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vulnerabilities. here is proposed executive action -- harris' proposed executive actions would build on the policy of essentially closing off the silent system and less illegal border crossings stay below 1500 daily crossings for a week. harris would lower the threshold and extent period that it must be met although the exact figures were not immediately available. " while she was there she argued that border patrol agents need more resources and promised that combating the flow of fentanyl would be a top priority of her presidency. as part of that effort she proposed adding new detection machines at ports of entry and said she would press the chinese government to do more to crack down on companies that make chemicals used in fentanyl." here are more of her remarks

after that trip to the border yesterday in arizona. [video clip] >> as president i will not only bring back border security bill that donald trump tanked, i will do more to secure our borders. to reduce illegal border crossings, i will take further action to keep the border closed between ports of entry. those who cross our borders unlawfully will be apprehended and removed and barred from reentering for five years. we will pursue criminal charges against violators. and if someone does not make an asylum request at a legal point of entry and instead crosses the border unlawfully they will be barred from receiving asylum. while we understand that many people are desperate to migrate to the united states, our system must be orderly and secure.

and that is my goal. that is my goal. [applause] securing our border also means addressing the flood of fentanyl into our communities. it is a scorch -- scourge in our country. the nature of it is that it is highly addictive and highly lethal. so much so that zing it one time only -- using it one time only can be fatal. i have met far too many families, parents, and loved ones who have lost a family member, a child, to fentanyl. and their grief is heartbreaking. and the devastation caused by fentanyl is being felt from rural communities to big cities.

it is impacting communities across the country regardless of where they are geographically, politically or any other demographic. it is a scourge in the country and we have to take it seriously. as president i will make it a top priority to disrupt the flow of fentanyl coming into the united states. [applause] [end video clip] host: we are hearing from you this first hour on vice president kamala harris' visit to the border and her new proposal on restrictions. we will hear from noticed in -- otis and orangeburg, florida on the democrats line. caller: good morning, i think she gave a great state -- speech. it was more substance and less bluster. in order to solve problems you are supposed to tackle it from every area so that you can stop

the overflow. but she gave a great speech. the most important thing was that she identified that she is not weak when it comes to border security. her stance as attorney general, district attorney, that gives you more insight in how to deal with criminals versus someone saying what are we going to do? if there is no substance behind the plan, you end up complaining more than solving problems. host: is immigration a campaign issue that is important to you? where does it rank on your list? caller: immigration is not a problem to me but it seems to be want to the country. it has to be a part of every day. immigration is part of our daily lives.

so that issue affects every americans. but it is not in the top part of the list. it can be an issue that you need to solve. host: sarah in hawaii on the independent line. good morning. caller: good morning. i think the fentanyl crisis has been going on for close to 10 years and it is rather late the federal government to make statements that they are going to do something about it. this has been a crisis for years and nobody has done anything. i think they are late in the game with this, and i consider the whole fentanyl crisis a systematic extermination of our young people in the country because this stuff has been coming in for 10 years. i remember when there were only 20,000 deaths a year to fentanyl. and it is a shame that this has

been going on for as long as it has gone on. and they do need to hear the border. but i the train has left the station and the damage is already done. it is just a shame that they have waited this long. and that is all i wanted to say. thank you. host: mark in ohio on the republican line. good morning. caller: she has the biggest fraud i have ever seen did not get a single vote. this was planned by the democratic party. the democratic party is the biggest fraud. the last 12 out of 16 years, obama has been running the country and that is a fact. biden was a puppet. if you're looking at the fentanyl and the migrants, look at the constitution, the rights of our government.

it is all a game. there is nothing good about the government anymore. young men have to register for selective service while all of these illegals are in the country. what is going on? host: let us hear from cliff in oklahoma, on the independent line. good morning. caller: hello. if kamala harris could have given that speech when she first took over the job of border czar when biden first put her on and then followed through with practicing that would have been great. but she has been border czar and in charge of the border for 3.5 years. what she is talking about now is just to get votes. and she must think that the

american people are a bunch of idiots. sadly, she might be right in many cases. but i do not think it is going to be or that most of the american people are that foolish. host: we are also hearing from viewers on social media. text and tweets are coming in. this on facebook from mark murphy. "harris is a true leader, unlike trump. trump goefor the photo ops. harr gs heirs to solve problems." this is from deb klock. "actually at least some of the ideas were in the bill from lled. it was bipartisan by the way. trump likes to run on things. he inogood at fixing anything." frkie urbain says "again she uld have done this before now. this is just another meaningless photo op to fold the mormons among us that she will somehow

