Laura Ingraham shines a spotlight on everyday Americans and examines how their lives are affected by politics at the federal, state and local level. Wall built, loopholes closed and Sanctuary City policies and data once and for all. Check out what happened courtesy of philadelphias refusal to cooperate with i. C. E. Detainers. In may of 2009, one ramon vasquez, a citizen of honduras was deported from the United States. Just five years later in march 2014 i. C. E. Officers found out that vasquez was back in the u. S. And was in custody with the Philadelphia Department of prison. Philadelphia however refused to comply with an i. C. E. Detainer request so vazquez was, instead, released from custody. After his release, vasquez was rearrested and ultimately convicted for child rape. This is an unspeakable act of evil that should have never occurred and never occurred on american soil. Remember when the current mayor of philly did this after a judge
buying into the media narrative about the horrors perpetrated on children who were kept temporarily in hhs custody, the kids who have crossed the border illegally, consider an actual horror, an illegal who crossed the border with a child he claimed was his own. Well, that illegal adult turned out to be the childs rapist. Ramon pedro showed up at a Border Crossing and said he was traveling with his daughter and demanded entry into the u. S. Like thousands of other family units they were processed and then released into the United States, called Catch And Release. Late last month at a routine Health Screening doctors discovered the girl had been sexually assaulted, assaulted allegedly by him. And it gets worse. It turns out the young girls mother knew that this coyote was
a sexual pred dollar but sent her daughter with him anyway because the mother was promised ultimately, later on, a job. Who are these people . Really smart. Mother of the year award there. Who is going to make the argument that this poor, abused, and brutalized girl wouldnt have been safer in u. S. Detention than with a rapist . And On My Radio Show today i received this call from travis from nevada who told his own personal loss at the hands, again, of an illegal alien. My brother in april was killed by an illegal alien while he and his son and his girlfriend were out on a planned bike ride. His son is 9 years old. Oh, my gosh. And doing 60 miles an hour on a side street and hit him on his
bicycle. The District Attorney said he confirmed that he is an illegal. Laura a lot of News Coverage . I didnt see any News Coverage of the story and i track all of these stories. Not at all. Not at all. Laura hes right. Its something the president , by the way, pointed out just a few months ago. The media doesnt talk about the American Families permanently separated from their loved ones because democrat policies release violent criminals into our communities. Laura and if you are under the impression that these illegal crossings are somehow slowing down, new data released in the last 24 hours tells a very different story. Border patrol apprehensions at the Southwest Border Rose more than 70 yearoveryear. Agents apprehended 31,303 people in july, up from 18,187 a year ago and while its good that
they are being apprehended, we should be a little bit alarmed, dont you think you might they feel like they are entitled to coming across the border. By the way, there were 3,938 unaccompanied children apprehended last month. Thats up from 2,475 a year ago with another 9,258 families apprehended. That was up from 3,389 last july. All those are numbers, but these are our people, all a lot of people. Its a lot that this country has to process and ultimately most of them are released. And what about those who come here on valid visas . Guess what, for more than 600,000 of those who came on visas overstayed them in 2017. This is another completely absurd scenario. Everyone is gaming the system. This is a sure way over time to remake and reshape america. This is exactly what socialists like ocasiocortez want. Eventually diluting and overwhelming your vote with the votes of others who arent, lets face it, too big on adam smith and the federalist papers. As for those minivandriving women from the 1990s, well, news flash, alexandria, most of them are still alive and they vote. And i bet most of them dont like the lawlessness at the border and the crime it brings into our country. I have to believe that most american women are smarter than to fall into the socialism open borders trap. Its clear that we need a reset on the entire issue of immigration. Illegal and legal. Its time that the president gives a formal address to the nation, preferably one from the oval office. He should lay out his agenda and the cost to the nation of not pursuing it. As he said before, meritbased, Legal Immigration is fantastic, but what we have now is a complete farce and we are all paying for it, some, as you saw with those examples, more than others. The president can be so persuasive, so give us the whole truth, mr. President , the good, the bad, and yes, the uncomfortable. This is a National Emergency and he must demand that congress act now. There is something slipping away in this country and its not about race or ethnicity. Its what was once a common understanding by both parties that american citizenship is a privilege and one that at a minimum requires respect for the rule of law and loyalty to our constitution. And thats the angle. Joining us now with reaction, im so happy she is with us on set, judge pirro, host of
