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Davis oliver act come to the floor sometime soon. im also looking forward to having a vote on the judiciary committees other immigration enforcement bills including e-verify and other issues we have been working on for the last few months. im eager to work with the secretary kelly, chairman goodlatte, and leadership to make that happen. on a particular note, what secretary kelly said today, he understands the role of the federal government. he said that his job is to enforce the law and it is ou...

>> eric: what i am trying to do is point out the importance of our southern border. of sovereignty. >> elvira: i agree with you. build the wall. but with big gates. we need a lot of people picking jalapeno peppers in southern california or oranges in miami or cleaning the toilets here in manhattan. we need them. if we dont want them, you know we need to do? implement e-verify. if its bad for the guy to sneak in, its a felony for the guy who gives him a job. what about people who say -- >> herman...

If its good for the goose. its good for the gander. it will never happen. >> eric: we have to leave it there. >> elvira: e-verify will never happen. >> eric: fired up specialists.

>> tucker: i still dont understand why youd do that in tandem with giving people amnesty. >> republicans and democrats have been talking about solving the problem 40 years and all failed. >> tucker: they dont want to solve it. >> we havent paired up things to get support from the other side of the aisle with law enforcement measure. e-verify and these sorts of things where theres a consequence for not following a reform process that i think could work -- its not perfect and people who think ive ...

Our country. there are people who have followed our immigration laws who have waited a long time to be a citizen of this great nation, we should take care of those. for those who are here illegally but have broken no other law, there should be some kind of earned path to citizenship and i think weve seen a shift in the presidents position on immigration today and i hope we hear more about it tonight. >> do you think democratic colleagues of yours in new york state, for example, would go along wi...

Housekeeper issue. >> he is an honest and humane person. so, i think when senators look at the episode and see the details of it, they will conclude here is a guy who thought it was important to comply with the law. >> reporter: in the past he has said a large number of his restaurant employees were in the country illegally. it used to be that wed have people in the restaurants, somebody would announce that i.c.e. was coming and 40% of the employees wouldnt show up. he made the statements while ...

Stop illegal immigration, you have to stop hiring. the first day theyre here, their craftsman, they know what theyre doing, theyre carpenters, they can do all kinds of work, theyre cheap and desperate. businesses are always looking to hire the most desperate people, male or female. >> you hit the nail on the head. we should are talking about wage enforcement. >> why doesnt trump? >> because its an easy headline. its easy headline. >> is he afraid to offend business? >> he absolutely is afraid to...

Employers? are they just meant to sign up for e-verify, enroll in that program and wash their hands clean of never having to verify peoples credentials or pay whats fair and let that american worker compete for those jobs? the other thing i just want to throw in there, because you and i would relate to this given our backgrounds, this president also has committed himself to expanding educational, vocational, technical opportunities. thats huge. because not everybody is college material. not ever...

Instead of raising the number of illegal immigrants who do the jobs, restaurant jobs you just described, chris, whoy dont we raise the wage? >> how about minimum wage? >> make it more competitive in own places of business do retract and retain american talent. if youre an illegal immigrant, youre going to compete with american workers for those same jobs. i agree with you completefy if what i hear you saying thats is time to hold accountable those employers who are violating the law. you know, t...

That you did something creative, you penalized them, you know, the profit that they made off that higher times ten or, you know, some sort of metric that would be meaningful to each business that, would solve the problems. do you free with ideas like that i think its a good start. i think you need to solidify e-verify, if you make something like that mandatory you have to take a look at how can you build biometrics into that to avoid the impossibletor problem. -- imposter problem. you may not wa...