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And we forget that, you know, the large majority of these are very innocent kids who we have got it take care of. >> you know, speaking of innocent kids, i know that j. johnson the home of homeland security, rich, talked today about making a final decision regarding where these kids would ultimately be placed. based upon a criteria that i use as a judge, which was the best interest of the child. does that suggest to you, rich, that, you know, these kids are coming in and their families are following them? >> yeah. look. these have always been poorly governed countries in central america. that'...

Said we're going to do it our way and among the top concerns is security. look, we started this interview with our concerns about executive orders and not enforcing the laws as written. that's a big concern we have here with immigration. so the approach that people like me want to take is, it's not trust but verify. it's verify and than trust. verify that we have the border secure. verify that we have interior support. verify that we have the right rule of law, reforms in place so we don't have this problem 10, 15 years down the road while we fix the broken legal immigration system. and so tho...

Issues so, let's go through some of them right now. immigration reform, which looks like there's something that house speaker john boehner and the president might be able to eventually reach an agreement on. are you ready when all the dust settles that agreement would allow millions of these illegal immigrants eventually to have what they call a pathway to citizenship? >> right. well, obviously, immigration is a big issue that faces the country. we've been a history -- we have a history, a long history of legal immigration. later on this week, the republicans are going to be meeting. it's our ...

Others? and if you did, what kind of response did you get? >> well, we did communicate directly with senator rubio, i actually met with him on two separate occasions personally. i met with his staff on multiple other occasions. senator rubio and his staff assured us in writing that there would be amendments to this bill that would provide for interior enforcement. he appeared shocked when we talk to him about the problems that we're having out in the field and with how the small number of officers that we have to do this job. again they assured us we would have that in this legislation and it ...

Did you communicate this to people like senator rubio and others, and if you did, what kind of response did you get? >> well, we did communicate directly with senator rubio, i actually met with him on two separate occasions personally. i met with his staff on multiple other occasions, senator rubio and his staff assured us in writing that there would be amendments to the bill that would provide for interior enforcement. he appeared shocked when we talked to him about the problems we're having out in the field, and with how the small number of officers that we have to do this job. again, they a...