Name: The Main Reason People Choose to Cross the Border Illegally
Uploaded: 2024-03-06T14:00:01.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'The Main Reason People Choose to Cross the Border Illegally' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-03-06. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'The Main Reason People Choose to Cross the Border Illegally' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-03-06. Transcript available.

what is the current immigration policy is that a fair question as so it depends
on so again it's
so vast like are you coming over here as a tourist then you get a visa for six
months yeah okay so
if you're coming here to you know coming to work you gotta get to work you
gotta have a passport
and a worker visa i think what we want to talk about is like hey what's
happening at the border
right now and why are we in this mess right and i think we can we can kind of
walk through that
because because i think it's important for you and and the audience to know
like to come to the
united states you have to have permission and that's starts with a passport and
a visa now there
are so many types of visas from you know from entertainment to family to work
and it really
just depends on what it is you're after if you're coming here and you have a
valid passport and you
have a you want to be a tourist for six months you get a tourist visa um and
you you get it stamped and
you fly in or drive in you come to the port of entry and you're free to move
out the country for
six months if you overstay then you could be deported but most tourist visas
are for six
months and in that window you okay so why do people not want to use the
pathways uh the legal
pathways to immigration like it takes too much time it's it's the line's so
long ah and that's when you
hear people say the system is broken it's because there's so many people in the
system and the line to
come in the right way is so long i mean for example if if you're a small
business owner and you can't
find the workforce you need to maintain your business it would take you
probably two years
about ten thousand dollars you got to deal with about four federal agencies to
try to get those
employees meanwhile if you're just a startup and you're trying to to start
things up you could you
could lose business lose that opportunity it's so it's because it's so convoluted
and so uh uh so long
to wait i don't mean if you need biz if you need employees from right out of
country anywhere oh from
anywhere out of country yeah anywhere okay uh and so it de-incentivizes because
i'm you know for a small
company to say i got to spend this money and i may have to wait years to even
get those employees but
i can hire this guy off the street now and nobody's asked any questions that's
why we've got to really
clean up this mess right that's what you're saying let's there's we there's
people that like they call
it the death visa they've waited for so long like literally 20 or 30 years to
get over here that they'll
it just they they've got to really work on that and i do believe that if we can
come up with that
wide gate that clearer pathway that will to some extent reduce the humanity
that's coming in
illegally that's causing our security vulnerabilities yeah and when you say
like uh people to being
being hired and businesses having to wait a long time most of those businesses
we're just thinking
like uh labor type of work is that what we're saying probably yeah in most
cases but you still have you
still have you know stem type uh uh businesses where um you know people have to
you know there's
there was work visas established i think in the late 60s about 144 000 of non-immigrant
work visas a
certain criteria and that's not a lot of a lot of visas for people from and
then every country has
a bite at that 144 000 i think is the number and that's still all we have yeah
they haven't changed it
it's 2024 why i mean and and that i think is where the frustration lies when
you see that's how many
work visas can you non-immigrant non-immigrant visas uh there is uh uh it's i
think it's around
140 something thousand yeah wow yeah and what does that mean non-immigrant
visas they're not coming
here to immigrate and stay they're just here to work oh my gosh that's so few
yeah yeah when you when
you put that in perspective how many people are getting caught and released
into the country
and they're looking at oh well we want to give them work opportunities while
they're waiting on their
hearing but yet you've had a quota established for over 50 years and you haven't
willing to
change that what about the poor people have been waiting in line to get that
work visa what about
the business owner that has been waiting his turn to to hire people so right it
deters people from
wanting to do it legally at a certain point spot on
you