do something when she has clearly done noin she will do nothing! " troy, michigan. "th news of all of the violt crime nurse that were allowed into our country nullified her trip completely. trump is far ahead of her on this issue." former president trump did speak about the issue yesterday during a town hall in warren, michigan. and blamed vice president kamala harris for the border security. here are some of his remarks. [video clip] >> this has been a very interesting day. some numbers came out and let us give you the bad news first. the worst numbers i think i have ever heard. you know what i am talking about. a lot of people being released into the country that should never ever be here, right? like nobody can believe that i have been saying it for 3.5

years because we are the party of common sense and we know what is going on. coming out of jails, and murders that nobody thought possible. and it was all done by comrade kamala harris. [booing] our great borders are who is -- czar who is totally incompetent. 240,000 criminals and much more than 13,000 convicted murderers who were in jail and all released into our country and we cannot put up with this. this is gross incompetence. let's get back to the show, ok. right? [end video clip] host: from fox news, some more detail about those figures that former president trump was talking about. ""the data from u.s. immigrations says that among those not in detention there ard

222,141 with pending criminal charges. it includes 62,231 people convicted of assault, 14,301 convicted of burglary, 56,553 with drug convictions, and 13,099 addicted of homicide. an additional 2500 21 have kidnapping convictions and 15,811 have sexual assault convictions." back to your calls. we will go to paul in cornwall, new york. calling on the republican line. good morning. caller: i just want to say that maybe george clooney can recommend kamala harris for an academy award because of the stellar performance she gave. 3.5 years of being in charge to try to fix the border she has

done absolutely nothing. for once i would like you folks in the media to call her out on this and to call her out on what she has not done in this country that we use up -- that she was supposed to do as a vice president of the united states. it is really pathetic. have a great day, and thank you. host: elaine in allen park, michigan. democrats line. good morning. caller: good morning to you. it is interesting how they think that kamala harris was supposed to fix the border. no president is ever going to " fix" and it is not like there is a big gate that they will close and shut down and no more people. that is not how it works. big agriculture and the restaurant industry of this country would crater. this country would crater without immigrants. we need them and the military, there is no such thing as, --,

was supposed to fix it. her job was not to fix it her job is to be the tiebreaker in the senate and she has broken more ties than any vice in history. her job is not to fix. congress is the one who fixes the border and puts a new judge is and fixes that backlog and that sort of thing. they had a bill and trump tank day. that is exactly what she said and that is what happened. i think it is terrible that people seem to think that we are going to stop immigration. no prager -- no president ever in the history of this country has ever stopped at nor will it ever be stopped. like i said, do you think is processing your honey bank hands and your christmas and thanksgiving? it is not chad and cameron who are college kids, these are immigrants coming in that are picking the vegetables and

getting everything ready so that we can achieve prices so our eggs are not $16 anymore. we need immigrants and we need more judges to process them. we need more border agents to see that they are safe. there is a reason why that we have had a lot of fentanyl cases. we have been able to stop them. during the trump years it was only like the amounts were a lot less because they were not able to stop them. now we have so much more because we have agents to be able to stop them. host: we've got your point. richard in nashville, tennessee on the independent line. good morning. caller: good morning. yes. i am 68 years old and i live in nashville, tennessee. i lived here 50 years out of 68. and i have more violence in my

neighborhood, which is a lower middle-class neighborhood. i finally got my home paid for and now i have investors buying property. they are basically running down the neighborhoods and they went up on my taxes 34.5%. all i have gotten out of it are bike lanes and little dog parks in the areas and not much. the traffic is terrible because we have 100 people a day moving here because we do not have an income tax in the state of tennessee. i have lived in l.a. after college and i used to go down to tijuana and baja and go into everything. you could cross the border easily. now you do not go near the border. i have a cousin who lives two miles from the border and they do not go down there. all of the migrants coming into be day workers. some would go to central valley and they would stay there and on

the weekend they go back. a friend of mine grew up in el paso and i have been to el dorado in tucson. it was never a problem. but when you have honest and good working people coming here is migrants they help build this country and i give them back. but we have criminals from other countries further away that are not even in this continent coming across the border. look at 911, remember the saying? so, it is not about democrats and republicans. kamala harris did not do what she was supposed to because most of my family live in l.a. and san diego and they watched what she has done. so this is not new news, this is old news. the difference between the old news of people crossing the border and the new news is that we have criminals and everybody

