journal" looks at immigration policy. the supreme court order striking down presidential policy. and get your perspective. ♪ good morning on this wednesday, june 29, a day after airport in attack at turkey. the turkish prime minister believes the islamic state could be behind the attack. turkey is a key partner in the u.s. led partnership against isis. it shares a long and open border with syria and iraq. we will begin with reactions to this attack. republicans (202) 748-8001. democrats (202) 748-8000. independence (202) 748-8002.

you can also join us on twitter. you can go to facebook.com/cspa n. we will begin with the bbc website, they are doing up-to-the-minute reporting on this attack in turkey. this is what they are reporting so far. this attack has killed 41 people, injured 239, three attackers opened fire near eight terminal entrance. -- a terminal entrance. the prime minister believes it is the islamic state that could be behind these attacks. it also says in their reporting this morning that the pope has condemned what happened at this international airport. he said he was praying for the victims, families, and the turkish people. he asked the crowd to pray in silence. the bat -- that is from the bbc

website. here is the list of other people and their nationalaties that were fatally wounded in this attack. one was from jordan, one from tunisia, respect stand, iran, and the ukraine. in california, republican scott, you are up first. what is your reaction to this attack in turkey? what do you think it means to the fight against isis? i think the fight against isis is just going to get stronger and stronger. the world is filled with good people. murderere is hate and and all of that noise, people if they did not have an opinion

about it then, they do now. people want to be safe. people want people to have their own consonant to live in peace. hole forigging a big themselves. i am glad because we need peace in this world. think our do you government should do? do you agree? caller: we are going to lock down. it is funny to hear the president to talk about how glorious it would be to have everybody and their grandmother here. we don't have the hospitals, the infrastructure. it is getting too crowded. we need to secure our borders. i don't know about the wall. we need to secure how many people we have coming in, document them, and make this country great again. it is a great country.

host: are you a donald trump supporter? caller: i am. i have stated this once before on c-span. i think it is donald trump's turn. we had obama. that is the beauty of democracy. anyone that goes on a jungle tot to a black president possibly a female president. that is the opportunity that america gives anyone. host: ok. that is scott supporting donald trump responding to what happened at this international airport in istanbul, turkey. the white house put out a statement saying that the united states condemns heinous terrorist attacks at the international airport in turkey. he says this airport like brussels airport that was attacked earlier this year is a

symbol of international connections. in ourin steadfast support for turkey along with our friends and allies around the world as we continue to confront the threat of terrorism. donald trump also reacting to yet anotheraying," terrorist attack in turkey, will the world ever realize what is going on. says at." "llary clinton with a tweet, all americans stand united with turkey against hatred and violence." you can see her statement below that. what is your reaction to what happened in this bombing attack? republicans (202) 748-8001. democrats (202) 748-8000. independents (202) 748-8002. we will spend the next 25 minutes talking about what happened in turkey.

then we will turn our attention to immigration in this country. then we will spend the remainder of today's "washington journal" with just your phone calls. asking if immigration makes the united states stronger or weaker. we will talk about the recent decision by the supreme court on president obama's immigration action. we will talk about the immigration dynamic of the brexit vote in the u.k.. and we will talk about our recent trip to laredo, texas. mayor, ando the other folks in that border community. we will show you all that threat this morning's "washington journal." first, your reaction to this attack in turkey. good morning, david. go ahead caller: good morning. thank you for c-span. groups like that

shootan get people to innocent, unarmed people. it just amazes me. costs -- sending armies over there, that should not be our primary focus. you have the reality where people are blowing themselves up. -- boots on the ground with diplomacy and working with our partners. peoplet goes out to the in turkey and around the world that are subject to this. we are still in this fight.

road, and we have to stay resolved. we have to stay committed to ideology andf this this terror. i personally think the president is doing the right thing -- he has made a lot of mistakes -- but he is doing the right thing as far as getting nations to take the fight to isis. i think that is, in the long run, that is going to be the most sustainable deterrent. host: ok. turkey shares a long and open border with syria and iraq where there is fighting happening in efforts to defeat isis. turkey is part of that effort. it is a nato member and ally.

notreporting that isis has claimed responsibility for the attack. it has claimed responsibility for a number of assassinations earlier. it has not claimed responsibility for any other attacks that have widely been attributed to it. this the beginning of calendar year, it has condemned turkish authorities and condone killing of military personnel. criticizedrongly turkish authorities or alliances with the u.s. hasts news updates, it referred to turkey more frequently in posts in northern syria. good morning. caller: good morning, how are you? host: good. newsr: i think 24 hour

brings all the pictures and everything, it is the biggest recruiting tool they have. they are watching all this concert news. i just think it is absolutely stupid. host: how do you report on the news that? -- then? caller: without showing all of these horrendous pictures all the goddamn time. host: you think that would help? caller: don't you think that makes a recruiting tool for them? maxine, independent, michigan. caller: thank you for taking my call. isis has got me so angry.

i cannot understand why -- this is allowed to go on. we have the cia. we have the most sophisticated government agencies, and they just keep rubbing it in our faces all over the world. what in the world is going on? why can we not destroy these animals? i would treat them like a mad dog. she them, kill them, and lockup their families as well. host: are you advocating for military?more u.s. caller: absolutely. anything it takes. anything it takes. i am so angry i cannot even speak. host: who of these presidential candidates, with president obama's term winding down, which one of these candidates do you believe could do what you want them to do to defeat isis? host: the one closest --

caller: the one closest to it is donald trump. this concept that you are just going to love them to mental health, that is not going to work. .hese are damaged human beings they are so damaged that they don't care about their life or anybody else. with that in mind, they don't deserve to live. they have given up their life -- right to be humans. host: that is maxine in michigan. if you are in turkey according to the state department, contact family and friends to let them know you are safe. facebook started a page for security check and if you were in turkey, at the airport, you could go to this security check-in page to let family and friends know you are safe. the turkish president saying

that turkey has the power to continue the fight against terrorism until the end. that is a quote from the turkish president. democrat. what are your thoughts? caller: i appreciate us having the opportunity to speak on this. happened ithen 9/11 was right before an election year, too. i hate to call it a publicity stunt. it feels like it to me. they are playing it over and over again. i know indianapolis is not the only city where a black person is coming up shop with no explanation. in our city, the legislators this year made it legal to buy silencers. there is a guy who came on npr

radio from the witness protection program, and he was the record keeper for the skinheads. he said he walked into the fbi office with a box. he said he had a truck outside full of boxes. when i -- when donald trump says he is building a wall, i don't think he is talking about bricks and fences. it is so sad that all these republicans and all these people that are falling to the fear campaign, we have to to be wary and smart. we have to be really, really, really listening to everybody. you are not going to -- you are just creating too much fear and violence. there has got to be a better way. that was joseph in minneapolis. on theepublicans

benghazi committee issued their report yesterday on their almost two-year investigation into what happened on september 11, 2012 in benghazi, libya. the washington times plays it like this. clinton delay u.s. security resources in benghazi. obama, and then secretary of defense leon panetta's orders in order to appease libya. the new york times this morning, their headline from this report, benghazi panel finds no misdeeds by clinton. 800 page report delivered a broad overview -- review. -- rebuke. especially for maintaining outposts that they could not protect, the committee also

harshly criticized an internal state department investigation that said it had allowed officials like ms. clinton to effectively choose who would -- their action. it reinvigorated republican complaints that the obama administration had sought to support the investigation -- twhhwart the investigation. what the chairman had to say when he was asked by a reporter whether the benghazi investigation was about hillary clinton. >> look at the resolution. it does not mention secretary clinton. speaker boehner nor speaker ryan ever asked me to do anything about presidential politics. they asked me to find out what happened to four of our fellow citizens. you are welcome to read the report. i hope you will. i know you will.

at the end of reading the report, if you can include this is about one person instead of one -- four people, i will be shocked. for two doing this years, do you believe based on this that the american people should look at this and see this woman that wants to be president should be culpability? >> i was with you until the last clause of your statement. it because look at fellow americans were died and injured and went to the road lengths to rescue other americans. >> do you disagree with mr. gordon? >> i wrote the report that i think is centered in the facts. of pooh,background what, when, where. i don't have a background of why. host: we have a link to the republican report on our website.

we have a link to the democrats who served on that committee. they put out a 300 page report as well. you heard reference in that news conference that we just showed you two additional reports. that came from representative panel, republicans on the who put out an additional 50 pages in addition to what the republicans put in place. a vote will take place on this final report later -- it sounds like next month that vote will take place. that is the last step for this investigation. this is how the white house responded to the release of this report yesterday. >> i think even republicans are struggling to articulate what value has been derived from this other than what they are knowledge is their primary goal which is to take more shots at secretary clinton.

i think the unfortunate thing is they had to spend millions of dollars in taxpayer money to do it. they are cynically trying to capitalize on the debts of -- whohs of innocent americans were killed in this tragic accident. the degree to which republicans are willing to play politics with their deaths and this appalling. host: that was the white house response to the republican's report from the benghazi commission. you can find links to the report on our website. a democrat from jacksonville florida. we're spending the first 30 minutes talking about this bombing attack in istanbul. what is your reaction? caller: i am just sick of

how -- and we had this, i am not from jacksonville, i am from tallahassee. hereve all of this chaos because people are spitting out hatred. if you keep it at the forefront, and i think this whole thing is to keep secretary clinton in the forefront of the minds of the people who are so adamant about killing a person before they even get started out of the gate. has to to stop -- stop. host: do you think what happened in turkey is about our presidential politics? caller: oh yeah. we show it, then we go somewhere else, then we bring up benghazi. i am sick of hearing about benghazi. we spent more money running after stop instead of helping --

stuff instead of helping people. $7 million in this report and nothing else came out of it. host: by the way, the cia director, one color mentioned isis,a efforts to defeat cia director brennan will be interviewed later today at 2:00 p.m. eastern time on c-span. he will likely be asked about what happened in turkey and efforts by the cia to defeat terrorism across the country. lester in alabama, republican. caller: good morning. thank you for having me on. blessing to several people's reactions. that is their opinion. i think a lot of them is crazy.

