>> tony gonzales: i do. if you thought politics in 2023 were fun, wait until 2024, it will be lightning and nonstop. henry and i sit on the appropriations committee, i've been pushing to pass conservative appropriations packages that have gone through the house, work with the senate, and up with a deal and voted against last continuous resolution and previous continuing resolution and i will vote against next continuing resolution unless there are meaningful border solutions in there, count me no on any continuing reside resolution. >> mike: thank you. happy new year. up next, fall out after decisions in colorado and maine to keep president trump off the ballot next november, even democrats join republicans calling it unfair and undemocratic. bring back the sunday panel with their thoughts on this hot topic next. ♪ topic next. bu topic next. topic next. topic next. topic next. - topic next. b topic next. u topic next. topic next. topic next. hot-button topic nex. t stut, it expanded whdo for t stut, special

texas republican congressman tony gonzales who is with us from san antonio.elcome back to "face the nation." >> good morning. thank you for having me. >> so i want to go into one of the big issues we know is on the minds for voters and is a crisis right now. you've been pressing for a border deal and we know senators are still trying to craft one, but it doesn't look good for the near term. what is the real world impact in your district if there is no deal in 2023? >> yeah. i give a lot of credit to senator langford and cinema and tillis and murphy. certainly nothing happens without john cornyn making his inputs on there and appreciate their efforts on that, but the time is now. the time for national security package is now. in my district it is pure chaos and people are upset because their lives have been turned upside down. my district is predominantly hispanic. many are first and second generation americans but they're tired of the high-speed chases, tired of their schools going into lockdown. i would argue, yes, we've been talking about the amount of peop

texas republican congressman tony gonzales, delaware democratic senator chris coons, and ukraine's ambassadoro the u.s. oksana markarova will all be here. >>> plus, the year end forecast from the fed might actually make americans feel better about the economy going into 2024. we'll tell you why. >>> it's all just ahead on "cbs mornings." -- it's all ahead on "face the nation." >>> good morning and welcome to "face the nation." in washington, lawmakers have been working through the weekend to negotiate a deal on border security and immigration as part of a larger package of aid for ukraine and israel. but there is no deal in sight yet. no framework and not enough time to get it done before the end of the year. meanwhile, we are less than one month from the votes being taken in the 2024 campaign. >> on my first day back in the white house, i will terminate every open borders policy of the biden administration, stop the invasion of our southern border and begin the largest domestic deportation operation in american history. i will immediately restore and expand the trump travel ban on entry from

let's listen to what tony gonzales had to say about how the white house is addressing the situation.f america believes in legal immigration, but what we're seeing is not that. this is chaos. and so enough is enough. it's time to deport those that illegally come into the united states and president biden can either do that, or he can watch and lose and watch the next president enforce those policies that are on the books. >> joe, i want to start with you here, could this cost biden a second term? >> i mean, it's an interesting thing because immigration is the top issue for republicans, it's not for democrats. so it -- i don't know that this hurts him with democrats. and biden's big issue here is motivating democrats and solidifying the base. where i have a problem, it's a very difficult issue, there's no easy answer, where i have a problem with republicans making comments like that is, there has been a deal on the table for years, something that lindsey graham and democrats worked out and it was blocked by republicans that would actually address this problem. demagoguery is very much

republican congressman tony gonzales says the situation is once again getting out of control.l agents do everything they can to cope with the situation, but they are completely overwhelmed, completely overwhelmed. the state of texas is at the center of the refugee crisis in the southern united states, despite miles of razor wire, steel river barriers and thousands of federal , state and local officials. at the pass, thousands of people cross this place every day. just look at these masses, these hundreds of hundreds of people crossing the border illegally. they are positioned near the border wall and are waiting for the border patrol to approach them. you can notice that they are all adults, single men, there is not a single woman or child in this group, you see that these guys come from all over the world, a large number of africans from senegal, guinea, egypt, asia, the middle east. i want to start with a headline from today's new york post that says it all and in one word, give up. today the president in wisconsin is when members of congress are begging for help at the bord

migrants coming and staying in some towns and working because we spoke to a republican congressman tony gonzaleshe us—mexico border, as you're aware, and he says he wants to see mexico do more to curb humanitarian and work visas for people who don't intend to use them. this is what he said. what ends up happening is people from all over the world going to — use mexico city, get these humanitarian visas, legally transit through mexico city and then, they illegally enter the united states. what do you think of that? well, whether or not they enter the us illegally or not, i think that's something for the united states to decide. however, i'm sure you have read in the news all this phenomenon of new shoring in mexico, all this new investment coming into mexico, most of it coming into monterrey — again, where i'm from. and one just assumes that mexico has an endless supply of labour. in fact, that is not the case. there is high labour turnover, there is need for more labour and a lot of these immigrants — and again, i am mentioning the haitians because if you travel to monterrey, you'll see a big ha

i spoke to republican congressman tony gonzales who represents the border city of el paso and is a member security committee. congressman, i want to start with getting your thoughts on the visit paid by the secretary of state and the homeland security secretary to mexico to discuss ways to curb immigration. from what you have heard and seen, do you think any important progress has been made? thank you for having me. i think it is important that the secretary of state made that trip to mexico city. for too long, the administration has relied on the dhs secretary to handle a lot of this, i think that is a positive development, but talk is cheap. it is all about the results, and it can'tjust be everyone is doing a greatjob. 0ftentimes in these diplomatic situations, you talk about the pleasantries. you don't want to get to the root of some of the issues. there needs to be tangible results out of there. what i have specifically been asking the mexican officials for is for them to curb humanitarian and work visas for people that have no intention of using those visas. what ends up happening is

