times. the border patrol agents do a great job. are you now on the side that there should be no discussion of comprehensive immigration reform until the werder -- until the border is completely controlled? >> in 2008 in the presidential campaign i hate to take this trip down memory lane i said we have to secure the borders first. why? in the last three years violence has escalated 22,000 mexican citizens have been murdered on the mexico side of the border in these drug cartel wars. the drug cartels are an existential threat to the government of mexico and we knew that sooner or later that violence spills over to on our side of the border. rancher murdered in arizona. deputy sheriff shot with an ak-47. drug cartels are working with the human smugglers. every nation has the obligation to secure its borders. if you don't secure the borders we are like a hamster