the border emergency authority and our border bill would have shut the border down literally every single day this year. now, i've been sharing the facts of our bill to anyone who would listen, i've refuted the lie that says our bill allows 5,000 migrants to enter the country every day, in fact, our bill stops those migrants from coming into the country every day. meanwhile, by killing our bill, we have no title 42-like authority to shut down the border, so 5,000, 6,000, 7,000, 10,000, or even 14,000 migrants can cross into our country every single day. make no mistake, a vote against this bill is a vote for the status quo. it is a vote for continued chaos at our border. our current system lets migrants into the country with nothing, but a piece of paper, a notice to appear for a court date years into the future. and no accountability structure to ensure they actually show up. in arizona, this broken system is commonly called catch and release. it's been happening for years. our bill ends catch and release, but when this bill fails, catch and release will continue every single day. some p

donald trump does not like the senate finally reached a real partisan border deal a real bipartisan border deal so he has demanded republicans kill it let me say it again because it is plain as could be. donald trump does not like that the senate finally reached a bipartisan border deal so he has demanded republicans kill it. he thanks it's far better to keep the border in chaos so he can exploit it for personal political gains. and senate republicans are ready to blunder away our best chance at fixing the border in order to elevate what they see as the interest of donald trump above the interests of the country. i expect this kind of cynical nonsense from the far right house maga republicans. but it is shameful and embarrassing deceit maga radicalism take hold here in the senate. so no matter how today shakes out i hope republicans end up doing the right thing when it comes to national security before the day is done and agreed to move forward on those things they do supports because mr. president, there is one other person besides donald trump is rooting for chaos in the senate it is a v

democrats certainly want to fix the border. it is extremely important, and we have shown our willingness time and time again to take big steps to secure the border. but we will move forward today with either option. first, i have scheduled a vote on the supplemental that includes strong bipartisan border reforms that republicans have demanded for months. negotiators on both sides worked themselves to the bone putting this border package together. i was heavily involved. i saw the work, the blood, the sweat, the tears that went into it. why did we do it? because that's what republicans wanted. they said can't do ukraine, can't do israel, can't do humanitarian aid without border. i made sure negotiators had enough time to do their work. i gave them the space to keep going, even when it seemed like a deal was out of reach. because, again, democrats want to secure the border because it's extremely important, it is urgent, it can't wait. we must act, and we are ready to move forward on this bill now. today when we vote, it will be c

that includes an additional 1,500 border agents and officers to secure the border, to physically secure it. and in addition, 100 cutting edge machines to detect and stop fentanyl at the southwest border. we have that capacity. additional 100 additional immigration judges to help reduce the year-long asylum backlog and show for asylum and judge is supposed to talk to you, takes a year to get that discussion going. this bill would also establish new efficient and fair process for the government to consider asylum claim for those arriving at the border. today the process can take 5 to 7 years as you all know. they show up at the border, get a bracelet, told to come back when called, 5 to 7 years from now, in-country. that's too long and it's not rational. with the new policies in this bill, and the additional 4,300 more asylum officers, who spend hours, i might add, with each immigrant to consider their claims, whether they qualify, will be able to reduce the process to six months, not 5 to 7 years. this bipartisan bill will also expedite work permits so those who are here and who qualify

he opened the borders after he said he wanted people to storm the border.lections have consequences. we all know it was stolen but this is what we get. it's time for people to wake up. host: colleen in california on the border. caller: good morning mimi. i think our country needs to become united and we need to stop this on the republican, i am a democrat. we have the greatest country in the world and for us to be able to say we can't control our border and the influx of migrants. i can't believe that. we have one of the greatest military and to allow these politicians to run road until this they can't control it. it's a bunch of garbage. host: what do you think needs to happen at the border? caller: i am not a trump supporter, i am a republican. the state in mexico seemed to like it worked during trump's tenure and i think we need to get a grip on this. for people to say the influx of migrants, we do need good people to help with work. but it has to be orderly, it has to be where people are feted and there is a way we can do this. there are so many great m