the big dogs that we have in washington is trying to run the nation are so scared to do something, and they are not going to do nothing. they are turning their backs on the united states and anybody else we can help. we are the strongest nation in the world, supposed to be. the p anza we have running could we haves -- peons running could care less. this is the same thing, isis is taking over because the people we have running this nation could care less. the reason they are not doing nothing is because they are about to lose their jobs. a lot of big dogs going to lose their jobs when donald trump becomes president. if they leave it in a mass, it will look bad on him. right.ll on benghazicoverage

report. we have a guest tomorrow to talk about this on the washington journal at 9:15. we will take into different reports -- dig into different reports. were eight different reports before this select committee was appointed. the president is traveling to canada today meeting with the canadian prime minister and the president of mexico. there will be a news conference with the three. more coverage of that on c-span today at three: already eastern time -- 3:30 eastern time. -- let mef trade, tell you about the president addressing the canadian parliament. we cover that at 5:45 eastern

time on c-span. the wall street journal this morning with coverage of donald trump's trade policy speech yesterday. we covered that as well. you can watch the whole thing on our website. the presumptive republican nominee's proposals amount to a wholesale rejection of republican orthodoxy. he argues against policies most gop leaders have supported. he speaks against policies that support the federal government largely on tariffs. he talks about getting rid of trade deals and that he would not do multilateral trade deals if he becomes president. bernie sanders writing in the new york times opinion section, saying democrats have to wake up. " surprise surprise,

that rich in the u.k. have turned their back on their country. it is not just the british that are suffering. economyngly globalized maintained by the world's elite is failing people everywhere. it is a pivotal moment for the democrats, the party and a new president need to make clear that we stand behind the people to make national global economies that work for all. the issues he wants to see change from the party is in trade. back to our conversation. rebecca in tennessee, a republican. what is your reaction to this attack in turkey? caller: i am just so upset. i want to know when are we all going to start realizing that there is no perfect race.

we need to stand up as americans, stand up for every person in this world. we need to stop killing each other. trying to sayp the gays, the blacks, the whites, the muslims, all of us. why can we just not stop this? why can we not live in a world together as they as it is -- as big as it is? i am afraid to leave my own country. i don't even want to turn the tv on in the morning. inliterally makes me sick my stomach. it is one thing after another. people,to be strong whether we are americans, italian, spanish, mexican, black, white, i don't care what you are. we are human beings.

we must start acting like human beings and not people who go down the street. we cannot smile at each other anymore as we are not the same color, not the same nationality. host: ok, rebecca. mary, what do you think? say that iould agree. this country has gone down the tubes since we have had a democratic party in control. i have given up a couple federal jobs because of -- host: mary, what does this have to do with what happened in turkey? tie the two together. caller: ok. it is standard. 30 years ago, 40 years ago,

whatever, i was in greece at the time. , saw the same thing happening and i would say that this is terrorism. terrorism is ugly. , it is getting closer and closer. i think that donald trump as a businessman would take our nation greater. host: peggy, lack what new jersey, a democrat. first out, my heart goes out to the people in turkey. unfortunately, i do think that it is going to happen here just like it happened in orlando. i am a democrat, and like loretta lynch said, you cannot win this war with love. it is ridiculous. i just want to address the lady

about benghazi. my husband was in the service. all you have to think about when you vote for president, or hillary clinton, if that was your kid, do you want her to be in charge? she did nothing. my husband -- too: i don't want to -- go far down that road. lot about thear a gentleman who said this is a fair campaign. this is not a fair campaign. this is reality. one lady said all races have to get along, all religions. this is not a race war, a religion war. this is a war of ideology. this showed us yesterday that terrorism is getting worse. get your heads out of the sand. this will cripple the world with fear everywhere we go. we need to clean it up in the name of all free, decent people

of all nations, all nationalities. this is a free world against an ideology. we have to face the reality that they are out there to destroy the world. if it takes boots on the ground, we will have to man up and do what we have to do. thank you for taking my call. caller: -- host: that was a republican in colorado. on c-span3 today at 9:00 eastern time, we will be covering vice president joe biden's cancer moonshot summit. these summits are taking place across the country. we will cover the vice president's remarks at 9:00 a.m. eastern time. the headline is he looks to rally momentum for cancer

moonshot. we will turn our attention to immigration here on the "washington journal." we will spend our program asking you whether or not immigration makes our country stronger or weaker. we want your thoughts on that this morning. we will talk about different news that has happened in immigration, the brexit vote in the united kingdom, and president obama's immigration executive orders, the supreme court ruling on one of them just last week. we will bring that into the conversation. as well as what you see on the screen. we went to laredo texas back in april. we spoke to the border control about what they do there, how they do it, and what immigration looks like in our border towns. we will have a line for your

thoughts on immigration this morning. continuing with this conversation about isis and where they are. yesterday, on capitol hill, the senate foreign relations fromttee heard testimony the president's special envoy for the global coalition to combat isis. he just returned from that area, and he gave the senators an update on the efforts to combat isis in syria, libya, and iraq. here is what he had to say. himtor jeff blake asked about the efforts so far in his response. >> turning to your statement about being able to deny them territory and impacting their ability to foment terrorism elsewhere. are we seeing a difference in that theirty in headquarters really has not been impacted?

how much of the activity elsewhere is being directed from their headquarters? to move ability battlefieldoss the of iraq in syria has been significantly degraded. >> because of supply routes? >> because we have cut off the main roads. they are forced to the back roads. inhave special forces based northern iraq that goes after them when we are able to see the leaders. we have degraded their ability to move fighters around. most importantly for homeland security, the sophisticated attacks like paris and russell's are planned in their headquarters. then they move out through turkey to conduct their attacks. we have worked with turkey to close up the border on their

side. they have done an awful lot, and we commend them. until we take territory away, isis is still able to move in a way we are not comfortable with. it is much harder for them to move now. don't take my word for it. even in their own statements where they put out for their own potential inherent, they're saying don't come to syria. do an attack at home or go to libya. that is because it is harder for them to get into syria. we have a ton of information about their inability to get people in your when it -- get people in. once people are in syria, they will never get out. that is the essence of what we're trying to do. announcer: "washington journal" continues. headed down to

laredo, texas. see what it was like on a border town. there are for international ridges in laredo, texas where pedestrian and passenger vehicles and commercial vehicles, up to 6000 a day, cross back and forth with their sister city in mexico. we want to turn our attention to immigration issues and ask all of you, does it make the country stronger or weaker? if you live in a border state, what is it like for you? legal and illegal immigrants. (202) 748-8001 all others. (202) 748-8002.

as many of you may know, the supreme court blocked president obama's immigration reform land. you can give us your take on that this morning. deadlockedically blocked thet executive orders. texasat leaves in place a federal judges orders that have prevented president obama from granting deportation relief and granting work permits to immigrants. that means the decision will be left to the next president, the next congress, and possibly another high court. the ruling does not begin to deport people. the white house after the ruling, president obama

emphasized that parents of illegal immigrants will not be a priority. you a little more from the president coming up. first, we will take james in new york. good morning. our question, does immigration make strong -- our country stronger or weaker? caller: first, i would like to welcome my fellow citizens in new york who are relying on those who care in human rights. join me in our march. most people think immigration makes us stronger. i believe it makes us stronger. or turkeyk at britain for example. it is crippling their security. that thesescared

attacks that happened in turkey will happen here. these days, america -- host: do you think we should limit the amount of people coming to the united states? oh, we lost james. wondering from all of you. do you agree with donald trump that we should put a temporary ban on who is coming to the united states because of terrorist attacks we have seen across the country? by the way, the pew research center put together migration patterns in this country of who is trying to come in and in what country. this is a recent piece from april of this year. apprehensions of mexican migrants at the u.s. border reaches a near historic low. the decline in average and coincides with recent release of information which would show

that can migrants to the u.s. and other countries has held steady over the past five years after a dramatic drop during the great recession. in fiscal 2015, the border patrol make 1800 -- a little apprehensions000 of illegal migrants at the mexican border. that is a decline of the previous year. in may of this year, it was found, that apprehensions of families and unaccompanied children are jumping dramatically. over 32,000 apprehensions of family members defined as children traveling with at least one parent in the first six compared tois year,

27,000 over the same period last year. from honduras, nicaragua, etc.. steve, arkansas. what do you think, stronger or weaker? stephen inname is jacksonville, arkansas. have --f hispanic and half-british. degree.n engineering you remember bill clinton? clinton.ands with bill

my name is stefan -- stephen, and what happened is i designed the most advanced aircraft in the world, the f-35 aircraft in the world. saying,at are you because of migration, people like you make this country stronger? caller: yes ma'am. i designed electronic , youburner on the engine know, like the jets. host: ok. woodrow in colton, alcorn you. -- california. caller: about 40 minutes away from l.a.. host: what are your thoughts about immigration? what does it do to this country? caller: it does a big thing to this country. in the 1800s, thousands of

mormons and u.s. soldiers went to mexico and took it over. i live in california, which is a mexican named, there are these rocks that are beautiful and they renamed to them the mormon rocks. there were catholics there waiting for there were mormons. of waterloo bay held although, it says the mexicans who were already here did not need to stop speaking spanish. in this treaty, we have that we have to have spanish. mexicans that invaded utah, colorado, new mexico. i could go on. host: financial times, cameron the --the brexit of to addressailure

concerns on immigration. the prime minister said that fears of mass immigration were a driving factor time the vote, and free movement would have to be addressed. donald trump speaking recently said he saw parallels between the brexit boat and his campaign in the united states. trump: people want to take their country back. you see it with europe. more than just what happened last night, i think you will have many other cases where they ,ant to take their borders back where they want to take their monetary back. they want to be able to have a country again. i think you will see this happen more and more. i think it is happening in the united states. it is happening by the fact that i did so well in the polls. what donald to