from different continents coming here other than the mexican families that used to come across from -- or into el dorado and come into the states like el paso. they would work for the day and many would go back across. and they lived good lives. and the american people would share their money and eat. but you cannot do that today. host: racquel in new jersey, also on the independent line. good morning. caller: good morning and thank you for taking my call. as i have been following everything with p harris, it was a joke that she had 3.5 years to go to the border and fix it and she goes to a portion of the border where she does not see the migrants coming in. granted america is made of different types of migrants. i am a permanent resume -- resident. everything was done accordingly. we had to go in get checks and

go through immigration in court. why is it that you are allowing all of these people to come in. they are illegal and criminal. i am at walmart with my four-year-old daughter and someone almost took my daughter. it is insane. why is it that she did not do something about this .5 years ago and now she wants to go to the border to show people she has there to get votes. it does not work like that and it should have been taken care of. host: led did you think about the proposals that she made while she was down there? caller: it is a joke. she has a joke. host: ahead of vice president harris' visit to the border, her campaign released a new ad that will be airing in arizona and other battleground state on the issue of immigration. here is the ad. [video clip] >> kamala harris has never backed down from a challenge. she put cartel members and drug

traffickers behind bars. and she will secure our border. here is her plan. higher size -- hire thousands of more border agents. enforce the law and step up technology and stop fentanyl smuggling and human trafficking. we need a leader with a real plan to fix the border and that is kamala harris. >> i'm kamala harris and i approve this message. [end video clip] host: former president trump and his team have been airing ads focused on the issue of immigration. here is one of his hitting vice president harris on her immigration stance. [video clip] >> i am donald j. trump and i approve this message. >> this is america's border czar and she has failed us. over 10 million illegally here and a quarter of a million americans dead from fentanyl. and isis now here. >> do you have any plans to visit the border?

>> i have not been to europe. i do not understand the point that you are making. >>, ella -- kamala harris failed. [end video clip] host: we will hear fromg ene calling on the republican line. good morning. caller: a lot of this is all scripted. the democrats have the house, the senate and the presidency in the first two years of the biden administration. they did not codify roe v. wade because they wanted to run on it. now they are complaining because trump killed a bill when they had two years to abort a bill and they did not do it then either. they waited until it was election time and all of a sudden she is going to fix everything. they want the illegals in here to vote and to be part of

their group. i don't believe half of what comes out of any of their mouths. thank you. host: mary in fort, maryland. on the line for democrats. good morning. caller: good morning. i want to tell some of the people that like to call kamala harris a joke, number 45 is the biggest joke ever. the border, nothing will ever be changed. i want everyone to check their last names. everyone is an immigrant. great-grandparents came from somewhere. the only natural people are the native indians. the black people are stolen, we were not immigrants. the border is used for campaigning. they had a border plan and they scrapped it because number 45 told them to. the vice president has no power. the president has the power to

sign off. the congress is the one who is supposed to do this. and they have not tried to do anything. we have too many people 80 and older who are tired and do not have any boys. i believe chuck grassley is in his 90's. we do not have a progressive and strong congress and nothing will ever change. i think what is going on in gaza is a total shame. but congress is the one that is supposed to come up with a comprehensive border plan. people are running for their lives. we are having a middle east war because of netanyahu. host: we got your point. dusty in myrtle beach, south carolina on the independent line. good morning. caller: good morning. the republicans are just as guilty as the democrats when it comes to this border. i can go all the way back to young bush who had the white

house and the congress and he had the senate. a commentator asked paul waul -- paul ryan out in the hall of the house what you gonna do, you guys have the power of the purse, let's do something about the border are you going to do something? no, they wanted to kick the can down the road. let us quit blaming the democrats and the republican congresses. and when it comes to donald trump, donald trump has no plans except just sending i.c.e. and all of the people back. the food that you wallow -- you all depend on will rot in the field and you think prices are high now? just wait until donald trump gets in there, it will be doubled. host: james in san diego,

