Reason is border is not secure is donald trump and his maga republican friends. You see millions and millions of people coming across the border illegally. We dont know where they come from. Bill you get the tale of two borders today. President biden and former President Trump will be on the u. S. Mexican border in different locations. Dueling visits could not be more different. Dana has the week off. Im bill hemmer in new york city. Happy leap day to everybody. Welcome back to you in new york. Gillian. Gillian is it tomorrow . I dont know. Bill every four years were here. Gillian this is americas newsroom. Former President Trump is heading to eagle pass in texas. Thats the heart of the current iteration of this Border Crisis. Agents have apprehended over 2,000 migrants in the past five days. Bill p President Biden is going to brownsville. Agents have nabbed a few dozen migrants this week. The city is protected by razor wire. Gillian the problem has spiraled out of control and could be
S its a seinfeld shutdown. Im michael smerconish. When we have been here before, it was for understandable reasons. In the 90s it was about spend ing cuts. 2013 the issue was bipartisan disagreement over the Affordable Care act on president obamas watch. In 2018 the issue was president trumps desire to build a wall on the mexican border. But this time, the American Enterprise institute has started to recefer to the impasse as th seinfeld shutdown. It dates fwook georges pitch to tv executives. I think i can sum up the show for you with one word. Nothing. Nothing . Nothing. What does that mean . The show is about nothing. Indeed like the series, it is a shutdown about nothing to which i would add nothing except polarization. Well get to the impact that it all has on the military in just a moment. Also on todays program, police say an online influencer live streamed the widespread looting in philadelphia this week and encouraged the targeting of specific stores. Ill discuss the thorny is
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Is chasing the drug demand in the United States, doing it with the currency of the United States and weaponry largely produced in the United States. One of the things we could do to help the Mexican Government is to help drive up the demand for Illegal Drugs by recognizing the demand that drives much of the controversy is within the United States. The second thing we could do to help secure the border is to recognize that when people are less desperate they dont crash borders. They use lawful processes to apply for new opportunities, they go places peacefully to try to emigrate the ways many of our parents emigrated peacefully. It has to be affordable, it has to be understandable and it has to be we should give people who come to the United States because they love our opportunities, committed no crimes where they came from men tried to live here without documents, a pathway to complete citizenship and welcome them. At the last debate mr. Sasse said congress was too dysfunctional to do
At the last debate he said congress was too dysfunctional to do anything then focus on border security. Is Worker Visa Program antiquated and leaving out a solution to do with the 11 or 12 million illegal workers. All of them are connected. What he does not appear to know is all the illegal immigration in this country is a result of people overstaying the visa program. You cannot deal with the situation by focusing as he wants to on the border only. Also what he has to understand or should understand, in order to secure the border you will have to get a compromise. Democrats and republicans in the senate and house we have a compromise. In the senate and enough in the house to pass Immigration Reform. Ll notane or boehner wi bring it up to vote. Had a program and the right wing is supporting m actually torpedoed it. His approach is to do nothing only by closing the border and not doing anything else on the other aspects. This was a question related to border security. I want to hear wha