yes. brian: as homeland security secretary, what s your role on that? it s a couple things. i think we need to look at all of our visa programs and ensure, first of all, that they meet the requirements that congress originally meant them to meet. we have a lot of fraud and abuse which decreases the ability of the people who need to come as part of that to come. it also demonstrated that one bad apple if you will can cause a lot of problems. very lucky there was no fatalities. but we have got to increase vetting for everyone coming in this country is what i take from that. brian: orders. chain migration. she would like the lottery system examined as well. steve: you are down there at the border. is she going to do everything she can to build the wall? brian: we will talk about that. we have this different ballard wall, a chain link fence. 54 miles of wall. and there is over 50 without any barrier at all. so you will get more of the bottom of the hour and major complete package on mo
we speak. and in the coming weeks to seriously take into account these concerns that we have with the way the immigration system is structured and vulnerabiliti vulnerabilities and correct that. at that point, my formal comments are concluded and answer any questions you have. thanks, a lot. i want to ask you a question. is it your belief the only changes that can be done to immigration system are ones that need to emanate from congress? is there anything that the president can do on his own by executive order to change the process for either chain migration or the visa lottery? well, i mean, that s something we are looking at right now in uscis which is my agency which is the agency that administers all these visa programs. there are some things we can do
i appeal, we appeal to the coming as they consider these matters as we speak and in the coming weeks to seriously take into account these concerns that we have with the way the immigration system is stirred and its vulnerabilities as i just described, and correct that. at that point, my formal comments are concluded. i will answer questions you have. quick question. yeah. thanks a lot, sir. i want to ask you a question about what you are suggesting. is it your belief that the only changes that can be done to the immigration system are ones that need to emanate from congress? are there any things that the president can do on his own, by executive action executive order to change the process for either chain migration for the visa lottery. well, that s something we are looking at right now in uscis, my agency, which is the agency that administers all these visa programs. and there are some things that we could do. there are some things that the president has directed us to do
coming weeks, to seriously take into account these concerns that we have with the way the immigration system is structured and its vulnerabilities and correct that. at that point, my formal comments are concluded. i ll answer any questions you have. quick question. thanks, mr. cissna. i want to ask a question about what you re suggesting. is it your belief that the only changes that can be done to the immigration system are ones that emanate from congress? are there things that the president can do by executive action to change the process for either chain migration or the visa lottery? well, that s something that we re looking at right now in uscis, my agency that administers these visa programs. there are some things that we could do. there s some things that the president has directed us to do
las vegas. las vegas we had the worst mass shooting in our nation s history. it was five weeks ago. so maybe now is the time. you want to talk about leadership? the state of massachusetts already passed and the republican lieutenant governor signed into law a ban on bump stocks. last friday. that s leadership. the gun violence, the death rate from gun violence in the state of massachusetts is three people per 100,000 per year. in texas, that rate is 12, in louisiana, it s 20. it s very obvious for anybody that understands anything about math that our gun laws do matter. and we need to have a discussion about our laws and we need to improve them in the states that have very weak gun laws, and texas a place where i called home for more than half of my life, is a you know, a state that needs to take a serious look at its gun laws. and not just talk about changing the visa programs when one incident happens rather than