california on the republican line. good morning. caller: are you there? host: yes. hello. caller: my question goes like this, hr 2, immigration reform. it started in the house of representatives 3.5 years ago. the republicans and the democrats signed off on hr to, -- 2 immigration. it has been sitting on senator schumer's desk for 3.5 years. no one in the chair that you are sitting in right now, ever refers to anyone that talks about immigration to hr 2 and what the republicans wanted to do but the democrats, and senator schumer will not bring it to the floor in the senate for anyone to discuss or go over. yes, everyone is correct, this

starts in the house of representatives. and the house of road -- house of representatives democrats and republicans voted for hr to three and what -- 3.5 years ago. why is no one sitting in a chair that you are sitting in right now ever refer back to that particular document when we are talking about immigration? thank you very much. host: crystal in wilkes-barre, pennsylvania. calling on the line for democrats. good morning. caller: please give me an opportunity to voice my opinion just like you have given all of the others. first of all, immigration is last on my list as far as who i vote for and it will not be for donald trump. the way i am looking at it is it was not one immigrant that shot up the school and is making my children hide behind desks in

the school because someone came in there. it was not one immigrant who did that. it was not one immigrant who shot up a church or a movie theater. it was not even one immigrant who so shot at donald trump. not one immigrant. if you want to call them murderers and rapists, not one immigrant did that to us. not one immigrant brings fear to my heart every day that i have to walk into school and go into work and we have to have two or three drills a month about hiding behind a cabinet. that was not one immigrant who did that. they are not -- and i listen to donald trump's speech when the girl asked him about michigan jobs and he said how he was mad at michigan. this is an idiot that people are voting for. and i am not going to vote with the racists nor will i vote for a racist.

that is the way i feel. donald trump is a no. i would rather have an immigrant live next to me every day of the week before i live next to them. thank you, and have a good day. host: wayne in harrisburg, pennsylvania independent line. good morning. caller: hello, my name is wayne, the lady who just spoke said everything i wanted to say. listen here, the vice president just gave her that spot. that does not mean that they put her fully in charge. when the boss gives you a position, you take it. gives you a position, you take it. and in congress and in the senate, they call the shots. we talk about, they've got so many criminals coming here. what about all of the criminals in the united states? like that lady said. the immigrants, the crime comes

from the united states, people in the united states. i don't know why than white people -- what them white people are talking about. immigrants are not taking jobs. nobody has ever stopped me from working. it is all up to the individual. i don't care about a democrat, republican. i'm an independent. i was a democrat. i changed. but this mess, i don't want to vote for anybody, and 25 thousand dollars, i heard the lady say that at the end, when

you leave the house, they want the money back. is that true? host: i wanted to share in news note with you on a different topic following what is happening in the middle east, from "the washington post," the leader of hezbollah was the target of a strike by israel. what it said was the group's central headquarters in beirut on friday according to a person familiar with information provided by israel, the united states, after the attack, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, to discuss sensitive matters. the writer says, divide remains unclear, divided by the scale of the attack across much of lebanon in recent weeks, flattened at least two buildings. the blast could be seen and felt from afar as plumes of smoke

were sent over neighborhoods. israel launched more strikes into early saturday, attacking targets in the bekaa valley and beirut's south, telling residents and part of the city to the back way. more on vice president kamala harris's visit to the u.s.-mexico border and the proposed restrictions. we go next to rob in missouri, calling on the republican line. good morning, rob. caller: this is rich. i want to respond to a couple of callers, if you will give me a second. go to ice.gov, and they will give you a list, they have articles about illegal immigrants who committed murder in the country. there's an article here on cnn

about two undocumented men that killed a 12-year-old girl back in january down in houston. these people calling in saying that nobody has been hurt or harmed by illegals, that is just not true. it is all over the news. host: the article you are reading, does it specifically state that the murderers and the charges against them have been here in the u.s.? caller: yeah. it did. said two undocumented venezuelans. host: other than that, when you are citing all of the murders. caller: well, you know, there are different ones. some are in the u.s., some are not. but, you know, these people that say all the crimes are being committed by u.s. citizens, the good lord, look at kamala's

record as a prosecutor. she gave to a lot of them, the illegals. it's misinformation when you say the stuff is not happening, because it is. another caller set her only job was to break the tie in the senate. well, biden gave her, just like anybody else in his cabinet, he gave her a job, and her responsibility was to oversee the border problem, and she has been an abject failure at that. i would not think anybody would think she is not. all she had to do was break a tie in the senate, then she is holy responsible for the inflation we've got, and i want to say one other thing. i do agree with one if you democrat callers about the republicans being partly responsible.

