salvadorans here in the united states of their total population. do we just empty their whole countries? i don t think anybody is saying that. actually some of those el salvadorans are doing some of the best work and raising great families and doing well in our country. that said, you know, i got a little bit confused by what you were saying. on the one hand you said it s real, on the other hand this whole myth of lawyers going down there and coaching people, and that s really what s happening. i see it somewhat differently. we are not doing enough on either side of the border when it comes to the amount of violence, of fear, of crime, of hunger. as a result, when you don t deal well with your neighbors, sometimes your neighbors problems spill over. i would love to see what you said happen. if we had a real commitment to help the countries down there do better and to figure out what s going on and really were engaging, i think you re right, i think you would have less of these probl
people who are on temporary protective status, el salvadorans, 200,000 could be deported. this compromise measure that durbin, graham measure would address both of these concerns. but you know, it s been tough. but nonetheless, there is a bipartisan deal and i m glad that you reminded everybody that it is the president who said maybe we need a good government shutdown so i can have my wall. well, the idea is that democrats if there s a shutdown that the white house is basically trying to set the terms that the democrats are responsible. and at one level, it would be, the democrats in the senate would have to hold enough votes withhold enough votes to hold the line to not pass something that doesn t have daca protections. you have joe manchin saying something like i think everyone has the empathy and compassion. shutting down the government s not going to help them.
like advanced genomic testing and immunotherapy. see how we re fighting to outsmart cancer at cancercenter.com/outsmart something you are not hearing a lot about, everybody is talking about the d.r.e.a.m.ers but did you know the trump administration they just told 200,000 immigrants from el salvador that they must go? the decision to cancel their temporary residents permits come with an 18-month grace period to give them time to apply for other forms of immigration relief or leave the u.s. and el salvador is not ready for those coming back from the u.s., and these are families with homes, kids and jobs. president trump s health and human health nominee heads to
symbolic than it is literal. i don t think you have to get hung up on the idea of 2,000 miles of 50-foot wall. this is not the wall of the kingdom of the north. it could be drones in some places. it could be enhanced border security in others. it could be more agents at the border. it s about border security. neither the democrats nor the republicans nor the white house should get hung up on the semantics and what it means. i think they re going to reach a deal. let s remember, there is a deadline. not only is there a deadline, every day that goes by over 1,000 of these young people are losing their status and their ability to go to school, their ability to work. so, you know, this is not theatricaer ii ii iic theore part of the shame here, matt, people say they care about the people. we re not even talking about the el salvadorans. that was kicked to congress as if it was some kind of democrat
find a solution or i will cancel this. that s the way you would have done it, if you cared about the people. i think both things can be true. but let s remember that temporary protective status is a status that is given in extraordinary moments and it s really an act of compassion by this country. mostly el salvadorans because of the earthquake. haitians because of the earthquake. nicaraguans because of hurricane mitch. the problem is that these acts happened two decades ago. for two decades these people have become part of our society. they work. they have jobs. they have homes. they ve married people here. they have kids. they ve had children, who are in schools. we ve got to think large picture. what are the problems that are the consequences of now telling these people you ve got to get out? are they going to be homes in foreclosure? are those going to be businesses closed? separation of families. ana is making all these points.