of the president s policies or how much because it s hot down there in arizona now? no, the quoter it is because of the president s policies, he single-handily lowered the numbers, obviously because of loopholes that we have and because of immigration immigration loopholes, let s call it what it is. the numbers continue to go up. it s helping that méxico is getting involved, they are detaining people at their southern border, that s a big issue, i m not so sure it s helping that they are able to wait during the asylum process there in méxico, it s helping, but what is helping is obviously that they re being returned there at méxico southern border, listen, what it comes down to, even the money that was given, the budget that was given helps the facilities because we do need help in some of the facilities but the main thing is we need to figure out how the
mr. trump says that he delayed the raids for two weeks to allow democrats and republicans to work out a way to close immigration loopholes and to handle the influx of migrants seeking asylum. he tells nbc news the democrats have the power to solve the problem. if the democrats would change the asylum laws and the loopholes, which they refuse to do because they think it s good politics, everything would be solved immediately, but they refuse to do it. they refuse to do it let me ask you this you know what? if they change, i used to say 45 minutes, it s 15 minutes. if they changed asylum and if they changed loopholes, everything on the border would be perfect. let s talk about all of this now with peter matheus. peter a political analyst and professor of political science at cyprus college joining us this hour from los angeles. good to have you, peter. good to be here, george. so we know that the house speak nancy pelosi spoke with president trump and asked him to
video that is expected to come this afternoon. authorities are uploading the files in response to a freedom of information act request. police accused the actor of staging a hate crime against himself in january. smollett maintains his innocence and prosecutors dropped the charges. a judge has appointed a special prosecutor to examine the controversial decision. president trump delaying i.c.e. raids to see if congress can work on closing immigration loopholes that he says are at the root of the border crisis. the move comes after house speaker nancy pelosi called him to halt and urged him to halt the rates on friday. our conversation was one that sprang from the urgency that i saw in stopping those raids on sunday. families belong together. in america, everyone has rights. immigrants have rights. we just have to beat the drum for the next couple weeks. dana: chief congressional
i promise american people, we start removing people to have final orders including families the numbers will go down, this crisis will be positively impacted. we don t talk about it enough, tiered enforcement is to desensitize these people coming. arthel: mike pence also doing damage control this morning calling on congress to close immigration loopholes that he says serve as enticement to cartel and traffickers. the president, it can happen in 15 minutes. if democrats in congress would step up and agreed to close the loopholes that we know human traffickers are using to exploit vulnerable families. arthel: los angeles is the one of the term ultra politician a truce. local immigration activist planned demonstration at a downtown detention center today and every day this week. for more on this we will bring in tom, a retired ice
the left of the party. when we started seeing an if they listen too much to that side of the party, it s influx of unaccompanied going to have the same boomerang effect that it had children it has exponentially just grope to the levels we are seeing with republicans right now. impeached him. now this problem set, if s. 73% of americans approved of on top of the traditional president clinton day one after impeachment showing border security mission which includes which you are talking about the narcotic republicans overplayed their smuggling, the criminal hand. democrats can t do the same aliens, the aliens from thing here. griff: we will see what special interest countries happens from house as well as the economic democrats. joe concha, thanks for migrants that are trying to joining us today. rachel: thanks, joe. all right. have fun. griff: house speaker nancy evade b rd authorities pelosi has a new message for because they will be other own party vote as one retained and returned