they have had control of the purse strings for the last two years, and all they've done is, like she said, kicked the can down the road with these continuing resolutions. another caller talked about hr to. they could have attached hr 2 to a continuing resolution. the republicans in congress are partly to blame for this, too. it is not holy the democrats, but i the executive level, i think it is, and that is where vice president harris is trying to get promoted. host: kamala harris was at the border last night, and during her remarks in arizona, she had former president trump for rejecting that bipartisan immigration deal. a couple of callers have brought that up this morning. here's that clip from last

night. [video clip] vp harris: i strongly supported the comprehensive border security bill, written last year, written last year, as you know, by a bipartisan group of senators, including one of the most conservative members of the united states congress. that bill would have hired one thousand five hundred more border agents and officers. it would have paid for 100 inspection machines to detect fentanyl that is killing tens of thousands of americans every year. it would have allowed us to more quickly and effectively remove those who come here illegally, and it would have increased the number of immigration judges and asylum officers. it was the strongest border security bill we have seen in decades. it was endorsed by the border patrol union, and it should be

in effect today, producing results in real time right now for our country. [applause] but donald trump tanked it. he picked up the phone and called some friends in congress and said, "stop the bill," because, you see, he prefers to run on a problem instead of fixing a problem. [applause] and the american people deserve a president who cares more about border security than playing political games and their personal political future. [cheers & applause] and so even though donald trump tried to sabotage the border security bill, it is my pledge to you that as president of the united states, i will bring it back up and proudly sign it into law.

[cheers & applause] host: let's hear from roseanne in san diego, calling on the line for democrats. good morning, roseann. caller: good morning. i have a couple of comments i want to make using my time here. one thing, and first of all, there is no such thing as a border czar in the united states of america. that is a talking point the republicans made up. there is no border czar. second, kamala harris has never been that so-called border czar. she was never at the top to take care of the border, she was given the task to work with countries in central america to see what could be done to stop the people from fleeing those countries and coming to america. that is what she was asked to do. she was not asked to do anything about the border. third, kamala harris is the vice president. the vice president has no

executive authority whatsoever, so she can't do anything about anything even if she wanted to, and she certainly cannot do anything about the border! the last thing i'm going to say is i'm sick of people calling human illegals. with what is going on in america right now, we do not need toxic rhetoric that is incorrect and volatile. call them people, because that is what they are. host: roseann, you are pretty close to the border where you are in san diego. what does integration look like in your area where you are? caller: there is actually no problem here, because people here or not so crazy about, you know, people of color coming from south of the border. they are not all mexicans, like trump says they are, they are

mostly from central america. they get here, they worked, nobody says anything. what is happening in san diego is not the same thing as what people are talking about when they talk about crime. people here are pretty laid back, they are not racist, there's a huge segment of hispanics here, because the rest of america was settled by mexicans, and we don't have the problem that people in the midwest and the northeast claim are happening in portions of the country. host: let's hear from ken in wisconsin on the independent line. good morning, ken. caller: yes. thank you for taking my call. i am an independent, because both republicans and the chamber of commerce and the democrats, you know, trying to get new citizens in here to vote, because their ideas are so extreme, out of the mainstream.

nobody is going to vote for them in this country. there's over 300,000 kids that are missing, that have been sex trafficked since biden and harris have been in office. and these people come i don't know if this last caller, this is a perfect example of the delusion that goes on out there. go back and watch the video tape. she was called the border czar by joe biden. that last caller, "she was never called the border czar." 15 million people have gotten into this country illegally now. and in ohio, they have 20,000 illegal people, and it is costing people an arm and a leg, because they are using up all of the resources, the veterans, the homeless, the veterans have to wait in line they have to sleep in the streets while the illegals use the hotels.

new york's eric adams come if you don't believe me, now he is indicted of a crime. host: let's hear from alan in michigan on the republican line. good morning, alan. caller: yeah. it amazes me how short american people's memories are. they keep blaming the democrats for this border crisis. we have the numbers, how many people have come across the border, just like now. go back to when obama was president, 400,000 illegals across the border under him. this problem exploded when donald trump changed the policy, and it has gotten much worse since then. so this problem is donald trump's. he is the one who killed the funding that brought the drug lords into south america, so

