what i understand they re looking at are very modern structures. they are soft sided, as in a tent, but it s nothing like a tent that you and i would use to go camping. these are professionally built facilities designed specifically for this purpose. deputy commissioner, you have worked in border patrol since the mid-1980s. we know that you re doing your job. you re a law enforcement guy. you deal with people. your staff are people who follow the law and enforce it. but you just mentioned that a lot of your staff are family people. if i were designing policy, i d probably want input from somebody like you who has been involved in this for as long as you have. if we were collecting advice, if we were trying to make the best policy around, what do you have to say about separating families, separating children from their parents? we want people if they re actual refugees from some place, they should go to a port of entry and make that claim. we don t want people crossing the border
think it was, wednesday or thursday. wednesday i guess it was. and let me ask you specifically about your district and these comments how they may be having a ripple effect among the people you serve. you represent florida s 19th district, that includes ft. myers, cape coral, naples. 7,000 haitian immigrants live there. so tell me how those immigrants contribute to their communities? well, i m worried about how they might feel right now. the haitian community here in southwest florida is a very important part of our overall community and our on economy. these are hard working people, family people. i ve met with them. i ve walked neighborhoods with pastor joseph who is one of the leaders of the haitian community. i ve been to their churches. i ve met with the health officials and hospitals down here where many of the tps haitians work and they are very valuable employees. and i signed a letter to the white house urging them to reconsider the tps situation for
actor that stars in black panther writing on instagram, africa is the richest continent in the world. he s joining us now, after hearing what president trump said about african nations, what s your message to the president? well, my message is if he actually said those comments, it is very disappointing, it is the dehumanizing and it cuts really deep to the people who are from those countries. the reality is i don t know anybody from africa or from haiti that call themselves that word. i am not going to use that word because it gives it power. there is so much in the news, i cannot watch the news with my
well, that is what i say about distracting. we don t have a lot of time and there was real progress made last week from what i understand from majority leader mccarthy. so now we have this big rock thrown in the middle of the road and everybody is up in arms and i hope they can get back to thinking logically and reasonably about taking care of these people whose lives were put at great risk by an unconstitutional program. and to also take the opportunity to couple that with security enhancements, ending chain migration and diversity lottery like the democrats have already voted for once back in 2013. the democrats have said that they would be willing to add some border security measures to any kind of deal that is cut. but what you re saying and what the polling shows is that the majority of people both republicans and democrats vast majority want to protect these 2kr50e d.r.e.a.m.ers. why not have a stand alone bill? i have not heard anybody that
do and knowing that there is actually a procedure in place should this happen for on real? takes gooit is a good remirn they don t know what do, that they shouuld get their own internal emergency procedures ready. they need to be able to contact friends and family, they need to collect the people who are close to them and shelter in place. that is always the advise in a a situation like this. getting as quickly indoors as you possibly came. but also a good reminder if people weren t sure what do, that they need to figure out what to do. but listen, that is the kind of thing that the testing process, the public education process, is supposed to accomplish. you re not supposed to accomplish this by this massive screw-up. no doubt about it. senator, thank you very much for your time. we hope you ll keep in touch with us as the investigation is just now under way. much more in a moment. tens of millions of people have switched to unlimited