justice right here on fnc and author of the huge best seller liars, leakers and liberals the case against the antitrump conspiracy. Along with immigration attorney francisco hernandez. Its great to see both of you. Judge, i think this is a national crisis. We are at a crisis point in this country on this issue and i think you could make the argument that america is changing. It is changing. Shes right. Shes absolutely right. You listen to her and you say what planet is she from . Just to talk about ocasiocortez herself, this is a young woman who actually grew up in westchester county, went to school in westchester county, one of the most affluent suburbs in the country. But more importantly when you talk about the emergency, obama started this. When obama said that he was going to change the demographics of this country by allowing refugees opening up the border and now we are seeing a spike at the border. Thats an emergency because right now weve got a Business Model for smugglers. They know if they come in with Young Children that those kids are going to be released and because they cant keep the family more than 20 days they will end up being released and the parents are allowing this to happen knowing their kids may be raped. Knowing all of this because they want their kids grandfathered in. And by the way, its not just kids. Its ms13 and as someone who has been a d. A. , these are people who prey on other people and that is the way of life for ms13 and more than half of immigrant families abuse one or more welfare programs. So when you talk about immigrants, they should be adding to this country and not taking away. Laura francisco, nancy pelosi was pretty she was pretty explicit, lets just put it that way, about how voting for democrats will give more leverage to the immigrant
population, lets watch. We believe that we will have leverage when we win in november. And why thats important, because it gives leverage to every family, to every mom who courageously brought her child across the desert to escape death, rape, Gang Violence and arrest. Because it give hope. Laura francisco, do you think the democrats or any politicians, take democrats thats below say there that they should be advocating on behalf of people who are actively trying to break our laws saying if you vote for me we will give leverage to them . Ive never heard of anything like that. Ive heard a lot but i havent heard anything like that before. Im not here to defend pelosi or President Trump or obama or president bush. This is all a big myth and you stated just a few minutes ago its time to push the reset button. But by planting a seed of truth in harvesting and orchid of
deceit like the judge just did, what youre doing is youre scaring everybody into thinking that the sky is falling. We do need immigration reform. You and i have argued from different perspectives for the same thing for years, ms. Ingraham. Laura you can call me laura. Francisco, i adore you. Francisco and i dont agree on everything. You can call me laura. Im just laura. I will try but we are in texas, texas manners. Laura it is a change, though. And this is happening under President Trump because they think they know they kind of have us with this Catch And Release thing. So just in the yuma sector of arizona, i know you know where that is, we all do. 120 in yuma, arizona, of unaccompanied minors in the past year. 10,000 families. 4500 unaccompanied minors. Seven years ago that figure was 98 families and t222
unaccompanied minors. And if thats not a crisis i dont know what is. So what changed . Just about six months ago President Trump was telling us on national tv that the immigration issue, ilLegal Immigration was down records, that the problem was in essence solved and when he couldnt even get congress to act on deferred daca. Stds we can keep on chasing our tails like we have been for about 20 or 22 years, or we can get down and do something about it. Laura, you and i have plenty of Common Ground and we just cant scare the population into paralysis by indecision, which is what we have. Let me ask you a question, when you say you cant scare the population, heres the bottom line. If you want asylum you go to a port of entry, you ask for asylum. If you want to come to america and you get in line like everybody else. What is wrong with that . What is wrong nothing wrong. Nothing wrong. Laura we are not doing that. Except there is no line. There is no line. Laura yes, there is. There is no line for these people to come here. Laura contrary to what the ninth Circuit Court of appeals
is getting at, we will get to this later on, you dont have an international right to come to america. I dont know where people get this idea that you have some universal, some type of Global Constitutional Right to come into the country or get in the line. You dont have the right. We get to determine who comes in this country. Lets just make a list that we allow people to come here. Lets just make the requirements. How about you just follow the law . There are no laws right now. Illegals are not a protected class. Laura they will be if ocasiocortez gets it. They are not a protected class. Why did they keep crossing the border . Laura we know why. They are fleeing corrupt governments. Really . Then come under asylum and swear allegiance to this country. You and i have agreed on that before, the asylum laws you better pass a law, francisco. If i could, i would. Laura i think that there are corrupt governments all over the globe. Yes. Laura thats hundreds of millions of people who would want to come into the United States. If you open up the credible fear to everyone who fears crime which is what a lot of people want to do. Thats what she wants to do to include anyone who lives in fear. You better get ready for hundreds of millions of people to get in the line you want to create. Thats the problem. If that were true they would already be here. Are you kidding . Do we even know how many are here . You just said hundreds of millions. Youre talking about the law thats in place now. Why dont we change it . Lets sit down at the table. Why dont you just follow the law. Laura the president needs to address this from the oval and they should become a flash point now, not after the midterms. This is a critical issue for the
