saying a new law is necessary. moreover, maria, even after that new authority they create kicks in only after 5,000 migrant encounters a day, it would remain in effect only for a maximum of 180 days a year after the first few years. i think the first year is 275 days. what that means is that the mexican drug cartels could then calendar their human trafficking. you know, keep in mind they are many, many billions of dollars a year off of joe biden's lax border enforcement policies. and they could just front-end load that or back-end load that depending on what the calendar allowed. so this is a proposal that's designed, first and foremost, not to secure the border, but to extrack and extort -- extract and extort votes from republicans for this aid package, most of which goes to ukraine for which they're understandably reluctant to vote. it's disgraceful. maria: well, i mean, the senate republicans seem more interested in sending money to ukraine than actually securing the border.