tony gonzales, his fellow republican, he's out of texas, tweet ed this this morning. today is the day we can santos. it was actually despite that. >> that's texas for expel. >> thank you, david chalian. that, obviously, proved to be true, but it wasn't clear going in. >> i think that what was really fascinating was watching the house republican leadership decide at the end to vote against this measure. and to save santos. it just seems there was a last-minute attempt, don't want to describe motives here, but not to have their major ity get narrower. at least of all the leaders, the most interesting, she's from new york and surrounded with all those frontline, vulnerable republicans in these tough districts that delivered the majority to the house republicans in '22. and she also was saying, no, santos can stay, when they have all been calling for him to go. it just seemed to me they were together saying, hey, as the leaders here, we do think this becomes a larger problem. maybe it's the present argument, but it's a larger political headache for them to have the narrow

officials know it, now lawmakers like tony gonzales know it.order patrol chief tweeted yesterday a figure i gave, 20,000 migrants over the weekend. he put more details. they had three sex offenders, three gang members, lewd and lascivious acts with a child under 14. i asked about this and about administration coming to visit, he said no. do you feel like they are going to do anything for you? here is what he had to say. >> we have to fend for ourselves in eagle pass, we do our best with what we have. we feel 100 rs % ignored. nobody bothers to tell us what the action is. >> griff: lastly, i will push one more time, we are just getting light on migrants and make the point why agents are overwhelmed, here in eagle pass, you have no more than 40 agents on any given shift working around the clock, being overwhelmed 50 to one, 60 to one and ratio of illegal agents 200 to 1, creating the challenge they have here and it is one that simply isn't giving them a break. they are reaching a breaking point and moral is suffering as the sun comes up. you will

joining us to discuss, tony gonzales of texas represents texas is 23rd congressional district that covers a large portion of the border including eagle pass where thousands of migrants are still waiting to be processed. you were in eagle pass the other day talking with desperation about the u.s. going in the wrong direction when it comes to how this migrant surge is happening and how it's being handled. congress isn't getting back from the break until january 9th. what are you most worried about what could happen before january 9th? >> we are beyond the breaking point. let me share was happening on the ground and then i will share what i believe the president can do today to alleviate this. on the ground, the people that live along the border are completely exhausted. imagine if you have an accident and you dial 911 to go to the emergency room and there is an eight or 10 hour wait or even worse they tell you there are no beds. you have to drive an hour away to another town. that will frustrate you. when there is these large numbers of people that come over what ends up happening is border

i spoke to republican congressman tony gonzales, who represents the border city of el paso and is a membercommittee. i want to start with getting your thoughts on the visit paid by the secretary of state and the homeland security secretary to mexico to discuss ways to curb immigration, from what you have heard and seen, do you think an important progress has been made?— think an important progress has been made? ., ~ , ., ., ., been made? thank you for having me i think — been made? thank you for having me i think it _ been made? thank you for having me i think it is _ been made? thank you for having me i think it is important - been made? thank you for having me i think it is important that - me i think it is important that the secretary of state make that trip to mexico city, for too long the administration has relied on dhs secretary to handle a lot of this, so i think that is a positive development, but talk is cheap. it is all about the results and it cannot just it is all about the results and it cannotjust be everyone is doing a greatjob. 0ften it cannotjust be everyone is doing a g

also here was tony gonzales who represents this area, he talked a little bit about what officials on ground told him, take a listen here. >> we were going down the wrong route i had a call with the mayor of eagle pass i've had this call 15 times where he said tony i've never seen it this bad that was a call this week i worry if we continue what is a year from now going to look like, god forbid joe biden gets reelected, what is three years like we have to stop and start enforcing the laws and deport people that do not qualify for asylum. >> i will leave you by connected a few dots you heard arizona hobbs saying arizona's tired of. the brunt, you see what congressman gonzales is talking about the cover says eagle pass government and businesses sustaining financial losses due to migrants urge, this is taking a massive toll, you see it in new york in the army-navy game, i don't know if you do this reporting but there were veterans booted out of guaranteed hotel rooms to shelter migrants here in the small communities at eagle pass and the absolutely devastated financially and out of lukev

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congressman tony gonzales provided fox this video from inside a border patrol processing center he visited in ego pass this morning. he says that hand is a dhs official trying to block his camera. >> i am sounding the alarm as loud as i possibly can i don't care about the politics. i want this to end and i want our country to be safe. >> and as the immigration court backlog now sits at a record 3 million pending cases, fox news has obtained this ice check-in date for a colombian woman set for new york city in the year 2031. her immigration attorney tells fox the notice left him stunned. >> it made me realize that the biden administration is basically providing back door amnesty for anyone who wants to show up at the border texas is now flying illegal immigrants to sanctuary cities across the united states with the very first flight of 120 already landing in chicago last night i'm told all of the migrants signed voluntary consent forms before they got on the plane. more flights are being planned. any sanctuary city out there is, quote. fair game. we will send it back to you. up next, brit h

>> griff: got speaker johnson read that statement going on january 3rd with a bunch of members tony gonzalesthe border to eagle pass where, this you are watching right there. that's just one day of the many we had 3,000 or 4,000. tom homan is now calling on congress. this congress to do something. listen here. >> who the hell does the president of mexico think he is to make demands of us? he is demanding ports of entry be open. is he demanding rail stations be only. is he demanding amnesty which all those things going to drive even more illegal immigration. i'm going to say it again this administration is pathetic and weak. they want to secure the border. they have the trump plans there, they could reimplement those plans and take steps to secure the border. they haven't done a damn thing. not one thing to slow the flow. this year we are on the path to have a fourth historic record if congress doesn't get off their butts and do something. no more budget negotiations, demand action, impeach mayorkas, do what you are supposed to be doing. protect this country and keep your promise. >> carley: