the country to claim asylum and they don t leave. 92% of them lose their case but only 2% leave. a whole different dynamic and why the total numbers coming across isn t as important as who is coming across. and people need to understand that. heather: i want to ask you about some of these democratic candidates for 2020 who are already calling for not only no wall but beto o rourke says he is for tearing down the wall. the portion of it that already exists and then you have multiple potential candidates talking about defunding ice or doing away with ice all together. what would you say to them? first of all they are putting their political ambitions ahead of public safety and national security. if they run for president of the united states their number one responsibility is to protect the sovereignty of this country and protect this country from harm. they re ignoring the data. it s clear. every place a barrier has been built has resulted in decreased illegal immigration, decreased
future from u.s.-méxico border. heather: potential 2020 democratic candidate for president is joining the march for truth rally, community organizers and local officials organize the event to protest the president s border wall, beto incumbent before lose to go ted cruz. any deal that involves defunding ice will never make it past the president. not only isn t enough they want to abolish ice but they want to abolish bed spaces to house violent offenders so the aoc wing of the party is taking over immigration not just environmental policy and this would be a hell of an election but i promise you this, donald trump is not going to sign any
dollar for dhs. the department of homeland security is one that includes the secret service, tsa and fema, the most recent tweet about funding homeland security came after a tweet about federal workers not getting back pay, omar tweeted, quote, this is outrage, i m hearing from tsa workers back from minnesota who still haven t received back pay after shutdown, all deserve back pay, end quote, omar and other members held rally in front of capitol aimed at defunding ice. she said this about president trump. we know that he has a muslim ban, we know that he is not he is not interested in having families reunified legally. and congresswoman omar has put out controversial tweets in the last few weeks, questions u.s. relationship with israel and indicated that she believes senator lindsey graham from
dollar for dhs. the department of homeland security is one that includes the secret service, tsa and fema, the most recent tweet about funding homeland security came after a tweet about federal workers not getting back pay, omar tweeted, quote, this is outrage, i m hearing from tsa workers back from minnesota who still haven t received back pay after shutdown, all deserve back pay, end quote, omar and other members held rally in front of capitol aimed at defunding ice. she said this about president trump. we know that he has a muslim ban, we know that he is not he is not interested in having families reunified legally. and congresswoman omar has put out controversial tweets in the last few weeks, questions u.s. relationship with israel and indicated that she believes senator lindsey graham from
in a couple dozen years. none of us want to shut down the government. democrats, no one wins. harris: we are going to have an opera moment together. did you see the president just get the democrats and republicans to work together? lawrence: i m not sure they re going to work together. i don t think so. nothing is going to happen. so i m with the president, shut down the government. i m totally for it. we re going to get blamed regardless. seriously, we re going to get blamed whether the government gets shut down or not. harris: it didn t go well for chuck schumer to do that for the democrats over immigration and the daca program. lawrence: this president when an election on this issue of immigration, he talked about this. so i think the democrats have gone so far left when it comes to talking about defunding ice, getting rid of ice, this is an issue that the president can actually win, he doesn t.