lot. 22 mun mile wall is not necessary. quite frankly i don t think it makes a lot of border security sense. you need walls. you need fences but the president, if he said my border plan is good, most republicans would fall in behind him so the challenge for the president is to give us something to work with on border security that would be meaningful, that could get through the house and the senate, that woo secure the border and the challenge for a guy like me is to try to get democrat the on board for the compromise of border security plus the dream act. you ve got some talented people in the trump administration. general kelly and others i think could put together a very good border security plan and of all the people in america who have credibility on securing the border, i would put trump at the top because he made this the central issue of the campaign. you may have just heard the spokesperson for attorney jeff sessions on with us, sara flores who basically said it s not the wh
he rejected the idea of president obama s executive order as being a presidential overreach. i think he was right to do that. but expressly gave us six months. the reason i think it will get done now is because the leadership of the republican party, including president, realizes it s good for the country economically and otherwise to give these kids the certainty they need in their lives. senator, are you concerned that the administration wouldn t see a clean daca fix and they wanted what they called responsible immigration reform? well, all i can say is that the process of taking care of the kids he be a negotiated process. the comprehensive gang of eight bill was negotiation. a lot of people believe a good marriage is border security and dream act.
his rescinding the daca program. the program allows children the stay in this country illegally and be protected for now. let s bring in alex, a reporter for politco. you just heard a democrat and republican said they re confident they can get a bill together that will pass the house and the senate. what would you say are the chances of bipartisan action on this? well, look, it s going to be complicated in large part because the fact that the republican party is really not in agreement on this issue. on one hand, you have the business establishment chamber of commerce wing of the party which wants protections for dreamers. then you have the conservative talk radio wing that doesn t agree with that. so you re going to see members, republican members, get pulled
i understand why dick wrote the letter. i tried to do my part to find conference in immigration reform not only for the dream act kids and their parents. i tried to make sure that 20 years from now we don t have 11 million more illegal immigrants. fix it once and for all. the president did the country a service by going back to constitutional order by allowing six months for the congress to take care of these kids. the president was right on the law but he was also right to give us six months to figure out a solution to this. my challenge to the president, you ve taught very glowingly about these kids. help us. help us in the house. help us in the senate. i think you re a good man. get involved personally. work the phones. try to find a consensus here. here s what i think will happen. there s going to be elements of the republican party that believe that if you pass this dream act, you re rewarding
you may like the executive order for dream act kids but where does it end? what is the limitation of power of a president to give 900,000 a million people status by stroke of a pen? if you re a constitutional conservative passing the dream act should please you. congress is doing their job with the president signing a bill passed by the congress. if you worry about these kids, you should vote for the dream act because it gives them what they deserve. a new life in their home country. to those in the republican party who vote no, i respect it. i respect your decision. let s have a healthy debate. make the case that these kids don t belong here. i m going to make the case they do. we re all going to vote. so from a republican party point of view, this is a defining moment. we need to create a step, a process forward to fix a broken immigration system. starting with the dream act is a good down payment on what will