for the wall, would you vote in favor of funding building a wall with mexico? the bill that we passed out of the senate, the so-called gang of eight bill, hand funding for 750 miles fencing, barriers, in some places walls. so we ve already done that. it s not going to be the type of wall that some envisioned that goes for 2500 miles. but we obviously need better border security. i just think we need other things, as well. interior endorsement, a mechanism to deal with those here illegally. you know, a guest worker plan moving ahead. so we ll fight for those things, as well. that gang of eight you were talking about, comprehensive immigration reform, you had republicans and democrats in the end, it died. let s talk about your state, arizona. obamacare, the affordable care act, the premiums could
if we had immigration reform, then what we could do is at least address, in a dpr comprehensive way, all the different issues. one is the guest worker plan. because there are people that just want to come in, work and go back to their families in other countries, come back later and work. and at least we can register. there are a lot of folks coming in for different reasons, economic reasons. sometimes it s united they want to be united with a family member over here because that person has been working here for a long time. so, if we do immigration reform and by the way it s not going away. all we have to do, like you said. you ve been down to the border. the numbers don t stop. in fact, the numbers that you quoted a while ago are increasing, maybe not like they were last summer but they are still large numbers. imagine the 62,000 kids that came in last year. 40,000 unaccompanied. 22,000 came in with an adult. that s 62,000 kids from central america that we saw that doesn t
what is it about his message that has resonated so much so that he s leading the pack? listen, i believe in border security and a guest worker plan and i believe in making sure we deal with the 11 million or 12 million undocumented aliens that we have here. i believe in immigration reform. but when you get into a debate of immigration reform and you go down to a mean-spirited debate which is what he s doing, then that s uncalled for. we can have our differences on immigration reform. but anytime you start demeaning and just generalizing the mexican population like he s done, my father came across from mexico, he became a naturalized citizen. first a legal resident, naturalized citizen. he worked hard. he was a migrant worker. 2/10 paint people like my father, my brother my mom people who came across and worked very hard, to say they re murderers or rapists is uncalled for. but i have to say, he knows what
securing the border. a guest worker plan that addresses the needs we have here the skills we need in the united states because of the aging population and the other thing, we counted 11 million undocumented persons. in fact i looked at what david has said on immigration, we actually agree on a lot of things. all we need to do is get democrats and republicans to sit down and we can work this out, especially members like david and i that are from rz arizona and texas. we understand the border. shannon: the cbo has scored the senate version of the bill and cut down on illegal immigration by about 25%. why is there a rush to get this measure through? that is interesting. i was looking at that point earlier today. we are going to spend $30 billion to throw at the border all it is going to do reduce it by 25%. we got to do this in a
senators moving closer to ao deal on immigration reform after labor unions and businesses agreed on a guest worker plan. with the agreement between business and labor, every major policy issue has been resolved on the gang of 8. everyone, we ve all agreed we re not going to come to a final agreement until we see draft legislative language and we agree on that. we re much closer with labor and business agreeing on this guest work plan. that doesn t mean we cross every i or dotted every t. florida senator marco rubio, part of that gang of 8, cautions any deal may be used. a suspect driving right through the front door and slamming into a display.