thanks so much to Richard Fowler a one lucky guy keeping it spicy today the
best i spiced it up a little bit just so you know we may have heated moments on
the couch but we deeply loved each other yeah we all.we on I'll see you again
tonight indeed Rachel camp with some people beyond the Kennedy show 8:00 p.m.
Eastern five to the west we are back on the couch at noon Eastern tomorrow and
now look who it is Melissa Francis in fur hair Fox News Alert the president
sending a tough new message on his illegal immigration policy is a top
Republican warns of a potential new migrant crisis if Congress fails to act
this is outnumbered over time I'm Melissa Francis in Port harris
faulkner new reaction from the president as the house hopes to get its version of
immigration reform across the finish line this week amid controversy over
illegal immigration policy at the border and now Texas Republican and House
Homeland Committee Chair Michael McCall warning of a new child migrant crisis if
Congress cannot come together to close loopholes in current immigration law
watch when you look at these kids down they're not been down there that's not
the first time this has happened this happened in 2014 as well Congress needs
to act to close the legal loopholes that incentivize the Coyotes to bring these
children into the United States and if we don't do that we're gonna see this
this scenario this human tragedy play out over and over again and now
president Trump wing and suggesting that some illegal immigrants be sent home
without a hearing if they are caught crossing the border the president
tweeting hiring many thousands of judges and going through a long and complicated
legal process is not the way to go we'll always be dysfunctional people must
simply be stopped at the border and told they cannot come into the US illegally
children rut back to their country White House correspondent Kevin Clark has more
from the North Lawn Kevin hi there Melissa the reunification is ongoing
about 500 families have been put back with their children's but the issue is
obviously one that will not be solved quickly let me take you to Twitter
share just a bit of what the president is saying as he continues to try to
unpack this idea of what can we do as a nation to somehow someway solve this
problem he said we cannot allow all of these people to invade our country when
somebody comes in we must immediately as you pointed out this is interesting with
no judges or court cases bring them back from where they came
our system is a mockery to good immigration policy in law and order most
children come without parents now HHS melissa has more than 10,000 children in
its care who arrived on our doorstep essentially alone many have been
separated from their parents which by the way in some rare occasions also
happened during the Obama administration now the president told TV in over the
weekend that Democrats are the problem if anything it shows how much we need
the wall but it's the Democrats fault but it wouldn't be their fault for long
if they sat down with us we can make a deal so quickly but looking like they
really want open borders and they want to really crime to pour in because you
know we have people we're doing an incredible job in terms of security
meanwhile over on Capitol Hill lawmakers continue to work toward a possible
solution Mike McCaul saying the hard work continues now more than ever I
would urge the President to continue to support the four pillars idea deal
that's my border security bill going to a merit based system and providing for a
rational doc effects that was rejected as you mentioned the conservative bill
that chairman Goodlatte and I sponsored got rejected but I did talk to the White
House yesterday they say the president's still 100% behind us still 100% behind
him but clearly there is tons of work to do don't forget we're gonna have a press
briefing this afternoon right around 3:30 with Sarah Sanders and of course
we'll have coverage for you as John Roberts steps in and a rally tonight
Melissa in South Carolina for the president should make for a very
interesting time back to you for now another busy day Kevin cork thank you
let's bring in Republican Congressman Joe Wilson of South Carolina who was
among two dozen lawmakers who went to the White House last week to hear the
pitch on immigration legislation thank you for joining us sir where does this
stand today do you feel like Republicans are going to be able to get something
done well Melissa I appreciate the president being so firm we did meet with
him last week but he's been very consistent and that is that the border
needs to be protected and I'm so grateful he's coming to my home
community tonight airport high school where my wife Roxy was a teacher so we
look forward to his message tonight I'm backing up a great governor here master
what about the immigration bill though do you think that it has a chance of
getting over the finish line there have been some that have suggested that if
you made it more simple if it was daca for the wall and tried to do things a
piece at a time that it might have a better chance of passing well actually I
have great faith in Chairman Mike McCaul chairman Bob Goodlatte they're making
every effort along with our speaker Paul Ryan every efforts being made to try to
put the votes together it needs to be addressed but at the same time I
appreciate the president's resolve to protect our borders so you want him to
stick to what he's saying but if you don't have the votes and you fail to get
something passed this isn't going to be a huge problem for Republicans and makes
it look like they can't govern well I think it means we need more Republicans
and we've seen that with Governor McMaster in South Carolina with the
Attorney General Allen Wilson my number-one son I'm really grateful that
we've worked to block sanctuary cities we need to send a message to people
coming to our country that they need to come legally we want to we'll come on
Tara country as the legal immigrants not illegal aliens but do you think it's a
convincing message going into the midterm we weren't able to get this done
we need more Republicans because the ones you have aren't good enough I mean
that seems like it's not a great cell devote errs well it what it is is we it
will be a clear contrast no Democrat vote if anything and so it's really
clear that Republicans are trying to work on trying to secure our borders and
Democrats fully are anticipating masses of new voters this has nothing to do
with sympathy for children what this is is a effort to bring in new voters to
change states around the country and a positive
messages let's enforce our borders and the president's doing that and
Republicans are voting and to establish borders protect American families well
that if that were the case wouldn't Democrats vote for the bill because then
they would make more people citizens here through the daca program and the
other things in there and then that would be more as you would say voters
for them Melissa you're dead right except for one thing
it's not 2 million more voters they're looking forward so many many millions
more than that and so the sympathy is not there this is a ruse to bring in new
voters we need to protect our borders to provide for legal opportunities for
immigration of former immigration attorney myself we've got wonderful laws
we need to enforce the laws we have yeah let me ask you because we've been
talking all morning about Sarah Sanders being asked to leave that restaurant
Maxine Waters you know telling people to really go out and kind of track down