border thursday. then president biden said he was going to come down here. president biden while he was having ice cream the other day denied that. we saw his sound bite where he said i was making plans to go to the border thursday and found out my friend was going too. president biden claims he didn't know trump was coming. regardless of the planning, they're down here now. it's a rare moment. president biden has not be down here since a little over a year ago. he went to el paso, which was cleaned up before his visit. el paso had been extremely busy in december of 2022. he shows up the next winter. all of the streets had been cleared out. he didn't visit a border patrol station. he went to a port of entry. he went to a migrant center where he didn't meet a single migrant somehow. this time is different. he met with border patrol by the river's edge in brownsville. it's unclear if he's seen migrants today yet. we haven't seen any in the footage yet. we'll have to check with griff jenkins. here with a

yesterday at the border, anything to say to border, i said come to the border. i am here to predict he will hide every illegal immigrant and put on a photo hop. >> hannity: day late dollar short, three plus years late. republicans fault. his policies. can't make it up senator. only in dees. we appreciate you being with us. big announcement as it relates to the border coming up. >>> biden's blunders continue to get worse and worse and defend their cognitively presidential candidate, straight ahead. the day you ge ♪♪ makes every day... a "let's dig in" day... mm. ...a "chow down" day... a "take a big bite" day... a "perfectly delicious" day... - mm. [ chuckles ] - ...a "love my new teeth" day. because your clearchoice day is the day everything is back on the menu. a clearchoice day changes every day. schedule a free consultation. >> hannity: dem deps democrats so worried about joe biden's decline. they don't want you to believe your lying eyes and ears. jim clyburn trying to make excuse. >> something wrong with trump. all of that meandering he was going today neve

to secure the border. if that is not irony, i don't know what is. this is a political stunt. it is a sham impeachment designed to give donald trump a talking point. they do not want to solve problems and create chai os and they put politics over people. and we are here to tell everyone in america we want to address the solutions at the border because we want to secure our homeland and do the work that our american people sent us here to do. thank you. >> there is a term in the south don't confuse me with facts. my mind's made up. the republicans have done just that. they have not taken the a sink the fact witness in the two hearings we had. the only two were temperature cats that what you are charging and secretary mayorkas does not rise to the level of impeachment. when you are in charge do igg about you want to and democrats are prepared to address the impeachment effort tomorrow with facts. we think history is on our side and we are convinced that at the end of the day, the public will see at the end of

now it's the border of the border of the border. and it's, it's simply because the republicans are desperate to play a part of people's fear and people's hatred. well, it's true that immigrants can, but i'm very familiar with the me. are you like the, have you been watching anything usually of your turn? i mean, are you really that route? well, but here's the thing that i don't like. i would never let anybody call anybody or i don't think that i don't think anybody purpose they live on this show. that being said, i, this is definitely a political issue. and so you kind of fire back and forth, but if there isn't the result, the what do you respond to? the owner said the reason why job items arrested more than donald trump. that because there's more coming across the border to arrest that with the us during the bible ministration, letting the people that they arrest into the country instead of removing them, which is what i've done during the resume, including a rock obama. okay, so alan, fix what you're saying, and i'll let you back

border because you're not going to be dropped over the u.s. border. hey, save your time and treasure and trouble. don't take that dangerous journey because the word goes out on social media to countries all around the world, they're not going to let you in. man, is that the most commonsense rule you've ever thought of? the president doesn't agree. president biden doesn't agree. because he stopped it. he issued an executive order to stop that commonsense rule. a senior border patrol officer told us on that trip to eagle pass that if the biden administration, if president biden by the stroke of a pen would issue an executive order today to just simply reinstate remain in mexico, they think that that would stop the flow by 70%. one stroke of a pen by the president. he does not seem to care. i told president biden this myself on multiple occasions. most recently a couple of weeks ago on the phone. i read him the law. that says that he has all this authority. but he refuses to act. and even -- that's even despite court orders by the way that instructed the

