So there is a question about what would the impact of lifting this covid related restriction be on actual migration. it s a complicated issue. the white house has said it is intending to lift it at the end of may and there has also been a push to perhaps extend that. one of the issues is funding and how could congress provide more funding to carry out all of the necessary services that go along with that. andrea. robert, there s bipartisan opposition actually to lifting title 42. you have mark kelly and other border state senators who are up and you ve certainly got criticism from texas republicans. what does the president do? he s really caught. immigration is becoming a big issue for the midterms. it s becoming bigger. just to add to what kelly said, i think the secretary of homeland security is on capitol hill for three hearings this
What we need now is comprehensive immigration reform. this can has been kicked down the road by democrats and republicans far too long. it is not a democratic issue or republican issue. this is an american issue. i heard democrats in our party, we have border state senators that can lead on immigration reform with republican counterparts. president biden s budget that was released just a month ago surges resources to the border, hires more border agents. that s the kind of work that we can be doing on a bipartisan level not show-boating. jacqui: i asked i asked the white house about this earlier in the week because they admit that they something needs to be done at the border. they want to have comprehensive immigration reform, they say that it s been an open invitation to republicans to come and work with them but they
House press briefing. yes. this is obviously going to come up. the president has largely said due process is not important in this front. he said due process is not important on the border. he had a different standard had he he is talking about his own cohorts and his allies. in february he was tweeting complains there is no due process referring to the press i ll read you the quick tweet. he said people s lives are being shattered and zrid by a mere allegation. some are true and some are false. some are old, and some are new. there is no recovery for someone falsely careered life and career are gone. is there no such thing any longer as due process. wow. there, president trump clearly on the side of due process. when it comes to migrants coming to the border he doesn t want them to have hearings or due process. so we will see here from sarah huckabee sanders just what the president s understanding of the potential solutions are. because members of his own party, border sta
Wouldn t be as hard. it does seem like he is, you know, he hasn t radically changed on nap ta, clearly he s emphasizing something else, he s looking to renegotiate. is it fair for democrats to hammer him on this? you can argue he s open to changing or open to listening to other people. that s the nice way of looking at it. not only the democrats that hammered him on this, the people that came out quickly to defend nafta were actually republican senators. the ones that came out the quickest were border state senators like senator john cornyn and john mccain and jeff flake from arizona and texas. it matters to them. they know the benefits of nafta in their states. the point you were making, we see this over and over again from president trump here s the bottom line. we elected a government neophyte. he had never done this. he s a tv producer and real estate developer and brand maker and expert in that. he s learned in the last 100
It does seem like he is he hasn t radically changed on nafta, though clearly he s emphasizing something else. but he s looking to renegotiate. is it fair for the democrats to be kind of hammering him on this? you can argue he s open to changing or he s open to listening to other people. that s the nice way to put it. the democrats hammer him on this. the people came out quickly to defend nafta were actually republican senators. the ones that came out the quickest were the border state senators, senator john mccain, jeff flake from arizona and texas. it matters to them. they know the ben filgefits of in their states. i think the point you were making, we see this over and over again from president trump. here s the bottom line. we elected a government neophyte. he had never done this. he s a tv producer and real estate developer and a brand maker. he s an expert in that. but he s learned in the last 100 days that health care is complicated. that nato is not obsolete.