The Department of Homeland Security announced that it will defy President Joe Biden’s border polices of ending Title 42 and instead abide by a court ruling as the crisis at
you dropped that grenade in what looked like constructive talk. i was not involved in the conference itself. neil: understood. but wouldn t this issue be worth a potential shut down on this new issue? i don t want to say a shut down, period. i want to see this issue resolved and see the department of homeland security budget resolved. it needs to be neil: this came out of nowhere, right? you agreed on the broad blueprints. you got the president under $2 billion for a wall. everybody was inching toward it, this issue came up. now republicans are saying if we have a shut down because of your colleagues forced this issue, it will be on them, not on the president. what do you say? we have an agreement on six of the seven bills. we ought to pass the six bills. we sent the six bills to the senate. they ought to pass them neil: but you don t have an agreement on this. we don t. this did not come out of the blue. the chair, as i said, has been
inhumane agenda. here to respond is acting ice deputy director matt alvins. matt, good morning to you. good morning, steve. thanks for having me. steve: start at the beginning, inhumane? right? no, absolutely not. the men and women of ice are con sue mat professionals. they have a difficult job and do it with compassion and dignity. and rather than being vilified for doing that job they should be respected for it and thanked. steve: our story this morning four progressive house members urging cuts to the department of homeland security budget. they are sending out a dear colleague letter and essentially what it says is cut, do not increase the funding. they are trying to starve your agency, it sounds like. well, i haven t seen. but what i can tell is you that crucial to any border security plan is strong interior enforcement. we cannot have a system through which individuals who want to come here to this country illegally, if