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Apprehensions and encounters across the entirety of the southern border. a migrant caravan every day. i can't say enough about what our front line border patrol agents and officers are doing. we need everyone and anyone who can positively impact the situation to act now. that is absolutely critical. >> bill: everyone who goes down there comes back with stunning statements about the reality what you're dealing with down there. what would explain why you had 1,000 in one day? >> a few things, bill. first certainly what i've been talking about with many of us in the department and the agency are ...

August recess. a national political reporter for the post does not appear before speech mcconnell, bring up the baseball bat. telling everyone to stay in washington august. let's talk about what they are considering in the house. basically, one is a merit-based system. what you think they can compromise on? >> is not clear at this point because the bigger picture here is that immigration has been one of the most divisive issues in the republican party over the last few years. we've seen time and again, republicans try to come up with an immigration framework. that combines border security with...

Ultimately when the white house put out its immigration framework, they knew it would be a non-starter. it included a conservative wish list, phasing out the visa lottery program, the construction of the border wall and dramatically reducing legal immigration to the united states. so, in turn, he's been al to try and have it both ways by saying, look, i was willing to give dreamers some kind of certainty. if democrats who have been obstructing when there was not really an ernest effort by this administration to sit down at the tail and get to a proposal that would have received 60 votes in the...

Recipients. with that being said, the democrat have to decide if they are going to be protecting the criminal alien or are they going to be protecting the american people? and that is why it is crucial at this moment for the democrats to come on board with this reasonable, common sense immigration reform package that the president has laid out, which the vast majority of americans agree with. they want this to have the solution. but, yet, the democrats continue to play with this political football and at the same time using the daca recipients as political pawns. >> martha: so the president, y...

Pillars of the president. immigration framework. so what we want is we want congress to act. we know that daca is unlawful. it requires a legislative fix. the president has provided a permanent solution as well as making sure that we give our ice agents and we give our border patrol agents the resources and authority they need to ensure that we can stop the influx the drugs. the influx of illegal immigrants. the influx of ms-13 gang members who are killing americans. and that is what we want to push for. >> martha: mercedes, schlapp. thank you, mercedes. great to see you don't. >> thank you so...