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While former President Trump had a knack for whipping the press into a frenzy no matter what he seemed to say, one issue he touched on in 2018 brought about
ports of entry including airports. well, and that s what i was saying. it is from all ports of entry but on the southern border, last year, alone, 3,000 special interest aliens were apprehended trying to come into our country. those are individuals whose travel patterns or backgrounds represent the need for additional screening and represent a potential security threat to the united states of america. there are two different categories and they often get conflated. well, that last sentence is actually correct, they are two different categories, and they get conflated when you conflate them, which is what the vice president just did. that 4,000 figure refers to people stopped mainly at airports or applying for visas, not at the southern border. while 3,000 so-called special interest aliens were stopped at the southern border, according to u.s. officials, many were stopped at actual points of entry. and the term special interest alien doesn t mean they re a terrorist. they re on va
nothing to do with the wall. food stamps have nothing to do with the wall. let s fund those. we ll fight about it in the context of the dhs budget and, you know, we ll live to fight another day. let s get one more that would be one way to actually senator, you say that people feel like the president doesn t know what he s proposing. you don t know what the president is proposing. but some people say they don t really know what democrats are proposing, either. you talk about border security, it s sort of a vague term. what are democrats, and you obviously caucus with the democrats, what are they proposing? in the appropriations bill that passed was $1.6 billion for border security and there were lots of pieces of it. anderson mentioned more border patrol people, technology, fencing. there may be and in fact, a wall could be part of it. a portion of it. there s wall down there now. i ve seen it. i ve been to the border in texas. but to that s why i say i keep getting back
but on the southern border. that is a misleading claim that s been fact checked as i believe you re aware. it is from all ports of entree. but on the southern border last year alone 3,000 special interest aliens were apprehended trying to come into our country. here s a fact check. nearly every immigrant from a country outside the western hemisphere is classified as a special interest alien, does not mean they re on terrorist data bases. someone in the eastern part of the world had come from asia or europe, or europe, they would be considered special situation. not a terrorist watch list person. this is an abuse of the presidential power over information. joining us right now is national political reporter for the washington post. and i want to talk to you.