for decades in new york. so, in that sense, he may be enjoying it and may be very comfortable. it s also the case, chris,s that it s kind of unburdening if you don t care about the functioning of government to play out the tabloid spectacle that mona s describing. it s exactly right. senator van hollen explained it well. there are 800,000 federal workers who are furloughed or working without pay. you ve got countless other government contractors who won t get paid. it s the government services that aren t being provided. it s not only the national parks that are now overflowing with garbage, apparently, and you ve got home loans, farm loans, not going out the door. passpo passport applications being slowed down. look, most of what happens in government isn t partisan. right. you would hope that regardless of party, you would want to make sure that government works effectively. that s why any of us come in to public service. the fact he has so little disregard for this that he s
earlier about making people pay who allege these defamatory falsehoods, whether it s against a judicial candidate knowing that the thing is so outrageous and false or recklessly referencing it that people have to either be penalized severely or it s going to keep happening. and same thing with this. if you can t throw the book at people who do this. republicans are always on the defense. you ve got to go on the offense against these people. you have to see some people actually behind bars. let s see if they actually not only charging but they actually prosecute him and put him in jail and make sure that every single federal employee sees that. most of them are good hardworking decent patriotic people but there s an element in there that knows they won t get arrested, they won t get prosecuted, they won t even get fired. shannon: was it during obama won one of those state department employees i can t remember, it was like gois or passport applications, just
our country, who have been border patrol agents, individuals who have voted in past elections. without the raw data, which has not been provided to us or the washington post by the state department, it s impossible to verify that there has been a surge. we have talked to at least two immigration attorneys who tell us they are seeing this policy and practice by the government being implemented with a lot more fervor. this is what the state department is saying to that. this has not changed regarding the adjudication of passport applications. the u.s.-mexico border region is an area of the country where there has been a significant incidents of citizenship fraud. between the 1950s and 1990s, these individuals were born to midwives, actually babies born in mexico, that were provided fraudulent documents, birth certificates which were illegitimate. which is why the government says it has to crack down. this is happening at a time when president trump is going after and lobbying for stric
morning is that they say there s a surge. this is happening more and more frequent under president trump. cnn has been unable to independently verify that. the state department has not provided the washington post or c thnn with specific raw numbers. this is what they are saying about the practice. this policy has not changed. the policy or practice regard g iregarding the adjudication of passport applications. this is what they are saying. it s impossible to distinguish between legitimate and illegitimate birth certificates for those born in midwives between 1950s and 1990s. their claim is that physicians have provided illegitimate birth certificates to babies born in mexico. according to the paper, this is nearly impossible but the denials are happening. it s worth noting at a time when president trump is lobbying for stricter voter i.d. laws,
welcome back. the trump administration s crackdown along the mexican border isn t just limited to people trying to come here illegally. now a growing number of hispanic americans are being denied passports because the government is questioning their citizenship. the washington post reports the trump administration is accusing hundreds and maybe thousands of people of using fraudulent birth certificates since they were babies. the government alleges that some midwives and physicians along the border gave u.s. birth certificates to people who were actually born in mexico decades ago. in a statement to the washington post the state department said it has not changed pauly or practice regarding the adjudication of passport applications and the u.s./mexico border region happens to be an area of the country where there has been a significant incidence of citizenship fraud. it happened under george w. bush and the obama administrations too but that mostly ended after a government settleme