should doing now, i ask why not now if we haven t stemmed the tide? there is no way to put humans in the way of standing in danger. when you think about them, they are part of the community,ch firemen, police officers and teachers, they keep them safe. you are removing people from communities and putting them at the border for a threat that doesn t exist for one reason. there is no caravan. > again, the threat that doesn t exist. dan, i will go to you as well. i rattled off the statistics, 245,000 criminal illegals from 2011 to 2018 arrested in texas alone. over 10,000 for weapons. he says, allen says no threat here. humans can t do it. if not humans and not a wall, how do we get our hand around this? is it not a security issue? he did say one thing that was
yet, based on some of the commentary, there isn t a crisis at our border. would you acknowledge that we do not have our hand around the border and now is the time to a address it? there are ways to address the immigration crisis. an individual wall and human wall is not the best way to address it. it s been 12 months into his administration. after this last fall of congress which there is a daca deal, nowa we want to deploy people. it sounds that texas has it under control for the state of texas. federalism and what the national guard is in place to do. states have to drop what they do. why should the federal government step in? why not now? is immigration not a federal issue? texas may have stepped up to do its part. but this is something that affects all of us. what the federal government
going to present a plan for this. at least we can agree we need ar border wall, right? no, we don t need a border wall. we can agree on that. there s aha temporary solution. lu because congress cannot get out of their own way. i m running for congress. you got it. we need more navy seals in congress. the midterms are seven months away. we can expectt people to campain about the border. as for the democrats, several candidates are calling for the abolition of i.c.e. don t believe me? randy bryce who is challenging paul ryan just told the truth and told news week, quote, i think i.c.e. should be abolished and which agency could house immigration and customs enforcement, end quote. joining me is david ward, a former i.c.e. agent who worked on the border.
edge. they haven t registered their discontent with the plan. if they went in president trump s direction, it s possible we see other democratic governors. if you go along with the trump a administration and you e a democratic governor you arey complicit. thank you. m joining me now for reaction is dan, a republican running for congress in a border district in texas, texas second district. it s a decorated former navy seal. and we have allen ore. commander, i will start with you. you have a situation where the president sees a national security threat based on the status of what s happening on the border. congress won t deliver on. funding a wall. we know there are limitations, but is this an important step and will it help stem the tide? he s holding his promise to
to have a wall. if you don t want to send the people there, allen, you don t believe the national guard serves a function there, which could be a legitimate argument, wouldn t you say it s time for a border wall? we have to do something. absolutely touch do something. and the ways to stem the problem is to look at technology. if people are just there to look and observe, that s something we do with iphones, cameras, something we can do with trip wires. there is no n need to have a hun person to look and watch what happens. iphones and trip wires are not a wall. they are not a beautiful 30-foot border wall that is an obstacle that keeps people from coming across the border. if you understand what the national guard can do, you hear the plan that doesn t exist as the governor of oregon said,