Immigration security

Adviser To Trump Transition Team Considers Immigration As National Security Priority

SIMON: So is the pledge to build a wall important to get to because he made a promise, and it was an important part of his campaign? Or do you really see it as an important national security issue?

HOEKSTRA: Oh, no. I think it's both. It's a commitment that the president-elect made. But it's also a national security issue. You know, the work that I do in the private sector today indicates that not only do we have people coming across the southern border who are looking for opportunity, who are looking for jobs to make their lives better.

But it also has become an access point for terrorist groups to enter into the United States. We all know that they want to attack the homeland. And that may be the easiest way for outside individuals to come into the United States across that border.