say, you know, we evidently, whatever we're doing isn't working, not working a bit, hasn't been working for at least the last 15 years, 20 years. | ||
| You know, the Democrats has been pushing all this stuff in the last the last, when they were in office the last time, They they we we, we probably got uh, over three trillion dollars that can't even be accountable for, we can't even. | ||
| We don't even know where it went. | ||
| You know uh it, just it just flew out the door with all these immigrants and all the, all the money that has been wasted in the last uh, especially in the last administration, that we, these illegals, was it it? | ||
| It's beyond comprehension that we could do this. | ||
| Got it, Dennis. | ||
| And here's Sally Ann in Florence, Alabama Independent LINE. | ||
| Good morning, Sally Ann. | ||
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unidentified
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Yes, good morning. | |
| Um, on your last segment, Open Forum, you did mention that um, you thought that uh, legal residents were able to get medicaid. | ||
| I'd just like to let you know that no, i've been ill no no no, I didn't say say illegal, I said legal green card holders were eligible for medicaid. | ||
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unidentified
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Yes well, that's not necessarily true, because i've been a legal resident alien For 34 years, and I became well, I came down with leukemia when I was pregnant with my fourth child. | |
| And I've been a resident for 10 years at that time, and then I became blind because of the treatment and everything. | ||
| And I never applied for anything. | ||
| I had a social worker when I was in hospital, and she applied for me to get disability. | ||
| And she said, Well, you cannot get it. | ||
| And I said, Well, I wasn't going to apply for it. | ||
| And she said, Well, it says that you're three working credits short, and so you can't get anything. | ||
| And I said, Well, to me, that's fair. | ||
| I didn't put in. | ||
| I should not receive. | ||
| And so three working credits short. | ||
| Is that what you said? | ||
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unidentified
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Yes, that's correct. | |
| I was only 34. | ||
| And so, and did you qualify as far as income level goes, Hallie Ann? | ||
| For Medicaid? | ||
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unidentified
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Yeah. | |
| No, I don't know. | ||
| Because, I mean, I didn't apply for anything. | ||
| And when I first came to this country, we lived, I mean, my husband's American. | ||
| And I even have three American, three, our four children, three of them serving in three different branches in the military. | ||
| All my children have worked since they were 16, one of them since they were 14. | ||
| And so, I mean, some people can't believe that I don't get anything. | ||
| And I said, well, that's why I get frustrated when illegal. | ||
| And by the way, people who get upset about being called aliens, for 30-something years, my federal ID card that has my photograph across in bold letters says resident alien. | ||
| In fact, Sally, have you thought about applying for citizenship since your husband's an American citizen? | ||
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unidentified
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Well, it's my choice, really. | |
| The reason why I didn't is because I'm 60, but I had my father and all my uncles in England fought in World War II. | ||
| My father was 17, 18 when he fought on D-Day. | ||
| So you don't want to be an American citizen? | ||
| Is that why you haven't applied? | ||
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unidentified
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Well, just because I just didn't, because of my own father fighting. | |
| I don't know. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| I understand. | ||
| You don't have to explain. | ||
| This is Kathy in Ohio, Line for Democrats. | ||
| Good morning. | ||
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unidentified
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Good morning. | |
| I was just thinking this morning that Trump is a whole lot like Netanyahu and Putin. | ||
| And he's sending the military troops out to take us over and cause chaos in the United States. | ||
| I don't know what he thinks he's doing, but he's just crazy. | ||
| That's all. | ||
| All right. | ||
| And this morning at 9:30 a.m., we've got members of the Democratic National Committee's Resolutions Committee will consider resolutions calling for an immediate ceasefire in the war in Gaza, suspension of military aid to Israel, and the release of all Israeli hostages in the conflict. | ||
| That's coming from Minneapolis. | ||
| We'll have live coverage of that at 9:30 over on C-SPAN 2. |