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Complete border what ul are not the same thing. in fact, heres the kind of border security democrats have already supported in 2013. senator schumer and house minority leader nancy pelosi both were in favor of spending $40 billion on a border security plan that called for building 700 miles of new fencing and would have doubled the number of border security agents to roughly 40,000. it got bipartisan support. it passed in the senate but failed in the republican-controlled house, because they wou...

>> hes been trying to. the democrats dont want a deal. more border security. more border security agents. >> we have to leave it there. we have more to discuss coming up. were going to go to a commercial. facebook founder and ceo mark zuckerberg says hes planning to testify before congress as the social media giant becomes the target of another lawsuit that is next. >> we want to know how many people had their information exposed because of this breach. hi, im liz tryon. and im mike tryon. and t...

But other than a physical wall, it wont be all the way across our border. we also need to utilize technology whether its unmanned aerial systems, whether its radar detection, additional border security agents, all of that will be very important for border protection and border security. so i hope that they are willing to engage with us on it. i think finding an overall resolution for daca is really important. >> harris: you have put forth a president trump inspired bill, and your last words, you...

Our country. so in order to secure it, we need all, we need closing enforcement, we have to have to close enforcement loopholes, give immigration officers, and these are tremendous people, the border security agents, the i.c.e. agents, we have to give them the equipment they need, we have to close loopholes, and this really does include a very strong amount of different things for border security. i thinknk everybody in the room would agree with that. i think its a question of amounts, but i thi...

It best yesterday saying im all about border security but i dont want a wall. no wall. there is a way to have better border security by beefing up agents at the border, by beefing up more funding for border security agents across the border. but absolutely building a wall is off the table for democrats. we also want a daca fix to 800,000 daca recipients living in the united states. president trump had the ability to renew daca and he chose not to and leave it in the hands of congress. we want a ...

Will see how it turns out. having the democrats in with us is absolutely vital. it should be a bipartisan bill. a bill of love. truly it should be a bill of love. it also has to be a bill where we are able to secure our border. drugs are pouring into our country at a record pace. a lot of people are coming in that we cant have. we greatly stiffened and fewer people are trying to come in, but we have tremendous numbers of people on drugs pouring into our country. in order to secure it, we need a ...

To make a compromising congress, these are peoples lives. these are kids that u.s. government made an agreement, 800,000 kids went through a rigorous background checks. these are young adults that most of them came here when they were infants or small children. most of them dont know another country. they didnt come here by their choice. they were brought here. i mean, lets get this figured out. >> when you look at getting this figured out and youre talking about this lawsuit as an attempt to pr...

Wazoo for years and years. those are the facts. >> i actually think thats what threatens the wall the most. politically the concept of the wall has a lot of bipartisan support. i think people want it to make sure the southern border is secure, so i think its a matter of how you do it, but thats what can threaten it the most, all the potential legal action. >> theyve also been given a false impression of how porous it is. the numbers are exaggerated, the number of criminals who are in the country...

Almost 50% of those turned themselves in. in other words, all of the border security agents in the world, all of the fences in the world, wouldnt have made any difference, they said hey, take us, were here, we want asylum. so, i guess my question to you, is do you have it on your agenda to examine the spending priorities of that $19 billion and look at the efficacy of every place were spending that money, and most importantly how would you address the fact that almost half of the people coming t...

Almost 50% of those turned themselves in. in other words, all the border security agents in the world, all the fences in the world wouldnt have made any difference, they say hey, take us. were here. we want asylum. u guess my question to you is do tough on your examine to the spending priorities and look at et ka si of every place were spending that money and most importantly, how will you address the fact that almost half of the people coming to the border that were of a-ending are not trying t...