these people have no place to go now. he is responsible for this. and the other thing, they keep talking about immigrant crime. well, i don't know what the numbers are -- there's crime all over the world. but american people who go overseas commit more crimes than immigrants do here. immigrants don't commit more crime. they are afraid to. donald trump is the reason we have this problem that has exploded. he did it. host: that was alan in michigan. former president trump earlier this week on thursday, during a press conference in new york city, he spoke about immigration there and vice president kamala harris'handling of immigration. this is something that a lot of callers have brought today. here are some of trump's comments on vice president harris and immigration. [video clip]

mr. trump: for nearly four years, we have been living through the worst border crisis in the history of the world. there has never been anything like it. which has brought untold suffering, misery, and death among our land. the architect of this destruction is kamala harris. when you look at the four years that have taken place after being named border czar, kamala will be visiting the southern border that she has completely destroyed, from what i understand, tomorrow. why would she go to the border now, playing right into the hands of her opponent? i mean, you take a look at this, why would you do that? there should be no justification for what she has done.

there's nobody saying, "oh, gee, she has done a fabulous job." she has done the worst job in the history of probably any border, not just our border. she keeps talking about how she supposedly wants to fix the border. we would merely ask, why didn't she do it for years ago? it is a simple question. with everything she talks about, borders, taxes, all these different things, her policies, in fact, by the way, or terrible. but, why didn't she fix it almost four years ago? she's got no plans, she's got no talents, she's got no ability to do it. host: i was former president trump in new york on thursday -- that was former president trump in new york on thursday. i want to give you an update on hurricane helene, from the associated press. hurricane helene left in the enormous path of destruction

across florida and the southeastern u.s. on friday, killing at least 44 people, snap snapping towering oaks like twigs, and destroying homes. rescue crews faced people from floodwaters. among those killed work three firefighters, a woman and her one with old twins, and an 89-year-old woman whose house was struck by a falling tree, according to an associated press tally, the deaths occurred in florida, georgia, north carolina, south carolina, and virginia. the category four hurricane knocked out power to some hospitals in southern georgia, and governor brian kemp said authorities had to use chainsaws to clear debris and open up roads. the storm had maximum sustained winds of 140 miles per hour when it made landfall late thursday in a sparsy populated region of florida. we will go back to your calls.

we will hear next from rick in birmingham, alabama, calling on the line for democrats. good morning morning, rick. caller: good morning. how are you doing? i want to agree with alan in michigan. this immigration problem, trump started it back in 2016 when he ran, when he came down the escalator. the main thing he wants to run on, immigration. so the immigration situation every day since he has been president, former president, and the same thing now, he's just "immigration, immigration, immigration," that is all he talks about every day. so he created this problem. now he wants to blame kamala harris for the problem. she was never the czar. i disagree with that dataset. she was never the czar.

she cannot fix this immigration problem. it has been going on too long. can't one person in this world fix this problem. there is no way. anyone with common sense would understand this immigration problem is not going to be fixed in four years, is not going to be fixed in magically one day. kamala cannot magically fix it. . she could not have fixed it four years ago. so i don't understand why these people can't see that, but you constantly get people calling in everyday saying kamala harris caused the problem. she did not fix the problem. that is stupidity. come on. host: let's hear from jake in scranton, pennsylvania on the independent line. good morning, jake. caller: yes, hello. thank you for taking my call. first off, i would like to say i am a former democrat, and i am absolutely appalled at what is going on here in this country lately. living in scranton,

pennsylvania, this is joe biden's town, for start. everybody is just, you know, blind as far as, you know, giving their trust into the democratic machine here, with joe running the country. is he running the country right now? and also, kamala, what could she possibly do to help this country? i mean, you don't hear from her. she has no plan as far as how to fix the border, how to fix the middle east. everybody, you know, is going to war. we have ukraine, russia, i mean, you go to the grocery store, go and try to fill your vehicle up with gas, and you can't get any further in life than we did five

years ago. host: jake, you are an independent. you say you are a former democrat, independent now. where does immigration rank for you in terms of issues? caller: i would say number one or number two, because you have the economy, you have, you know, security for our country. i mean, we are, you know, if you are not standing with israel, i mean, it is a shame. but i could also see, you know, trump has a big mouth. i'm not happy about him, either. but, i mean, my vote will come ultimately, if it comes down to it, i will be voting for trump. i'm not happy about it, but how could you vote for the democratic party today? it's absolutely insane. and people are just thank you for taking my call.

