November, my team began serious negotiation with a bipartisan group
of senators.
The result was a bipartisan bill with the toughest set
of border security reforms we've ever seen.
Oh, you don't think so?
Oh, you don't like that bill,
huh?
That conservatives got together and said it was a good
bill?
I'll be darned. That's amazing
that bipartisan people would hire
1500 more security agents and officers.
100 more immigration judges helped tackle the back load of
two men in cases
4300 more asylum officers and new policies so they can
resolve cases in six months instead of six years.
Now
what are you against?
100 more high tech drug detection machines to significantly increase
the ability to screen and stop vehicles smuggling fentanyl into
America.
That's killing thousands of children.
This bill would save lives
and then order the border.
It will also give me and any new president
new emergency authority to temporarily shut down the border when
the number of migrants at the border is overwhelming.
The Border Patrol union has endorsed this bill.
The Federal Chamber of Commerce isn't.
Yeah, yeah, you're saying low.
Look at the facts.
I know,
I know. You know how to read.
I believe that given the opportunity for a majority in
the House and Senate
would endorse the bill as well,
The majority right now. But unfortunately,
politics has derailed this bill so far,
I'm told My predecessor called members of Congress in the
Senate to demand they block the bill.
He feels political win. He viewed as a would be
a political win for me and a political loser for
him.
It's not about him. It's not about me.
I'd be a winner. Not really.
I
Lincoln Lincoln Riley, an innocent young woman who was killed
by an illegal. That's right.
But how many of thousands of people being killed by
illegals
to her parents? I say my heart goes out to
having lost children myself.
I understand. But look, if we change the dynamic at
the border,
people pay people. People pay these smugglers 8000 bucks to
get across the border because they know if they get
by.
If they get by and let into the country,
it's 6 to 8 years before they have a hearing
and it's worth taking the chance of the
$8000. But but if it's only six months,
six weeks, The idea is it's highly unlikely that people
will pay that money and come all that way knowing
that they'll be able to be kicked out quickly.
Folks,
I would respectfully say to suggest my
my Republican friends owe to the American people get this
bill done.
We need to act now.
And if my predecessor is watching
instead of paying politics and pressuring members of Congress to
block the bill,
join me in telling the Congress to pass it.
We can do it together,
but that's what he apparently hears,
what he will not do.
I will not demonize immigrants saying they are poisoned in
the blood of our country.
I will not
separate families.
I will not ban people because of their faith,
unlike my predecessor, on my first day in office,
I introduced A comprehensive bill to fix our immigration system.
Take a look at it as all these and more
secure the border, provide a pathway to citizenship for Dreamers
and so much more.
But unlike my predecessor,
I know who we are as Americans.
We're the only nation in the world with a heart
and soul that draws from old and new,
home to Native Americans and ancestors have been here for
thousands of years,
home to people of every place,
from every place on earth.
They came freely. Some came in chains.
Some came when famine struck,
like my ancestral family in Ireland.
Some to flee persecution, to chase dreams that are impossible
anywhere but here in America.
That's America, and we all come from somewhere.