Tulsi Gabbard

I have a friend who, I don't know how long he's been in the army.

He's a Green Beret warrant officer, I think 32, 33 years of service.

He is retiring.

His wife's family or her sister lives in Italy, I believe.

married, kids, kids in school, they have a home, jobs, et cetera, an established life.

They applied for tourist visas to come and attend his retirement ceremony and were denied.

They wanted to come for two weeks to the United States to attend this significant life event of their loved one, and they were denied.

oh, well, you know, we don't have proof of like, you know, whatever.

I don't even know what the reason was.

But there are so many different examples of how broken our legal immigration system is.

There have been a few serious efforts over the years toward actually solving it.

Ultimately, they have, I think the hyper-partisanship often has been what tanked it, where

In order to pass legislation like that, you're going to have to have a give and take from both parties who have very different views on what that solution should look like.

by its nature, you're going to end up with probably like a 70% solution.

And ultimately, there was famously, and I forget what year it was, I think it was in the late 2000s, there was the gang of eight senators, four Republicans and four Democrats.

They came very close to passing reforms, but ultimately it failed.

Some will point to a recent effort that was underway under the Senate to secure our border.

It was bipartisan.

The mainstream media and Democrats blame Donald Trump for that legislation failing.

But that, to me, was...