Flores Amendment News Today

So what is the administrations plan to house the children or to reunite the families . My guest this morning republican senator James Langford of oklahoma and independent senator angus king of maine who caucuses with the democrats. Also, Refugee Crisis. Why are so many people from Central America coming to the United States . What are they fleeing . Richard engel of nbc news has a report from his trip to el salvador. And political culture wars. White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders is asked ...

Mexico is doing more for the u.s. on illegal immigration than the democrats. the democrats are doing nothing. they want open borders. which means illegal immigration, drugs and crime. steve: meanwhile, you just mentioned tom homan a moment ago talking about the flores amendment. and we have a sound bite regarding just that watch this. >> when this surge first started happening 2014-2015, we were able to hold family units in a family detention centers about 40, 45 days until you see a judge. fina...

Brian: talking about whats happening in the southern border. huge problem in tijuana. wait in mexico until we process you. meanwhile look at these homicides, 2640. and thats what -- many cases those are a lot of the people. they are the ones who want to come here. >> not a justification for the wall though. if you look at what is happening in tijuana and san diego. you dont see that happening. right? juarez. more murders happened in juarez drug cartels fighting each other. what you didnt see in ...

Day. and when you have thousands coming every month. and when you have over 1 million a year. who is paying for that? we are. >> yeah. we are. and you know, we need more resources. not just the wall we need. we need more special agents and officers to dismantle these organizations. and then we also need optics. if you come here, you are not going to get some sort of benefit. right now the thing is if you come across the border, they think they are going to get a benefit. brian: to turn off that ...

Border patrol and/or anything about enforcing or the current people; in 2009 we reapproached what we were doing with illegal immigrants crossing the borders. we identified the mexican crossing as the problem. so it stopped. but when senator feinstein puts together this law that favors central and south americans, they flood in. and then you have the flores amendment that says you cant hold somebody for more than two months. that is essentially law that says catch and release. what do you want th...

The president did in the executive order. he was right. he went back to the courts and said you have to overturn the flores amendment. you are tying his hands on how to be able to keep these children together. so we need to pass that and thats part of this bill as well. it solves that problem. it unites the families and solves the flores decision. >> sandra: the president still on the offense. he tweeted this. if this is done illegal immigration will be stopped in its tracks at very little cost....

Hearing which by the way are a lot cheaper for the taxpayers. >> very quickly on this senator langford, hes leaving to fix the flores amendment and you heard a lot of ways to do that, defund it completely and make it something and the administration cant do it and extend it to 60 days rather than 20 days. what do you favor and i know a bill with senator feinstein, but theres no republican support, and i assume its a bipartisan deal. are there things that you can support? >> well, there are a num...