trump said there, in the u.k., a tsunami expected as 34 referendums set to rock the union. ring parties across the country calling for dozens of referendums. so-called extreme insurgent parties are calling for 34 votes of being in matters the eu. chancellor, the major reason between the rapid rise for right-wing and far left anti-eu parties in their attempt to take back control of their countries. what do you think immigration does to this country in america? make us stronger or weaker? rett.orning,

caller: thank you for letting me get on here. you mayook at history, be able to agree that immigration in the past has always made us stronger. immigrants come into this country and do the hard work that others that have been here for a couple of generations don't really want to do anymore or have advanced beyond. in that respect, immigration helps this country. i think it is mostly brown people from other places that are in the hot sun in the hot weather that are doing that sort of work better cleaning up after us, doing low-paid work that is very hard that others don't want to do. with,k immigration helps it forces people who have been here a couple of generations who get the false idea that they have some privilege or right or,

you know, higher status. it forces us to open our minds a little bit and except that there are other people in the world that are all pushing for better lives. they go to places where that is a possibility, therefore it forces us to open our minds. that is a big part of what being a true american, a compassionate american is all about in my opinion. that includeshink people from all countries, all walks of life? caller: absolutely. i think the vast, vast majority of people that are moving around, trying to ease suffering in in theiremselves

countries of origin are good people, are willing to live by the laws of the new land to a large degree. they are not, the vast majority, they are not terrorists. they are not inhumane animals who indiscriminately do bad to others. if i can just continue one moment more, i have very close understanding of working through our immigration system. woman, anda mexican the arduous task of an intelligent, literate, u.s. person to navigate our complicated immigration paperwork and appointments and all that goes into getting through those channels legally is really tough. host: how much did it cost you and your wife? caller: i'm going back 20 years that we went through it.

1000 $1500. i did it with no attorney fees. i recently tried to get my wife's mother of visiting the set so she can get on a plane and come and return easily. ,t is absolutely mind-boggling restraining -- frustrating, and the hoops you have to jump through to get it done are unbelievable. can you imagine people that do not speak the language well, that do not have the financial it, ands to get through that may be suffering, maybe hungry, may be under threat of violence, what the choice must look like to them. host: i am going to leave it there. i want to show our viewers what we learned when we went to

laredo, texas. there are people from african countries, from syria, from all over the world that are making their way to laredo, texas, hoping -- they turn themselves in, and they are hoping to start the process. they're claiming fear of returning to their home country. this is what the assistant director for field operations, border security told us about what is happening in laredo. seeing an increase of east africans, specifically from the area of somalia. we have seen a spike in the last couple of years. they had been arriving in san diego. for some reason, and we don't know why, they shifted to the rio grande valley area.

they arrived at the port of with thed along somalians, we are seeing an increase of -- >> when they claim fear in those countries, what happens? >> they get processed for expedited removal and then we turn them over to the custody for east africa. >> is that the same policy for mexican citizens? >> it is the same procedure regardless of where you come from. for credible fear, expedited removal. that is unless you are from cuba. >> if you are from cuba, you arrive at the port of entry, then you go to the process for the cuba act. >> that allow them to remain in

the united states. there is no detention. host: that was u.s. customs and border protection talking about different u.s. policies. there is a different policy for humans that arrived under the cuban adjustment act. there are some in congress that want to change that now that relations are beginning to thaw with cuba under the obama administration. that includes democratic representative from the laredo area who was on her program when we were live there earlier this month. here is what he said about changing that policy. >> because we happy cuban 1980 actt act, the that got amended, that basically means if you come to the u.s. as

as aan, you get to stay -- cuban, you get to stay. the moment you crossover, they do not have to fear deportation. they don't have to fear detention centers. they start filling out for assistance, they can get $1800 for that. they apply for food stamps, housing. no other group gets that immediate help. no matter who it is, they come in, as a blanket they get that support. i understand why we did that. ninecountry has had presidents since that law was enacted. we need to change that law. we need to make sure if they want to come in, if they have credible fear, and asylum claim, we do it on a case-by-case basis just like anybody else. they have to go before an immigration judge. if the judge says yes, then we go ahead.

what we get right now, it is. amnesty. no other group gets amnesty like that. i want to change the law. this is a presidential year. it is not going to happen. i want to go back and try to save taxpayer money. one of the bills i worked on, the cdo came up with numbers. if we change the law on cuba, we would save the united states billion almost $2.5 because we are giving away this amnesty and assistance to every cuban that comes in instead of going on a case-by-case basis and helping the ones that truly need the assistance. we need to change the cuban adjustment act. with all due respect to my cuban friends, yes we do. host: the headline on cnn about what is happening with humans

trying to come to the united states, first steps. they are seeing a historic surge of cubans crossing into the united states. it is happening right there in laredo, texas. we are getting your thoughts about the impact of immigration on this country. bruce, what do you think, does it make us stronger or weaker? caller: thank you for taking my call. i think it makes us stronger and weaker. first thing i want to say, donald trump is running around the country telling everybody he wants to stop immigration. he hires illegal immigrants. visa program1b instead of hiring american workers. he has businesses all over the world. he says he wants to bring american jobs home. he can bring them jobs home today if he wanted to.

as far as this other immigration crackdown the republicans and democrats have said we are not going to deport them. we cannot afford it. the republicans don't want to make these workers legal because 1% that controls this country wants cheap labor. all they want to do is enforced the employer part of the immigration bill ronald reagan signed into law. if they did that, donald trump would be in jail. host: peter in los angeles. what is it like where you live? ander: i am a post man california. i delivered to immigrants. you should see them on the street. it is really heartwarming. when you have a thought in your mind about immigration, think

about peace and well-being. i have seen two numbers up there to call in. i don't see a third number four people for and against -- host: moving on, laurie in georgia. good morning to you. does immigration make us stronger or weaker? caller: that last call was ridiculous. what i do want to say is i agree so much with what the man who called from florida had to say. i do have some passion for people. he is right about what he was talking about when he sat all that stuff about trump and how he runs his businesses. he says so much the that incites sotred -- much hatred in people that are just trying to make a living. itave seen what a bit when

comes to immigration. i lived in the texas -- in texas in the 1970's. there were a lot of different cultures around houston. then i came back to georgia, up in north georgia. i got into the textile industry down in dalton where i was so shocked when i got into the workforce and saw how many dalton workingn in carpet mills. a lot of them cannot speak english very well. you know they cannot necessarily be legal. a problem with people trying to make an honest living. it is like they were talking about, the 1%, the people with all the money that are working these people like this. it does take away from certain people.

trying to find a job as far as the americans go that are here legally, whether they were born here or, here. to thelive close agriculture industry. i see the man out here making a fortune with his mexicans in the fields. it,law is around, they see they do nothing about it. -- ihave a problem with appreciate the assistance, but i believe charity begins at home. we have such a poverty problem here with so many people that need assistance that cannot get it. in georgiawas laurie who said she lived in texas for a while. joey from laredo, texas. we were there back in april. how would you describe immigrations impact on where you live? caller: i think it is weaker. this whole thing about these people.

i should not say these people. i am mexican american they get so much assistance. i live four blocks away from the rio grande. -- and i feel bad for these people. these veterans that live in mexico, because they are not getting help, and the cost of living, it is ridiculous. be more helpful to them and more sympathetic, but we have to help our own, first. mayor,nly talk to the the undocumented workers, the illegal immigrants from mexico are really a large part of the

, that they have crossed and they have stayed on the u.s. side in laredo, for decades. some of them do take advantage of the system, and it is fine and if they pay taxes again, i feel bad for saying this, but some of them take advantage of the system, but they are taking away too much from the ones that work here and pay the taxes. listenet's make -- let's to what the mayor told us about the undocumented in the immunity of laredo and how they have settled in the area. >> i would venture to say that with 30% 40% of the people that illegal., they are 40,000, possibly more, have settled in laredo, texas.

host: and they are undocumented. >> and they are now very much a part of our communities with us-born children, and there is a mixture of parents, grandparents, children, and they .ave families here on the u.s. host: we spoke to the mayor back when we were in laredo in april and behind him is what you are seeing now, that is the pedestrian bridge, where in the historic part of laredo, the downtown area, folks make that commute forat daily work, for shopping, tourism, and they are crossing back-and-forth , their nuevo laredo sister city in mexico, and the u.s. side in texas.

winston in alabama. caller: i think they are good for america, myself. -- near where i live is a farm and when i first moved over down alabama, northern there was so much produce and money being spent by the immigrants. the sheriff more or less forced the eviction of them because they were needed to harvest crops, and it was a shame how those people were running, they dropping animals, things off the furniture, of the backs of their furniture.

as far as getting a green card, it was just not possible. my daughter-in-law is from the czech republic, and it costs so much money to get that green $5,000, and she spent about $10,000, and she is married to my son, and in alabama, if you are a migrant worker, you don't have the right to heating or cooling. the landlord has to supply you is sanitation, it is a shower and a commode. hot down here in alabama. you can't grow the vegetables because they have nobody to harvest them, everybody wanted them gone, but now we don't have festivals and we don't have that they did, manual

labor. impact, thes the economic impact on your area? billy jobs done here are service industry jobs. we don't have agriculture, and now people are waiting service industry like waiting tables, nobody wants to jobs. host: how much are they paying? caller: probably $11 an hour. host: is that reasonable? caller: no. they rent for a one-bedroom apartment is a hundred dollars a month, and electricity bill is so there400 a month, is no way the average person can move down here to work.

