government that can be cut. and you know christine, one of the things that happened with the economic distress we have been going through as americans is that say most of us have had to cut. whether it s in our homes or our businesses. so i think that we don t feel all that much sympathy for government when it s told it s got to cut 2% 3%. and you expect your government to help you in your hour of need. you do. you expect that to be the thing that exists. that s one of the primary functions of government. ben, the response to the boston bombings remind the crowd that yes, the government can work for you, or did it not move the needle for them sdm. of course it reminded them of exactly that and there s so much inconsistency in how we talk about the issues. anna wants to make an exception for national security. a lot of republicans want to make an exception for the pentagon. a lot of democrats want to make an exception for entitlement programs like social security and medicaid. t
have done in this immigration bill is said if you have good ideas of how to improve the legislation, give them to us. i encourage michael and anybody else who has good suggestions to make hold on i want to bring in the homeland security secretary janet napolitano she said the homeland immigration bill would make us safer, for example, by better tracking tamerlan tsarnaev. the bill does strengthen the electronic use or electronically readable and so forth, so that we don t have any manual entries, so any time we can get rid of human error or the possibility for human error, that s a good thing. so let me ask you, anna do you think that the homeland security department citizen immigration services the congress is going to be able to put together something that is comprehensive that is going to appeal to everyone? people who are worried about
naturalization process. anna nuvouro onavarro is a cnn contributor. you say the bombings should change everything about how we think about immigration? focusing on the mexican border is short sighted. there s so much fraud in the immigrations benefits program, and not only did the brothers get lawful status they were given political asylum. they had to articulate credible fear. they did, their parents did. the parents are back in russia. the older brother goes to russia for training cleary thas didn t have fear but this isn t new. they identified immigration fraud as an embedding tacting, and chuck schumer had been one of the architects of the architectural amnesty program, and it turned out one of the bombers in the 93 trade center attack got agricultural amnesty even though he didn t work on a farm so we know agriculture amnesty, political asylum
fraud all legal ways to access the american system, which are fraudulently used by people you re saying? yes, and over 500,000 people who fraud their ways into the united states. people like paul ryan for example, argue that boston is exactly the proof that we need to reform that system that michael cutler is talking about. listen. we need a modern immigration system that helps us not only protect our border but protect national security and all of its aspects. if anything this is an argument for modernizing our immigration laws. anna in your view how does boston change the dynamic in the immigration debate? look christina, there are issues immigrations that are relevant that can be looked at and can be draelszed within this bill. we should do so but we should not do use it as a justification to delay what is a necessary legislative action. i think paul ryan is absolutely