three times the pre brexit average of 200 250,000 a year. let s speak to mikejones, who is executive director at migration watch, a british think tank which argues for lower immigration in the uk. the first thing we should say when we talk about those pre brexit figures, there s an awful lot of stuff that s happened since then. indeed. public opinion is strongly in favour of stricter immigration controls, and there is a widespread belief that this is the government s objective too. there is this sort of common belief that if there s a spike in immigration, it s to government lapses, possibly involving illegal entry or exploitation of the asylum system. but in reality, the spike in immigration results in deliberate policy, not its failure. so the figures have leapt from 606,000 to a staggering 745,000. and this reveals a betrayal of the government s policy to take back control, causing inflation numbers to go into the tens of thousands, and the numbers at 670,000 - tens of tho
it is a priority of the administration. do you believe right now there is a crisis at the border? the answer is no. i think there is a challenge at the border that we re managing. is there a crisis at the border? at this point is this a crisis at the border? we don t have to put new labels on what we ve already conveyed is challenging. is there a challenge at the border? let s go. dana: a couple thoughts there from a communications perspective if i could. definitely think the white house is feeling the heat about the president not being as visible or taking questions. they had him go out yesterday. he is at a hardware store looking around but not answering questions. one of the questions is about the border. they pull it out. today at 12:30 p.m. when jen psaki briefs the press she will bring with her somebody that deals with border security issues because they know they need to have a better answer. if i were jen psaki i would agree i would bring someone else
frankly, the reality, you see people making progress. the intellectual situation is that it makes it easier for a far right to win. that for me is a lesson to the united states. if you hear the people on the right of the republican party seeing some of the facts you are talking about as the country becomes less white and diverse we will never be able to win because these people don t care about the republican party, republican values, and, guy the way, immigrants are not integrating. we are not suck sealeding. succeeding. by the way, immigrants aren t succeeding because of the discrimination, the racism in the country that really exists. it is a really dangerous overall narrative. that s what tempts a lot of
tweets are timed politically. but the operations are not. these are things that i.c.e. agents want to keep under wraps. there are times when wee here at msnbc news have reported on a raid that might be coming and they cancel it because you can t let these things out to the public because what happens is immigrants go underground and a lot times they can cause problems in communities where immigrants aren t cooperating with police, aren t sending their children to school or getting other services that they need to be functioning members of their community. all right. julia ainsley, thank you. jacob sob bore off, always good to have you here in new york. elizabeth warren taking over the front runner now hitting joe biden in his appearance at high-dollar fundraisers. are those jabs starting to land with voters? plus john statute wart. not done with taking lawmakers to task, none particular after mitch mcconnell would take issue with his impassioned testimony on capitol hill over the