-- give them a place to evade and go to work. host: an immigrant in arlington, virginia, tell us your story. caller: i am actually the son of an immigrant. i have the opportunity to travel many places overseas, and many countries in africa require you to get a round-trip ticket before you step into the country, so they do not have any problem with immigration. in this country, immigration has certainly helped us. however, it is at the expense now, of other countries because they are losing their best people.

also, it is a strain on our country to be able to handle that many people that have children that have to be educated in this country, and have to have our social services. one of the problems we are having now is the breeze over from europe because europe has as a in so many immigrants kindhearted thing to do, but there is a point at which many people cannot take that pressure, and that point has been reached in england, and it will probably be reached in other countries because of the rise of the far right, because people are understandably concerned, and if you look closer to where these people are coming from, from the middle east, their own neighbors are not taking them. why haven't we put more information on them is certainly

a question to ask. our strength has always been immigration, but because it adds andlife to our country, certainly new values. however, in the long run, i am afraid that it is going to become more and more difficult for immigrants, because of the population pressure throughout the world. go, presidentou obama said he wants to increase the number of syrian refugees that we accept in this country, wanted to raise the cap from -- the total capital 75,000, he wanted to raise that cap to include more syrians. what do you think about that policy? caller: i think we had done a

good job in being able to accept people, because we have a very sieve through which these people are vetted. from what i understand and i may be mistaken, there have been very few rich and taken from syria in comparison to the muslims, and i don't know if that is actually correct, but i have heard that a number of times. host: there is some news related to this conversation. texas lawmakers urge president obama to register syrians and threat.osed no strongerlement national security safeguards and certify to congress that

admitted refugees pose no threat to their citizens and texas excesses that exists more refugees than any other state, yet the obama administration remains vague and unresponsive to our questions and demands for more transparency. when we were in laredo, we sat down with a local activist and lawyer who represent -- represents syrians and others seeking asylum, and we talked with attorney -- attorney jonathan ryan, who represented two separate syrian families who turn themselves into border patrol in texas. withamilies were separated their fathers and one detention center and the mother and children in another detention center. here is what jonathan ryan told us. >> in the case of these syrian families, they stay for almost two months. they arrived at our border the monday following the november 13

attacks in paris, that was on a friday. it was a subsequent monday at these families arrived at the border. they were initially detained on the 16th of november. rather than spending the normal 20 days, they passed every test, they passed interviews, they do have family, including united u.s.s citizens here in the who provided them with letters of support, and nevertheless, our government declared a were not going to release these families following the paris attacks. we engaged in significant efficacy and there were multiple new stories in media outlets such as the l.a. times, the guardian and mother jones to follow the story -- that followed the story of these families and call the government's actions and question. this letter the decision to

release the families, later in to the decision to release the families later, in december. wednesday, wethat had the horrible attacks in san bernardino. that night, the night of the attacks, all the family members were called and told to cancel their tickets, and new decisions were made in writing, denying the parole of these syrian families for so-called law enforcement reasons, no other reason was provided. it was up to us to connect the dots with what we were seeing with the news and what we were seeing happen to these individual families who are refugees who are peaceful people who sought our help and who were , like looking at someone strapped down to a hospital gurney, his mother is looking

into their children's eyes, in a detention center, being called our enemy, coming to us for help and being called our enemy. the disappointment and disillusionment in their eyes was something that as a american was difficult to see. host: were they released? >> christmas eve, and they have been reunited with their families. local attorney in laredo, texas talking about syrians watching the border, claiming fear, part of the migration pattern that now the united states is seeing, but what is happening in europe and part of what was behind that vote to exit the eu by u.k. citizens. that is all part of the discussion this morning, and we get your thoughts on mother immigration makes the united states stronger or weaker.

trevor in ohio, good morning. caller: good morning. i think immigrants should be cut business,se their marketing is taking over my their speech is very unworthy for the united states, because i have dealt with bankers here with my banking cards and every time i call them, it is very hard to speak with them and get through what i need to do for my bank account, and to have things done for my bank account. host: linda in florida. caller: thank you for taking my call. i am addicted to c-span. host: that is not a bad thing. caller: i think immigration

helps and hurts. it hurts economically, especially in florida. wages have been cut down by about half. unemployment is really high. on the positive side, culturally, it has been positive. it is always positive to receive immigrants, whether positive influence, but i don't see the mexican immigrants are legal, i think that is part of the problem. i would not mind so many immigrants as long as they are legal, and i know the process is hard and long because i know people who are going through it, but economically, it is hurting us that they are working these people and nobody is paying taxes and they are receiving benefits and having children. host: when you say the process ends long and hard, what do you mean by that -- is long and hard, what do you mean by that?

caller: i know someone who came over on a student exchange and decided to stay in the united states. he went through years of the process and a lot of money, in order to do the right thing and become a citizen. i do not know the specifics of it, that i have talked to a lot of people that say it is hard, and i think these immigrants that are coming in from mexico have a language problem that is a barrier to begin with, and they are scared to death. a lot of them hide, because they are afraid of being deported. host: there is also the physical track that people make. i want to show you video from laredo, he went up in a helicopter with u.s. customs and border protection, able to see the terrain from the sky, and there are three parts of u.s. customs and border protection. there is the air and marine

officials that where the cap uniforms, up and helicopters, on the boats along the rio grande and this is what they showed us for their job, to be up in the air, and trying to see in the past ranchland that separates these cities, there is two it half hours between laredo and the gallon, two and a half hours between -- to a half hours to san antonio, and it is just while of ranchland. they go up in these helicopters on a daily basis, a lot of times doing rescue missions were people are in distress in the hot, dry land of texas where it was 104 degrees in april, so a lot of times they are not only helping with apprehension of illegal immigrants, but they are also called out in distress calls. conditioned, it is basically about 10 degrees cooler that it is outside. they are wearing uniforms,

helmets, body gear, bullet-proof vest and they are up in these helicopters for hours at a time, going over this ranchland and otherg out the components, whether it is border patrol to help with an apprehension, they also help out and on thenforcement rio grande, there is also the marine folks -- there is the helicopter landing from the books that are up in the air, that is an image of the helicopter that we went up into. said, we were able to go along the rio grande on an withat as well, and go some of the marine folks to do their job.

there is the rio grande, what separates nuevo laredo and the city of laredo, texas. i want to show you a little bit of our interview with u.s. customs and border protection. we talked with the chief patrol agent for border patrol for the laredo sector, and he talked about the smuggling operations that are frequent in that area along the border, and the industry itself, run a lot by the mexican cartels, charging a lot of money and trying to smuggle folks across the border. laredo,rily in immaturity of the 17,000 apprehensions that we have had so far in the first six months of this year are mexican nationals, books coming from

mexico who are trying to make it into the united states. we also see a number of people from central and south america, so we see folks from guatemala, honduras, as far away as brazil. some folks from china and other areas of the world. it is not confined to any one particular area. host: how are they making the trip? >> most of those folks are contracting smuggling organizations to finance their trip to the united states, and they pay anywhere from $1500 to $15,000 depending on how far they are coming, what types of techniques they are using, whether they are forging documents are not, and how long that trip is going to take. daniel weather coming from, they pay a significant price, and it

also depends on what are you expect to go into the united states. getting smuggled into the interior of the -- united states, you would pay more than just being dropped off at the international boundary. folks that dedicate their lives to smuggling aliens and narcotics. what books to not understand is the people they think are just trying to do a humanitarian effort in trying to transport , it is help them actually part of a criminal whose only jobl is to collect a price that the alien is willing to pay in order to get into the u.s. and it finds themselves getting exploited at every level of that transaction, whether it is at the -- recruitment level, the actual transportation level, we see young ladies that are being

raped, folks being robbed, people are being kidnapped and onceted for more money they put their lives in the hands of these smugglers. host: the chief of border patrol talking about the smuggling operations. some folks trying to enter the country illegally are trying to swim across right there, the rio grande that separates mexico from the united states. the footage is from an airboat that marine officials use to try to patrol the area, try to control those waters. international waters, so they cannot apprehend somebody is coming across illegally until they touch u.s. soil, so we were able to ride along with the marine folks of the u.s. border and protection, they also used cameras around the rio grande.

they use those to try to track what is happening and is obviously a very dense brush area, where it is difficult for border patrol to see who is coming across, swimming at nighttime, and we were also able to see the paths that illegal immigrants have made through this dense brush area, swimming across and this is one of them on your screen, where immigrants the unitedpath into states, often leaving behind garbage, clothes, etc. onare getting your thoughts immigration on the washington journal. talking to you about whether or not it makes the country stronger or weaker. estelle in tennessee, go ahead and answer that question. caller: i have first-hand experience with immigration

professionals. laredoed your program on and i saw personally the trucks they came up and pull to the side and i saw it was getting up and walking. as a banker, i have people come though they were you legal, they would have a social security number and there was a pattern where it would belong to somebody who had passed on. they had no idea who the person was, but the would give these social security numbers and that is how they would be able to get jobs and whatnot. wemakes us weaker because have so many other immigrants, -- we have tosh

hear messages in spanish and english. we do not know what is going on and i think it makes us weaker because we have a problem, and we literally have people here that are just illegal. what they are doing is illegal host: what do you make of the president's decision to try to allow children who were brought here illegally by their parents to stay in this country temporarily? do, i do sympathize, i not -- i am not heartless, but if you are you are illegal, and these -- the burden on our school system is great. we are taking the students and we are educating them while at the same time, we are closing

schools, there are financial issues all over the country, and in the end, the students are bilingual, our students are taught english, we are taking the students out of class and spending money and having a special class to teach them there are jobs here that these people get that i cannot get if i do not speak spanish and i am american. host: we go to matthew in new york. about: i wanted to talk my dad who lives in charleston, s.c., and he was in a car accident with a mexican woman and he has been going through several surgeries, and when he got into the car accident, the lady had no license, no id, she was not arrested, the car had no insurance, and she never even

showed up to court which the officer told my dad, the expected that. i do not understand why she was not apprehended or arrested, being in a car accident, she hit him from behind. the president is right in stopping this people from coming to our country, but if you go to -- host: it will not give the name out of somewhere a person lives. caller: mexico must be overpopulated, and soon we will be. people do not listen to the donald trump, he is talking about illegal immigrants, back like they want to throw them out, but we are talking about illegals. i hope you guys get an american indian historian in here one day and asked him what he thinks on

getting overrun with foreigners. the democrats want the one-party role so the only way to do that is to change the demographics of the country and it has been on their shelf and their plans for years. host: we go to paul in florida, good morning. i remodel homes for a living, and i had a customer that i had done three or four jobs for, and i did my jobs and he came to me at the end of one job and i asked him, what president do you want to serve next and he said i just have one hade, my made that i have -- maid that i have had for six

months, her boyfriend came here and he does not have a green card or anything, he came to visit, but he needs some work, and he says will you work for $10 an hour and i said will of course i cannot work for $10 an hour, i can't afford to pay my wellance etc., and he says it is not even a legal immigrant, is just visiting, but he is hoping to try to get a student visa or whatever, so he can go to school and eventually he could -- during the meantime, all these illegal immigrants are flooding our markets and alluding our ability to make a living. they have no problem living, as they were used to back in mexico

