his motivation is clear, he genuinely wanted something to stop this immigration influx over the u.s./mexican border. remarkably even though the economists are saying this would hurt the economy and that could be a tremendous platform on which he could run in 2020. let me get laura in here. we listen to peter navarro, insisting that the americans will not pay for the tariffs but that is no what we are hearing from the business leaders and the economic experts. who is telling the truth here? i would say the businesses and economic leaders. not only will it hurt american consumers but people out of necessity are flowing situations of poverty and violence. so punishing those countries, punishing mexico, making their economy worse will only make the immigration flow worse. this is not that hard to understand. you don t punish people if you want to stop immigration, we need to work with those countries to make their
from the president. perhaps a different kind of setting for him to do it, but not missing a chance to make that argument. as we ve seen, the president often uses very campaign-style language, even when he s in the official duties of the presidency. so not a surprise there, but more of the beating the drum so to speak that he believes a wall or barrier is a necessity. no backing off and no sign that there is going to be any relenting on that point. if we do get back to negotiations with democrats between the white house, capitol hill and those who could possibly resolve this government shutdown. ayman. kelly o donnell live for us at the white house. the president also making reference to humanitarian crisis on the border. a new report from the health and human services general revealed that thousands more children than previously thought were in fact separated from their parents at that southern border. the separations occur during an immigration influx that began in 2017 before the z
deal with president obama s executive order on immigration. they re trying to come up with a five-point master plan to deal with those five million undocumented residents who will soon get legal status. the mayors want to set up a warroom for the expected increase in municipal services, establish i.d. cards for undocumented residents and scale back cooperation with federal officials who could deport them the the mayors say municipalities are on the front lean of the immigration influx. the president s action is a strong beginning. will affect millions. it s also a gateway to something much greater, comprehensive immigration reform. the thing that s been worked on for years and years in this country. the consensus in the room today is that reform is actually closer because of the president s executive action. whether folks arrived in seattle because they were refugees or whether they re arriving to work in the tech
you also know left august acknowledged the fact that torture was used. that fact is not anything that wasn t known before. there s careful time fulful planning about the timing. just three days to the deadline. the president heading to nashville tomorrow to talk on immigration. clearly not backing down on that front. yeah and we didn t expect him to. he said he was going to get out there. an interesting choice though. a few years ago, nashville had something on the ballot that would have made english the official language. i think it surprised a lot of people at the time when that failed. there s been a lot of effort in that city to deal with what has been aburgeoning immigration influx. i think they ve doubled it over the last several years. they see the president going there as a recognition of the fact they are making progress on that front. for the president, it s another
looking where they should, but this has been building up, and it s at the point where we are right now. a couple of things i want to talk about that people point to part of the problem that the government is facing, part of the reason behind the influx, the 2008 trafficking law put in place to try to help children, to make sure that they weren t sent back to dangerous situations in central america. the government has said that this is hindering their ability to deport them in a speedy manner if they don t meet that threshold. what role do you think that plays in this? there s an interesting discussion between those who say this is an immigration crisis where you have undocumented crossing the border, and then you have others who say this is a humanitarian crisis where you have refugees looking for asylum. now, which one is it? is it asylum? are we receiving the children of a conflict in central america and are they looking for a safe haven or is this an immigration influx? that s a