the college president daniel pat just insulted the taxpayers of georgia by cheerleading for her. trying to block her deportation process. she was arrested on campus on a traffic charge. and then she gave false information so that s a serious thing in itself. anybody else would be sitting in jail. sure, and she was so close to graduating, extraordinarily she dreams of being a lawyer some day and there she is in the country illegally. but let s face it, phil, it s an open secret. a lot of campuses across the country are safe havens for illegals. well, that s the outrageous part. they are becoming sanctuaries for illegals. they re denying slots to people who are here legally or citizens and these colleges and universities are going to have to start a verification process. there s, for example, the save program, s-a-v-e, you can check data bases who is legal and not legal. colleges better step up. let me be devil s advocate
well, what we ve seen to an extent not acknowledged by people doing research in this area, we ve seen a huge association between violent crime and all manners of crime with illegal immigration. i mentioned before, we had 250 murders in the city of phoenix in 2006. that s now down to 125. how does stopping a person because you think they re here illegally, stop crime? how does it work? i ll repeat it again. you repeat it but you re not helping me. how do you stop a guy from murdering somebody or robbing a house or someone on the street by throwing someone out of the country who is here illegally. you pick up people. are you intimidating people? you arrest somebody for a burglary and you do an immigration check. you find out they re here illegal. you start the deportation process. you get that going. so it s the association between
government is preying on their parents desperation to see them again. and many of them had been kidnapped raped tortured but again they said over and over that that paled in comparison to the pain and desperation that they felt being separated from their children as a result many of them were really considering signing voluntary departure as and really starting the deportation process so that they could get out of detention as soon as possible and they had been told by the agents that if they signed a voluntary departure that ice would reunite them with their children as quickly as possible for us we heard that consistently and over over and over again to the point that we really feel that the administration is holding these children hostage to dissuade people from pursuing compelling and strong asylum cases. after nationwide outrage over family separations u.s. president donald trump vowed to public pressure and announced an end to the policy but his reversal does nothing for the chi
be detained together. the president is blaming democrats but it was his administration s decision to invoke a zero-tolerance policy of the border. president trump insisting that years of previous white house is not enforcing the law has had a profoundly detrimental effect on the nation. roughly half a million illegal immigrant family units and minors from central america have been released into the united states since 2014. act unbelievably great taxpayer expense. the president is pushing congress to make changes to the law to allow children to stay with her parents during the prosecution or deportation process. he also wants a $25 billion commitment to build a border wall and broader immigration reforms. we want them to come in through the process, through the legal system, and we want ultimately a merit-based system where people come in based on merit.
in comparison to the pain and desperation that they felt being separated from their children as a result many of them were really considering signing voluntary departure as and really starting the deportation process so that they could get out of detention as soon as possible and they had been told by the agents that if they signed a voluntary departure that ice would be unite them with their children as quickly as possible for us we heard that consistently and over over and over again to the point that we really feel that the administration is holding these children hostage to dissuade people from pursuing compelling and strong asylum cases. after nationwide outrage over family separations u.s. president donald trump to public pressure and announced an end to the policy but his reversal does nothing for the children still inside shelters like this one something. fornia this is one of the more established shelters for migrant children here in san diego and it looks after boys between t