asked the judge do block the rules. the urgency of this case cannot be overstated because the government s surges of illegal ill grags is being significantly compromised by the district court s order imposing aen incorrect interpretation of a 20-year-old settlement agreement never contemplated by the parties. translation. what you just saw was obama s lawyers arguing the rules were too soft on migrants, two hard on them on dhs. the judges were expanding them in a way that awarded immigration. the obama court lost. an appeals found they couldn t be held for more than 20 days. that s the rule that lets families nowadays go free this part is soup were important. because this is the issue here. have you the idealistic goals. protect human rights, don t detain people forever. which sounds fair. then have you the practical rules. who is actually covered? how long? what s the ultimate remedy? obama was arguing they were
senior justice, help me understand this as we are cracking down on immigration are the rights even worse tan before? there is no question we see it in the statistics the cases of labor trafficking is on the rise. actually, sex trafficking is going down as labor trafficking is going up. some of this absolutely is about undocumented immigration and the vulnerability. but even documented ill grags. sow come on an h 2 visa. are you a guest worker. if you are mistreated as a slave having been made promises by an employer that brought you in. you don t have freedom to go to another employer. you don t. if that employer fires you you are undocumented and subject to removal. this is one of the problems with the failure to coordinate law enforce. first responders who often are employerss and the department of justice and homeland security in terms of 50i6ding who is a
board. they want to do bills with the majority of the majority. you re not going to get infrastructure and you re not going to spend money again the government doesn t have. what is the rest of the agenda for 2018? cultural wars that donald trump likes to stoke thinking it will galvanize his base to turn out for republicans in the fall. this morning he s talking about ill grags. here is what he just tweeted in the past hour, negotiations on daca have begun. republicans want to make a deal and democrats say they want to make a deal. wouldn t it be great to solve the daca puzzle after so many years. this is the last chance. there will never be another opportunity. march 5th the deadline. imagine if he doesn t extend that deadline, if they don t get a deal. that sounds like what he s saying. it s all on him. we ll see. a court has issued an injunction blocking the enforcement of that deadline for now. that s not indeficit but this pretense that march 5th is a hard deadline, that
that s up to congress. well i would say this. the that president obama and president bush failed to go forward on ill grags. we all tried. the time is right. the president was right to cancel daca because it is unconstitutional. these 10 republican attorney generals probably did us all a favor by forcing the issue. but he gave us six months. we re not going to pass a bill without presidential help. david gregory is right. he needs to sell this deal. his voice in the house will matter a lot. so the president s going to have to help the congress find a compromise is there to be found. i think he will. i think he has the ability to do. the reason you think congress can t do it without the president s leadership is because you haven t yet? you have no faith that two sides can come together without the president applying pressure? i ve been working on comhentsive immigration reform for a decade. john mccain has been the father of this idea on the republican
compromise on immigration reform. and i ve auflz said that the only way we can get this done is if we have bipartisan support in congress for immigration reform. his predecessors, president bush who i worked with, and president barack obama were not able to bring republicans and democrats together. ironically, donald trump may be in a position to negotiate that deal because of his support within the can conservative base, but also his ability to negotiate. ironically the person who meme mall line as being anti immigrant may be the one who can actually negotiate some deal that could bring undocumented immigrants, those who have no criminal record, out of the shadows. it s interesting. we were talking earlier about the irony that, if he s the one to get it done, an ill grags deal done, the guy who when he announced his president called some mexicans i don t have to