In November, my team began serious
negotiation
with a bipartisan group of senators.
The result was a bipartisan bill
with a tougher set of border
security reforms we've ever seen.
I 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.
A bipartisan bill would hire 1500
more security agents and officers.
100 more immigration judges help tackle
a backlog
of 2 million cases,
4300 more asylum officers.
And new policy
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 will save lives
and bring order of the border.
And also give me and any new president
new emergency authority
temporarily shut down the border
when the number of migrants
or the border is overwhelming.
The Border Patrol unions
endorse this bill.
The Federal Chamber of Commerce is.
Yeah, you can say no.
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.
A 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 when he believes
it 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 you.
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 get into the country,
it's 6 to 8 years
before they have a hearing.
And it's worth it,
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
suggest my friend
and my Republican friends
ought 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.
I'm telling the Congress to pass it.
We can do it together.
But that's very apparently.
Here's what he will not do.
I will not demonize immigrants say
they are poison
in the blood of our country.
I will not
separate families.
I will not
ban people because of their faith.
Well,
like 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.
And we're the only nation in the world
with a heart and soul
that draws from old and new Honda.
Native Americans,
such as the better
for thousands of years,
home to people of every play
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.
But we're all Americans.
Look folks
it’s a simple choice,
we can fight about fixing the border
or we can fix it.
I'm ready to fix it.
Send me the border bill now.