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Trafficking. we re going to be having a major statement on the border sometime later today or tomorrow. there s president trump tease ago major announcement on the border crisis. officials say this memorial day is one of the busiest days in recent memory. more than 2,200 migrants apprehended. meantime, the trump administration appealing a federal judge s decision to block the white house from transferring $1 billion in pentagon funds to help build the border wall. the judge says congress, not the executive branch, controls federal spending. unless stayed, the court s judge will harm the government and the public by prohibiting this government from taking critical steps to stop the flow of illegal drugs from entering through the southern border. u.s. customs and border protection announced a new position to help handle the influx of migrants. the agency hopes to give uniformed agents more time to handle enforcement duties on the ....
Mailing them. we saw the seizure that cpb did with fentanyl. those are the things that ice investigation. human trafficking. child exploitation. counter proliferation. joint terrorism ice force. ice has such a wide range of enforcement duties and responsibilities that sometimes that lost behind the immigration debate. steve: matt, ultimately, you know, if they want to do something about ice, change the law. because it is the law of the land. absolutely. our officers and special agents are law enforcement professionals and enforce the laws that congress pass. we will continue to enforce the laws that congress pass. if our laws change we will pass the new laws. until such time as the laws are changed we will continue to enforce them village lengthily and passionately. steve: democrats in the conference committee are saying we are going to talk to the experts. you are an expert. we a wall work? a wall would absolutely be an essential part of any border security plan that we have. it s ....
Saying it s illegal forr anyone who lives in that state, private citizens, to cooperate with you, a federal law enforcement agency, what does that do to the work you are trying to do in the state of california? it makes our enforcement duties a lot more difficult in the state of california. rather than taking custody of a criminal alien who is a public safety threat inside the security and safety of a county jail where we don t have access to weapons, now we are forced to go into neighborhoods, places os employment, to locate these public safety threats on their turf where they could have access to who knows what weapons.co my biggest concern is one of my agents is going to knock on the door some day and he s not going to go home that night. that s very unfortunate because he should have been able to apprehend that person in jail and not be forced to go on his turf to arrest him. tucker: so this is making t it more dangerous for federal immigration agents, but there is an irony her ....
There have been other complaints filed against macy s. talk a little bit about this and where you think this topic not just in retail but generally the whole idea of racial profiling stands now, and what you need to do to move it in a better direction. well, we re looking at our local communities. of course we ve been very, very active in new york with the stop and frisk. we believe strongly that people should be safe in their communities and that we are encouraging law enforcement, just because you happen to be lbgt or for some racial reason or religious preference, that that doesn t give you reasonable suspicions and that the law enforcement agencies should be very conscious of what they re doing and as they profile people in their enforcement duties. but for us, politics is local ....
Status during other enforcement duties like a traffic stop, some are asking why cities get a pass for ignoring the immigration law. arizona law is in compliance with the federal law. the justice department should stay out of it and encourage arizona to be enforcing the laws and secondly, they should be proactively enforcing federal immigration law, which means challenging cities and states with the sanctuary policies. the department of justice sees it differently, saying arizona is unconstitutionally interfering with the government s role with immigration control. spokesman said today, there is a big difference between a state and locality saying they are not going to use resources to enforce federal law, as the so-called sanctuary cities has done and a state passing its own immigration policy that actively interferes with federal law. but to those who support the arizona law and oppose the idea of sanctuary cities, that seems like a cop-out. this administration has shown again ....