townhall america, time for the lightning round. ice was created in 2003 to create a national police force to go after undocumented immigrants in the intake entrance into your part of the country. it s border patrol on the border. i m in a stop you there. art. the reality is i m hearing a lot of stories going on and i appreciate the story that was said about her being a daca recipient, she s now a nurse and i think that s fantastic. my father came to this country legally and became a doctor also and he did it legally. i wasn t born in this country. i received citizenship through my father and i think i ve
townhall america, time for the lightning round. ice was created in 2003 to create a national police force to go after undocumented immigrants in the intake entrance into your part of the country. it s border patrol on the border. i m in a stop you there. art. the reality is i m hearing a lot of stories going on and i appreciate the story that was said about her being a daca recipient, she s now a nurse and i think that s fantastic. my father came to this country legally and became a doctor also and he did it legally. i wasn t born in this country. i received citizenship through my father and i think i ve done pretty good. there s a legal way to do it,
along the border with mexico. jim sees thousands of illegals crossing his property each year. he talk about the danger. we ll get into it, too. and erica is the communications director for movement voter. she worked as the latino outreach spokeswoman for the bernie sanders campaign. she came to the united states illegally, across that mexico border with her family when she was 11 years old. she is now a daca recipient, a dreamer, as we call them. and welcome. thank you. harris: let s get the show started with a show of hands, we want to know more about the audience here. how many of you feel like the issue of illegal immigration is something that personally affects you? wow. that s more than 75% of the room. glad that you re here. can t wait to get the conversation started. let s get right to audience questions. in full disclosure, we know a little about some of you and where you re seated and that
must build wall and security our borders with proper legislation. democrats want no borders, hence drugs and crime. the president is still irked that he didn t give the $25 billion for funding his wall project and the democrats didn t take him up on his offer to give daca recipient as path to legal status in exchange for wall funding and other immigration reform. sarah huckabee sanders was talking about it earlier on fox. if you want to see something get done and democrats refuse to put something on the table or work with the president to get anything done. they wanted to use daca recipients as political pawns. i think what has happened here is sad. the president made two incredibly generous offers that went far and above what previous administrations have done and the democrats still refused to make a deal. i think it s because we re getting close to an election. the president tried to turn the tables on the democrats.
with you, jonathan. there s a sense that donald trump is interacting with his most extreme supporters at all times and promoting an idea that immigrants are dangerous, that they re trying to take and take advantage of. as a daca recipient yourself, are you concerned for the safety of yourself and other daca recipients and immigrants in this climate? absolutely, joy. as a daca recipient, it s very clear to me that donald trump does not care about our community, that donald trump has no interest or will or intention to fix the crisis he created last fall when he chose to unlawfully end the daca program. i m not buying this charade of wanting to fix it and being a good negotiator. none of that is true. what is not true is he is at the same time utilizing his agencies and his executive power to deport and detain our communities when it s proven already at the national level