they now claim to be the defenders of the border and for border security? what a joke. what a joke. and it's a bad joke. we know as a result of biden border policies supported they in and day out by a democratic colleagues for the entire time that president biden has been in office have resulted in roughly 7 million migrants being released into the interior of the united states, and 1.7 million gotaways, is what the border patrol calls it, people in evading law enforcement for good reason i suspect, either they're transporting illegal drugs into the interior of the united states, or maybe, just maybe out of that 1.7 billion there's a few people who are on the terrorist watch list -- 1.7 million. we know the border patrol has detained roughly one of 70 people on terror watch list. that's the people they know about but they can't tell us how many more people on the terror watch list are among those gotaways. endangering the safetyan and security off the united states. it took 19 people to kill 3000 americans on 9/11. what about 1.7 million gotaways? we don't know whether these are ser

now, how often has our border czar visited the border again?o you have any plans to visit the border? >> i'm here in guatemala today. at some point -- you know it -- we are going to the border. we have been to the border. so this whole -- this whole -- this whole thing about the border, we have been to the border. we have been to the border. >> you haven't been to the border. >> and i haven't been to europe. [laughter] i don't -- i don't understand the pointed that you're making. i'm not discounting the importance of the border. >> laura: now the moment we heard that she was put in charge of the border was the moment we knew that they planned to overwhelm our country with migrants or and their thinking future democrat voters. now as we painstakingly have cataloged, all their border dereliction, even democrats started speaking up. >> i said it last year when we had 15,000. i'm telling you now, with 110,000, the city we knew we're about to lose. >> as buses continue to arrive in the city of chicago, and all over the country, the type of chaos tha

border. i urge my colleagues to support this resolution. and i think it tells you everything when my colleagues says it doesn't matter if you impeach -- another 15 seconds. we are going to have someone come in and do the same exact job. thank you for saying the quiet part out loud. your policies are so bad, no matter who you put in there will cause the same amount of damage. the american people are watching. let's get this done. mr. green: reserve. the speaker pro tempore: members are reminded to direct their comments to the chair. and the gentleman from mississippi is recognized. mr. thompson: 90% of fentanyl seized is interdifficulted from ports of entry in vehicles dwriffen by u.s. citizens and lawful citizens. if we invest in our ports of entry instead of pursuing this sham impeachment we can scan more of these vehicles. i yield one minute to the the gentlewoman from texas, ms. jackson lee. ms. jackson lee: smoking mirrors has never been the foundation of the constitution. that is all we

we did the minimum on the border. when it comes to changing a bill that has many good qualities, so you're not convincing me i'm the problem. i've seen this. you have not -- i've seen a debate on this floor withno senator bennett got their crap kicked out of us for weeks. we gave everybody who didn't like what we did a chance to come down here and say their side of the story and kick us. that's the way the process works. we did not do that here. so you're losing votes on ukraine, you'reha losing me -- and in terms of trying to fix this problem. because i can't t tell our house colleagues that you should accept this product because we have not done what i think needs to be done -- to try to secure our border. >> yield to a question -- >> with that i yield the floor. thank you. >> wait a minute -- no -- can i take that back? i have to say something to my friend in poland if i may just for a minute. this is the polish prime minister great ally great native ally dear republican senators of americaar ronald reagan help mil

the border emergency authority in our border bill would have shut the border down literally, every single day this year. -sharing our bill to anyone who would listen read our review the line is that their bill allows 5000 migrants to enter the country every day. in fact our bill stopped migrants from coming into the country every day. meanwhile by killing our bill we have no title 42 like authority to shut down the border. so 5000, 6000, 7000, 10,000 or even 14,000 migrants can cross through our country every single day. make no mistake, and a vote against this bill is a vote for the status quo. it is a vote for continued chaos at our border. our current system lets migrants into the country with nothing but a piece of paper, a notice to appear to a court date years into the future. and no accountability structure to ensure they actually show up. in arizona this bill -- broken system is commonly called catch and release. it's been happening for years. our bill and catch and release but when this bill failed catch and release will continue, every single day. some people say the president h

