for the first four months running the house. we have only been in power for just over a hundred days. it s not about a time frame. the time frame to pass a border security package just as title 42 expires next month amid expected immigration crush. the gop plan resumes border wall construction. it hikes border patrol pay and hires more agents plus it requires those seeking asylum to only cross into the u.s. at a point of entry. but like the debt ceiling, the gop must muscle the border measures to passage with a narrow majority. democrats from border districts are skeptical to have gop plan. if we are going build walls, just to build walls and not really have policies that prevents people from coming, it will make no difference. another border district democrat claims gop effort is a distraction. they tried to recover from the wrong decisions that they ve
the time frame is to pass a border security package just as title 42 expires next month. amid an expected immigration crush. an opportunity for us to bring a knowledge is certainly going to help secure the border and also protect people. the g.o.p. plan resumes border wall construction. it hikes border patrol pay and hires more agents. plus it requires those seeking asylum to only cross into the u.s. at a point of entry. but, like the debt ceiling, the g.o.p. must muscle the border measures to passage with a narrow majority. democrats from border districts are skeptical of the g.o.p. plan. if we are going to build walls just to build walls and not really have policy that prevents people from coming it, will make no difference. another border district democrat claims the g.o.p. effort is a distraction. they are trying to recover from the wrong decisions that they have made around the issue of choice. and women s reproductive rights. it s a playbook that at least i have seen
yeah, there s no disincentive. there s no detention, which really is the deterrence to folks coming. the ice beds are at record low levels. it s crazy. sandra: that is something as we continue to take in the pictures. i ll get to the border wall construction in just a moment. part of this bill is modernizing border security technology. tell us about that and how this would help with what we re seeing on our screen right now. absolutely. you can do detection censors that cover parts of the area of our border where the agents can t be located. there s specifically drones, others like balloons that have cameras and forward looking infrared radar. those kinds of things that detect people and allow the customs and border patrol folks
to respond to specific areas. the guys don t even have radios. some of the border patrol agents don t have radios. so our bill provides the funding so that every single agent has a two-way radio. sandra: as far as row starting the border wall construction, can you tell us what that means? what that looks like? the funding is already set aside for this, right? yeah, there s $2.4 billion left over from president trump. president biden as soon as he got in office, shut down all construction, which cost several billion dollars to settle those contracts to the american taxpayer. there s $2.4 billion left. we think about 900 miles of wall can be built. we ll tell them spend that money. we re going to mandate 200 miles of wall a year. sandra: can you give us in your own thoughts what title 42 lifting will look like for this country? sure. we ve had close to six
men and women of the border patrol he disrespected them. he doesn t have tremendous faith. he is not letting them do the mission. is he not letting them do the job and upholding the oath he took to secure the border. this man lies and lies and lies and he doesn t stop. the worst part of it, steve, he thinks we believe him. it s embarrassing that is a cabinet secretary who lies under oath in congress and lies to the american people every day. it s disgusting. steve: well, his boss gave him his marching orders. hey, do what i want you to and obviously he is doing it. here is another soundbite from 60 minutes last night. listen to how he answers how the biden administration essentially they said, yeah, don t come. don t come. don t come. come. watch. first weeks in office the biden administration halted deportations for 100 days, stopped all border wall construction and suspended the remain in mexico policy. critics say it all added up to