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he toured a port of entry in el paso but stayed away by communities impacted by illegal immigration. >> bill: too little, too late? republicans saying the presidents visit with as nothing put a photo op. >> the president that caused the chaos on the border needed to be here. it so happens he is two years and $20 million too late. nothing but for show. immigration laws already in exist in the united states of america. >> he is coming in after weve already seen too many of our united sta...

im harris faulkner. the commander-in-chief spent just three hours on the ground in el paso, texas, number one place where people are entering the nation illegally. in the first 100 days of the new fiscal year 2023, more than 718,000 illegals have come. nearly 200,000 of them have been expelled under title 42. that argument alone for keeping it in place as long as we can until they figure something out. lets do the math. more than a half million illegal immigrants released into the coun...

In between the ports of entry on the vast majority, if not more than that, are using smuggling organizations to get there. and the average cost is $6 thousand. so it is not a wealth test. >> administrations critics see that as an admission. >> i thought mayokas said the border was secure. apparently he knows the cartels are pushing people across at $6 thousand or more per head. i guess mayokas doesnt know what he is talking about or he has been lying to us all this time. >> the situation has bee...

Advertised to be. they are not particularly good tax policy. this billionaire tax they are pretending carve out five or six people. make them pay a ton of taxes and not going to effect the economy. why are we looking at those five or six people? they have a large amount of investable can tall. they are taxing all of the economy. not just those five people. >> bret: what about the constitutionality question. i asked jared. "the washington post" writes it this way. wealth taxes often failed in eur...

Would specifically tax billionaires, a wealth test to finance this as well. >> can i just make one point? which this is a classic example of why passing legislation, whatevers in it, is the end game, because its really hard once youve passed something to get rid of it. 2017, it seemed like every democrat was against that tax bill. this will be so easy. we just pare some of that back and even that is a challenge. so getting something across the finish line, no matter what it looks like, you get e...

What i can do within my executive authority to try to move toward the goals that ive espoused. >> and they are counting on his supporters being able to read between the lines. its not terribly difficult to do, right, when you prioritize more -- essentially impose a wealth test and prioritize wealthier and better educated immigrants over those who are thought, you end up prioritizing those either from european backgrounds, asian backgrounds, other backgrounds other than -- >> wealthier nations. >...

Government subsidized housing. so theyll look at all of that when determining who gets permanent legal residency here. >> critics are blasting it, as you said. theyre calling this a racially motivated wealth test. do you agree with that? >> its hard to not separate this out from every action the administration has taken on immigration going back to the president as a candidate how he announced talking about mexicans and implementing a travel ban right after they got here to restricting asylum ru...

That immigrants received but under this new rule announced today and set to go into effect on october 15th, u.s. citizenship and immigration services will factor in whether the immigrant received any number of public benefits including food stamps, medicare or housing vouchers and consider those as negative factors in an immigrants application. now of course the white house is defending this rule saying that this is a way to ensure and encourage immigrants already here and those looking to come ...