day one. harris: senator sinema said something so true. she said they have had two years to work on this. biden knew he wanted to do this the day he flipped the switch on trump s immigration policy. your last thought. he knew exactly what he was doing. he campaigned on it. secretary mayokas was deputy secretary when i worked for jay johnson who i respect, the secretary of dhs. we stopped this. we had a family. we built detention facilities and detained people and made them see a judge. 90% lost. sent them home. border numbers went down. what is mayokas doing now? not detaining them. released without a court date. for the 9d 0% that lose their case isn t looking for them because mayokas said it is not enough to make an arrest. harris: you just spoke to it right then. why does that man still have a
maybe the house will do the same thing and add more teeth to it like shutting down the total numbers coming in here and put stuff in there that talks about ice capabilities, detention capabilities. we have to be able to get ahold of this problem. this legislation is bipartisan and most importantly it came from the ground. it was people talking to the senators. senators listening to both sides of the aisle when it comes to elected officials, community leaders seeing the impacts. that s what the american people need to know exactly the report griff jot. the video doesn t lie. look at the numbers. 9,000 arrests along the southwest border. every border patrol sector with the exception of big ben is at 100% capacity. this is a problem. aishah: the administration has been hearing from these bipartisan lawmakers for a while. i attended hearings from mayokas where people and democrats are calling him and the administration out saying they
the administration is so out of touch. mayokas says the border is secure. president biden says we ll send 1500 troops down there. that will fix the problem. this just demonstrates how clueless they really are about what is causing this problem and what needs to be done to fix it. harris: is the problem that they re clueless? is anything else going on? i like mr. cornyn. they aren t clueless at all. they know exactly what is happening there and they are causing it and it is their intention for this to happen. it is not that they re mysteriously unaware. yet when the president s spokesman comes out and makes absurd claim that somehow illegal immigration is down 90% under this presidency. let s call the sky green instead of blue. everyone knows it s not true. we ve got to work urgently with this. perhaps we could pass legislation that would compel the same outcomes as title 42 but we only have a couple days to do it. even if we do do that, there is
what are they supposed to do? they are supposed to coordinate. what you are talking about is you expect the mayor, not you, there is an expectation mayors should do it on their own. this is immigration is a federal government responsibility and the convening power to get them to coordinate is at biden and mayokas s shop. not with the individual mayors, even though the mayors like lori lightfoot, sanctuary city, everybody can come. actually we don t have room for them. what about the small border towns in texas? they don t have room, either. they are running out of the space for them, the shelters. i totally agree. i drove to work the other day, spanish drive, a bunch of obvious recent arrivals were on the sidewalk. they were asking and waiting for lunch to be served at this wonderful church across from my hotel. they were from venezuela. they have a huge situation now
sheriffs and the local law enforcement that s doing the work and gives border patrol agents a $9 thousand pay raise. a good start but we have to go a step further. i have a bill i will continue working called the pay parity act. border patrol agents a 14% pay raise. congress has a bigger role to play. it has been partisan for too long. we can both protect the border from bad actors like what happened in texas as well as welcome those that want to come and live the american dream through the front door. i believe it starts with work visas. the administration has to come to the table. they are nowhere to be found. bill: the current system is unsustainable. a lot of the media don t pay attention to it. we have had a reporter on the border for 2 1/2 years. i don t know any other network in the world who matched that. back to meet the press and mayokas from yesterday. what is the definition of a secure border to you? it is in the context in which