15 or 20 in living a house call and a car pull together to work, they don't mind making eight or $10 an hour, and they are making big money to them. jobs and whate of happens with the impact of trade, likely to come up today with the president meets with the prime minister of canada, as well as the president of mexico. the wall street journal has this headline. north american leaders are looking to project a image of unity on a summit on wednesday. canadians that canada's prime minister will parade hope. coverage of the news conference at 3:00 p.m. eastern time on c-span.

we will also have the president's address to the canadian parliament around 5:45 p.m. eastern time on c-span as well. carolyn in south carolina, and immigrant. -- an immigrant. immigrants making a stronger or weaker, it depends -- host: you just have to listen through the phone. on twitter, this is part of the conversation, i'm not -- undocumented, unskilled cheap labor weakens the economy for the poor and strengthens the economy for the rich. another viewer says of course we need greater oversight of legal immigration, but who is willing to pay for that? illegal immigration has made america weak and vulnerable.

why do we want to restrict who can live in work -- live and work in the land of the free? what do all of you think? i arrived as the -- in the united states as an 16,grant in 1957, january and i certainly believe that illegal immigration is destroying this country. legal immigration would certainly help quite a bit because i experienced that and as a matter of fact, i am an havecan city longer than i -- you have because i am american for nearly 60 years. , like forms are

instance in my country, where i came from, it was illegal and punishable if you spoke the english language, so i came here and went to night school and the teacher had to give me special assignments because i was very anxious, myself and my wife to learn the language and they had to give me special assignments because the rest of the class could not read or write our own language. host: where did you come from? i am not going to mention that, but i came from europe. believe that illegal immigration will destroy this country in the future. watching the debate about

the president's executive action on immigration, the supreme court ruled last week on some of the president's executive actions. the justice department is now reviewing the supreme court isigration decision in this what they report, that the obama administration is looking into whether or not they can challenge the supreme court's decision to block president obama's plan to spare millions of illegal immigrants from deportation. we will you reviewing the case, said the attorney general, we will -- they did not state what actions the obama administration could pursue. in a future executive actions president obama may take would be left to the white house. loretta lynch identified espionage from foreign nationals

on u.s. companies as a tremendous problem. if you want to read the interview, you can find that on their website. they president himself reacted to what the supreme court did. >> although i am disappointed by the lack of a decision today by 8:00, this --urt, a deadlock, this does not change the status quo, and it does not negate what has always been the case, which is if we are going to solve this problem effectively, we have to have congress pass a law. i have pushed to the limits of my executive authority, we now have to have congress act and hopefully, we will have a vigorous debate during this

election, that is how democracy is supposed to work and there will be a determination as to which direction we go in. host: that was the president reacting to the supreme court. the speaker of the house had a different reaction, and he was talking about what the supreme court did, he called it a win for the constitution, congress and for the fight for the separation of powers. >> i want to say a word about the ruling we just got that holds the president's executive and misty. this is a win for the constitution, it is a win for congress, and it is a win in our fight to restore the separation of powers. the president does not write the laws, congress writes the laws. the congress when a not because this is fundamental to our checks and balances. the supreme court validated that very essential core fundamental. host: that was house speaker

paul ryan about the supreme court's decision on president obama's executive order. we are talking about all of these different aspects of immigration with all of you, will you like congress to do on this as we talk about whether or not immigration make the country and may in weaker california, there are border states, all others, go ahead. have a bilingual teacher in southern california, and i lived in mexico city in 1981, and when i was working there, i was working illegally for cash, and i read articles in what would be our ladies home journal and it was urging citizens to go out to the united

states for free education, welfare, food stamps and a better way of life. now, i am seeing our country has made an active choice to not enforce or even verify and it has benefited the rich and working class are suffering. toes that are built close by my house were once billed by unions -- built by unions and they are now built by illegals that work as subcontractors the builders, and we have created this problem because we have been sending arms to mexico and the arms have been going to the cartel. people can no longer make a living in mexico. they do not feel safe in their own country, and lots of people that i work with, families are afraid to go home and visit because of the cartels. host: we heard about that when we were down in laredo. bridge was the

waiver laredo -- was no waiver laredo where nuevo the cartel presence was felt. caller: my heart goes out to our immigrants that are here. my heart also goes out to people that are struggling for jobs. there are no longer jobs available for high school students when they graduate. it is a problem that needs to be addressed, that people that are here and want to try and wait in linee to for hours and hours at immigration offices and then they are turned away. they are trying to make themselves legal and it is a difficult process, almost impossible. host: do you think that those fleeing the violence by the cartels in mexico should be able to claim fear and start the asylum process? caller: i do. we created a problem.

host: how so? areer: the arms in mexico 95% from the u.s. and i talked to agents that have said that arms are disappearing, that are coming back from the war in iraq , about 30% of the arms disappear and they are appearing in mexico. we talked with u.s. customs and border protection, they told us a little bit about that as well, that they are apprehending firearms and any nation, trying to go into mexico , being smuggled into mexico right the border in laredo texas and when it comes to seizures across the south texas port, take a look at the numbers, not just ammunition, and firearms, but not conduct -- narcotics makes up a lot of it.

$172 billion worth of narcotics, and increase over 2018, this is just the seizures, that the drugs that do make their way in. 153 pounds of marijuana, if you 300 pounds of cocaine, over 5000 pounds of methamphetamine. that is just some of the numbers from this area of texas where we visited, the laredo area which is larger than just the city of laredo, the sector makes up many miles along the u.s. /texas/mexico border. gene in illinois, welcome to the conversation. caller: i have spoken with you before. enforcement, iaw believe this country was founded on legal immigration. let's remember that here in the city of chicago, the number of

deaths that continue to rise, there are three major hispanic drug cartels fighting for the drug turf just here in the city of chicago. we have to understand that we have to enforce the laws that are on the books. i do not mean close our borders, the we have to vet these people who want to come here. it is not a right to become an american, it is a privilege and we have to keep that in mind and follow the laws. -- : flint -- lynn in good morning. caller: i have something to say about the immigrants, and the refugees. the immigrants have made america very strong, but we have not looked at the climate we are living in right now. they should have certain projects for illegal immigrants that live closer to the border and we have those projects, construction projects, they can

have a work these seven have to go back to the country. we will not be responsible for their medical care, they have to go back over to mexico. when we talk about refugees, coming from the climates where a lot of the terrorists come from, in order for them to get citizenship, it should never get full citizenship because the climate we live in, unfortunately, we have to give them generic citizenship, or they would not have full benefits as u.s. citizens. we should not them to have cell phones, we should not allow them to have access to the internet, we should not allow them to be able to buy arms, this way, we can kind of curtail some of the violence of the terrorist acts that we have experienced in the u.s. and in europe. host: what do you think about the unaccompanied minors that

are coming from central america, fleeing violence and their parents are sending them with smugglers or their parents are bringing them to the border and filling them to turn themselves into border patrol and try to claim fear? i am a woman and a mother first. i sympathize with these children, i do not think the children should be incarcerated. i think we have to work on that and come up with another avenue with the children of illegal immigrants, i think just like in have somee, that we kind of safe haven, i really have not thought that through, under someould be catholic community service, but -- childrenated or are children and we have to view them as children and at some

point, they should be able to reconnect with their parents. are, as youchildren said, detained, the usually have somebody in this country sponsoring them. the government lets them to release to that sponsor, but they have to report back to court and start that process and if they don't, then the deporttration has to those children that have not reported back and start the process. other situations occur, this is from a story out of ohio that over the last three years, this is in marion, tens of thousands of a accompanied miners fled central america for the u.s. 10 teenagers, some is an is 14, labored as prisoners for over a year. , youur north of columbus will find a trailer park.

standing outside the trailer brings back bad memories for young men from guatemala who did he want to use his name, came to the u.s. with the promise of a new job and a chance to go to school when he turned 17. when he got was 12 hours a day of six -- 12 days, six days a week of working at a chicken farm. they aren't $500 a week, but the traffickers hulu with about kept all but $60. the tracker -- the trafficker earned at least $225,000 off the kids' labor. to customs about the unaccompanied minors and what happens with. >> what we saw on the ground was people looking for a better life and you can see officers taking it hard because what the central

americans worse -- were -- riencing, people were if they needed toys, they would provide toys, so it was the human side of everything, not only from the central americans, but also from the offices -- officers. host: how old were these children? >> ranging from three to four months to 17 years of age, but there were some young children. -- they would make arrangements to send them to detention. people think unaccompanied minor, they think there was no adult with them. was that always the case? always, you cannot expect a minor to make it all the way

to central america and mexico all that -- all by themselves. you had a smuggler take them to what it needed to go, to the point of entry and then they would say keep walking until you see a uniformed officer. the parrot could also want them up to the point of entry. very unlikely unless they were teenagers at least 15 years old that would make the journey by themselves, but the younger ones had to have an adult accompanying them. host: and accompanied minors trying to make their way from central america to the unit states,-- to the notice often through the us-mexico border down in texas. we spoke with u.s. borders and customs protection about that in april and what we learned is the process for once they turn themselves into border patrol, what happens next and often as you heard, they are paying

thousands of dollars to the smugglers and these mexican cartels to get them from the countries in central america into the united states. that is one part of immigration. we are asking you overall about immigration and does it make this country stronger or weaker? virginia --bike in like in virginia -- mike in virginia. caller: there are so many things that intersect on this issue, socially -- social things and economic things. it intotaken as much of my mind as i can, it seems to me that there really is no way to fix -- fix this without hurting anybody, and i'm also willing to reality that we can't fix this without hurting people. we are just going to keep on with the status quo.

