of spying. gregg: arizona is not the only battleground in the fight over illegal immigration. a federal court of appeals, the third circuit ruling against thn small town of hazeltown, cracking down on employers thatn irdse illegals an lapped lords that rent to them. now, the third circuit says the usurped federal authorities. the mayor says he had no choice but to take action. it was the firstteitin the united states to take action because the federalovernment efused to. i had met with the federal government, with the department of justice back in decemr of 2005, talked about the problem we re having in our city. the gangs, illegal immigration problem. gregg: mayor pledging to take the case to the u.s. supreme court. could it settle illegal immigration once and for all. did the third circuit get it
and i do not expect that to change. and that s the memo. now for the top story tonight, if sarah palin were president, could she solve the illegal immigration problem? when i spoke to the governor last night, that was the big question. bill: so you re president of the united states, sarah palin. you send how many national guard to the border right away to secure it? however many you need. this is a top priority. this is a national security issue. bill: texas, california, new mexico, all of them, so you would send 10, 15 national guard down there to assist the border patrol, yes? whatever it takes. whatever it takes. bill: so you would militarize the border. finish building the fence from brownsville to san diego, yes? yep. bill: now we have 12 million people in here staring at you. you broke the law by coming in here. are you going to deport them or what are you going to do? again, first, let me go back
if sarah palin were president, could she solve the illegal immigration problem? when i spoke to the governor last night, that was the big question. bill: so you re president of the united states, sarah palin. you send how many national guard to the border right away to secure it? however many you need. this is a top priority. this is a national security issue. bill: texas, california, new mexico, all of them, so you would send 10, 15 national guard down there to assist the border patrol, yes? whatever it takes. whatever it takes. bill: so you would militarize the border. finish building the fence from brownsville to san diego, yes? yep. bill: now we have 12 million people in here staring at you. you broke the law by coming in here. are you going to deport them or what are you going to do? again, first, let me go back to the importance of securing the border. no we got that, governor.
immigration into the united states, don t you think the most of effective way to do that would be through a wall and through national guard troops? let s look at the data. the data shows that in march of last year we had a record low number of bored apprehensions. now you are going to say we have seen an increase. jesse: we have seen a big increase. the numbers we see now are nowhere near the numbers we have seen in previous administrations. jesse: so your argument is this, it s not as bad as it used to be, but that s not what we are talking about. okay? we are talking about stopping illegal immigration. if it s still going on, that means the problem hasn t been solved. how would you solve the illegal
how would you solve the illegal immigration problem at the border? you actually develop a process that people can go through. that s how you stop illegal immigration. jesse: what do you mean by go through? you reform immigration policy. jesse: keep it on border security. if you want to spend money on border security you invest in ports of entry. let s spend money at ports of entry and insure our security there. that s the real problem there is drugs coming into the country. jesse: i agree a lot of bad stuff flows across the ports of entry. but last year 300,000 people crossing the southern border illegally were caught. we don t even know about the ones who weren t caught.