border and of fact, we democrats in the senate supported a border bill that very conservative groups including border patrol agents and chamber of commerce for four. to hold up ukraine which he admitted was a national imperative because he can't do something else was a non sequitur. there was no logic. there is a logic to solving the border. we want to solve it but we have to do ukraine because there is no way that can get done quickly because that needs bipartisan consensus. we are happy to work on it to get it done but not hold up the ukraine bill for it. >> i want to thank president biden for convening us. it was an intense meeting, and honest meeting and ultimately, a productive meeting. we discussed three issues the need to avoid a government shutdown and to fund the government so we can address the needs of the american people in terms of their health and safety. we are making progress on the appropriations bill that are scheduled to lapse on march 1. i am cautiously optimistic we can do what is necessary to close down these bills and avoid a government shutdown. it may be impo

donald trump doesn't like the senate finally reached a real partisan border deal, a real bipartisan border deal. so he has demanded republicans kill it. let me say that again because it is plain, it's as plain as could be. donald trump doesn't like that the senate finally reached a bipartisande border deal, , so e has demanded republicans kill itit. he thinks it's far better to keep the border in chaos so he can exploit it for personal political gains. and senate republicans, vertebrate nowhere to be found, are ready to blunder of what our best chance at fixing the border in order to elevate what they see as the interests of donald trump above the interests of the country. i expected the kind of, this kind of cynical nonsense on the far right house mag republicans, but it is shameful and embarrassing maga radicalism take hold you in the senate. so no matter how today shakes out, i hope republicans into doing the right thing when it comes to national security before the day is done, and agree to move forward on those things redo support. because, mr. president, is that there's one of the pe

from coming to the border? >> when it went into effect, the number of people from haiti and nicaragua and cuba plummeted and you would see a reversal of that. >> thank you. i yield back. >> the chair recognizes mr. perry. >> secretary was, do you know how many children have been lost in the united states in the last three years by the biden administration? >> i can go by a number that i believe is reported in the new york times with a talked about losing over 85,000 unaccompanied children. >> lost by this administration. do you think that is humane or inhumane? >> inhumane. >> do you think any of them were placed with sex trafficking in this country, 85,000 unaccompanied minors that came across illegally? >> i don't have data, but my experience tells me that yes, they have been and it is inhumane. >> do the cartels ever separate children from their families? >> every day. inhumane. >> little girls who are being raped on their way from mexico to the border and little boys as well and sold into sex slavery . huma

look, president biden inherited a secure border. the numbers also pointed out earlier were in pretty good shape. he made it worse on day one. this is cause and effect. it wasn't like a he inherited a crisis on the southern border. he inherited numbers that were some of the lowest we have seen in many, many years. he made it worse by reversing policies that president trump put in place. streaming illegals coming across, of course the terror threat to our country, we talk about almost every week. he inherited record job growth, record job increases, rapid wage increases. he made it worse unleashing a massive $1.9 trillion stimulus bill in early 23 at a time when we knew darn well this is going to great problems with this economy. he inherited a middle east that was pretty quiet. thanks in large part to president trump and abraham accords which is kind of been forgotten about. he's made it worse with his disastrous afghanistan pullout, the spy balloon fiasco, projecting american weakness. the result, tragically, we had dead americans i

