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immigration, biden faces more critics as respondents expressed disapproval for his handling on the issue, including almost a quarter of democrats. 89% of republicans and a majority of independence said they disagree with biden's management of immigration. a harvard poll, immigration is the president's biggest vulnerability according to the poll. 48% of the respondents agree with his handling of the issue. immigration is the only issue on which biden's approval stands below 50%. listen to what the president's chief of staff had to say about the president's stance on immigration. [video clip] >> one lesson we learned was putting the vice president in charge of working with these countries can be effective. that is one reason why he asked vice president harris to lead

this effort to focus on trying to do with the root causes of migration. as the president said, parents don't send their minor children on a thousand mile hazardous journey as a frolic. they do it because conditions where they are living are so desperate, because of natural disasters, economic collapse, crime, and violence. they feel like they have no choice. our best way to attack this migration issue is to help these countries rebuild their economies and make life in guatemala, el salvador, honduras more commodious for the people who live there. let people live their lives where they want to, in their home countries. that is what vice president harris is going to work on. host: listen to what senator

lindsey graham, republican of south carolina, who visited the border, had to say who is responsible for the situation. [video clip] >> if the trump administration has been told something and they did the opposite, and it blew up in their face, everybody would be asking the trump administration what did you know and when did you know it? i'm going to help you with your reporting. mr. hastings, a two star border patrol leader, told us he briefed transition leaders of the biden admin trish and if they do away with the immigration policy. everything they said would happen happened. if you don't do it, i'm going to do it. i'm going to find out who he

talked to and hold them accountable because they knew. when they say this is trump problems, they are lying. this is a problem of their own making. host: lindsey graham. let's turn to you. do you approve, disapprove? mark from maine, what do you think? caller: i don't know. i have been watching the news and everything and stuff like that. i don't know. i was often wondering, should they be punished? host: what do you mean? who is they? caller: they -- the people that is crossing our border? host: what do you think about the president's viewpoint on

immigration? do you agree? caller: kind of. yes. host: sandy, arizona. you disagree. it is your turn. caller: i completely disagree with what is going on at the border. this is ridiculous. this is nothing but politics. this is nothing but the socialism side of the government at this stage telling biden what to do. this is just awful. it is hurting our country. it is also hurting the people trying to get across the board. look what is happening to these children. this is a disgrace for our country, what biden is allowing to happen at this point. it is a disgrace to our country. host: what do you think he should do? caller: he needs to close the border down. he needs to go back to the way trump had it and protect our country and also protect the immigrants from what is

happening to them. this is ridiculous. host: do you think that will stop them from trying to make the journey? would it just mean that they remain in mexico? caller: i think the plan that trump had for remaining in mexico and i think mexico and united states should decide what is going to happen. we cannot allow this to continue. it is not fair to our country. it is not fair to the immigration either, to what is happening to the children. it is a disgrace. host: what have you thought when you have seen the videos of the children coming over? caller: it is terrible. i cannot believe this country is allowing this to happen. i cannot believe biden is allowing this to happen. it is also politics. host: let me just describe what is happening on your screen. this is from the cbs evening news.

they got this footage, two guys dropping toddlers over the border fence onto the u.s., picking them up, dropping them over. as the video continues, i don't know if you have seen this one. you see the guys jump back on the others of the border and runoff. caller: i have seen that. host: what did you make of it? caller: it is a disgrace to this country. it is so bad. there is no good words for it to even justify anything that is happening to these children. host: ronnie, pennsylvania. you approve. caller: yes. i am very concerned that someone in the news did bring up the fact that corporations and companies are not being -- they

are hiring illegals to do their dirty work for them and paying them cheap labor prices. that is my concern. it is coming from inside this country that these migrants are coming in. they are looking for help. they are looking for jobs. what we should do is go down into where they are coming from and help those people where they live. that is where our tax dollars should go. not into trying to house these people. there are too many of them. we are overrun. the companies love this because they see an army of cheap labor, not $15 an hour labor, but way more than that. they are doing this. it is coming from companies that

want cheap labor. host: let me show you what congresswoman nora torres put out yesterday on twitter. she sent a tweet directly to the el salvador and president saying , i will make it clear. this is the result of narcissistic dictators like you interested in being cool while people flee by the thousands and died by the hundreds. send me a pair of glasses so i may see the suffering of your people through your eyes. she sent out another tweet about the honduran government. they are spending big on lobbyists to defend their narco trafficking. caller: i agree. i agree. i think the government there -- it needs -- we need to do

something to the government down there to stop it. they are never going to stop. they want these drugs in this country. they are sending their people. they are getting rid of their problems. they are handing them off to us. it amounts to cheap labor. host: do you blame president biden for any of this? do you hold him responsible? caller: no, i don't hold him responsible for this. he wants to resolve this problem. if you have a flood of people coming in, and you cannot house them or take care of them, that is not what is going on here. he has been given this problem. if you remember back in 1980, reagan, he gave them all a free pass.

