PEMBROKE PARK, Fla. – One of the biggest national stories during the first week of 2024 hits home in South Florida. The decades-old unsolved border and immigration crisis that blew up again.
As numbers of crossings surge again, and as election year campaigning ramps up, demands for border security could stall emergency funding for Ukraine and Israel.
A house committee prepares to impeach the Homeland Security secretary for breach of duty, and the latest lawmaker visit to the border included 64 house republicans and the speaker, demanding the kind of strict, hardline policies and mass deportations that democrats call anti-immigrant and the president promised to veto.
In the middle of all of this, a detailed, bi-partisan bill that addresses border security and a plan for those undocumented living, working and paying taxes here for years.
The Dignity Act is filed, for the second time, by Congresswoman Maria Salazar, a Republican from Miami, and a Democrat co-sponsor from El Paso, Texas.
Rep. Salazar joined This Week in South Florida host Glenna Milberg to discuss, and their conversation can be seen at the top of this page.