Far From Southern Border, Illegal Immigration Is Hurting Idaho, Lawmaker Says
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🗓️ 16 April 2021
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Rep. Russ Fulcher, R-Idaho, isn't from a southern border state, but he says illegal immigration still adversely affects the Gem State.
"I mean, drug- and sex-trafficking impacts everyone," Fulcher says.
"And we're feeling the effects of that," he adds. "Our citizens, our taxpayers as well. We have to pay for services through federal taxes that are being expended here. We have a very large dairy and egg industry. The dairy industry in particular has relied upon immigrants for a lot of the labor, and that's not always been legal."
He joins The Daily Signal Podcast to discuss those issues.
Plus, he weighs in on vaccine passports and his perspective of the Biden administration four months in.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Daily Signal Podcast for Friday, April 16th. |
| 0:09.6 | I'm Virginia Allen. |
| 0:11.2 | And I'm Rachel Del Judas. |
| 0:12.9 | Congressman Russ Fulture of Idaho isn't from a border state, but he says illegal immigration |
| 0:17.9 | still impacts his state. |
| 0:20.2 | He joins me on the Daily Signal Podcast to discuss. |
| 0:23.7 | Plus we hit on the Biden administration's vaccine passports and why they are a threat |
| 0:27.9 | to privacy. |
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| 0:37.8 | Now, on to our top news. |
| 0:48.5 | Democrats have launched a formal effort to increase the size of the U.S. Supreme Court. |
| 0:54.2 | Senator Ed Markey, Democrat of Massachusetts, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Gerald |
| 0:59.3 | Nadler, Democrat of New York, and Judiciary Committee members Mondare Jones, Democrat of |
| 1:05.0 | New York, and Hank Johnson, Democrat of Georgia, held a press conference outside the Supreme |
| 1:10.9 | Court on Thursday. |
| 1:12.6 | They argued for the expansion of the high court from nine justices to 13. |
| 1:17.9 | Senator Markey said expanding the court is needed because the United States Supreme |
| 1:21.8 | Court is broken, perforums. |
| 1:25.2 | We have a stilted illegitimate six-three conservative majority on the court that has caused |
| 1:31.0 | this crisis of confidence in our country. |
| 1:35.6 | The Republican stole two seats on the Supreme Court, and now it is up to us to repair that |
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