he said come on in. those were future voters for the republican party. biden is trying to work the problem out. there is a flood coming in. we are drowning at the border. people are looking for help. i don't blame them. they want to save themselves. that is all i can say. they want to save themselves. this is the only way they know how to do it. that is what is going on, and that -- we have to go down into el salvador and deal with those people there. host: heard your point. let me show you video from earlier this week with public radio in el paso, texas. they spoke to families that come to the border to claim asylum during the pandemic. [video clip] >> most of them are turned

around and sent to mexico. the biden administration is acknowledging that. they have a health order that was implement it the pandemic started. it basically allows border patrol to quickly remove people from the country and send them back to mexico. they are sent back to mexico. there are some that are allowed to stay. the vast majority are not. often when they are returned to mexico, they seem confused and distraught because people have the idea that if they came through and asked for asylum, they would be allowed to stay. mexico is struggling to find shelter space. many of the shelters where i am across the border are filled to capacity. host: that was angela on the "washington journal" earlier. an associated press story yesterday, overwhelmed and

underprepared, u.s. authorities releasing migrant families on the mexican border without notices to appear in immigration court or without any paperwork at all. they say the rapid release eases pressure on border patrol and its badly overcrowded holding facilities but shifts work to the immigration and customs enforcement agency. families are released with poking records. only parents are photographed and printed. the border patrol begin this process last week in texas, which has seen a large increase in migrant families and unaccompanied minors crossing the border. some got no documents at all, including dozens at our lady of guadalupe catholic church, where

about 100 migrants have been arriving each night to sleep in classrooms at a shuttered elementary school. they spoke with one of those migrants. carlos waited at the shelter for a week without documents along with his five-year-old daughter, hoping to join a friend in tennessee. his wife is still in guatemala with their two-year-old twin daughters and a three-month-old. he was asking the catholic charities of the rio grande valley for help. tony from connecticut. your thoughts on the biden administration's immigration policies. caller: good morning. president biden, as the mexican president said, is the immigration president. where is aoc and her people when a couple of years ago when they said people are in cages? where is she now? show the scenes where there are

4000 children in a 250 count facility. show them on the floor. tell the people how the kids are being released into the country with covid, with covid. now you are going to hear the president say you did not follow the covid rules, but you let these people out untested into our country. finish the wall. biden in his day as a senator approved of the wall. now it is not. you have pelosi has a wall around her place. you put a wall around the government. it is inhumane to the people. there is drugs coming in. they shouted on the tv. they are putting the kids over on one side where the guards come and get them. down the road, they are letting

the drugs in. they showed all the drugs coming in. this is inhumane to those children. they are getting abused. these are drug cartel people bringing them in. we are funding the drug cartels in mexico. where is the insanity of this? this is insane. this is cruel. host: on the border wall, we hear from a public radio reporter saying to us earlier this week on "washington journal" that the border patrol will tell you that is just one tool. they need more than just the wall. would you agree with that and that the wall does not always stop them from coming over? even the new wall former president donald trump build, she reported they just used a taller ladder. caller: let me tell you, san

diego did not have the wall. they put the wall up. it stopped 98%. walls are a deterrent. we want people to come into this country. we want them to come in legally. we want to help these people. we want them to come in legally. this is inhumane. where is aoc and the squad? they decried all the problems that were going on. where are they? this is hypocrisy. hypocrisy. it is inhumane. it is a sin. host: host: got it. donald in louisiana. you approve of the president's policies on immigration. go ahead. caller: good morning, greta. i approve, but it is not about him or barack obama or donald trump. it is congress' problem, and we

, republicans, democrats, you, c-span, all the tv talking heads, we need to say, congress, fix this problem. the administration can only do executive orders. it does not fix the problem. it is a problem no matter who is president. congress, it is their problem that they need to fix. we need to start pointing the finger at them and blaming them. our tv showing why aren't you doing this? look at these people. we need to be blaming congress. that is what i called to say. host: so congress -- you put the accountability, the responsibility with them, their inability to pass immigration reform? caller: greta, they are the only

people that can fix the problem. that is just the facts. host: joseph in maine, disapproves. your turn. caller: how are you? host: good morning. caller: i would like to say joe biden in the democrats are a disgrace to the united states. i am a veteran. i don't think the democrats have any game or anything. they are not showing anything for this country. they should just get out of office. that is what i have to say. host: peter in pennsylvania. you approve. caller: i approve slightly. let's get to the exact nature. they hear the fox news crowd and stephen miller talk about cruelty. the exact nature of these people, blonde hair and blue eyes, most of the people we are

hearing from would not care. it is unfortunate that people live in such poverty and destitution that they come here to do jobs that personally i am not doing. all these people that are whining, when they are eating their chicken wings and salads, who do you think is doing those jobs? i am not going to be working at those chicken factories. i am not doing that. people working in those nursing homes, who do you think is working in these nursing homes taking care of their parents? they need to be honest. talk about cruelty. after four years of the worst inhumane president of my lifetime -- i will be 62 next month. i served in the navy. i never thought i would see the inhumanity. if they had blonde hair and blue

eyes, 90% of these people would not care. host: peter in pennsylvania. an earlier caller mentioned congresswoman alexandria -- i'm blanking -- ocasio-cortez. thank you. aoc and ted cruz went back and forth on twitter over immigration. ted cruz ascending, @aoc explains the real democratic position, abolish eyes. last year, we had the lowest illegal immigration in 45 years. she responded, this is rich coming from someone who flooded their own home and responsibilities during an environmental crisis to cross the board and seek refuge in mexico. you funded cages, expanded

cages, and yet you are complaining about cages. you have no policy, just puff. senator ted cruz was in donna, texas, recently. this is what he had to say. [video clip] >> as we stand by the banks of the rio grande, we have an army of tv cameras. it is striking that not a single one of these cameras is allowed in the donna facility. we requested that media company us in the facility. the biden administration said no. the trump administration allowed mediate inside facilities like that. the obama administration allowed media inside facilities like that. the biden administration wants to hide what is going on. a number of >> remarks on the march jobs report. pres. biden: i'm looking forward to it.