country and it is the number one issue on the last poll that was done. It is. Laura it was even higher than the economy, which is unbelievable. Fantastic conversation, its always great to see you, francisco. Thank you very much. Thank you, laura. Laura the president s legal Team Delivers the response to bob mueller and the request for a president ial interview. Jay sekulow joins us with the new details next. You wouldnt accept an incomplete job from any one else. Why accept it from your Allergy Pills . Flonase sensimist relieves all your worst symptoms,
including nasal congestion, which most pills dont. And all from a gentle mist you can barely feel. Flonase sensimist. Only with xfinity on demand. And watch it live on abc tonight 8 7 central. Laura its one of the big looming questions of the russia probe, will President Trump sit down for an interview with bob mueller . The president s legal team gave its highly anticipated response to the special counsel today. Fox news chief National Correspondent ed henry joins us now with details. Ed . Good to see you, the president s legal team tonight seems to be sending to cochlear two clear messages to the special counsel. They are willing to work with him on a potential interview with the president but they believe it is basically put up or shut up time in terms of bringing this probe to some kind of a conclusion as part of a deal to get testimony from the president. Rudy giuliani declaring this a short time ago with sean hannity, that this is muellers last best chance to get a oneonone with the president and pushing for the special counsel to wrap this up by september 1st. That may seem like a stretch at this point but the fact is earlier this year mueller privately indicated that the
bulk of his work might be done by the summer, so it would not unfairly overshadow the midterm elections. Way back in april the Washington PostReporting Mueller indicating to the president s legal team he would release a report on obstruction by june or july. That deadline clearly came and went. The caveat at the time was that mueller wanted an interview with the president before concluding that part of the probe. But even if he subpoenas the president to testify, as you heard from former Deputy Independent CounselSol Wisenberg last night, it would take mueller a long time to try to enforce the subpoena and theres no guarantee he will win before the Supreme Court. If theres a reason bob mueller has put up with this dance for so long and i think a lot of people dont understand it. Mueller does not have the right to even litigate executive privilege. If the first thing President Trump is going to say is im
your boss, you cant even be in court. He probably cant win if he goes to court. The president s attorneys obviously know that. Thats why mueller seems to have preferred to try to get a voluntary interview. Its also one of the reasons why the lawyers continued today to try to take a hard line in narrowing the focus of the potential questions from mueller dealing with obstruction and other matters because they have consistently said the president has vast Executive Power to hire and fire officials like former fbi director james comey. Laura thanks so much. Joining us exclusively now with reaction is jay sekulow. An attorney for President Trumps legal team. Thanks for being with us tonight. Hey, laura. Laura where are we now on this exactly . You gave your response, you are waiting for a response. How long do you anticipate the response taking from muellers team . I dont give dates. This is an investigation that at the outset has been corrupt. Theres no question about that. It continues every single day there seems to be a new revelation. So im not going to give a date. I think it needs to end very soon and it needs to end very
soon because the nature of whats taking place here is a irregular and thats being kind. When i say irregular, look at how this started. It starts with the dossier from a foreign spy basically, Christopher Steele. He was an Intelligence Officer from great britain. He puts together this dossier on behalf of who . Fusion gps and the dnc. Okay. Another interesting fact and now we are getting a lot more information on that. Bruce ohrs wife is work for fusion gps with Christopher Steele putting together this dossier. Thats how this investigation commenced. So as you know in the law there is the doctrine of the fruit of the poisonous tree and i think anything Going Forward here has to keep all of that in context and in mind before we agree to do anything. And right now the fact is, and ive said this and rudy has said it and other lawyers that have commented have said it. If you lined up 100 lawyers, there are 100 who will say dont sit for an interview and theres a reason for that. Not just the Perjury Issue but the fact that you would ask questions potential of the
president regarding article two powers, you are a constitutional lawyer. The answer to that is no. Laura they want more information, more documents. That would be a big fight. Daniel goldman, former assistant u. S. Attorney in the Southern District commented on the concern that he says your team has about putting the president under question. Lets watch. They are absolutely right to be concerned that if the president were to go into an interview with incredibly wellprepared prosecutors who have not just the president s tweets and his own statements, but as <