Graham to media: "Walk over there and ask the guy what the hell happened"

[Music] just very quickly instead of asking a republican or a democrat why don't you ask the people in charge of policing the border what the problem is rather than making a political statement in question why don't you walk right over there and ask the guy what the hell happened we got a chart i'll give it to you this was june right here see this spike it was big what did trump do he told mexico we're going to put tariffs on all your products unless you allow us to have asylum seekers stay in mexico what happened it went down to a 45-year low because nobody is going to pay 20 thousand dollars to come to mexico and wait for four years the day the first plane load of kids went back to central america the unaccompanied minor problem went to a 45-year low so why don't you do your job as a reporter and ask the professionals what the hell has happened in the last couple of months and they will tell you they told the biden administration if you do what you're planning we're going to lose control of the border they were right i want to know who they told and i want those people to be held accountable i'm not going to give this up i voted for every comprehensive immigration bill that's ever come out of the united states senate it is impossible for me to sit down with dick durbin and negotiate any solution to people already here because if you legalize one person until you fix this problem you're going to have a human tsunami it will be another signal there you know come to america welcome don't ask us we're politicians ask these people over here what has happened why have they lost control of the border and they will tell you [Music] [Applause] all right senator johnson why did you transition to the trump admin delayed action on the migrant surge for months even though it was warned about the problem from dhs and hhs johnson was the previous chair of the senate homeland security committee did he hear about this warning and should trump not assume some responsibility for the price i i'd miss the first part of your question for sure biden's transmission team alleged the trump admin delayed action on the migrant search for funds even yeah so let me first of all i really don't even understand the premise of your question i've been working on this chart for a couple years it shows cause and effect i will send it to all of your offices and again the fact of the matter is is yes there's a huge surge for a number of reasons deferred action on childhood arrivals you had the floors reinterpretation where it applied to not only unaccompanied children but accompany children there are a number of things that caused this crisis and then president trump and his administration fixed the problem that's the point we're trying to make and rather than following those policies where we basically had this under control so we could take the next step we were controlling the border we could finish the fence we were so close to taking that first step of having secured borders so we could address comprehensive immigration reform instead president biden ignored the advice of professionals blew up all these reforms and now we've got this crisis which is far worse today than it was even in 2019 we've had a day of over 6 000 people 6 000 people that that's more than a caravan that's a large caravan per day how how do you handle that put yourself in the men and women's shoes here they have to deal with this how do you handle 6 000 people a day come on this is it's a crisis if you think we should do a more comprehensive immigration reform well i absolutely but the the table stakes are here exactly what lindsay said the the reason that president trump did have a crisis to the first question asked created by a court decision he fixed it well we've gone we just had a meeting just uh last week with democrat members lindsay and i were there and other members and we said if you want to talk about immigration reform we're prepared to we have a crisis at the border we have to understand again listening to what the folks on the ground are telling us and making sure that we have policies that secure this border you cannot possibly have a credible immigration reform proposal in congress until you fix this crisis down here thank you

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Keywords: Sen. Lindsey Graham, border, President Biden

Id: FEquP57CAe8

Length: 4min 57sec (297 seconds)

Published: Sat Mar 27 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/BatmanBMW]

I support fixing the border asylum mess (loophole and a few others) as long as they do the Dream Act and fixing the border SIMULTANEOUSLY. None of that BS, fix the border now (GOP get what they want now) but the Dream Act 20 years later (just to even discuss in Senate).

[u/Zealousideal_Job_8]

They had 4 years to secure the border under Trump. They only care about the border when a Democrat is president just like how they care about the deficit.

[u/AdministrativeBit510]

We are so fucked 😂

[u/Mars8]

As I said in the last post:

If Dems try to pass this bill with no compromise and with no border security measure, it’s because they don’t want the bill to pass. They know it has no chance but they’re going to try and push it through anyway. What’s the point of introducing it in the first place if you aren’t willing to do whatever it takes to get it passed?

[u/LemonSalt123]

No free lunch. Either Dems compromise or nothing happens. That’s the reality.

[u/Mryummyyummypizza]

As usual they start with "Border needs to be added' Once it is added "we need E-Verify" and tack on more stuff to make it that the democrats were the problem. This is how they always fucking start. Fuck the Republican Party.

[u/CheapOrganization749]

Honestly I feel like we were closer under dump truck to getting a dream bill fix, maybe I’m remembering it wrong but all they had to do was give more money for the border and he’d sign the bill

[u/zombreebree92]

It’s all just a bunch of petty deals... so lame.

[u/alistahr]

Graham has never made a good point lmaooo