'Democrats Care About Border Security': Chris Murphy Discusses Bipartisan Border Bill

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At a Senate Democratic press briefing on Tuesday, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) spoke about the bipartisan border bill.

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00:00Thank you, Leader Schumer.

00:06So why are we bringing this bill up a second time?

00:10The answer is simple.

00:13Democrats care about border security.

00:16We care about immigration reform.

00:19We are not willing to walk away from a bipartisan bill that we worked for four months to achieve

00:28that lines up with the broad priorities of the American public.

00:33Maybe it would have been easier to accept Republicans' political decision to side with

00:38Trump and move on.

00:40But Democrats believe that we have an opportunity to continue to bring this case to the American

00:47public, to try to change minds in the Republican caucus, so that we can finally come together,

00:52Republicans and Democrats, and do something about border security.

00:56Listen, this bill would be effective.

01:00It would be effective.

01:02And it lines up with where the broad middle of America is.

01:06People in this country are proud of our history of immigration.

01:10They want America to be a place where people can come to find a better life, to reunite

01:15with their family, to flee violence or persecution or torture.

01:19But they want our immigration system to be done in an orderly way.

01:23And at the end of last year, when 10,000 people were showing up every day at our southern

01:26border, that was not orderly.

01:30That put a strain on our law enforcement, it put a strain on our cities.

01:35And people in this country knew that we needed to make changes to how we bring people into

01:41this country at the southwest border, and that's exactly what we did.

01:45Our bill doesn't stop the ability of people to come to the United States, it just puts

01:49in place a more orderly system where you will never again have 10,000 people showing

01:54up on an individual day because it allows the President to shut down asylum claims when

01:59they overwhelm our resources.

02:01Never again will someone wait for 10 years to have their asylum claim processed because

02:06we put in a new system with additional resources so that people's asylum claims will be taken

02:12care of in months, not in years.

02:16This bill, if it passes, would be effective in bringing order to the southwest border,

02:23and that is the reason that Republicans killed it earlier this year.

02:27Because Donald Trump said, plain and simple, I don't want you to do anything.

02:33Mitch McConnell admitted it at a press conference.

02:35Senator McConnell stood up and said, the President of the United States told us to do, the former

02:40President of the United States told us to do nothing.

02:45The question that we believe is so important that we want to have another debate in the

02:51Senate is this, do you care more about the security of your country, or do you care more

02:57about the political prospects of your party and your presidential candidate?

03:03I think this problem is so big, I think this solution is so important that it's worth putting

03:12that question to Republicans and to the country again, and I thank Senator Schumer for giving

03:15us the chance to have this debate this week.

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