we want to secure the border. we don t want the executive branch to do everything. republicans love to talk about immigration. while it makes for dramatic and sometimes tragic political theater and whatever you think about the issue, whatever you fall on it, the kind of heated rhetoric you hear from the party about immigration and the border doesn t solve the problem. here s the thing. it s actually been pretty clear for decades most in the party don t want to solve it. for decades, republican members of gres who are literally tasked with writing legislation to fix the broken immigration problem have repeatedly failed to come up with any serious legislative proposals. this morning president biden who sent congress an immigration proposal on day one of his administration, told republicans to get on board or get out of the way. i ll sit down with anyone who in good faith wants to fix our broken immigration system. and it s hard. it s hard on the best of circumstances. but if the mo
come into the border and cynical view of what biden administration is doing, to process people quicker and the cries at the border doesn t look as bad. it is amazing we have people that rely on them for our national security, you own a plane and want to be safe and know you are safe. instead of putting people on planes to protect american people, they are down on the border. it is stunning, tragedy waiting to happen, god willing, it won t happen. doesn t seem this administration will waiver on this issue. todd: this threat was released on saturday, it is fresh, how worried are you as somebody that is in national security or formerly in the national security of our country? i think we should be really
thereof. listen to my think the border is where the biggest issues that we face and look at the record amount that fentanyl is poisoning communities and by course by theater at the border agents seem to be not be another we have present to has not even been to the border doesn t understand was going on there we continue to see the escalation crime and drugs in our communities are heading south carolina and every community across his country gotta get ahead on the border that is part of this misplaced priorities of this administration is so with the republican majority holding this administration accountable with oversight and with the power of the purse those are very important things for this next congress to intense i can scott does mccarthy when the speakership and is the next speaker. the dust he is the overwhelming support of the caucus and at the end of the day the american people elected us to lead come about mute to make
from congress. we need to focus on what this decades old issue is. and that issue is making sure that we have comprehensive immigration reform, not trying to impeach the homeland security secretary. we keep working around the clock and simply because people don t see the president at the border doesn t mean that he is not working. reporter: so you hear her there addressing some criticism that president biden hasn t visited the southern border himself. he ll meeting with the president of ecuador but the consistent message from the white house is that congress needs to act but there does not appear to be appetite on capitol hill in this congress to address immigration reform. pamela? thank you. a federal law enforcement source tells cnn the authorities
many, maybe they re not seizing on this because they do not see it as a crisis that you clearly do and i think most of the modern world would clearly see and maybe it s in their language and we put some of these comments together, you will notice something that is missing, what you re dealing out at the border doesn t come up. migrants coming to and through d.c. are arriving from a range of nations. s approximately 500 migrants have come to the city of chicago since august 31. they are using desperate people, people who are trying to come here because they re fleeing communism themselves as a political pawn. this country was built when immigrants and by immigrants born here in new york city, we are going to have open doors. neil: immigrants, migrants, not illegal immigrants, not illegal