john boehner said this morning before they move forward on immigration principles they have to figure out what border security is. one said verify then trust. the billions of dollars towards border security in the senate bill has not satisfied house republicans. we are still left wondering what that is. i ll throw this on top of that. once we find out what border security is, there s a lot of fear amongst more conservative members, specifically the ones i talked to that say we don t trust president obama to actually execute a border enforcement strategy because a la the health care bill he s going to pick and choose what he wants to enforce and he s going to keep the legislative branch out of it. so those are the two big fears the gop leadership has to overcome when they sell this plan to their members later today. we don t know what the specifics are go ahead. so the question as you hear it is what is true border security in an age of historic
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those immigrants. now they have to prove to the government they tried to hire an american before which they didn t have to do before, they just had to promise. no matter what if you re on a job search a few years from now it s going to be tougher. your take on the bipartisan plan and where the country should go. this bill is not perfect. there are some things in there we want to tweak and things we want to improve but we have argued when we relieved our immigration principles on february 5th that immigration reform should be pro family, it should be pro the rule of law and it should secure the border and protect u.s. softvereignty. today we have over a million children and spouses of people who are here legally. these are people who played by the rules. they have a green card. they have a child or a husband or a wife who is waiting in a line, depending upon the country, that could be 10 to 16 years long. i had an employee who was a
nation of laws and a nation of immigrants. i d like to read senator lindsey graham s brief statement. he says, i hope the third time is a charm. i ve enjoyed working with any senate colleagues in drafting these principles and believe we re off to a good start. bipartisan immigration principles represent a real breakthrough on substance and i hope seen as a breakthrough for a political coalition to finally solve our immigration problems. the coalition must also include the president and the house of representatives. my hope is immigration reform bill will start in the senate and receive an overwhelmingly bipartisan vote. we are a long way from legislative language but i believe 2013 represents us the best chance to pass immigration reform in many years. the time is right and the way forward while difficult is being better defined by the day and with the reasonable amount of political give and take we ll be successful. however, if for some reason we
congress, directed his cabinet to manage their shutdown in a way that, unlike 2013, how does little impact as possible, and stood firm on there were public and position. democrats say the shutdown resulted in a commitment from sin or and leadership to consider immigration next month. republicans say that they were planning to do that anyway. while this short-term funding measure opens the government for a few weeks, the policy differences that started this all still remain. it will be continue negotiations to protect from deportation the nearly 700,000 dreamers, those brought to the united states illegally as children. then, there s the white house s immigration principles, ending family-based or chain migration. the visa lottery system, and funding for a wall on the u.s. border with mexico. in a government funding bill, there are also differences on government funding. democrats want republicans to plan to increase military spending, to also include a boost in domestic spending, as we
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