not a border -- it's not a border security bill. what this chart shows -- again, this shows -- going back here, that is president obama's humanitarian crisis. that's when daily apprehensions we called it back then were a little over 2,000 a day. that's when his secretary of homeland security said that a thousand a day was a really bad day for him. after he left office, he said a thousand a day overwhelms the system. and yet the immigration bill would have normalized thousands. i can't tell you exactly how many. there were tougher asylum provisions. there were more rapid ajudd indication. there were some great elements there, but the bad overwhelmed the good, and it was worse than doing nothing at all. doesn't say much about a border security bill, does it? this chart with a show. obama's humanitarian crisis, president trump's which he fixed, and then you have this massive inflow from president biden. let's do a little history lesson here and just go on back how we got to this point because one of the problems in the senate bill is i

how long has the borders are visited the border? tonight do you have any plans to visit the border? >> i am in guatemala today at some point we are going to the border. we have been to the border.so this whole thing about the border, we have been to the border. >> you have not been to the border. >> and i haven't been to europe. i do understand the point you are making i am not discounting the importance of the border. >> laura: the moment we heard she was put in charge of the border was the moment we knew that they plan to overwhelm our country with migrants or in their thinking, future democratic voters. as we painstakingly have catalogs, all of the border dereliction even democrats started speaking up. >> i said it last year when we had 15,000 and i am telling you now with 110,000 the city that we knew we are about to lose. >> as buses continue to arrive in the city of chicago the client type of chaos has been administered has left many of our local economies under a tremendous amount of duress. >> it looks like a hostage state. we feel the growing power of the cartels, the crimi

why is our borders open? joe biden campaigned on opening up our borders. he campaigned on giving free health care to illegal aliens. so it's no surprise that he's keeping his promise. since taking office president biden has taken 94 executive actions related to immigration -- 94. we've got the same laws on the books as we did when president trump was in office, but president trump secured the border. joe biden has opened our border more than it ever has been in the history of this country. let's take a look at just a few of these executive actions. first, president biden stopped building the wall. in fact, he's been selling off parts of the wall for pennies on the dollar. i know people in alabama that have bought stacks of steel that the american taxpayers paid in l lots, $300,000 for these certain lots, $300,000 of american taxpayer money. these people now can go on-line in an auction and buy these lots for $0.10 on a dollar. i know people who have bought $300 lots -- $300,000 lots for dollars, same thing for razor wire and other parts of the wall that ar

james langford under the situation did a remarkable job to kick off the border counsel which borders president trump did certainly underscores a quality product that that particular union felt would make progress towards making things better. as i said earlier, things have changed over the last four months. it has been made perfectly clear byby the speaker that he would t take

i've never seen our border this chaotic. simply put, the border is broken. what we are witnessing today is unprecedented. in total, since president biden took office, we've had more than 7.5 million encounters at the southern border. this is the population of nine states combined. this includes 7000 special interest aliens and nearly 300 apprehensions of individuals on the terror watch list compared to 14 under the previous administration. the security risks to our country are real and our adversaries around the world are capitalizing on our open border policies. it only took 19 terrorists to perpetrate 9/11 as the fbi testified before the homeland security committee just two weeks ago. this crisis is a self-inflicted wound and a direct result of this administration's policies. upon taking office, the biden it illustration rescinded the migrant protection protocols also known as remain in mexico. under the protocol, migrants were removed to mexico while asylum claims were adjudicated in the united states. now, without it, they are released under a fail, catc

border. i was standing right over there when one of the senators said, we get southern border -- republican -- democrats get ukraine funding. well, he was wrong. the truth is the united states gets southern border protection and the united states citizens get to help ukraine and support democracy and make sure that putin isn't successful in taking over ukraine and ultimately the rest of europe. but nonetheless, there's three people that went out, were given the blessing to negotiate a bipartisan -- which is the way things should be done around here and are done around here -- a bipartisan southern border bill. the two people -- the republican and the democrat -- or the democrat and the republican, however you want to place it -- happen to be the chairman and ranking member of the homeland appropriations subcommittee. the other was a member who was an independent that lives in a state that borders the southern border, arizona. so these folks went down and they worked and worked and worked. i'v

