And we ve made ourselves so vulnerable and the government needs to take a prominent and a directed approach to fighting the crime by making enforcement, making it so that law enforcement when we send somebody to jail that the judge will keep them there and make them accountable for their crimes. david: the president says that guns are the chief issue, the root cause, if you will. tell that to the family of michelle, the woman who was shoveled to her death in the subway or the woman stabbed to death in los angeles or a 70-year-old nurse, that s michelle that we re looking at right now and briana cupford stabbed to death both by homeless people, another problem we ve got to talk about or the folks mowed down by in wisconsin by a car. many people were killed. so the guns are not the
Of deportation, the number of detentions that occurred in the last four or five year, record level under this president. so the issue of making enforcement the only discussion point in this immigration debate is a red herring. enforcement is moving. it s at 87%, 92%, detainment and the benchmark is 90. i would suggest that those enforcement efforts are not only under way, they are doing the job. how much of that is also because the economy in mexico has actually improved somewhat considerably over the past five, ten years? i think that was a very important point that the president made on his trip to mexico and central america, that there is an economic link in this hemisphere in the united states, discussions about ports of entry you discussions of personnel, better transportation structure is a win/win for the united states and a win for mexico and central america. that is that s part of the