law enforcement and intelligence analyst john miller, also democratic congressman and former congressman joe walsh. congressman is this your fault, congress s fault? as the mayor said, why can t congress act? i agree with the mayor and as an immigrant i agree that we have not been able to come forward with calm crisis reform. but it s a crisis in the hemisphere. a crisis of democracy. most of the folks coming over are from nicaragua and venezuela, fleeing ruthless, thuggish regimes. see what s happening in peru right now. and you see the crisis, the environmental crisis in some countries that pushes people to look for some level of help. that s why it s getting worse. so why can t congress act? we should act and i m not blaming one saturn other. we haven t found the will to do
intelligence analyst john miller, democratic congressman adriano espia from new york and joe walsh. great to have you here. congressman, is this your fault? as the mayor was saying, why can t congress act? i agree with the mayor and as an immigrant, i agree we have not been able to come forward with comprehensive immigration reform. so it s a crisis at the border, but it s a crisis in the hemisphere, a crisis of democracy. most of the folks that are coming over are from nicaragua and from venezuela fleeing ruthless, thuggish regimes. you see what s happening in peru right now and you see the crisis, the environmental crisis in some countries that pushes people to look for some level of help. that s why it s getting worse. so why can t congress act? we should act and i m not blame blaming one side
59 and 60s. the nicaraguans, like me, who came in the 80s. the venezuelans coming now and so many influxes of immigrants fleeing left-wing totalitarian, thuggish regimes. you check off a box and you get brownie points with nicaraguans, cubans, all of whom are voters. it s an issue that matters for us. and the interesting part is, you know, but for cuba, nicaragua and venezuela, there hasn t been a dictator that donald trump has met that he hasn t liked. the difference is that cubans, venezuelans and nicaraguans vote in a purple state that usually comes down to the wire where you can win or lose an election by 534 votes, by less than a percentage point. what we ve seen repeatedly, the theme we ve seen repeatedly used in florida and now nationwide is