This is a humanitarian crisis, a crisis of the heart and a crisis of the soul.

Last month, 20,000 migrant children were illegally brought into the United States a dramatic increase.

These children are used as human pawns by vicious coyotes and ruthless gangs.

One in three women are sexually assaulted on the dangerous trek up through Mexico.

Women are children are the biggest victims by far of our broken system.

I guess the president was hoping he was reaching an audience that hasn't been following the immigration issue.

Would convince them that illegal immigration is a problem?

Well, it's enough of a crisis that there needs to be additional funding for physical barriers.

I don't understand why you get to start with, we have somewhere between 12 and 20 million illegals in this country.

Nobody knows because it's hard to count people that are here illegally.

No country does that. That's not the way you operate a country.

We got to get hold of this part of its physical barriers.

A lot of it's this other stuff that he mentioned. Let's all get together and do it.

We got to secure the border so that 20 years from now, a president isn't talking about the 30 million illegals that we have.

We can discuss all the docks and stuff and everything like that later, but we have to secure our borders because that's what every country does on earth and always has.

That's what a country is actually is its borders. Let's just jump to that.

I don't know if I need the particulars.

Being a sovereign nation seems like a pretty good argument.

Yeah, I agree. I didn't love the speech. I didn't love the way it was written.

I just thought it spent too much time listing crimes and statistics and that sort of thing,

which just gives fodder to the other side to dispute the validity or significance of those statistics

and enables a giant smoke screen that obscures the core issues, or what you're talking about.

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