suspect says he has an issue with sex addiction. authorities said long was apprehended last night after a brief manhunt. appears he was en route to florida at the time, possibly to carry out additional shootings. when we hear president biden address this incident, he ll be speaking at a virtual meeting with what is a tradition in this country on st. patrick s day, ireland s prime minister. they ll be commemorating st. patrick s day. normally, this event is inside the white house. for covid reasons and travel restrictions, it is not being done this way, nor was it done that way last year. nbc s chief white house correspondent kristen welker is standing by, awaiting remarks from president biden. todd winter is covering this, as well. blayne alexander is in atlanta. kristen, this is a mostly ceremonial event with the irish prime minister. what do we expect to hear from the president? reporter: well, i think we can expect to hear him address the shooting off of the top of this
moved. when president bush was our president, he said build 650 miles of fencing and we will do immigration reform. guess what? we re over 650 miles of fencing and we still don t have immigration reform. there s a couple of things that we ought to look at. a good guest worker plan will help border security. then you ll have people come in and work and you know who is coming in and who is going to be returning. that way border patrol doesn t look at the people coming in to work and helping our economy grow but they can look at the people that have the bad motives, the people that shouldn t be here and we to that, some of the immigration reform actually will help us in border security as a guest worker plan would do. neil: congressman, you dealt with this as long as you been in washington. but you encounter resistance from both sides. you ve been working with both sides. you ve been working with a number of republican congressmen
it is third world conditions happening on our border. we have a labor demand because as soon as these folks are released they are absorbed into our economy that we have in this country. we need a comprehensive immigration plan, a guest worker plan. we need to assure good people continue to come to this country and work and be good citizens as we always have as a country. have there been talks about having immigration reform? i know democrats have talked about that. but of course it will reach a brick wall when it hit it is republican-led senate. give us a sense of what you are talking to your colleagues about? well, i personally have been talking we definitely need an immigration plan to resolve the issues we re dealing with in our country and on our borders. i have proposed having a guest worker plan. we haven t really had one like that since the 1950s. a lot of the migration that comes to the united states that americans generally don t want to do. and i think we should have th
to these young people? first of all, congress should have some time ago taken up what i consider to be incremental steps to where we can deal with our own economic problems. we left $2 billion in the field agricultural this last summer, this summer that we re ending right now. we need agricultural workers. in dallas texas we have jobs that are begging for people who will actually work in the trade s industry. in the northeast we heard testimony from richard neil about thousands and thousands of jobs that are going without being field. people cannot pass drug tests. we need for the sake of america to deal with this. we have an available workforce that is there. we need to work on a guest worker plan which would solve many of these ills that we have, and the problems of the direction we re going. my party, the republican party
11 or 12 million undocumented persons that you have? let me go back to the guest worker plan. senator jeff fleck and i were on the same page on this. if people that come in and work and they go back, a lot of people just want toe come in and work, you can provide that, those jobs for the people, for americans who don t want to do their job. if border patrol would not have to worry about those people looking for a job because they will go back on a guest worker plan, then, they can focus on the bad people that are trying to hurt us. tucker: with respect, we have been through this conversation literally for a generation on immigration reform. most people support in theory, it is the practice that scares everybody. congress is unwilling to secure the border. it s a simple ask for the publia to the lawmakers. i tell us he was coming in and out. account for the people here. to secure the border. yet, it has never been done. i don t understand why. the only explanation is you don t want to