-- and people are just, you know, they have their blindfolds on come and they will vote for the old family values, and vote democrat, vote for democratic people, and that is it. anyways, just my two cents, and as far as roseann from california, unbelievable. because you know what, roseanne? don't you think that people coming and should be vented? wouldn't you like to have a safe country coming in, you know, like people coming in from different countries and stuff? i don't know. it just bothers me. but thank you. thanks for taking my call. host: steve in indianapolis, calling on the line for democrats. good morning, steve. caller: good morning. first of all, i'd like to say to the guy that was just on, i am a 73-year-old marine, and i have never been afraid of an immigrant. i am more afraid of a white man in this country than i am

immigrants coming across the border. i have never been threatened by an immigrant. i have been directed by whites just for being -- i have been threatened by whites just for being black. trump, what about four years,, kamala had been charge? well, what about trump? he had four years to be president. what did he do to solve the problem at the border? nothing. he tried to close the border, but the supreme court told him, you cannot do that. so i'm saying to trump supporters out there, screw your head back on, clown. host: faye in alabama on the

republican line. caller: first of all, it is a nasty day in alabama. it is drizzly, and it is probably donald trump's fault, if that is the way you look at things. i have some important things to say. first of all, yes, they are immigrants, and yes, they are illegal, and yes, until one of your children is killed by them and raped, and illegal drugs, yes, you will stand with kamala. next of all, i'm tired of people saying, the immigrants need this and they need that. let me tell you something, the thing is alabama and everyone else is suffering while they are handling all of illegals everything free. so don't give me your junk. and second of all, abortion, let's talk about abortion. abortion is murder.

second of all, parents and grandparents need to teach their children what causes pregnancy. host: let me let you go, so we can stay on the topic of immigration. we only have a few minutes left. let's hear from darlene in new jersey on the infinite line. good morning, darling. caller: good morning. thank you for taking my call. i would like to say a few things as far as immigration. i agree with the lady from alabama and the gentleman from heimmigration, illegals should t be here. i challenge roseann in california when she says oh, she does not like the word "illegal." well, what does it mean? we all know. you speak to the challenge of a lost loved one to the hands of an illegal and see how they feel and what they have to say about it.

yes, american citizens commit crimes, but do we really need them coming into the country? they should be vetted. my ancestors came from europe, and i support coming into this great country of ours, but do it the right way. and the gentleman who said oh no, kamala harris is not the border czar, actually, it was roseann from california, well, you know what ? she feels that was not her title and her only job was to go to south america and deal with the leaders, then she failed miserably. failed miserably. so take it down a bit. and the gentleman, nice, not name-calling, like we need to go there. it's a shame, because the country is so divided, we are really in a state of trouble, and should pull together better.

there are pros and cons, but i really do not feel that kamala harris, they have enough of what it takes to do the president of this wonderful country. donald trump is rough around the edges, but i know my life was more for field in 20220 than 2024. i don't faye come if you speak to someone, that they can say, it was bad during that time, but i do know in the last four years how hard it has been. the lady from alabama, we are handling illegals everything. there are people like myself i need help. that is it. i just feel and hope and pray that we can all come together and find a good resolution to all the problems, and i do

support -- host: let's hear from yvette in alabama on the line for democrats. good morning, yvette. caller: good morning. i am yvette from dale ville, alabama, and i'm calling for the reason of harris, vp harris, and from trump, all the way back to the other presidents. i feel like it's all their faults when it comes to the border. nobody did anything. trump took money to build a wall , but that did not stop them from coming in, and that is what he's going to do again, take everybody's money. and like the other caller from alabama, they are taking

everything, giving it to the immigrants. how do you think the blacks feel, when trump is going to take everything from everybody and give it to the billionaires. let them have everything. we feel like we was brought here through the border, because we don't get anything. and we tried to stop everything. we gave him a chance. why not give harris a chance? host: time for one more call, here is eli in albany, new york on the republican line. caller: hi, i'm calling from albany, new york. i believe in america first, not america last. i believe in legal immigration, not illegal immigration. and hundreds of billions of dollars of our tax dollars are being wasted on people that

should not even be in this country. and kamala harris, she was in charge who she was the border czar, she was responsible for this. biden and her, she is part of the biden administration that let in 20 million illegals invade our country. they are not just coming in the southern border, they are coming in the northern border. physical and illegals are flooding our country. -- fentanyl and illegal are flooding our country. every day on the news you hear of gangs, rapists, this is wrong. trump has to win.

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