On the Border Detention Centers to try and find some answers. Now, every president , every party has left their fingerprints on the state of our Immigration System today. The reagan administrations Amnesty Policy Drew Widespread Backlash and still gives some nservatives pause today. The Bush Administration had its faults. The administration struggled to handle a spike in migrations amid mass deportations. But at the moment, the Current Administration is separating families from their children at our bor with mexico, not because of a law, but because this administration has chosen to do so. So far despite nearly 2000 children being separated from their families, whats missing from this story are a flood of images of these Young Children. It was images of children, after all, that spurred the president to change course in syria. So far, this young toddler has become the face of this policy. Stop and look at her for just a moment. And remember that there are thousands thousands of other f
response to the virus became politicized. i d like you to look forward for a minute. what is our future with the coronavirus? are we going to is it going to come in waves? are we going to have new variants? how do you see our future? well, let s be very clear, we know surges will continue, variants will continue to evolve, because both natural infection and our current vaccines don t protect against reinfection for long periods of time. so we need to work on a very durable vaccine. at the same time, we need to accept the fact that natural infection does not protect you completely. use that data so that everyone knows what s happening in their community. let s accept what s happening. let s accept right now that we know when surges occur. we ve had two summer surges, two winter surges, and we ve had
masking policy, yeah, i think we can turn this around. the question is, will we. that s a different question and a harder one for me to answer. i m not going to ask you to play political pundit on that one. obviously, if we would get more masking and more vaccines, we would be in a better spot. so given where it looks like we re headed, what are the next trouble spots that you re worried about? yeah, so, as i look across the country, again, i do think that parts of the south that saw the worst summer surges, i do think they have and predictions are always hard on this stuff. i m worried about where some of the great plain states are, midwest and here in the northeast, numbers are still going up slowly. i m hoping to hit a wall with all the vaccinations we ve done. but there are a lot of opportunities here. there are good, 100 million americans who are eligible but have not gotten vaccinated yet. and they represent a real risk for this virus.
somebody else. so a lot of these cases are not actually involving a separation of the parents. it s a dangerous thing and discouraging people from traveling thousands of miles where they can be exploited and preyed upon and where they run great physical risk is the right be doing. now, if we re going to h hopefully an opportunity this week to address this legislatively and fix it, i agree with speaker ryan. this is not a policy we want to pursue. but i have a lot of sympathy with border agents confronted with thousands of people and don t have any easy recourse as to what to do with them. again, we ve housed children for a lot of years. i ve seen it myself under multiple administrations when we get these summer surges. well, at the same time, i take your point but i do think it is very distinct and different to have unaccompanied minors crossing the border by themselves than to have people arriving at these detention centers. you mentioned legislation, though, comprehensive or if n
not exactly true. when i m looking at an 8-year-old child in my district, ey weren with their parents. they may have been separated because they traveled alone or traveled in a group or with somebody else. so a lot of these cases are not actually involving a separation of the parents. it s a dangerous thing and discouraging people from traveling thousands of miles where they can be exploited and preyed upon and where they run great physical risk is the right thing to be doing. now, if we re going to have hopefully an opportunity this week to address this legislatively and fix it, i agree with speaker ryan. this is not a policy we want to pursue. but i have a lot of sympathy with border agents confronted with thousands of people and don t have any easy recourse as to what to do with them. again, we ve housed children for a lot of years. i ve seen it myself under multiple administrations when we get these summer surges. well, at the same time, i take your point but i do think it is v