security. but darn it, there s a smart way of doing this, and if keep going back to the past thinking that a wall is going to be the only way to solve this, you don t understand it. 40% of the people that we have here in the united states came here through a legal visa permanent, and they the wall s not going to stop them. you want to stop drugs did you know that the dea s latest report shows that most drugs come through ports of entry. a wall is not going to stop it. we have to be smart on how we do it. now congressman if we re going to do immigration reform, it s got to be bipartisan. to say here s the immigration bill that we have, we republicans are going to write it, you democrats sign on so it can become bipartisan it doesn t work that way. okay. bipartisanship means we both sit down, give and take, and get it done and pass it through a bipartisan vote instead of the hastert rule which is a majority, the majority of the republicans in the house. that is not bipart
i think the president s frustrated that first of all, he s been unable to get funding for his border wall, and by the way. john, his base in texas would say this is not a crisis. we don t need a wall. oh, no, it s not a crisis at all. definitely is an immigration levels are way down. but this is something the president used to get votes in the campaign. he promised that mexico was going to pay for the wall. of course, they re not. and the other reality is, the wall s never going to be built. okay? let s make that clear. but he s trying to make it look like it s going to be built. so now that he got only a billion and a half dollars for this wall, which is largely to restore or rehabilitate existing fencing, he s trying to say a, it s being built and b, if it isn t built conservatives, i m going to put troops on the border to protect you. this is to create the illusion of action and toughness. but as you suggested, it is a
that s my point. i m frustrated. i m angry. i m angry for those kids. i m angry for my friends. i m angry for the tears i saw. i m angry for the faces i saw. i apologize for going on but i m passionate about what happened here. but in two months, we re going to be callous and we re going to forget about this. that s the world we live in. mr. rosenblat so if trump wants to do something i m sorry. no, go ahead. if president trump really means it, show leadership, do something, do something. come here. don t come here and throw paper towels like in puerto rico. you know? the wall the wall s not going to protect me. i m not afraid of of a mexican invasion. i m afraid of kids going into school with ar-15s and doing this again and again and again and again. and then we re all going to be here, parents like us,
campaign trail and since then saying he supports state s rights. you think about where we re at right now, denver, colorado where we ve had these legal sales for nearly four years. nothing is going wrong. the world isn t falling apart. the state is making money. people are operating for the most part very safely and responsibly. and trump was okay with that. but of course sessions, being the wild card that he is, i mean this is what we ve been reporting on and hypothesizing on for years. and now this is the first major move of sessions really coming after this industry that he s never been a fan of, he s never been a fan of. the substance of cannabis or the cannabis industry as it s been evolving. he s the wild card, but where s the support? because if you look at the politics behind this, you have lawmakers from both sides of the aisle who disagree with jeff sessions. there s a brand-new nbc poll excuse me, wall street journal poll that says 60% of americans
then. this has been going on since 1986 and even before that. ronald reagan thought he was going to fix immigration by compromising on amnesty. and he went with amnesty and what did he get in return? he didn t get the money promised by the democrats to secure the border. so there s a lot of mistrust that here we are again on the same path that we re going to give people amnesty on daca. that some people would call it that. and they re not going to get the border security in return. there s also confusion. border security and building a wall are two different things. the wall s a metaphor. it s not a metaphor. like, a metaphor is sort of like this idea, this nuance. there s nothing nuanced about this president. to the base voters, they don t care about a wall. what they care about is rational immigration policy. what you ask for is trust and there is no trust. and there is a solution here. as you mentioned. the solution here is a fix for daca to do something with the dreamer