to qualified people per country without regard to the population of that country. and so, there are huge backlogs from india and from china and especially here in silicon valley, we have a huge number of extremely talented professionals and scientists from india who are looking at delays of many, many decades to get their residence and it, you know, it s really impossible for them and their sons and daughters to live in limbo for decades. so, congresswoman, just to jump in there, how many h 1b visas do you think the us should be issuing a year if you could change it? it s not the h 1b visas. you know, there are limitations and there are complaints, and the visa programme does need reform. the problem s in the permanent residence visa structure, where we limit awarded visas not by talent but by birth. it s really quite racist and pretty stupid for the united states.
does need reform. the problem s in the permanent residence visa structure, where we limit awarded visas not by talent but by birth. it s really quite racist and pretty stupid for the united states. all right, congresswoman, i want to move to some news that we ve gotten in today that the former president s trial on mishandling classified information will begin in may of next year, and that would be in the middle of the campaign. are you concerned about how this could impact the election? well, you know, it s not up to me to set the trial date but i thought that was a weird date to choose for the judge. the government had proposed a december date. i don t think the trial would go longer than a week. so, yeah, i don t think that s the smartest date. but it s her decision, not mine. we are also expecting an indictment in the special counsel s investigation into efforts to subvert
residence visa structure, where we limit awarded visas, not by talent but by birth, it s really quite racist and pretty stupid for the united states. all right, congressman, i want to move to some news that we ve gotten in today, that the former president s trial on mishandling classified information will begin in may of next year, and that would be in the middle of the campaign. are you concerned about how this could impact the election? well, you know, it s not up to me to set the trial date, but i thought that was a weird date to choose for the judge. the government had proposed a december date. i don t think the trial would go longer than a week. so, yeah, i don t think that s the smartest date. but it s her decision, not mine. we are also expecting an indictment in the special counsel s investigation into efforts to subvert the election result, 2020 election result, and also the january six attack. and you, of course, were a member of the house select committee
mexico, get them to pay for it, he s also talked about using remittances, cracking down on remittances from mexicans to americans and change smoggiing the visa structure, so using money from visas from mexicans visiting the united states to pay for the wall. so he does have some wiggle room. but it s a really expensive wall, the one that she describes. if he s going to build it as described and mexico s going to say, sorry, we re not actually going to pay for it, he s going to need congress to help him. this could be like the obamacare example, where he starts to define the wall differently. when he says, i didn t mean a physical wall everywhere, we re going to beef up the wall here and there and use aerial drones to provide security and all the other if he redefines it as border security and not a 3,000-mile wall, that would be a lot less expensive. so, larry, really quick, hypocritical? well, you can define it that way. i like to think of it as