you listen to all these various accounts of what people are having to endure. because they made a decision to enter the united states illegally. the extent that they are willing to go, on the one hand, you have to admire the fact that they want to come here so badly, but you cannot turn your back on what it is doing to our country, especially when it is doing to our safety net. the things that happened during the summer of 2014, a few want to listen to talk radio, you did not really hear about the things thatwere happening, things the administration did to try to get people settled into the six monthsring buses ahead of the summer because they knew there were going to make some announce in mexico never going to cause a flood of people to hit the border. but like to say this,

closing the border is the only thing that is going to give us a chance to get a handle on it. however many people that hurts. california, give us your opinion. i can only speak for the state of california, which i live in, and i just do not see it has had a positive effect whatsoever and i agree with the previous:. how do you get a handle on it when it is such a multifaceted -- our schools are just going so it just seems like the know how to come here, politicians sit on your show and try to tell us that they do not receive any funding whatsoever and that is such a lie and i

wish the politicians would stop lying to us. host: how do you know it is the truth that they do not get welfare? caller: the first of january of this year, jerry brown passed a law to wear if you are , child until age 19, you still get the health care. they come into our schools, you cannot ask them if they are legal or not, they are provided special education to help them with their language, they caused such a burden because they get free meals, free health care, you have your representatives like gutierrez and the one from california, i do not know his last name. -- hobbyier becerra

airport sarah -- i want to share with our viewers what the governor had to say about california, the new law will expand medical. those -- the legislation will -- to provide coverage to undocumented children 18 years old and younger. it is their medicaid program. under the law the state made in 2016, they will extend this coverage to about 170,000 undocumented immigrant children under age 19. the protection is expected to and $40 million next year $120 million following implementation. jim in texas, good morning. caller: hello.

texas, illegal immigrants are common, but i was on vacation last summer and we were on our way north and we were going through northern kentucky. one of the people that i had witnessed down here in dallas was at a corner where they go for day work. inecognized him, and he was northern -- it was the same person, i'm sure, that i had seen in dallas, was in northern kentucky at a gas station. i do not think he was -- the thing is, they are coming through texas, and they must be on some kind of underground train to get them all the way up north, all the way into the

midwest and throughout the country. there is some kind of underground train working. host: -- in new york, good morning. caller: i am a construction worker at $30 an hour with you got these people who work for nine dollars an hour and a sandwich and it took all of our jobs and they depreciate the value of our jobs. my wife's friend came over the other day and he is working for a company that was not paying benefits. if you do not pay benefits, you don't get medical, and their kid needs braces. they are here illegally, no one knows who they are, 6 million people walked away from their homes because they cannot get jobs. we banked on the keystone iteline but now we know why

will happen because obama has been stealing money from the middle east, otherwise we would put it a thousand american workers back to work. they don't worry about americans, they're worried about everyone else. for: what is the draw illegal immigrants to try to come here, seeking a job or what do you think caused that? the believe it was trade deals like nafta? caller: i do not know what it is. no one is going to pay me $32 and our work they can pay someone nine dollars in our. these are hard-working folks. they are here illegally, nobody knows who they are and there is no database. do need to have a wall, you have to know who is coming into this country. if you did not have a job or you

were sick and ellis island, they would send you home. in west virginia, hello. caller: it is really destroying our country. who keepunderstand spending -- saying they spend thousands of dollars to get here, but they do not make any money. my brother worked at a broom shop in illinois. they worked for nine dollars and our. how can you spend thousands of dollars to get a job that only pays you eight dollars an hour? my wife worked at a motel, there is a wooded section and they had a big camp out there. a big camp in the woods behind the motel. the police would break it up and

into were three days, they are back. mine owns a piece of property in stonebridge. propertyht a piece of from him and eight and $35,000 for it. i do not know where they got the money. then all of a sudden, there was about 15 of them and they started building a residence of no one knowsd then what happened to them, they all disappeared. they just were not there anymore. if anyone reads their history books and sees how rome got that got, all great countries fat and lazy because they did -- they immigrated people in who did the work for them. ,ost: let me ask you a question

and your view, should immigration be kept at its present level, increased or decreased? caller: i don't know what it is, but i think it should be whatever it is, but i think it ought to be legal. if you are not legal, you have no business here. host: we will take a look at the results of that poll. 40% said present level, 33% said decrease and 25% said decrease. mark in iowa. caller: i watched c-span quite regularly and about eight months ago, you had a thing on what he about bringing the refugees over here and it was different groups like catholic charities and some lutheran groups that were going to be taking -- be like the

sponsors. government spelled out they get free housing for five years and all their medical benefits, and everything that and on and on and on, illegal immigrants, they are illegal, but they want to bring in these people and they explained what the vetting process was. thatial worker meets with group connector that point, the federal government pays to put them on a plane, fly them here and take care of them. host: i'm going to stop you there, because i do not believe that part is correct about a social worker. by homelandted security in their home country or whatever country they are in, seeking asylum here.

caller: c-span covered and that is the way they explained it at that time. they might have changed it since then, but that is the way they were originally bringing people over. host: , we talked to james howell at c-span.org. you can watch the interview there. you just go to c-span. or and ,ype in europe refugee migration crisis, you will find the different interviews that we have done here on this program about that. aaron, johnson pennsylvania. caller: how are you a. we don't look at this immigration crisis. we are acting like it is a new thing. we did this to the chinese,

irish, italians. now we are doing it to the people coming from latin america. they are not coming here taking anyone's job. pickcans do not want to fruit, clean hotel rooms. these are jobs that people in this country don't want to do. immigrants, ior would be paying four dollars a pound for apples. because they are willing to do it for such a low price. what should be the reaction from folks in washington? we need to create a system where we can legalize these immigrant workers coming in to do the job. on --cessarily put them make them citizens, but document them. they are a vital part of our economy. for keep prices low working-class americans to be able to buy things. to be able to stay in hotels, to

be able to do whatever. the entire meatpacking industry by illegal -- immigrants. they keep the prices down. no american will work for less than $15 an hour. but these people well. they are doing it to make out better life for their children. that is aaron's thoughts in pennsylvania. missouri, you're on the air. caller: i just had a comment about the border states. i lived in texas all of my life before i moved here to missouri. lots of immigrant workers and stuff like that that i work with as a young kid. wanted tohem just feel safe and things like that. it is why issue with

haven't we had any candidates or anybody in government come up and say that we might go into negotiations for buying mexico. government is already buying land in mexico. i don't see why we wouldn't come and put an option on the table like that. we are talking about what we are spending on the border and the upkeep. billions of dollars every year. the president is meeting with mexican counterpart as well as the canadian prime minister today. what we will have is coverage of his news conference with the two gentlemen as well as his speech to parliament there. for details.org about that. you mentioned politics, -- thereial campaign

was also a primary yesterday for house and senate races rates some key ones from the state of justado, republicans have forfeited -- forfeited half of their chances by half. they mean one. the fact we are writing about what looks like one likely missed opportunity for senate republicans to unseat a senate , republicans cannot afford any mistakes.

he won the republican primary yesterday. there were also primary races in ,ew york yesterday as well general election contest set in competitive new york races. , mostettled the fields competitive general election race democrats have six potential pick-up opportunities this fall and to make a deficit -- i didn't in their deficit. in's go to fernando rockford, illinois. fernando is an immigrant. good morning. caller: good morning. today, i wanted to call because i immigrated from mexico in the , and i became

interested in the national guard, so i joined. then i went on to go to college, i learned that the language and everything. i think america is stronger when you have immigrants from other countries. now, i teach spanish at the high school. my long-term goal is to teach spanish at the college level. when you have business people coming from other countries, it is better for america. pittsburgh, does immigration make this country stronger or weaker? caller: good morning. italy iy emigrated from and the 1910 time but they came through ellis island and had to

take physical examinations, mental examinations, etc.. some of them were returned to italy because they could not pass. i don't understand why the mexicans or south americans get a free pass on this. they should have to be vetted and checked for their attitudes and health, and not bring disease in the country, etc.. host: who did you say it's a free pass? caller: the south americans, the mexicans that he legally, across the border. this thing about why do they we are hard-working, too, but we can't get jobs. my son-in-law lost his job as a carpenter in colorado and was never able to get another one because the mexicans will work for $10 an hour. that doesn't make them cheap to the exchange rate with the peso

is 13 paces to the dollar. they are working for 130 pesos led to which in mexico live and upper middle-class life easily. their families are living a good life while our families are on unemployment compensation. it is not fair. the other consideration is who are these people coming in from the middle east through the southern border? flow, put atop that wall up and block the immigration and control it or this country is going down the drain. host: that was jim in pittsburgh, pennsylvania, talking about the flow of , we learned when we were in laredo, texas, that coming from all different parts of the country. jim also mentioning the impact of illegal immigration on jobs in this country, what it does to

wages and what they are earning. we spoke with a trucker from mexico who makes the trip across the border, sometimes two times a day, bringing goods across the texas, whereedo, 6000 commercial trucks crosier. he talks about what he does, his training, but also how much he makes. approximately seven years of being a truck driver how long does the process take to be able to drive his trucks? trainingmonths of before you can make any trip. >> how many trips to do approximately? >> two round trips approximately, four boxes daily daily. for crosses.

