chief by some immigration activists. congressman luis gutierrez is out with a statement in response to the president saying that they re going to take action on further enforcement on the borders. the congressman said he does not support the idea of putting children and families fleeing violence in detention while they await our courts to catch up to the current crisis. i mean, is there any sense of what a solution could be here? well, i think the solution is clear. we need to open up our immigration system to meet the demands of a growing economy. all the countries that participated in world war ii had a baby boom. all those countries, russia, japan, they have the same problem we do. we have a ratio of retirees to workers that s just too big. our health care, social security, all these deficit, debt things we re talking about, that could be solved if we had a labor force that was growing rather than shrinking in relationship to our retirees. we re supposed to be the nation of immigr
the scenes on a potential plan c? which could be emerging? we hear about plan a. we hear about plan b. what is this mysterious plan c? it includes three things. the biggest sticking point is this trigger. not to get too far down in the weeds but this trigger option would basically set up a committee that would review all these debt things in the next couple of months and what actually they would actually go to work. actually do something about it. the problem is that people worry that committee would be just another commission that ends up spending a whole bunch of taxpayer money like the debt commission and then spend a whole bunch of taxpayer money and do nothing about it. that seems to be the trigger mechanism. but when you really look at the reid plan and the boehner plan, they both talk about cuts and both talk about no tax increases so there s some symbiosis there. they think getting through point one and point two is relatively easy. it s figuring out this trigger thing woul
we hear about plan a. we hear about plan b. what is this mysterious plan c? it includes three things. the biggest sticking point is this trigger. not to get too far down in the weeds but this trigger option would basically set up a committee that would review all these debt things in the next couple of months and what actually they would actually go to work. actually do something about it. the problem is that people worry that committee would be just another commission that ends up spending a whole bunch of taxpayer money like the debt commission and then spend a whole bunch of taxpayer money and do nothing about it. that seems to be the trigger mechanism. but when you really look at the reid plan and the boehner plan, they both talk about cuts and both talk about no tax increases so there s some symbiosis there. they think getting through point one and point two is relatively easy. it s figuring out this trigger thing would be difficult. the republicans would like the individual