border. these are not people fleeing starvation. obviously they had to buy transatlantic plane tickets to get to our continent. they are coming because they know they will be paid more in america. that s not irrational. you shouldn t hate them for it. but think about what that means. there are billions of people just like this all around the world.bu check the global population number if you don t believe it. they are astounding.pl the democratic party decided all of them deserve to come here and stay permanently at our expense. the law does not apply to them. this is totally nuts and it is scary. even some on the left think it is. the center for american progress is the preeminent liberal think tank in washington and a new report warns that the parties immigration position could cost democrats the next election. the report says the position is so extreme that they are forcing american voters to chooseatth between being a nation of immigrants or a nation of laws. in the end, most peopl
you say the obvious play here, obvious, is trading enhanced, better border security for a k daca deal. it seems all of our complaints about leadership, et cetera, are just. part of the problem is that the bases of both parties are fairly polarized. am i wrong? i think donald trump s immigration position at this point is actually sort of moderate. it s like give me 200 miles of border wall, but he doesn t say that when he talks to his base. he says wall, wall, wall and they go wall, wall, wall. on the democratic side nancy pelosi says i ll give you $1 for your wall. and the democrats go yea, yea,
which is the great unknown at this point. right. it s fascinating as we leer looking at this that no one there is really certainly not in the jeff flake mold or the john mccain mold and while that s a big question as you point out, moving forward what that could mean in the general, at least in this case it s further proof of how these divisive candidates, not just president trump, but these candidates are the ones gaining traction. mcsally is the establishment favorite in the race but to remain viable and win the primary she had to move not just stylistically to embrace the president more but on substance, too, having to move toward a much more hard-line immigration position. immigration is wrapped up with president trump and it has become the kind of defining issue for the republican party and the trump era. i was in arizona a few times and
i want to show you a picture of mollie tibbetts. she was just 20 years old. she should have been just starting her second year in college. by all accounts she had everything going for her and was well liked. and one night she goes out for a run last month. never comes home. yesterday investigators were led and they found her body. they were led there by the man they suspect of killing her. his name is cristhian rivera. officials say he is in the country illegally. and now what was done to her has been co-opted for political purposes, including the president who seized on yet another murder to make the point that his immigration position must be embraced. let s bring in don lemon. this isn t the first time we ve seen this. and it s very powerful stuff.
smidgen. and there s also the point of this being a strong union state and where voters are on the ground will be resonating with better economy, right, better jobs numbers which we re getting within recent months. what are you hearing from either union representatives and/or those who are working in the spaces? i saw you earlier on the casino floors talking to individuals. exactly, when he talks to the people here, this is las vegas, won by ten percentage points for hillary clinton back in 2016. when you re talking to people on the ground, while the economy is high there is a lot of other issues that you should note, right. immigration at the forefront. look at where a lot of these workers here, these union workers, a lot of them are of latino descent and looking and acknowledging there are family members impacted by the president s immigration position and it s telling that the president is here in las vegas. this is the one county that always consistently goes blue for the democra