court dates, with that we bring in vice president national security foreign policy the heritage foundation james carafano. something that the more hawkish tougher immigration folks were pushing for for a long time. 60 days for court fights by the aclu and others on this one, are they going to be able to do this? they ll be a court challenge but we always talk about is this something of the hard right, this is much more humane policy, first of all, if you re dragging children across the border, that s putting children at risk and the number one responsibility of the u.s. government is to make sure the children are safe and taken care of. does anybody so first of all, deterrent to doing that to begin which is child endangerment but the other thing does somebody think it s a great idea to take family to bus stops and say, you are on your own leland: the question, though, is will this make it through the courts or is this just a
efforts on their border for years and they provided that. under the prior administration they did more than ever in terms of repatriation of those crossing but in this administration they committed about 300 additional immigration folks. a few hundred additional officers to support them. 6,000 is a tenfold increase. a complete change in their approach. did they say they were going to do that before the tariffs? no, we had not heard anything like a number of 6,000. we heard that they had increased security and the numbers were in the hundreds. we asked for transportation checks we have 100,000 people flowing to our border a month. they committed to addressing that flow by setting up check points with their security forces. they also agreed to working with us to address the places where you see that large group type of crossing. 1,000 people in one group. we see 2, 3, 400 a day all the time now. hopefully that makes a difference. i think it will. hopefully you ll be able to sen
i have been working with the government in mexico for 18 years. and you went to try to figure out how to help them too. it s important that the american people know that. what s the deal with mexico? for the last 18 years this is the most significant set of commitments operational and policy that we ever had from a government of mexico. let me be clear on that. they committed 6,000 national guard to secure their southern border. they made a policy statement that it s a priority to gain operational control of their border for the first time. that s a big deal. that s a game changer for us. were they talking to you about that before this or after it? so they have been talking to dhs we have been asking them for additional border security efforts on their border for years and they provided that. under the prior administration they did more than ever in terms of repatriation of those crossing but in this administration they committed about 300 additional immigration folks. a few
growing quite a bit. because when we were here last night. the migrants were getting a little restless. they made the call the law enforcement to keep them, in not let them out. we learned the governor, who was out here, miguel, he is the one that put them on the buses here and brought them here. we learned from him that he intends to send immigration in. they may be in there right now. we saw some immigration folks and find out who did not apply for that one-year temporary visa who do not have papers. he says he is going to immediately deport them. listen. [speaking spanish] we are seeing if tomorrow institute can come and work through all the papers and those that don t have the right to be here to return immediately then to their place of origin. griff: i have talked extensively with the border patrol chief matthew hudak
he s only thinking about securing the border but he s also thinking a lot about politics, he s watching the polls and feeling the heat. he knows if he backs down from that wall, his coalition could crumble in a way that could be perilous for him politically. and today among other things, this is not amnesty because there has been criticism from ann koemter, among others. in the tweet he said amnesty will be used only on a much bigger deal. that doesn t seem to make the conservatives satisfied. their fear is amnesty and now he says amnesty is what i m up for. what do they make of that? the hard-koranty immigration folks will be troubled by that. although we ran against him in the primaries found out that was only part of his coalition. i think the interesting thing here, back to who s going to be running things in washington is the immediate blame goes to the president, he acknowledges that. but in the end i think it s dangerous for the democrats because it erodes their main