HAVE STOOD IN THE WAY FOR FAR TOO LONG.
ADAM: FROM BUILDING A WALL ON THE SOUTHERN BORDER TO ICE DEPORTATIONS AND DEBATE OVER THE FAMILY SEPARATION POLICY, IMMIGRATION IS ANOTHER MAJOR TOPIC IN THIS PRIMARY ELECTION
AND THIS ISSUE ALSO GOT PERSONAL FOR ONE CANDIDATE WHO TELLS THE STORY OF HIS FAM AMERICA.
>> LIKE YOU, M IMMIGRANT STORY ON ONE SIDE OF THE FAMILY.
MY MOM AND HER GRANDPARENTS WERE POLISH JEWS WHO MIRACULOUSLY SURVIVED THE HOLOCAUST.
THEY ACTUALLY -- THEY STAYED IN POLAND BECAUSE MY GRANDFATHER COULDN'T IMAGINE LEAVING HIS AND EVERYBODY WAS KILLED IN THEIR FAMILY EXCEPT THE THREE OF THEM AND AN AUNT.
AND AFTER THE WAOVER, THEY LIVED IN POLAND FOR TWO YEARS, THEN THEY WENT TO STOCKHOLM IN SWEDEN FOR A YEAR, THEN THEY WENTLACES, TO MEXICO CITY FOR A YEAR.
AND THEN THEY CAME TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO REBUIRED LI THEY BECAME, YOU KNOW, AMONG THE MOST PATRIOTIC AMERICANS I'VE EVER KNOWN.
WHAT I WOULD DO IS WORK TO PASS COMPREHENSIVE IMMIGRATION REFO I WAS PART OF THE GANGDEMOCRATS REPUBLICANS WHO NEGOTIATED THE IMMIGRATION BILL IN THE SENATE.
WE GOT 68 VOTES FOR TH BORDER SECURITY THAN WHAT DONALD TRUMP'S TALKING ABOUT.
IT HAD $46 BILLION IN BORDER SECURITY.
DONALD TRUMP SAYS DEMOCRATS ARE FOR OPEN BORDERS.
FOR A SECURE BORDER.
YOU'RE FOR THE RULE OF LAW ON IMMIGRATION, I'M FOR THE RULE OF LAW ON IMMIGRATION.
BUT WE WEREN'T BUILDING A MEDIEV THERE.
WE WERE ACTUALLY USING TECHNOLOGY AND OTHER KINDS OF BARRIERS BORDER.
WE CREATED INTERNAL SECURITY AS PART OF THAT BILL, SO THAT THIS WHOLE ISSUE OF THE FACT THATO AR AS UNDOCUMENTED CAME LAWFULLY BUT OVERSTAYED THEIR VISA?ICA HA THAT RIGHT NOW.
WE FIXED THAT PROBLEM.
ADAM: THANK YOU.
QUICK FOLLOW-UP, SENATOR.
ON THE ISSUE OF OES HAVE A ROLE, THOUGH, AT SOME PARTS OF THE BORDER?
>> OF COURSE, BUT LOOK, DONALD A HE HAS A PHOTO OP, AND HE STANDS -- I DON'T KNOW IF I'M ALLOWED TO WALK OVER HERE, IS THAT ALL RIGHT? STANDS FROM ANY THREE OF WHAT, LIKE THIS, HIS
THREE STEEL SLATS, THAT'S WHAT HE CALLS THEM.
WE HAD 350 MILES OF STEEL SLATS IN THE GANG OF 8 BILL.
350 MILES.S SORT OF FOISTED ON AMERICAN PEOPLE THE IDEA THAT THERE ARE PEOP DON'T REALLY WANT BORDER SECURITY.
>> W MAKE AT THE BORDER FOR BORDER SECURITY TO PREVENT UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS FROM CROSSING AS WELL AS ILLEGAL CARGO ON TRUCKS AND SHIPS?
