So what is the administrations plan to house the children or to reunite the families . My guest this morning republican senator James Langford of oklahoma and independent senator angus king of maine who caucuses with the democrats. Also, Refugee Crisis. Why are so many people from Central America coming to the United States . What are they fleeing . Richard engel of nbc news has a report from his trip to el salvador. And political culture wars. White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders is asked to leave a restaurant because she works for President Trump. Her father, Mike Huckabee tweets this picture with the caption, nancy pelosi introduces her Campaign Committee. Is all of this The New Normal . Joining me for insight and analysis are nbc news capital news correspondent kasie hunt, and Erick Erickson editor of the resurgent. Welcome to sunday. Its Meet The Press. The longestrunning show in television history, this is Meet The Press with chuck
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mexico is doing more for the u.s. on illegal immigration than the democrats. the democrats are doing nothing. they want open borders. which means illegal immigration, drugs and crime. steve: meanwhile, you just mentioned tom homan a moment ago talking about the flores amendment. and we have a sound bite regarding just that watch this. when this surge first started happening 2014-2015, we were able to hold family units in a family detention centers about 40, 45 days until you see a judge. final out of 10 lost their case. filled airplanes up, sent them home and border numbers went down because we clearly showed consequence and deterrence to false claim of asylum. when the flores came in and said you can t hold these families more than 20 days. i said to the court back then if you do this and don t allow us long neil gorsuch to see a judge you will see a surge in family units. i was called a fear monger around no evidence of this. look what s happened. brian: he also says he has
brian: talking about what s happening in the southern border. huge problem in tijuana. wait in mexico until we process you. meanwhile look at these homicides, 2640. and that s what many cases those are a lot of the people. they are the ones who want to come here. not a justification for the wall though. if you look at what is happening in tijuana and san diego. you don t see that happening. right? juarez. more murders happened in juarez drug cartels fighting each other. what you didn t see in el paso. what do they have in common is? a border barrier present preventing that crime from coming forward. brian: the flores amendment. what happened in the 1990, whether well intentioned or not flew you bloo up up in our face. democrats agreed this thing had to be adjusted or repeal. tell us how that has to be two prong. flores agreement. fy 14 families first started coming across. i built a family detention
day. and when you have thousands coming every month. and when you have over 1 million a year. who is paying for that? we are. yeah. we are. and you know, we need more resources. not just the wall we need. we need more special agents and officers to dismantle these organizations. and then we also need optics. if you come here, you are not going to get some sort of benefit. right now the thing is if you come across the border, they think they are going to get a benefit. brian: to turn off that magnet, you say it s time to get rid of flores amendment. 93 goes into action. and that says that if you come across this border, we have got to house you and if you are a kid. you can t stay more than 20 days. therefore, the word gets out to ecuador, to guatemalans, to nic rag begans, if you want to come to america, they can t get rid of you, right? the thing is we need that bipartisan immigration reform. we have been talking about it ever since i became a
border patrol and/or anything about enforcing or the current people; in 2009 we reapproached what we were doing with illegal immigrants crossing the borders. we identified the mexican crossing as the problem. so it stopped. but when senator feinstein puts together this law that favors central and south americans, they flood in. and then you have the flores amendment that says you can t hold somebody for more than two months. that is essentially law that says catch and release. what do you want them to do? honestly, think about it. if people are allowed to break into your home, and the local pd is not going to arrest them and the local pd is not going to detain them and pretty much give them a slap on the hand and say hey, don t do it again and they will continue to breaking into your house and continue breaking into your house. if you don t enforce the laws, if you don t take border security serious, if some of our leaders within our own agency are too busy