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Welcome back to "hardball." of course, border surge, thats what the senators are calling a new border security plan authorized by republicans bob corker of tennessee and john hoeven of north dakota. its being hailed as the grand bargain, the big compromise just agreed to, or almost anyway. its already being blessed by the gang of eight, and its attracting conservative voices on the issue like senator mark kirk, a republican from illinois who was considered one of the bills biggest critics. whats...

Now lets get some perspective from two of the key players on that side of the immigration debate. s744, the senate bill that is the gang of eight compromise on comprehensive immigration reform, is seeing the biggest pushback from conservatives on three main points. border security, the cost of pathway to citizenship, and future immigration. first, border security. proponents point to security hurdles or triggers the bill requires before the rest can be implemented. senator marco rubio, the bills...

Exit tracking system. thats better than what we have in place right now. if we cant get those things done, what stays in place is what we have now and how is that good for us? >> why dont we start at the beginning and walk through what a registered provision immigrant is. if this bill passes, what happens on day one? then we have a series of triggers before somebody could even apply for a green card. >> thats right. >> explain what the triggers are so that we dont have a third wave of illegal im...

40% of illegal immigrants are people that came legally and overstayed. all three have to work together and all three have to happen. >> chris: go back to the border as an example. you say it is a trigger 90% apprehension rate has to be certified by the department of homeland security before the 11 million illegals and this would be a decade from now could begin to apply for green cards but the democrats on your group your gang of eight including dick durbin will be on in the next segment say it ...

Exit entry tracking system. 40% of illegal immigrants are people that came legally and overstayed. all three have to work together and all three have to happen. >> chris: go back to the border as an example. you say it is a trigger 90% apprehension rate has to be certified by the department of homeland security before the 11 million illegals and this would be a decade from now could begin to apply for green cards but the democrats on your group your gang of eight including dick durbin will be on...

Path to citizenship or amnesty or deportation of certain groups of illegals. >> neil: i dont know how you get a guarantee of that. lets say you want to get a pathway to citizenship or whatever theyre going to call it for the illegals here, with the proviso, beef up security on the border. you know this border better than anyone. what you like to see? not that you have a vote but what would you like to sigh to at least say, okay, well geoff this a go? >> well, we have the answers. weve achieved b...

he was meant to board a flight to the united states with that device under his clothes. authorities leave alaseery was behind the plot and mind the so-called underwear bombing attempt in 2009. >> the plot itself indicates that these terrorists keep trying, they keep trying to device more terrible ways to kill innocent people. and its a reminder as to why we have to remain vigilant. >> something that is disturbing, this is a homeless man, yelling, pleading for help as hes kicked, punche...

Uncovered, which is probably why theres so much difficulty in finding them, and that they have been there for such a period of time. jon: mary ellen otoole was a profiler with the fbi. mary ellen, thank you. >> youre very welcome. jenna: "happening now", a new bill just introduced in the senate. its a ten-point enhanced border security plan to combat illegal immigration, drugs and smuggling and violent activity along our border with mexico. among the provisions, agd 5000 border patrol agent, add...

10-point border security plan. i am speaking as a former military commander, by deploying 6,000 armed soldiers to the border, build a double-barrier fence that barack obama has suspended and then the novel concept of enforces our laws. senate bill 1070 -- employer sanctions, they are tinkering with the real problem of border security. this is no longer a public safety concern, this is now a national security threat, that if we dont wake up, this is going to bite us bad. >> it already is. you sho...

Where they built this double barrier fence and this is all a part of the mccain-kyl ten-point border security plan. illegal immigration has gone down to this day by 96%, its because of three thins. we deployed armed soldiers there for a period of up to two years which immediately stops the illegal entrance. you build the infrastructure or this double barrier fence and then the third and novel concept of enforcing our law. we actually if you break the law and come into the united states, no more ...