these people in their lives I think back to that incident in 2009 where you said
something in the State of the Union President Obama you said liar I believe
it was you apologized he accepted that seems so tame by today's standards I
mean that would hardly even people would hardly even notice that in this day and
age what do you think about where we are who's responsible and how do you change
it if it needs to be changed well what we have is a first of all I apologize
immediately and it was accepted now I appreciate and it's particularly harmful
to me I went to school Washington University in Lexington Virginia I know
the people of Rockbridge County are wonderful people and so it's it's
particularly insulting but what you have is a combination of trumped arrangements
in drone and that is that they lost the election they can't get over it and so I
and also an issue that just they've just they've lost their sense of bearing and
so good people need to be involved in needs to stand firm
we actually it's hard to imagine that as Republicans and Democrats we do work
together substantially in Congress but you know that you know they say that the
president started it that he's the one that changed the tone during the
election and when he was a candidate and he certainly did campaign unlike anyone
else had ever campaign before no actually the
again it was a reflection of trumped arrangement they lost the election
they're so bitter and it's so sad to be consumed with bitterness and hatred and
sadly we've seen it but the good news is that the vast majority of Americans
don't feel that way okay congressman Wilson thanks for joining us I'll be
with you for more analysis let's bring in James Freeman he's assistant editor
of The Wall Street Journal's editorial page and a fox news contributor I hardly
know where to start at this point let's start with immigration yeah well I'm not
consumed by bitterness but is disappointing that what seems like this
obvious compromise yeah is unlikely where the president gets his wall and
you get security and an end to the chaos on the border and on the other hand you
allow good working people who've built a life in the United States to stay here
it it seems very obvious it can't be optimistic though listening
to a lot of this commentary you can't be optimistic I mean they got more votes
for the first bill than you thought there is a ton of pressure I mean I
think no matter what Republicans say about how this will just prove we need
more Republicans they have to know that it's going to if they failed to do
anything on immigration it can't help in the midterms well I think if they're if
they give up trying to solve it this year I think they do at least for
political purposes have to clarify and force votes because if the the Democrats
will not come on board I think they do at least want to get them on record
saying no to wall plus protection for the so-called dreamers who were brought
here as children at that point if they say no to the dreamers to stop Trump's
wall it shows they're unreasonable right because we already have fences we have a
border well they say it's not as simple as that but there are other things in
there that they don't agree to know they don't agree to the end chain migration
they don't agree to the Verret you know all that stuff right so I think just the
wall and dreamers is the way to put them on the spot but I think you raised what
it is the issue for the president is the wall was his signature issue he's he has
made it clear that's his priority I don't think he shouldn't get pulled into
details that that aren't critical to compromise and I think this is a special
a weird time to say we want to end all types of migration when we have a
shrinking workforce right now and employers saying they can't find workers
so let's talk about that because that's such an interesting problem there are
two reasons why we see people come into the border I mean one is their country
has collapsed they feel fair for here for their lives and so they're coming
seeking you know basically refugee status the other is Economic Opportunity
I mean isn't there a better way to address the economic opportunity if you
had the visas where the breadwinner comes over works takes the money back
home I mean there are remedies that make sense that we're not using mainly
because of labor unions I guess that's right a guest worker program where
people didn't feel like they had to take the risk on one shot to get into the
United States that as long as they were doing it lawfully and and coming to the
right check point they could go to find work in the US but but given the the
rising American economy acting as a magnet and as you said the lawlessness
in Central America now it's not Mexico it's mainly Central America I don't
think this problem is going to end soon and and I think there are some obvious
solutions we just may need to wait for 2018 for politicians to get around yeah
I mean what's the obvious solution I mean there's well I think it's first of
all you deal with that oil problem I think it's a totally legitimate effort
to say you have to have a respected credible border I don't think you need
to be a restriction is to say that that's that's a reasonable goal but I
think we also need to say immigrants by and large coming in here are here to
work and the as this network has been reporting fewer than 8% of the dreamers
have been arrested now that may sound like a lot and certainly you want to get
rid of people who are criminals but that's actually a low number compared to
the general US population here's Jay Johnson talking about one of the other
factors we were talking about driving people over the border to the US listen
without a doubt the images and the reality from 2014
just like 2018 are not pretty and so we expanded family
detention we believed it was necessary at the time I still believe it is
necessary to main a certain capability for families we can't have catch and
release so he says we can't have catch and release but it's really hard to
figure out what what what's the opposite of that you know you detain these
families indefinitely then you send them back I mean I think a lot of people
don't realize that's what's at the end of the walk yeah it's it's a tough issue
and I think this is why all of those comparisons last week to the Trump
policy to to Nazi Germany even to the US internment of japanese-americans in
World War two are so over the top out of bounds
it's it's a hard problem you can't have a border where just because you bring a
child you get to cross for free and no one's gonna check you out and figure out
who you are so so then you get to okay your your detaining families together
which is now also getting a lot of opposition on the Democratic Left if
you're saying they're gonna be released within a few days then you essentially
have an open border just kind of deferred by a few days so so I think
there there are solutions here we've been talking about more guest workers
more abilities for law-abiding people who are ready to love America and do not
present a security threat to come in but it's hard to hard to find them right now
and then yeah whereas the Homeland secretary said just report to a port of
entry right as opposed to running over the border if you have a legitimate
claim then you get in mind and maybe just advertise more in in Mexico about
places as people are coming up from Central America where they can go to
apply for asylum you don't have to get all the way to the border yeah alright
James Freeman thank you so much a new deadline for the DOJ a letter from
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