Everybody recognizes the systems broken. Thats why were here at the border today. Broad consensus is emerging. There is a consensus around fixing what is broken. We define ourselves as a nation of immigrants. We define ourselves as a nation of immigrants. President obamas speech today in las vegas on his immigration proposals, is absolutely consistent with what she has been arguing for all along. Just watch this bit here. This is uncanny. In recent years, one in four hightech startups in america were founded by immigrants. In recent years, a full 25 of hightech startups in the u. S. Were founded by immigrants. Immigrants help start businesses like google and yahoo. Look at intel. Look at google. Look at yahoo. Look at ebay. Every one of those was founded by guess who . An immigrant. Were going to turn around and tell them to start that business and create those jobs in china or india or mexico or some place else. Thats not how you grow new industries in america. We dont want the next i
A couple of encounters with a officers on their bicycles outside the Police Station blocking the doors. They have since moved on and started circling downtown charlotte. At other points they have stopped at intersection interse. So far police have not given us an indication as to when they might ra try wrap this up. They are heading back to the Police Station and the crowd is growing. Its about maybe 300 right now and as more and more people come out the chants continue to you. Mostly peaceful but there is an air of tension in the area. You can tell Police Officers are uncomfortable. But so far they have remained peaceful. No fist flying. Nothing being thrown at police so far. Again well keep it updated as this continues. And is the Police Presence strong there on the streets . Reporter so far to be honest it does not match the crowd. What we saw at the Police Station were several dozen Police Officers lined up outside the kpitd. Here this downtown handfuls of the Police Officers and S
0 earn a living and provide for their families. businesses that are trying to do the right thing, that are hiring people legally, paying a decent wage, following the rules, they re the ones who suffer. they ve got to compete against companies that are breaking the rules. this puts companies who follow the rules and americans who rightly demand the minimum wage or overtime or just a safe place to work, it puts those businesses at a disadvantage. first, i believe we need to stay focused on enforcement. that means continuing to strengthen security at our borders. first, we know the government has a threshold responsibility to secure our borders. cracking down more forcefully on businesses that knowingly hire undocumented workers. businesses have to be held accountable if they exploit undocumented workers. we put more boots on the ground on the southern border than any time in our history. we now have more boots on the ground on the southwest border than at any time in our