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Rep. Vicente Gonzalez (D-TX) on Monday voiced his support for extending a Trump-era and GOP-backed immigration policy expected to end on Thursday, saying he wants to ensure a "smooth transition" as officials warn of record numbers of migrant crossings.
It would resume construction of the border wall, and ngos helping migrants, what do you think of this bill? well, i was against the lifting of title 42, but we do need to have a humanitarian bill at the same time. we need to continue funding ngos, we need to continue creating processing centres far from the border. i have been creating the safe zone act, kind of like our green zone, but the safe zone , 1000 — 2000 miles away from the border, where some seekers can go and process asylum there, and take the pressure off and allow border patrol and law enforcement to do what they have been trai...
Interdicted on our border, how they're being processed. so it was a very effective trip for the president. also you have to remember, secretary mayorkas was with us. he has traveled along the border. he's very knowledgeable and he's briefing the president regularly. we -- he had three members of congress and myself and two others with him. so we've been able to brief him on what we've been dealing with and i talked about the safe zone act which is another proposal on top of the administration to try to improve conditions along the border and make it a more orderly process for people who seek a...
Program for migrants south of the border to come up and process at that juncture, very similar to what they do in my district. this is done in partnership with other countries. have them process their asylum claim 1500 miles from the southern border. it takes the pressure off our border, one, and allowing border patrol and law enforcement to do their job and it takes the cartel element out of it as well. these migrants that show up to my border are paying between $6,000 and then $8,000 a head to get to the souther border. so cartels have made billions of dollars traveling migrants to the south...
Regularly. >> would it have helped to have a republican there? >> republicans were there on the ground. people that we talked to. donald trump used to come regularly to me border. he never invited me along. so that just happens. but we always work in a bipartisan way. this bill that i'm talking about the safe zone act is a bipartisan bill and we'll continue reaching across the aisle and talking to our republican friends. >> so in terms of the bill, so currently under current u.s. immigration law, they have to be present or at the border to claim asylum. they can't do it in another country. par...