extending protections for more than 330,000 immigrants, some illegal, and some at the risk of overstaying their visas. those from el salvador, honduras, napal and nicaragua are shielded from deportation for 18 months. one top democrat says it is still not going far enough. another initiative from the left might. it is a new bill aimed at giving migrants immediate access to our federal benefits. things like medicaid and food stamps. you heard right. it does away with the previous five-year waiting period which democrats call arbitrary and xenophobic. as the left is focused on that the scene at our southern border stays dire. look at every decision they ve made, it is to open our border as wide as possible. they created the migration crisis in this region. people tested the system early on, saw they could get in and get released and so they called back home and millions have come. julie: casey stiegel with more topping our news this hour. hey, casey. according to the numb
enter into a consent decree with a monitor. that monitor typically supervises the police department and takes the community, the elected officials, city council out of the equation or distances them from the police department. and i m a huge supporter of law enforcement as you know. what i worry about is that these types of things the end to demoralize police and have them retreat from the active community policeing that is necessary to insure law and order for all citizens. julie: it would mean the department would operate under a federal court order until it meets specific constitutional guidelines. the mpd is already operating under a state settlement agreement after a similar investigation by the state. among the mandates of the state agreement are improved training and no searches based on the smell of marijuana. we have lost matt whitaker. it holds police departments
threats coming from cuba. bill: we ll stay on it. much more coming up with senator ted cruz. the son of a cuban immigrant calling on the white house to do more to support the cuban people. that s coming up. don t miss that. meanwhile this. president biden: there is no one size fit all approach. we know there are some things that work and the first of those that work is stemming the flow of firearms used to commit violent crimes. our strategy is including funding for law enforcement through the american rescue plan, for states, cities and be able to hire police and pay them overtime in order to advance community policeing. dana: president biden yesterday on his plan to reduce gun violence. under increasing pressure over rising crime in major cities and spoke after meeting with law enforcement officials and community leaders at the white house where he called for hiring more police. that may put him at odds with progressive democrats pushing to defund the police.
and the reflexive lazy task will be we were kind of in the fog of war. not two or three days later as you point out. you could still find out from a public information officer with those authorities what really drove the response from law enforcement to lafayette park. that was still gettable information. and for the rest of it we ll all investigate and see what comes forth with pharmaceuticals and all of that. we should all double and triple down and do our jobs better. what some of them were doing is really stinking to high heaven. it is about an agenda and that s sad. there are people who do it right. you do it right. but they don t care about that. harris: attorney general merrick garland affirming the stance on defunding the police. watch. this justice department and administration does not believe in defunding the police. we believe in supporting the police. we also believe that community
reel. here s a bunch of crazy stuff happening today. this is showing it as the officer officers see it. troopers are going to deal with different issues than sheriff s departments. right. and different than in warwick, rhode island, where they will be dealing with their own set of issues. and one of the really interesting issues is see if community policeing. how the officers get to know their communities. they know some of the people they re pulling over. i know this guy. i hear that a lot. thank you very much. thank you for having me. sir, always good to see you. limited good luck, especially on the saturday version. right. dan abrams, theodore roosevelt roosevelt. live pd, day take a break on friday nights. you can hear us talk. coming up, what nancy pelosi