needs that we have here in the united states of america and the open border policies that congress has a responsibility to step up and solve. article one, section eight of the constitution says this is congress s responsibility. they are passing a funding bill that does not have them live up to the responsibilities under the constitution. bill: last point here. it is not just people we re talking about here. check this out. derrick malts with rich edson. the end of title 42 will add a huge revenue opportunity for the cartels. it is going to increase the deadly supply of fentanyl and the tsunami of these lethal substances entering the country daily. bill: that alone should call for greater border security, sir. 100%. so just texas law enforcement alone has seized enough fentanyl to kill every american. you would think that alone would cause the biden administration to wake up and do something about it. the leading cause of death of
arguments. there were counter arguments. it is a crisis at the border and seems to me the colleagues on the other side are in denial about that. and you can t blame the president for trying to use whatever tool he thinks he has to address it. so that was a definitive answer. michael, from mitch mcconnell, not so much. no, look. that is tough issue for a lot of republicans. there is no doubt in my mind that additional resources would be helpful at the border. there is a changing and dangerous situation down there. the president clearly exceeded the intended purpose of this act in making this declaration and so you re putting republicans in a position where they re forced to choose between add heens her acting on greater border security. we have two former spokesmen for two former speakers of the house. listening to kevin mccarthy there, it struck me.
michael, from mitch mcconnell, not so much. no, look. that is tough issue for a lot of republicans. there is no doubt in my mind that additional resources would be helpful at the border. there is a changing and dangerous situation down there. the president clearly exceeded the intended purpose of this act in making this declaration and so you re putting republicans in a position where they re forced to choose between adherence and acting on greater border security. we have two former spokesmen for two former speakers of the house. listening to kevin mccarthy there, it struck me. brendan, your former boss trying to strike a balance with the president arguing you don t know what i m doing in private to try to help what s going on here but kevin mccarthy has taken this a step further in that he is he was trying to convince his members that there was nothing wrong with the president declaring a national emergency. when you and i both know if barack obama tried to do this
stand against the status quo. well, when you hear from politicians, there s a lot that both sides agree upon, and that there is a need for greater border security. there is a need to increase the opportunities to catch those people who want to do harm to the u.s., coming across the border, to catch more drugs coming across the border, but there is a disparity on what the solution is. let s talk about the bad guys who may wants to get across, the potential terror threat and i want to look at both borders because the data suggests that the northern border is actually more problematic, first of all, the length, it is roughly 4,000 mile, that s not even including canada s border with alaska, compared to 1900 miles there on the southern border, and when you look at the apprehension of people who are on the terror watch list, here s the data we have. in the 2018 fiscal year, there were roughly a dozen apprehensions, a dozen of individuals who were on that terror watch list on the southern
going to talk hypothetical of what happens. we ll get a deal in the next six months. been more than six months now. how close are you to getting a deal to allow the dreamers to remain here in the united states, have access, a road to citizenship down the road in exchange for greater border security? we re working with house republicans on those same four pillars laid out to you before of certainty for the daca population and addressing the diversity lottery program. we think it s essential. what s changed in the last six months, wolf, unfortunately, the courts ruled in what democrats view in their view saying that the population is protected for now and democrats not come too long the table and tried for a deal here. as you know, we need 60 votes in the united states senate. without cooperation it s difficult for us to get there. democrats say they want they re willing to give you i understand that. what you want on border security and make sure that the dreamers are protec