Catherine Cortez Masto

It's the logical conclusion that you see happening.

This administration is using this police force to do its bidding.

Listen, I never thought that I would see the day where immigration agents that I worked with in the past at a federal level would be engaging in the brutality that they're doing now.

How do you respond to that?

Well, I think traditionally I have seen that.

Democrats are weak on immigration.

Under the last administration, we have seen that.

Yeah.

Well, absolutely, because this has been my challenge.

I know as somebody who has worked in this space, we can do both.

We can secure our borders.

We can address the human trafficking, the drug trafficking, weapons trafficking that's happening at the border.

I know because as attorney general, I worked on it.

I'm not a border state, but I'm close enough that I worked with the Mexican AGs on these very issues.

We can work to secure it, fund it.

And at the same time, have an immigration process that treats people with respect who want to come to this country, who have been playing by the rules, who have actually contributed to our communities and paying taxes and raising their families.

We can do both.

But I have seen Democrats shy away from that.

They don't talk about the balance between the two.

And I watch as the last administration under Biden was too afraid to talk about securing the border.