regularly. would it have helped to have a republican there? republicans were there on the ground. people that we talked to. donald trump used to come regularly to me border. he never invited me along. so that just happens. but we always work in a bipartisan way. this bill that i m talking about the safe zone act is a bipartisan bill and we ll continue reaching across the aisle and talking to our republican friends. so in terms of the bill, so currently under current u.s. immigration law, they have to be present or at the border to claim asylum. they can t do it in another country. part of the safe zone act that you re proposing would change that. allowing them to apply for asylum before they get close to the southern border. that is right. how much support do you in congress for we re going to have a lot of support for this bill. i had to discuss it with the president and i m discussing with president in guatemala next week and it creates a zone in guatemala as the first
Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) went a step further than GOP leadership in his proposal to end the crisis at the nation s borders, where federal law enforcement has encountered illegal immigrants approximately 5 million times since President Joe Biden took office.
announcement one way or another early in the new year, but a recent fox news polls shows a whopping 64% of voters would prefer that biden not run again, albeit an improvement from july when that number was 71%. the president hasn t released much of an agenda for the current term. more often than not blamed tore republicans standing in the way of things canceling student debt and lifting title 42, now indefinitely. and the supreme court will rule on the merits sometime this spring and we have no word from dhs and what they have to put in place if title 42 goes away. members of congress are tossing around ideas. i ve been one of the democrats in favor of putting title 42 in place until we have a real permanent solution to our problem on the southern border. i have a proposal called the safe zone act, that would
Democrats and members of the media criticized the Supreme Court's decision on Title 42 and slammed the Biden administration's lack of action at the border.
it s a band-aid. the safe zone act is the only proposal i have seen since i ve been there that could alleviate the problem on the border. do you have any republican colleagues on board with you then? yell, we re having conversations. we have republicans that are interested it s the only idea that i have seen that would giving this proposal to the administration. i hope they re thoughtful and considerate about it. this is really the only solution we have. most of the people that come to our southern border are escape poverty. that s just a fact. i m for immigrants coming to this country, we just need an