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🗓️ 21 March 2021

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Chuck talks about his interview with DHS Sec. Mayorkas and Carrie Dann looks into the numbers of all 3,143 counties in the United States.

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0:00.0	Hello there, I'm Jack Tata.
0:04.2	We are still sitting on the set of Meet the Press, where we just finished our broadcast.
0:07.6	Today we had pretty full show.
0:10.3	We had interviews with the H.S. Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, exclusive interviews with
0:13.5	George Senator Rafael Warnault, a Democrat in outgoing Missouri Senator Republican Roy
0:19.9	Blunt.
0:20.9	So, look, here are my takeaways.
0:23.5	With Secretary Mayorkas, it is, there was just a lot of, let's be frank, a lot of deflection.
0:29.6	He acknowledges the policies unsustainable, but he also acknowledges that it is not going
0:36.8	to change.
0:38.3	He says they have multiple prongs to the strategy here, short term, medium term, and long term
0:44.7	solution.
0:46.1	The biggest thing being trying to rebuild the, what is the Central American Migrates
0:50.9	Program, which if it works, the way it's intended to do, would have the asylum process
0:58.4	take place in these countries.
1:00.4	Perhaps there would be a cap on the number of asylum seekers that we would accept in a
1:05.2	given year, but something like that.
1:07.6	The question, though, is going to be, can they incentivize folks to use that program?
1:13.6	If it is still, if there is still a way to get in, if you're under the age of 18 in this
1:18.4	country at the border, and that is the uncomfortable problem that the administration is facing.
1:27.2	They want to be humane.
1:29.1	They don't believe you turn away anybody under the age of 18 that's on their own.
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