This is gps, the Global Public square. Welcome to all of you in the United States and Around The World. Im Fareed Zakaria coming to you from new york. Today on the program, the knesset votes to take away a key power of israels Supreme Court, and as Benjamin Netanyahu urges calm, the nations Political Center and left erupt in anger. Ill talk to the New York Times Paul Friedman about the politics involved and with his colleague Emily Bazilon about the legal issues. Then the secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas on the good news and the bad news from americas Southern Border. Finally, did President Putin lose or gain power after prigozhins failed mutiny . Ill ask russian journalist in exile mikhail zigov. But first heres my take. The mysterious disappearance of chinas Foreign Minister qin gang is a timely reminder that the future of u. S. China relations will be determined not just by american policy and whats happening domestically in the United States such as the president i
A humanitarian way of enabling people to seek asylum in the united states as our laws provide and the second part of it is to disen sent viez those who do not avail themselves of the lawful pathways. we have seen an approximately 70% drop in the number of individuals encountered in our southern border as a result. all that sounds like you re handling the kind of crisis of the moment, but you have 2.4 million a prehedges at the border. you re getting all these people trying to come in. they re all essentially claiming to be asylum seekers. they seem to me, adlt least economic migrants and fleeing poverty, disease as people have traditionally. isn t the asylum system broken if anybody can claim, if there s no real distinction between a
Lay out both sides to us. i think it s a good idea because what it is is it is an incremental step toward a solution to the problem. it allows 200,000 people to go before a judge and have their case reviewed and that s good because we re prior tieitizing law enforcement resources and that makes our community safer. we don t have the manpower to support the 11 million people already here. the u.s. government say it costs $12,500 to deport one person. so what we re doing is going after the people who deserve to be deported, drug traffickers, domestic abusers and all sort of gangsters and that s where the resources should be going. that s a practical solution and it s a step in the right direction. chris, there is measurable progress when it comes to the border issue and this is according to stats that were compile by the arizona republic. board an prehedges is down 36% from the fiscal year of 2008 to 2010 at the same time, drug