>> YEAH, SO YOU SAID TRUCKS AN WHAT WE HAVE TO DO IS DO THE THINGS WE KNOW WE NEED TO DO BETTER, WHICH IS SECURE OUR PORTS, HAVE ADEQUATE STAFFING AND PERSONNEL AT THE BORDER.
THE WALL IS NOT A SOLUON.
IF YOU LOOK AT THE ACTUAL CONFIGURATION OF THE BORDER, THERE ARE A LOT OF PLACES WHERE BUILDING A WALL WOULD BE COMPLETELY IMPRACTICAL, AND ALL YOU'RE GOING TO DO IS CHANNEL
RESOURCES TO OTHER PARTS OF THE BORDER.
SO I LOOKED INTO THIS, I INTO WHETHER THERE WAS SOME TECHNOLOGICAL SOLUTION ONE COULD IMPLEMENT, AND THERE IS NOT.
WHAT WE HAVE TO DO IS WE HAVE TO ADEQUATELY STAFF AND SECURE THES WORK.
SO THAT THERE'S NO SILVER BULLET WHERE THE BORDER'S CONCERNED.
WHAT HAPPENED TO NEW HAMPSHIRE IN THE EARLY PART OF THE 20TH CENTURY IS NOW HAPPENING TO OTHER PARTS OF THE COUNTRY.
WE'RE NOT BEING HONEST ABO FACT THAT WHAT HAPPENED TO THE MANUFACTURING WORKERS WILL NOW HAPPEN TO THE RETAIL WORKS, TH FAST-FOOD WORKERS, THE TRUCK DRIVERS, WHICH ARE UNFORTUNATELY
THE FOUR MOST COMMON JOBS IN ECONOMY.
SO I'M RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT TO WAKE AMERICA UP TO THE FACT THAT IT IS NOT IMMIGRANTS THAT ARE CAUSING ECONOUND THE COUNTRY.
IT IS THE FACT THAT OUR ECONOMY HAS CHANGED IN FUNDAMENTAL WAYS.
>> MOST PEOPLE DON'T LEAVE HOME.
THIN OF US DON'T WANT TO LEAVE HOME, WE DON'T LIKE TO LEAVE HOME.
AND WE LEAVE THERE BECAUSE THE IS -- EITHER WE'RE FLEEING SOMETHING WHERE THERE'S NO OPPORTUNITY, RIGHT, BUT WE HAVE TO F SO I OPERATE FROM THAT
PRINCIPLE, BUT THEN LET'S GO EVEN FURTHER.E'VE SEEN IN TERMS CHILDREN AND PARENTS THAT YOU'RE HAVE FLED MURDER CAPITALS.
THINK ABOUT IT IN TERMS OF AHAS DECISION TO PAY A COYOTE, TO PAY A STRANGER TO TRANSPORT THEIR CHILD FROM THEIR ENT OF ORIGIN THROUGH THE ENTIRE COUNTRY OF MEXICO, FACING
UNKNOWN PERIL.
WHY WOULD THEY DO THAT THEY KNOW STAYED WHERE THEY ARE, IT WOULD BE WORSE.
BUT WH DONE?
IT LOOKS AT THESE FAMILIES AND IT SAYS, GO BACK TO WHERE YOU CAME FROM.
IT'S INHUMANE AND IT'S UNAMERICAN SO WHAT WOULD WE DO?
WHAT WOULD I DO?
WELL, FIRST OF ALL HAVE A LEGITIMATE PROCESS ABOUT HE THEM A LEGITIMATE OPPORTUNITY TO SEEK ASYLUM.
WHEN WE CONSTRUCTED THE LAWS OF OUR NATION, WE I THESE THINGS WILL HAPPEN, THAT PEOPLE FROM FOREIGN COUNTRIES WILL ARRIVE HERE FLEEING HARM.
SO WE PUT IN PLACE A PROCESS.
WELL, LET'S HONO