immigration at the southern border.he served -- where you work now, migration policy -- remind us what your mission is there. >> good morning. we are -- guest: good morning. we are nonpartisan. we have policies that have to do with immigration. host: we hear a lot of things these days about border encounters. can you start by putting the numbers into perspective right now and how it compares to previous years at the southern border? guest: what is happening at the southern border is unprecedented. we are receiving more people, seeking asylum, coming to the u.s. that has ever been the case before. this is not unique to the u.s. this is happening all over the world. we are entering a new era of mobility and people facing dire conditions, and leaving them. in the case of the u.s. and the hemisphere that we live in, we see people fleeing violence, fleeing the beginnings of climate change, failed governments, fleeing persecution and poverty and the remaining effects of the pandemic. the u.s. has recovered very well from the

to the border? >> when the program went into effect, the number of people plummeted, and it plummeted for a while. >> i yield back. >> the chair recognizes mr. perry. >> secretary wolf, you know how many children have been lost by the biden administration in the last three years? >> in the new york times, they talk about losing over 85,000 unaccompanied children. >> lost by this administration, do you think that is humane or inhumane? >> extremely inhumane. >> do you think any of them have been placed with sex traffickers? the miners who came across the border illegally? >> i do not have any data but my experience has yes. >> is that humane or inhumane? >> inhumane. >> little girls, being raped on the way to the border, humane or inhumane? >> a very inhumane. >> these are the policies of the current administration. you know what they are doing to find these kids they have lost? >> i would assume that once these children are released to sponsors and are out of our custody, they are gone. and they are

border. to help folks that are leaving their country, whether it's due to famine, or their problems with gang relations, or whatever, they want to still scream about drugs. the drugs are not being -- if you notice people that are crossing the border -- drugs are not coming across with those people, they are coming on ships, they are coming on planes, they are coming through airports. you are talking about fentanyl. look at those people. are those people carrying fentanyl across the border? the republicans are totally ridiculous when they start talking about close the border due to drugs. host: all right, marcia, we will leave it there but we will pick up this conversation tomorrow morning at 7:00 a.m. eastern time on the washington journal. we will be joined by two members of congress in the house. tom mcclintock, he's one of those republicans, one of the three that voted against impeaching the homeland security secretary. that's 8:00 a.m. eastern time. following the conversation with him, we

the speaker brought up the border. we made it very clear to him we wanted to do something real on the border. in fact, we democrats in the senate supported a border bill that very conservative groups including border control agents, the wall street journal editorial page, and chamber of commerce were for, but said to hold up ukraine, which he admitted was a national imperative, because you cap do something else which we should all work on with a non sequitur. there was no logic. there is a logic to solving the border. we want to solve it, but we have to do ukraine right now because that has brought bipartisan consensus. the border takes more which, which we will be happy to work on to get it done, but not hold up the ukraine bill for it. rep. jeffries: we would like to thank president biden for convening us to address these challenges facing the american people. it was an intense and honest meeting and ultimately a productive meeting. we discussed three issues. first, the need to avoid a government shutdown, and to fun

cnn's rosa flores is in the border, is on the border in eagle pass. rosa. you what was the judge's rationale for this injunction which essentially blocks this order for now what the judge said is that he rejected the arguments made by the state of texas that >> migrants crossing the border illegally is a quote, invasion. he rejected that. he upheld precedent saying that immigration is a federal function. here's what the judge said in part, quote, surges and immigrants ration do not constitute an invasion within the meaning of the constitution or as texas engaging in war by enforcing, as before he goes on to say, if allowed to proceed as before, could open the door to each state passing its own version of immigration laws as before, threatens the fundamental notion that the united states must regulate them ration with one voice. governor greg abbott, of course, speaking out disagreeing, saying that the state of texas has constitutional authority for doing all of this. he issued a statement saying in part, quote, texas has the right to defend itself because o

