unfortunately, the president is pushing us in a wrong direction in so many ways. not just that, victoria. it strikes me one of the things you ll see the president today is it s all about illegal immigration. but way back when they tried to do a daca deal, who came along tom cotton and the president who impose the most restrictive immigration policy since the 1920s. the president knows this issue fires up his base. he started off his campaign on the issue of immigration. he was able to harness it throughout his campaign. got him into the white house. has continued using that. so it doesn t do him any good to actually do something to curb immigration, to do something at getting at the root causes, to provide foreign aid to central american countries so that folks don t have to migrate out. all of the real policy solutions, the tangle solutions the tangible solutions don t come into the picture because ultimately he needs a problem to scapegoat for political
impose the most restrictive immigration policy since the 1920s. the president knows this issue fires up his base. he started off his campaign on the issue of immigration. he was able to harness it throughout his campaign. got him into the white house. has continued using that. so it doesn t do him any good to actually do something to curb immigration, to do something at getting at the root causes, to provide foreign aid to central american countries so that folks don t have to migrate out. all of the real policy solutions, the tangle solutions don t come into the picture because ultimately, he needs a problem to scapegoat for political purposes. as we mentioned earlier, there is an idea of having a pathway to citizenship. in 2013, we saw the gang of eight put forward a very reasonable bipartisan solution. we could easily go back to that, but it s easier to have a scapegoat in saying you know what? we ve got this massive problem, this invasion, these caravans.