comprehensive bill that includes some status for those who are here illegally? i m not sure what i said, but certainly i had no intention whatsoever to say january. i ve said a thousand times actually i ve said since 2007, we have to secure the borders first. we can get that done, but certainly not by january. there might have been a question about whether we would take anything up in a lame duck session. i ve said and continue to repeat, we have to get the borders secured first because it s obvious that the violence has escalated to a degree on the other side of the border that it s become a national security issue. we just announced the closing of our consulate in juarez. there was a car bombing not that long ago. the list goes on and on. there are warning signs to our citizens in the southern part of our state. so, look, we have to get the border secure first. i don t know how many thousands of times i have to say that. and we can do that with the ten-point plan that john kyle a
committed serious crimes in the united states of america in our state. that s what the law will do. it will address the symptom of a broken border. that is very legitimate because the federal government hasn t carried out its responsibilities. your friend in the united states senate, lindsey graham, has something else he says he is considering now because of the frustration across the country with the illegal immigration issue. i want you to listen to senator graham. i may introduce a constitutional amendment that changes the rules. if you have a child here, birth right citizenship i think is a mistake, that we should change our constitution and say, if you come here illegal and you have a child, that child is automatically not a citizen. do you support your friend there? do you think we need to amend the constitution? look, it s one of the issues, again, that s a symptom of broken borders because people shouldn t be able to come here illegally in order to have if children. my
much along the border? i m not quite sure about that well, not along the border. i think it would help in telling people that it is illegal to come into the state of arizona, which it already is. but it s just not being enforced. if they knew the states themselves were going to enforce it, that certainly would maybe give people pause before they came running across the border. it was interesting, my conversations from the governor, sheriff joe arpaio who is supporting your opponent in the primary, they say it s not so much the specifics of the law as much as the tone and the message it sends to illegal immigrants that you re not welcome here and we will do everything we can to make you not feel welcome here. no. what it is is frustration on the part of the governor and legislature of the state of arizona because we have not secured or borders. then we are faced with a half million people who are in our state illegally. our sheriffs tell us 17% of the
by the way, we don t tomorrow is the first of august. we still haven t heard anything about these 500 or so troops to the border that the president was going to send. and we need 3,000 on the arizona-mexico border. but no, january is not the time. when the border is secured is the time. i just spent a couple days in your state. you re dead right about the anxiety and it goes across the political spectrum. there s a big debate, a lot of disagreement about what to do about it. in the middle of that is sb 1070, the new arizona law. a judge put some significant portions of it on hold. the case will make its way through the court as we play it out. i had a conversation with the governor. she said she needed this law because the federal government has failed to secure the border, a point you make. i want you to listen to the governor when i asked her what in that law would help with border security. what in that bill would have improved border security? senate bill 1070 is just anoth
order to secure our border. i was in israel. they ve secured our borders. we can get our borders secured and then look at these other issues. tas serious problem when we have virtual businesses that are transporting people here to have children. but it is, again, a symptom of the serious problem that we have. again, everybody talks about the fact that the border is more secure. the violence on the other side of the border has escalated dramatically to the point where it is now a national security issue. and that is a big, big problem for the citizens of our state, where a lot of this is being funneled through. this debate has become politically, as you make your point there, what some would say is a big, big problem for the republican party. we asked latino voters your choice for congress. 54% democrat, 39%. larry: republican republican. for the future of the republican party in elections two, five,