just can t do nothing in this particular instance. now, in hindsight, it would have been great if the house would have taken up that bipartisan immigration bill that we passed a year and a half ago, because if the speaker would have put that on the floor, and if you put it on the floor now, i think it would pass the house of representatives. if that would have been done a year and a half ago, we would not be here today talking about $3.77 billion in an emergency supplemental. the house republicans, their role in the decision-making process about what gets done for us as a country right now, president obama yesterday, he said governor perry, quoting from the president here, governor perry, he suggested maybe you need to go ahead and act and convince republicans they should go ahead and pass the supplemental. the president said, i had to remind him i m getting sued right now by mr. boehner apparently for doing ahead and acting instead of going through congress. with this lawsuit mooufr
i understand and em pathetic about my friend on the border wanting the american people and the leader of this country to be able to engage. what i will say about the president is that he is engaged. i have no doubt that as the president works through this crisis that his focus is now to deal with the crisis and explain to the american people that the white house will make an appropriate determination to have the opportunity to see firsthand. but there is no need to stop your work, which is important to do, getting this emergency supplemental passed. declaring this a short term emergency as it relates to the humanitarian crisis for the children. by the way, the united nations just declared these children deserve international protections. a bulk of them have been human trafficked along with human smuggling and forced to leave their country by the violence of drug cartels and the violence of
the problem is that there is not a structure of immigration reform. ly put that alongside the fact that these children do come under a law. the administration is adhering to the law. the secretary of homeland security issed a herring to the law and secretary of health and human services. that law is if the children are determined to have been trafficked or have an assume lum claim, they have a process to go through. what do we need to do? we need the emergency supplemental. we need to ramp up the judges and court and i.c.e. officers and border security. really, we ve got to explain to the american people that only when there is this kind of, if you will, this kind of sacrifice to ride on trains, holding on to each other. taking a thousand mile journey, you know that people are in crisis. we all should be em pathetic to that. congressman sheila
terms of getting this meeting together, right? you know, perry felt like he was being slighted because he didn t just want a tarmac hand shake. finally they re going to have a real meeting. look, i think perry could potentially be an ally to the president on this, if perry, you know, he s a governor. he has a responsibility that the republicans in the house of representatives don t all have. he s actually in power, charged with helping secure that border in some ways. and i think what the president is going to want out of this meeting is some sense from perry that the president s emergency supplemental is a good idea or at least some endorsement of aspects of that. i think that s what the white house would want out of this. now, you know, perry s always been a little bit more open to the immigration reform ideas, the bipartisan immigration reform ideas. remember when he ran for president in 2012, some of his remarks on immigration got him in trouble with more conservative republicans.
border sxagtsz more money pumped dow jones to border for border security than we have currently under this president. that s not the problem. it is absolutely not you but the republicans sit back and say we have a crisis on our hands. look you guys bring up a point. congress isn t doing anything about it. the president says i will act on my own with immigration reform. what do you think he should do? what can he do? what kind of executive power can he use to effect the change? first thing he can do going to ask for additional money. an emergency supplemental, if you will, to actually beef up more on the border. john mccain is asking for it. you alluded to that they went down there. guess what. he can t do unless the congress pass it is emergency appropriation for that particular thing. he can do certain things on executive order when it comes to