debate in washington. and the house s action this week on kate s law. controversial to many, others say an important part of securing the border. also, president trump does make stride on the travel ban with that big supreme court yuling. will it help him in the long run? that s next. last year, he said he was going to dig a hole to china. at&t is working with farmers to improve irrigation techniques. remote moisture sensors use a reliable network to tell them when and where to water. so that farmers like ray can compete in big ways. china. oh . he got there. that s the power of and.
skills and contributions to america. it s the same law the trump administration has invoked for a power to ban entire groups of immigrants based on their home country. a position that needed a mixed decision at the supreme court. they blocked part of the travel ban. so now that part has been in force for about three days. these are the first three days that a version of trump s immigration has been implemented with the blessing of the highest court in the land. the critics say that makes it a step closer to the nativism, and it doesn t stop there. you may have missed this news. here s a more important development. this week the house passed two tough immigration rules. one to crack down on sanctuary cities and the other stiffening penalties for undocumented immigrants, called kate s law, named for a california woman
with republicans choices. part of this is to eliminate public support for the most vulnerable people in our society for health insurance and rely on private charity is what you are saying. kate, i know you to be a thoughtful republican who s run a party in a southern state. is your view at this moment that the party s getting it about right on health care or they need to change? ari, one of the things i ll tell you is that when you look at medicaid, and you look at 68 million people, $545 billion spent on it, it is a large, large public program that does a lot of good. there are machining care companies out there that have stepped up and filled the gap and made it work, especially for some conservative states like kansas and south carolina and other places. but let me put the politics to it just like my friend dorian said. you put the politics to this and you start looking at national
grandmothers aren t allowed, but mothers-in-law and step siblings are allowed. that doesn t make sense. this plus the kate s law further defines immigrants as inherently criminal. and i think that s part of the problem. you re saying the notion that because they re coming from somewhere, they re more suspect, rather than a security analysis of who they are. absolutely. people tend to commit crime where they are. so they re less likely to commit these crimes. of course, the crime that was committed against the young lad where you have proliferation of guns, the nra with an ad that is almost encouraging a civil war, anybody can be shot down, it s not likely to be an immigrant
quickly. hnbc s kasie hunt joins me i from capitol hill. what can you tell me about these bills and who s affected? reporter: this is a package of two bills that will be on the house floor today and the first of them is athe one that you were alluding to, called kate s law, named after a 32-year-old woman who was walking with her father along the touristy waterfront in san francisco, i m sure you may be familiar with that, shot and killed by an immigrant who was up documented, who had been deported multiple times and had previously committed felonies. what that bill would do is make penalties harsher for people who do that. so if you re an undocumented immigrant, you come back into the country after being deported and off criminal record, you would face stiffer penalties urn this law. this is honestly less controversial than other measures they ll consider today. democrats have a tricky kind of map in front of them for opposing it and democratic leaders have essentially given some