bigger priorities for all voters. do you think people are actually going to want to look at these proposals and think, ok, we will spend this kind of money on changing an immigration system when actually the economy and had the health system in this country are absolutely needing investment right now? this country are absolutely needing investment right now? yeah, i don t think that investment right now? yeah, i don t thinkthat poll investment right now? yeah, i don t think that poll contradicts investment right now? yeah, i don t think that poll contradicts what i i think that poll contradicts what i just said, it measures a slightly different things. but it s perfectly possible to think that the economy needs growth and the nhs needs investment but also that the immigration system needs control. and when an immigration system doesn t have control it can cause pressures on public services like the nhs. it also, if the numbers are very high, disincentivises employers from making in
fellow democrats say it is too soon. i ll just give you one example. this comes from congressman tim ryan of ohio. he says quote prematurely ending this policy without a path forward does nothing to keep america safe, support our border patrol agents, protect asylum seekers or bring about the comprehensive fix our immigration system needs. and he s far from alone. so what do you say to the people who say we re just not ready for this? well, alisyn, great to see you. the first thing i would say is that title 42 is a public health law. it was used by the trump administration to circumvent actual immigration law, and the trump administration had a strategy of ending all the legal pathways that we had into the country, even though we didn t have sufficient amount of those. our immigration system has been broken for a long time, so we should be clear that the trump administration used title 42 in ways it never should have, but on top of that, title 42 has
more and more lawmakers are breaking with the biden administration on title 42. the latest is ohio rep tim ryan. he said prematurely ending this policy without a path forward does nothing to keep americans safe. support our border patrol agents. protect asylum seekers or bring about the comprehensive fix our immigration system needs. ryan joins 9 democratic senators who have opposed lifting title 42. including gary peter, chris coons, mark kelly, care discontinue sinema. warnock, masto, joe manchin and jon tester plus congressman henry cuellar and nevada democratic governor james sisolak. now, the number of illegal crossings surged to 209906 in march which surpassed the previous high from july which was the highest number since march of 2000, guys. steve: jackie, kudos to the