potential blueprints, the construction, things like that. that s something he demanded to sign daca is it important enough to you to, to give him that? we re not going to do it. we re not going to equate daca to, to a wall. if you want to talk about strong border security, cameras, sensors, given the border patrol enough equipment, having the right number of border patrol, we can do that. i believe in strong border security, but, look. bottom line is this, sir. if you look at the number of people that are here. the 11 million or 12 million undocumented aliens we have, 40% of them, 40% of them, according to homeland, came through a visa, which means if you put the most beautiful wall somebody s going to drive through a bridge, somebody s going to fly over go through a ship. using a legal permit or visa and
this. a democrat rooting for mr. trump to make a deal and conservative radio talk show host who s not so excited. let me kick things off first with democratic congressman henry convey henry cuellar. nice to see you. thank you so much. let me start with, to have you give the interpretation. i ve been asked this question umpteen times just today. which is is there a deal on daca? does the border security enhancements that president trump says he s going to get with daca include the wall or not? what is your understanding of what deal or potential deal has been struck or is about to be struck? well i can tell you that the president i spoke to a couple days ago, he said wree ve got t do daca. it s didn t six days since he made the announcement on daca and says nothing happened. i m not going to wait for six
why is anyone surprised he s being a little unconventional in the way he s handling it here? also it could end up being the best discipline the republicans in congress have ever had. if they realize he ll go to the democrats and round up his numbers, big incentive for the freedom caucus and house moderates to come to accommodation. see what happens. that s interesting. what do you say? everybody is right. what do you think? i think that i i go back to this interview that happened on the hill this week we reported on in the new york times, and that person said that donald trump could be to daca what richard nixon was to china. this idea that while you have this person that is problematic and has all of these issues going on, if donald trump can do what two presidents have failed to do, pass immigration reform and change the system, then maybe whatever the chaos was that he continues to live in, that there s somewhere in there is someone who also likes to make deals. if there
that wall totally ineffective. we have to find a smarter way of securing the border. let s not look backwards to the 14th century solution. let s look at what s worked to secure borders, and i think technology and a mixture of personnel would be the right way of securing the border. all right. congressman, leave it there. thanks for coming on and sharing your views. good to talk to you. thank you so much. we have seen some fierce blowback against president trump s overtures to democrats specific on this issue of daca from conservative talk radio. joined by a nationally sindt ka syndicated show. a columnist and comes from the heartland in iowa. nice to see you, sir. thanks for having me, chuck. appreciate it. now look, let me set viewers straight. you ve never been a huge donald trump supporter. were you a ted cruz guy during the iowa caucuses and you ve been pretty tough critic on him in general.
walk me through where you are on daca. what i think is happening here, is the president beginning with his campaign, chuck, cynically attempted to play on people s angst and passions for his own political mazenations. and didn t truly understand what s driving people in between los angeles and the beltway and why they re concerned. i wrote about this today for usa today. the average daca recipient makes about $36,000 a year, if employed. 51% of working americans don t make that much money a year. their wages stagnated observer over 20 years. i m a product of a single mom. one of my employees, wife lost her job with media cutbacks. came to me and asked, hey, can i go on company insurance? today i got the price quote back from our insurance thanks to obamacare. it would cost me another $1,300