to imports and to exports daily. tell me about a typical day on the road? what time do you begin, what time do finish? and in dn at 8:00 a.m. p.m. the process we have to do is i get to the yard, get checkck, i feel my truck, through the mexican customs and if i get a green light i continue. once i arrive at u.s. customs i show my documentation, my cdl and my these are. i show my visa. the official decides and lets me know if i continue straight and i get a green light or if i go there x-ray. where theirds

official sends me. for example, today i got a search. that is a process sometimes. i have to go through the ramp and then continue on to laredo, texas. what is your salary? 4500 paces toen 6000 pesos weekly. 300-$400 a week. it is not a high or low salary, but we do survive with what i earn. i am able to pay my mortgage, but we don't live look jury is the, but we don't live too bad here it it is enough to survive.

talking with mexican citizens when we were in laredo, texas. we are getting your thoughts on all different aspects of immigration and the debates that happened here in the u.s. and whether or not it makes us stronger or weaker. crystal in jacksonville, florida. caller: hello. i worked in security at 2005onville beach back in and the illegal immigrants are taking jobs away from real americans. they were putting in the wiring, and of course they don't speak english. but they are taking jobs away.

like the poultry place. they went to texas to get the illegals to work at the press does processing plant and gave the, georgia. it's not right and it is making it weaker. host: david, in detroit michigan. what do you think? man, i wasa embarrassed at whatever the guy said earlier today. veteran, i served under carter as well as reagan. hearing sounds un-american. i gave up and search for. -- served as four. alien, they dol

add towards the economy. they consume, they purchase. they add towards the gdp. all this rank or an ms is coming to myi think it goes argument, too many people get up fighting over the doughnut hole and not the donor. the doughnut hole has no calories,. making out. whoever hires is individuals are making out. this whole argument of people taking people's jobs, i don't think that is happening. most of those jobs those people are working at i don't want to do. i'm a college educated person. i teach at the university. doingve these individuals low heel labor. someone is paying them as well as they can and they are making out. those are the people that are

eating the doughnut. the rest of us are fighting over the doughnut hole. i have experience with illegals, and i wanted to point out that your color from michigan was wrong. my brother-in-law is a top-notch computer software person. he had to retrain israel at hp earsrom india ago. the whole company had to train their replacements from india and they lost their jobs. experiencey personal with illegal immigration is that my sister brought some illegals from el salvador who has been here for 13 years and impregnated somebody in the state of north carolina that the state has to support. he and hisnsylvania,

buddies stole everything, birth certificates, car registrations. they emptied out the barn, they loaded their cars and we had to call the police to get him out of here. the illegals, wind i live in maryland they took up resources in the high schools. my daughters went to the top high school in rockville, maryland, and they had gangs in that school. it turned from a top-notch to a -- school because of drugs and conflict going on. host: that was charlotte in washington, pennsylvania. will get more phone calls in here talking about the impact of immigration on the contrary, does it make it stronger or weaker. like that float in the u.k. to exit the european union. also, president obama's executive order for a split

decision in the supreme court held a block -- keeping in place a block by the year -- lower court that prohibits the president from moving forward on some of his executive actions when it comes to immigration. in other news in programming notes here at the washington post, attempt to fund zynga fight dies among poison bills. the sun the correct -- poison-filled letters added by republicans about other issues.

if you're interested in learning more about this, homeland acurity committee is having hearing to this morning coming up at the top of the hour, 10:00 a.m. eastern time. we will bring you to this when we'd wrap up washington journal and be live here on c-span. you will be able to learn more and hear testimony from medical researchers and experts on mosquito control in this country. mary, graham, texas. good morning. caller: thank you for letting me call. you can't really answer that question one way or the other. and they bringd

new ideas sometimes. side.o have the bad not knowing if terrorists are right there. a way that thep people who want to come and and shouldbe citizens, they set up a way for them to do that. with no repercussions. it shouldn't cost an arm and a leg. it should be simple. do you know whether or not each state has an immigration bureau set up in it? host: i don't know. why do you ask? caller: that would be an easier way to get people that are say,t to call them out and

your headquarters in dallas, and and have aby mail logo please check their background. host: where is graham, texas chroma? townr: it's a very small 60 miles out of wichita. wichita falls. west, near- south .ew mexico we'll have like 9000 people. ago,ked at a motel years and we were making it hard on the illegals. my boss had them shipped in from somewhere in the truck in the back and i would see that truck , and they had a place

kingdom, out by possum and it's a hiding place out there. and somebody were tipped missiles each and every time. i don't know if it was border .atrol or the local police we sent them off to possum and soon it was all clear and we brought them back. pool,leaned our swimming that's a fallacy that whites won't clean the rooms. i did it. quite a good salary for this treated me really badly. after that i worked for minimum

wage. tom in lancaster, california. you talked about $40 million the year jerry brown was giving to undocumented aliens .nd it jumps up to 170 million what about housing, is our housing and welfare on that? what's really going on? can you tell us exactly what went on with that? it host: it sounds like a segment idea possibly.

in other news, we started today's program talking about an attack in istanbul, turkey. bbc with minute to minute program -- opened fire near a terminal entrance. police fired at them. said the minister islamic state could be behind the attack. the bbc also saying that a turkish newspaper attacks weaknesses in the state. the airport massacre is proof that turkey which just for our five years ago was considered a paradise, has turned into howl

at the amount of war at home and in the world. the news agencies are all cop", webout the "hero all need to talk about the weaknesses in the state. all of us our debt to all of those who died in this massacre. one of the turkish newspapers. will go today aaron and washington, d.c. to continue our conversation about immigration then impact. good morning. caller: good morning. d.c. so it's hard to escape politics. this immigration debate i am a proud american. we have our issues, but it's the best place in the world to be. with immigration, it's just

really hard. i understand why people come here. it is not easy to get here illegally. it is a struggle to get here. desert,ie in the there's a potential love you and if family getting hurt. placeou are coming to a you don't know -- you might have a relative here, you are just coming and blind. u.s. orderlk to custom protection, activists, lawyers and we were in laredo about all the different people who are making that journey from central america, syria, african countries, coming to the border right there in laredo, texas, flyingng cubans, despite relations, we have seen on surge in the number of cubans flying into mexico and making their way

to laredo, texas. -- our usegory alvaro who is the port director. the bridge one is a location where we have seen the majority of our cuban nationals arriving, applying for benefits. year, from october 1 from now we have processed over 14,000 cubans. atelatively tight footprint that facility, so we had to adjust our operations. we had to increase our capacity to be able to triple our capacity to be able to process. .e streamlined the process it's a very straightforward process, very small percentage of law enforcement risk and concerned that we have found with the cubans that have been applying for status.

relatively free of any smuggling concerns and minimal amounts of problems. i amat do they need to say a cuban citizen and and i ?ualify for this policy being allowed to enter the united states. >> they need to be able to prove that they are cuban. it is a different kind of requirement then applies to most travelers. many of them, the majority of them are in possession of a passport. because they have resided in another country before transmitting into the united states. they have an identity document that establishes that they are attended school . all of those are acceptable as long as they can satisfy the officer that they are cuban national and entitled to apply.

act: the cuban adjustment is what that official was talking about. as -- congress wants to change that law. a democrat from laredo who represents that area said it is amnesty for cubans. when we work in laredo after we talk to customs and border protection, we interviewed a cuban who has made the journey from his country and to laredo, processed.e here is what he told us about the journey and why he came to the united states. >> how long was your journey to the united states? from saturday until today,

from cuba to cancun, to cancun to monterey. >> why come in through laredo border? >> it has always been mentioned back home. >> what documents do you have with you? >> my passport. just a cuban passport? what other documents to fill out what you get here and what do they ask? money and things i have with me. >> u.k. malone? >> alone. here inu have family laredo or anyone else in the u.s.? >> dallas, texas. i'm headed there with my brother. do you plan on staying in the u.s. for good? >> yes. >> why? what other reason to left cuba?

>> financial reasons. >> is a too expensive? >> everything is too expensive and the salary is low. >> do you leave behind job or family cuba? family, all my family, my daughters, my wife and my brothers. when you get established here, do you plan on bringing your family from cuba? >> if god allows it. stronger weaker?

caller: weaker. the american people are on the downside. we are being annihilated by illegals coming into this country and our government allowing it. my question to all the illegals they get outment on our streets in protest and they waive other country flights. why aren't you waving the american flag? why aren't you going towards our way of life instead of coming over here because you are afraid of your country and try to live your countries way.

why we are against all this illegal. we resent the fact that our culture is being taken away from us. anda maria, california, immigrant. thank you for taking up my call. i can't to this country and 30 .ears ago be a part of the culture. this obedient law, we can make a better country by all .niting

i love america. thank you for taking my call. edinburgh, texas. where is that? it is right on the border. right above mcallen, texas. cartel warrant, -- war, it was really big a couple of years ago. we could hear guns going off and all that stuff. it drove all budget people up north. overall, it is positive. we have been affected by some of the crime that has come across the board. economically, this area has boomed. we have had a lot of well-to-do

people from monterrey, mexico, come up in that northern mexico region. our economic development specifically targets trying to not only develop our side of the border but also the mexican side of the border. i think most people think globalization is good. .hat should be going on basically it's what is happening. we need new people if we are going to be doing the globalization thing. it's all over europe and

everywhere. the problem is our officials -- politicians -- somebody said their parent came across alice found could we don't have an ellis island. people are talking about how our jobs are going, we don't have the training. it's not only about immigration, is globalization good and our people keeping up with what needs to be done? host: that happened in britain to, leaving desperate voting to leave the european union. lots of discussion in the papers today. this morning, about what it means for government officials in the u.k., what it means for europe and what will happen next , that will likely be a conversation that the president has today when he meets with the canadian prime minister, his

mexican counterpart as well. he will be holding a trilateral news conference 3:00 eastern time. look at coverage on c-span. the president will address the canadian parliament at 5:00 p.m. eastern time. we will have coverage on c-span as low the washington times this morning with the stair, terror threat remains high as a islamic strikes will persist for years despite steady territorial and troop losses.

