between the mexican president and our president that is led tt a fix on the asylum, there will never be a perfect answer to this problem but clearly the asylum gambit was being misused, tens of thousands of people would come into the united states, get their foot on u.s. soil, have one meeting with a judge and disappear and never show up for subsequent meetings. there s always problems, there will always be problems with immigration, president obama stop something i didn t think was proper at the time because i got a lot of sympathy for cuban immigrants but he changed the wet foot/dry foot program for cuban refugees in order to stop tremendous influx on his watch in january of 2017 right before he left the presidency. different presidents have to deal with different asylum problems in different ways and
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them a window to get together and do something? can they stem the tide of it and act? elizabeth: they want to try to fix what s above but not what s on the ground. what s really striking about he is doing is getting more conservative judges appointed, 99 since the president was elected and starting to reshape the ninth circuit court of appeals. melissa: if you look at it, they are fighting right now in court over a manufactured problem because our system is so broken and people think that way they did they did here is to claim asylum so they are fighting over these asylum problems where if they fix the system where you could emigrate for economic reasons which is what so many people are doing, here are the rules for it and here s what we want. if they just made that clear, then people would be making the border. lisa: immigration is one of
driver of this surge of upwards of a million people, mostly from central america has been the loopholes in the law and the fact that they will not be sent home. steve: remember when the president pulled the plug on it three or four weeks ago. ainsley: three weeks ago. steve: nancy pelosi wound up calling him and he said okay, i m going to give congress a couple of weeks to work out the asylum deals and loopholes, and they did do some funding, $4.6 billion to work on the crisis down south, but they did nothing to solve the loopholes and the asylum problems. so now the president is saying it s full steam ahead. ainsley: apparently she called him last friday. they talked for 12 minutes and he tweeted out after that phone conversation with her saying he would give a little bit more time but expected democrats and republicans to work together on this and democrats to come on board and close loopholes. ken cuccinelli acting director of citizenship was at the white house yesterday talking abo
of the two-week deadline, the president imposed on democrats to work out a solution of the asylum problems along the southern border. and the mystery deepening over vice president s abruptly cancelled new hampshire trip this week. here s what the president told reporters about that yesterday. why did the vice president cancel his trip the other day? you ll know in about two weeks. it was a very interesting problem that they had in new hampshire that i can t tell you about it. it had nothing to do with white house. there was a problem up there, and i won t go into what the problem was, but you ll see in about a week or two. according to the washington post, a top police official in salem, new hampshire, says that he was unaware of any security threat that would have caused the vice president to cancel his trip. joining me now, betsy woodrough, reporter for the daryl beast, and msnbc contributor, jeff mason, white house correspondent for reuters. big welcome. always good to see