it s very expensive, correct, steven, to bring them here. yes, for the price of taking one to the united states, you could resettle 10 plus in their home country. here in the united states, they will get and this is true now as a matter of law because of the funding bill that congress passed, they will get free healthcare, free welfare, free public housing, free food stamps for as long as they are here. and you could help 10 times poor people, again, if you wanted to in their home region this about a humanitarian mission. this is about an immigration mission that is ideologically driven. time to use a word that president trump used all the time but too rarely used today. and that s the word assimilation. immigration doesn t work without assimilation. and you cannot have a large scale pipeline of immigration from a part of the world where women are treated as property and expect that entire migration flow to suddenly become
some think so, and they think that perhaps, for example, the immigration mission should be taken away from homeland security and given to some other emergency. dhs has largely been the department of immigration and is in the view of some lost its ability to focus and it was protecting the nation mission, but that remains a controversial issue, andrea. pete williams, thank you so very much. more than a year after the 9/11 attack, a congressional, mandated bipartisan panel had the 9/11 commission report and a comprehensive look at how it happened and how we can learn from it. two members of the commission, the chair and the vice chair, tom kane and welcome both, governor kane, and i guess lee hamilton was also the vice chair. you were a member, a democratic
authority. laura: mark morgan was just named a few hours ago acting border patrol chief. if you have a good working relationship with him. absolutely. i ve worked with him for years. he s been at cbp before, did a tremendous job for us there. chief of the border patrol, it will be good to have him back in that chair. if he is a key partner in getting the immigration mission done. laura: so people understand the sheer numbers, mr. secretary. these are the total apprehension numbers. may, 132,000. april, 99,000. march, 92,000. february, 66,000. a total of 593,000 this fiscal year alone. so far when you add them up to october. what does it look like this month? can you give us a sneak peek of what those numbers are going to look like you make thanks to the president s engagement with mexico we are seeing the numbers come down. they ve stepped up enforcement efforts on their southern border, interdicting those transportation networks.