it is now roughly 2 1/2 million illegal immigrants in this past year. the numbers rising. title 42 was a deterrent. we don t have one. what s the plan? there is no plan. let s just say a merry christmas to the dhs front line and their families. title 42 assisted in ending the last surge. based on public health law in u.s. code, allows the government to return people back to mexico because of the conditions of the pandemic. it would always sunset. it was always going to end. what we re seeing here is all the tools that cbp and dhs have have been ripped down. they broke the border and seeing the worst surge we ve ever seen. those people are going all over the united states. as tom said they are being trafficked, the cartels are running the agenda on our border. we re about to pass a 1.7 trillion spending bill to
have their hearing or let them wait in mexico for those hearings. that stopped the last surge and would end this if they implemented it fully. they refuse to do that because they prefer this chaos. i m not so sure that is accurate. i don t think that is true what you have suggested. nobody prefers this chaos. there are elements that the trump administration enacted that is since been confirmed illegal by courts and have had to be protocols for not the migrant protection protocols were not illegal. that s in u.s. code. they could end this surge by fully implementing it again. they refuse to do it so what is the reason? apparently they believe in an open border and not a controlled border because that s what we got. again, i don t think that s fair. i will say our understanding based on cnn s reporting it s something they are considering trying to continue to do, that
and former presidents, vice president. i was just at a conference a week and a half ago with 11 representatives from those nations, all 11 nations, you hear commoninalities. there is problem and there are problems in those countries and america is absent. i don t know where he gets the idea we re down there. those leaders have told me they don t hear from the biden administration. fact is, this is what s happening. it is deliberate policy and it is not about title 42. that s a stopgap. this is about border enforcement and u.s. code immigration law. border agents doing their job. they are not being allowed to do their job. they are babysitters picking up diapers and supplies when they should be enforcing border security. harris: they are saving lives and pulling children out of the river. it is more than cleaning up. that s a heartbreaking part as well. title 42, if it gets worse than what it is from what we saw this morning, scott, your last quick
less than an hour later, clarence thomas participated in the questioning of council in more versus harper. joining us now is professor laurence tribe who is taught constitutional law at harvard law school for five decades. thank you very much for joining us tonight, what is the law that clarence thomas is now apparently in violation of? the law, lawrence, is 28 u.s. code, section 4:55, and contains two provisions that almost any lawyer would say require clarence thomas not to participate at all. one of them says that a justice, specifically applies to supreme court justices, may not participate if somebody could reasonably question that justices impartiality. clearly, that is the case here. another section says that, if the justices spouse has an
thank you very much for joining us tonight, what is the law that clarence thomas is now apparently in violation of? the law, lawrence, is 28 u.s. code, section 4:55, and contains two provisions that almost any lawyer would say require clarence thomas not to participate at all. one of them says that a justice, specifically applies to supreme court justices, may not participate if somebody could reasonably question that justices impartiality. clearly, that is the case here. another section says that, if the justices spouse has an interest in the case, the justice must not participate. it is obvious that ginni thomas has an interest. she was an active participant in the attempt to do something like the independent state legislator theory which was before the court on the