basically, put up a big welcome sign and turn the border into an open border. so, the house of representatives has determined that secretary mayorkas has committed impeachable offenses. i believe the senate needs to hold a trial. i think this is such a miscarriage of the law and it is important that united states senators sit and hear, and the american people hear about this incredible crisis at our southern border, and people need to be held accountable. i think this is the way to do that. i'm going to make the argument. i'm sure the democrats will try to dismiss it, that we ought to be contacting a trial the united states senate determines. again, whether they are or are not impeachable offenses. quex joe biden and the democrats have squandered american strength, and as a result, they have surrendered the peace and it's evident all around the world. i have just gotten back from the middle east where i was with the wyoming air national guard. 140 members who were stationed in djibouti, africa. these wyoming soldiers are in the hotspot and they are face-to-face

on the border.ident saw this one area and if you look at the shifted from talks to california to arizona. the place he was is actually down 23% and not a lot of border crossings per day there. do you think the president got ofull view of the border and do you think there's a possibility at some kind of compromise considering where things are legislatively? >> thank you, bret, for your question. i'm louise pleased that president biden went to the border. i visited the border last year. and you ever correct, a different border communities do experience different effects. i support comprehensive immigration reform. i believe our immigration system is broken and needs to be fixed. the senate had a bipartisan package, unfortunately they were not able to pass it. i will work in a bipartisan basis in the house and hopefully we can get something done in the house. >> bret: congressman overnaulty any effort to put h.r. 2 back in the mix here? any thoughts. >> i also hope we can reach bipartisan at the border

i was just at the border. it was not my first time at the border. but i was in the tucson sector, 262 miles of border. and it is probably the busiest and most dangerous. and i met with the customs agents down there, i met with i.c.e., i met with the border patrol agents. and i will tell you everything that we talked about was put into this supplemental package, what they need, based on the conversations that we've had. it gives us resources to hire more border patrol if agents who right now are overwhelmed and understaffed. to hire more customs officers, to find and fund new cutting-edge technology to, yes, -- the trafficking of fentanyl and other trucks that are coming into the united states -- drugs that are coming into the united states, to address the human trafficking that is happening on the border and, yes, to absolutely address what we see happening with immigration, to put in process an orderly and fair process. it updates our asylum system that isn't working for immigration families. think about this, an asigh is lumbar system that is -- a

long past time to afnlgt i received a briefing from the border patrol at the border as well as immigration and enforcement. they're all doing incredible work under tough conditions. really tough conditions. they told me what -- you already know. we already know. they desperately need more resources. say it again. they desperately need more resources. immediate more agents. more officers. more judges. more equipment. in order to secure our border. folks, it's time for us to move on this. we can't wait any longer. on my first day as president i introduced a bill i sent to congress. a comprehensive plan to fix the broken immigration system and to secure the border. but no action was taken. then months ago, my team began a serious negotiation with a bipartisan group of senators, democrats, republicans, it resulted in a compromise bill, the toughest set of border security reforms we have seen in thunt kri. it's pretty basic with this deal we could hire 1,500 additional border security agents. 1,500 additional officers. and between ports of entry, for the last four years, staffing has been rough

border.of migrants intending to illegally cross our border who have perished along the way, either en route to the united states or at the border, almost doubled during the tenure of alejandro n. mayorkas as secretary of homeland security, from an average of about 700 a year during the fiscal years 2017 through 2020, to an average of about 1,300 a year during the fiscal years 2021 through 2023. four, alien smuggling organizations have gained tremendous wealth during alejandro n. mayorkas's tenure as secretary of homeland security, with their estimated revenues rising from about $500,000,000 in 2018 to approximately $13,000,000,000 in 2022. five, during alejandro n. mayorkas's tenure as secretary of homeland security, the immigration court backlog has more than doubled from about 1,300,000 cases to over 3,000,000 cases. the exploding backlog is destroying the courts' ability to administer justice and provide appropriate relief in a timeframe that does not run into years or even decades. as ale

