proposal to hire more cbp agents and had vest in new fentanyl detection technology. house republicans are once more compromising america s national security and economic growth with their shutdown threats. joining us now, the president and ceo of lutheran immigration and refugee service. good to see you again. so let s talk about this deal. congressional republicans are demanding border security deal in exchange for funding for ukraine and israel, now suggesting they might want a border deal just to keep the government open. you ve called this a political hostage situation. tell us what you mean. the reality is that we need to figure out how to secure the border because that is obviously of national security. but the idea of trading money for ukraine in order to do that, is really problematic because what we are seeing is that the southern border cannot be solved
the rio grande to repel migrants. the judge is refusing to budge. he says his state has sovereign authority to defend the border. joining us is republican congressman of texas, tony gonzalez. his district stretches along 800 miles along the rio grande. we appreciate you being with us this morning. good morning. thank you for having me. according to the biden administration, in just a week, cbp agents reported a number of disturbing things, including dozens of migrants with injuries, broken limbs, and that includes several children, babies, under the age of 1, do you support governor abbott s use of these floating barriers and what is happening right now there? the barriers, i think, it s a small portion of the overall amount of border on the river, but they re very popular, i think for folks that want to see something different and that want to see this come to an end, they re very popular. it is all very tragic, though. it s absolutely horrible, the amount of people that have di
put out to the public essentially giving these evaders a heads-up we re coming for you. here is what dhs announced last night. part of the press release reads beginning may 9th, cbp agents and office res along with law enforcement partners from ice will conduct a targeted enforcement operation in el paso, texas. ice and cbp will not taken forcement action in or near a location that would restrain people s access to essential services for engagement in a essential activities to the fullest extent possible. border patrol union not happy about this. they tweeted nothing like publicly announcing that dangerous people will be arrested while warning them ahead of time exactly where to run and hide to avoid arrest. this entire operation is a sad joke. another pandering p.r. stunt. serious law enforcement leaders don t behave this way. we have people on the ground in el paso right now who tell us a
party, my republican colleagues, is an effort to cut back on resources. in fact, a bill that the republicans just passed recently to address the debt ceiling as their negotiating entree with president biden would actually cut 2,400 front line cbp agents and officers and ana, part of the reason why you re seeing so many vulnerable souls on the streets of el paso is because republicans wrote into an appropriations bill a prohibition against sheltering or using federal funds for undocumented immigrants so while we have federal funds here in our community from the federal government and the administration, we can t use them to shelter those folks because of a republican prohibition. congresswoman, i do want to share with our viewers what republicans are saying they are prepared to do now when it comes to trying to fix the broken