But where is the appetite to actually do something to resolve it? Well, I got three Democrats to join me in a letter supporting a pilot program I'm calling Operation Safe Return. It is meant to rapidly and more accurately determine those individuals that clearly don't have even a credible fear claim and safely return them home to safe zones within Central America. They exist. And so we need to supply a consequence. We have to start removing people to communicate first to the human traffickers that on a bipartisan basis, we're not going to allow you to exploit our broken system. (02:20–02:32)
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