behind-the-scenes? i think we took a took step, but it s just a baby step, in signing a letter of support for operation safe return where we rapidly and more accurately determine those families that clearly don t have even a credible fear claim, and safely return them back to central america. but you understand the overwhelming nature of the problem. i sent you the chart and your jaw dropped. since 2014, and that was the humanitarian crisis here when president obama declared it, there were 120,000 unaccompanied children, but primarily people coming as a family unit into this country illegally. we ve had 1,148,000 and have been apprehended and they re dispersed all over. we ve only removed about 12,000 of about the 820,000 family members. that s about 1 and a half
increased their enrichment of ukrai ukraiu it makes no sense they would go after the u.k. and are trying to divide and unite us and hopefully stand up to iran demanding they never have a nuclear weapon and to end their ballistic missile technology and their sponsor of terrorism around the region and world. let s talk about the border. you as homeland security chair, i know you have been working hard to come up with a bipartisan solution to the crisis there, the humanitarian crisis and the whole crisis overall currently. are you any closer to that as you re talking to your democratic colleagues behind the scenes? we took a good step but it s a baby step in signing a letter support for operation safe return where we rapidly and more accurately determine those
this is a fox news alert. in the wake of the trumpet ministration s failed ever to add a citizenship questions of the census, fox news confirming the white house is planning to change the tests to become a citizen of the united states. the current test asks questions about the declaration of independence, the constitution, the states and territories, administration officials are offering few details about the new test which will be piloted as soon as this fall but citizenship and immigration services acting director says it will be about civics and building stronger communities. arizona democrat senator kirsten cinema and republican ron johnson are part of a bipartisan group pushing for a pilot program to speed up removal of certain asylum-seekers at the southern border. operation safe return would allow the government to deport immigrants who do not claim fear for their safety within one to 3 days. for those who do claim such a
i haven t heard a democrat say that this is a manufactured crisis anna matter of months. it is so overwhelming. i am hoping to have a signed letter for a pilot program that we have been working on. we call it operation safe return. basically making the adjudication process very efficient. rapidly and more accurately determine those who don t have a good claim. return them to their home country. hopefully we will have bipartisan support as a strong signal to the human traffickers to say that we are not going to allow human traffickers to exploit our laws any longer. we start changing them, and really a plea to central americans, don t mortgage your home, don t give these traffickers, don t indict yourself to these people. some of the most evil people on this planet. you will suffer abuse. come into america if you have a valid claim the legal way. not using human smugglers. bill: we will see how far
we can t take all comers. we have to have a legal system, primarily designed toward working with our economy to get people in here to work so we can continue to grow our economy. this is completely out of control. again, the goal of our policy should be to reduce the flow of people coming into this country illegally and turn that into a legal flow. i understand that, but you don t believe coming up with some sort of better plan for central america might actually be the best way to decrease the flow? well, that is a very long-term solution. it s given rise to drug cartels, done great harm to the public institutions of central america. there s no doubt about it, we bear responsibility. that s not going to fix this problem in the here and now any time soon. i certainly want to see money flow to make sure we can safely return people. i m working with democrat colleagues on a pilot program called operation safe return where we can rapidly and more accurately determine those families tha