we cover that hearing yesterday, you can watch it on c-span.org. that is a special envoy to the us-led coalition combating isis. mike in lancaster, south carolina. i watch c-span all the time, and it takes forever to get through to you, but i am happy to get through. i don't want to tressa mexicans or anything like that. they are good people. i wanted to comment on her anger here in lancaster, south carolina. we see in the newspaper very they put ads in the workers,e wanting 100 but it's always like another state. like virginia or summer through their.

they want 100 workers, but we never see them wanting 100 workers here. you understand? we're up each crops and with tobacco crops. but we never see them advertised wanting workers in this area because the people that hire all of these folks, they know where they're at. they are seasonal workers, just like our peach crops down here in south carolina are picked by mexicans. then they advertise they need them somewhere -- all these companies are hiring these people, we don't have anybody to walk on the job and ask who is working here and are they covered with workers,? your point. and in lake charles, louisiana. i am calling from

lake charles, louisiana. i just want to say like this. mexicanse a lot of that are working in lake charles , but at the same time, it is kind of bad for the u.s. to have a lot of immigration coming through. at the same time, it has been going on for 80 or 90 years, even before we were born. people have been crossing the border. maybe our people that are in washington would probably want to go another route where the american people won't be so aggravated on the situation. and doeople do come in good. i see where these people transfer might to their families at home. a lot of them rest houses and there are like 15 and a house together. they send money home to their families. at the same time, why are these

people coming here? because a country's poor. they don't have anything. we need to try to make us as americans need to try to find some kind of way to make it all work out where we will be so , becauseh the mexicans it's not their fault. indiae people that's from , the way i understand it, india does come with money and they buy up everything in the you knighted states. -- united states. they are helping and not hurting. host: jerry in jacksonville, florida. the church earn. i want to bring up a politicianu had from chicago on your show. he said illegal's do not get any

benefits. host: congressman gutierrez. guest: yes ma'am. then you had a professor that's studied social programs from virginia or maryland. one of the colors called in and thathow many were illegal were on that program and he said 19%. you said is eagles do get things? and he said yes and our states they do. do get things? he said whites are born privileged. the second job i overhead in my .ife was working for hispanic i started working when i was 14 washing dishes.

worki hear americans won't it just burns me up. ist is something that bothering me. legal immigration is good for the country, but they have to become a or want to become americans. they can't have little we willies, otherwise ends as bad as it is in the middle is. trucks fighting against tribes. host: mary ellen, at fort washington. caller: i have a problem with your question. country.n immigrant we have white people coming from england and europe. black people were brought over here on ships. hispanic people are already over here. hereative americans were

and indigenous black americans were here first. maybe you could at least bring people together. get with it.to you have been putting questions out here and bring up the negativity of people. when are you going to bring us together as people? host: how should caller: we have asked the question? caller:don't ask it at all. you rose give the same answer? ,epublicans don't like it democrats think it is ok. same thing over and over. show and i like you as a host. you need to bring us together more often. story as we touch of the top house republicans in the big -- benghazi committee, should democrats make their own report on the special committee? the washington times headlines is clinton delayed u.s.

resources in benghazi. the report from republicans that the secretary of state dismissed the president in an attempt to appease libya. there were times benghazi panel ,inds no misdeeds by clinton the 800 page report delivered a and the officials who led them for failing to grasp the security in benghazi is -- outpost that they could not protect. they will be at the foreign relations council and she will at the pbs news hour. we will have coverage of that at 2:00 p.m. eastern time. missteps, as well as what happened in turkey at that

international airport with a bombing attack that killed around 40 people and injured more than 200. let's go to carl, fredericksburg, virginia. caller: c-span is great. i think there are a lot of people that watch c-span should watch all of c-span stations, because they will find out a lot about the history of america. as far as immigration is concerned, i see that a lot of jobs that are being performed by so-called illegal immigrants are by people who no longer do that work here and i understand that. i have ae things that problem with is i hear a lot of people call and say america is being invaded by these people. the historyget into of america. descendents of slave owners never talk about the fact that

slaves help to build this country. thank you. ken at cincinnati ohio. it's not your job to bring us together, i think you're doing a great job. it's about legal versus illegal immigration. i know republicans, we take a rap about not lying to bring in immigrants. for legal immigration. i think people must understand that we need to borders and we must understand sovereignty. sovereign nations and what does that mean. an opencannot have border world where people can just go anywhere they want. every country should have a right to have self-determination and we must obey the law. we need to focus on not being against immigrants but for legal immigration. host: mark in colorado springs.

good morning. for the greatyou show this morning. brooklyn, myy from grandfather was a farmer. immigrant go the way it goes is sickening. it should be more about undocumented immigrants. people are coming to this country that come in freely and for a better life. there was a gentleman that called earlier said something about descendents of slave owners. immigrants helped to build this country. there were so many people that are not originally from this country, and this is something that should be discussed. becausethis problems

corporations want to hire free labor. donald trump is a guy who hires if not free labor but minimum wage labor. there are other things that go wrong with immigration when , we have an issue with people coming into the country. they should be able to come , be documentedrk as citizens and help the country be greater. but those who are on the east -- the south in louisiana, when you throw the language they use. spanish dissent, they have an attitude like someone has just come into their house and offended them. ,ou got here by means of a boat he walked across the border or you are descendents of slaves. those americans, all of us

americans that are here should recognize that. the problem we have is that we ,on't know america's history that isnot a problem homegrown. this is a problem due to the lack of education. we have opinions that are not valid and we make discussions that are not valid. politicians that make laws and do not do things properly for those who come to the country. left in have 10 minutes a conversation. we will get more of your phone calls. report's page it is their lead banner, democrat hillary clinton has 42% to donald trump 40%. too close to call as american voters say neither candidate would be a good president and that the campaign has increased hatred and prejudice.

this compares to results of a june 1 national paul -- paul showing clinton edging trial 45 percent to 41%. randa -- randy and iowa, good morning. caller: good morning. on a historic to fact. for the most part, i would like to touch on what is going on in this country and brexit, what is going on in england. this is a rebuke of globalization and open borders. clones are low on information and worried about low-paying jobs. they are frustrated because in 2007 and 2008 we were losing 750,000 skilled jobs to parts

unknown. these jobs are being replaced with mcdonald's service industry jobs. there is no minimum wage to compensate for the loss of lower middle income americans. thatthe historical fact is as far back as the civil war or the building of the union pacific railroad, when chinese immigrants were imported to dilute the labor pool to build the railroad. a kept american wages down, and kept american workers in their place with a low wage. that is my concern. you see the satellite earlier, financial times, cameron blames praxis defeat on eu failure to tackle immigration. caller: i did not see that.

thank you very much for bringing that to my attention. it is a festering wound that is evident in america as well as an bunch -- well as england. globalization and free trade is a problem for the working man and the working woman in england as well as america. i want to thank you for this forum and got bless you. mr. cameron announced his resignation last week. towanted britain and the eu maintain a close relationship as possible. he warned the u.k. could not continue to accept large numbers of eu immigrants. kathy in newark, new jersey. caller: good morning. it's been interesting.

i enjoyed the previous caller's comments. .t is a multifaceted issue people that say that people aren't taking jobs from americans, that's just not you. if you look at the construction industry alone. has been decimated by low-cost workers. i see it in my neighborhood every day. in the health-care industry i see people with no insurance or illegal. i work in a hospital. somebody mentioned mcdonald's earlier. when i was a teenager, everybody worked in the fast food restaurant. intowas your first step working, getting to know how to work and do things and be responsible. you have your afterschool job. kids today can't even get those jobs because of dollars are working those jobs. it's crazy. allyn and canada, louisiana. i had with your wants.

-- go ahead with your thoughts. caller: they have the blacks, they always call them up and say that god made them. god neverknows that made the blacks. host: moving on from there. we have a little less than six minutes to continue the conversation about whether or not immigration makes the country stronger or weaker. you that we showing visited laredo, texas that we visited, we did washington journal from laredo, texas to talk about immigration and trade issues. we were able to interview talk with u.s. customs and border protection when we were there.

we went up and a helicopter to see what it was like. .iles and miles of ranch you also have the rio grande which they have to control, which is international water, separating mexico and the united states. there are three different i should say sections, u.s. border and protection the air and marine folks that are set up on the air and water. you also have border patrol agents that are wearing green. then pour officials that are wearing the blue uniforms. a all have different responsibility that they are in charge of. including our border with canada . in laredo, there are four international bridges, passenger vehicles cross, pedestrian process well and then commercial

-- tracking where 6000 trucks cross per day. we were able to see all of that. thank you to the city of laredo for helping us set up our programs down there and talk with government officials, as well as those that live in the border community. alabama,our calls in janice, good morning. caller: good morning. immigrantsth illegal , undocumented immigrants is i how manyople realize of them are on food stamps and other government programs that cost american people a lot of money. either -- are they documented enough, do they know whether they have a job or not, i they paying taxes or not?

jobs because of crews that have been dashed happened to be hiring illegals. it is very upsetting, that causes problems. we just want to now is there a check on this kind of thing? thank you. host: linda in auburndale, florida. what are your thoughts on immigration in this country? caller: good morning. i enjoy the conversation. we pinpoint so many small issues about our personal life, then you look at the immigrants that are coming in. my brother lost this, my sister lost that. we are a nation of immigrants. to all the people who keep calling in and saying someone took their sisters and brothers job. nobody can take something that is given to you.

the verify system, it will put it under control. if the white power structure that owns corporations, they don't want it. they keep the small, media people at the bottom digging for things fighting about that don't make sense. take it back to the top, it is a large cooperations. we are not big enough to stand verify shouldat e- go through. we are a nation of immigrants. , you talk off of their land to a lot of this is the white structure that is losing their base. places why donald trump into the fears of these kinds of people. it there.ve to leave our final thought this morning.

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