the border. we see people coming through from china and everywhere else, we need to get the senate controlled. we need to get together and get a border control that can be controlled. the way to plug that hole in the wall in california, this is got to soft. we have a lot of people who are going hungry because of the immigrants coming in, and up in chicago, they are freezing. it is time to get this thing under control and control how many, in. host: the hole in the wall in california, are you referring from that "62 minutes" report -- 60 minutes" report? caller: yes. host: what are your thoughts on this bipartisan border bill? caller: i don't agree that they should vote for it. there is a time to get control. all this bill does is bring people in, and it is numbers and numbers of immigrants coming in, and we cannot feed them. how are we going to take care of them? they are dying because we don't have enough supplies for our own people. we have people in chicago died on the streets. it is time to s

border. i am a pharmacist, we are losing 200 people every day as a result of fentanyl poisoning. if we had a plane crash and we killed 200 people we would stop every plane until we figured out what is going on. but that border is wide open. i mentioned i was at the border last week. now, there are more non-mexicans crossing than ever before. the price of fentanyl has plummeted. there is so much supply that demand is not keeping the price up. that is not something we should tolerate. mayorkas is guilty of this. host: what constitutional standard did mr. mayorkas breached? guest: he has a responsibility of protecting that border. the secretary of homeland security is different than other secretaries. it is his responsibility are clear, it is his responsibility to make sure that border is secure. it is not secure and he should be held responsible. host: tom mcclintic voted against the impeachment and he said it would dub down the requirement for impeachment. guest: there were three people who vo

border. that would have fixed the crisis at the border. republicans decided that they would be better off preserving chaos at the border as an election issue instead of solving the problem. i guess that it is the negotiators fault. we crafted a bill that was too effective. we reached a compromise that would actually fix the problem and it turns out republicans don't want to fix the problem. they want to leave the issue of immigration open. as a political agenda item to exploit. i don't think that people should lose their outrage at what has just happened. one of my colleagues just a moment ago said this is may be the most dispiriting week that he has had since he came to washington. roit is dispiriting not just because we had a chance to solve a problem, a problem at the border, it is not just dispiriting that americans are going to be outraged at the fact that this issue will remain open again as another election issue when we had a chance to come together anddi solve it, but because there d

there are more people coming over the northern border than the southern border. there should be a united nations forum consisting of all of the countries forming the western hemisphere to find out why all of these people from the southern hemisphere are migrating into the united states. this mig is happening in europe as well. north africans are my grading across the mediterranean sea -- are migrating across the mediterranean sea into spain, italy, and greece. we have to find out why they are leaving their home countries. are they being forced to leave? are they being robbed? our children being kidnapped? our drug lords taking over everywhere -- are drug lords taking over everywhere? i think these people would rather live in their home country and make a living where they are at. host: the house is about to gavel in for their legislative session. we will take you up to capitol hill. live coverage here on c-span. the speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order. the chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. the clerk: the speaker's rooms, wa

the border patrol act of 2024 gives the united states border patrol agents authorities codified in law that we have not had in the past, they said. while not perfect, i'll agree with them on that, the border patrol act of 2024 is a step in the right direction and is far better than the current status quo. this is why the national border patrol council endorses this bill and hopes for its quick passage. i understand this, in this bui building and in the 202 area code that is washington, d.c., border security is a political is issue. but if we leave the 202 area code, everywhere else in the country this is not a political issue, it's a national security is issue. when you go to the border patrol council, those that see the chaos day to day, they're saying send us some help, send us anything, because quite frankly americans are frustrated and angry because our borders are open. they've seen the record numbers in the last four months. they know full well what's happening. the "60 minutes" from this last weekend about chinese nationals using tiktok to find the holes in the fence and navigat