Dick Durbin, a Democrat, is the senior United States senator from Illinois. He serves on the Senate Judiciary Committee and the Subcommittee on Border Security and Immigration.
Durbin’s candid, full interview was conducted with FRONTLINE during the making of the October 2019 documentary “Zero Tolerance.â€
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This interview was conducted with FRONTLINE during the making of our documentary “Zero Tolerance.†Watch the full film, here: https://youtu.be/eW4kQ4akZ1A
Alito’s flag is flying correctly because of you and your ilk.
Дик Дурбин Ñто не Ñенатор, а роботов.
What a pile of BS.
Dick Durbin what a joke!
ARREST DURBIN! 👇👇
Dick durbin support monitoring poeple bank account with 600 bucks or more taxying middle class families n not billionairs with offshore account
Where is the brave and bold Durbin on Afghan's catastrophe? Where is Durbin on this failure? Nowhere, because Durbin is a failure.
Building border walls is a testimony of the ignorance of man
Man this guy really thinks highly of himself everybody else is a joke except him
Yeah President Obama was persuasive to Trump and that’s why Trump made a good decision. This guys a joke President Trump makes more good decisions than you even think about.
The time he joked that Abe Lincoln must have been Jewish, because "his name was Abraham and he was shot in the temple." The old gag apparently got laughs when the late, Jewish federal Judge Abraham Lincoln Marowitz told it, but it didn't go down as well when Durbin repeated it at the dedication of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield in 2005. "Let me just remind people that Lincoln had a sense of humor too," Durbin protested, though he added, "We live in a little different age now, and I'll think about it in the future, but I absolutely meant no disrespect to Judge Marovitz or Abraham Lincoln."
It’s amazing this President had a majority in the House and the Senate during his first two years. And they failed to get the wall created, developed, and funded. They FAILED!!! Period.
Mr. Durbin lives a very comfortable taxpayer funded life. Come to Southern California and see what we deal with.
Caravans are paid by leftists. They have too much logistical support.
no its true, more immigrants especially illegals drive down wages
Thanks Mr. Durbin for all you've done. Long live Illinois!
That's "illegal" immigrants… Build the wall. Make a statement by removing "illegal" immigrants. These so called democrats want to destroy America.
He is id*ot. Stop meddling in philippine and other countries.. usa is the world most human rights violations..
Can I re-cap your words Mr. Senator……"U.S. Military are the equivalent of Pol Pot and Nazis" and dreamers are heros (including the gang-bangers). Did I get that right?! The hypocrisy of this lifetime Senate Tool knows NO depths! Mr. Durbin, do you fear for your immortal soul, or have you sold it long ago?
Durbin, your living proof why I believe in abortion.
You said shit hole
Profanity? You lost all credibility when you said that you doubted than any other president has used profanity !! Clinton shoved a cigar in Monica’s while getting head ! Kennedy was high on meth with Dr feel good and girls in the pool while working at the casa and drinks in the afternoon !! Did you listen to the Nixon tapes ? Lindon B ever other word was a curse word . GW rich slave owner . Ben Franklin , TJ , andrew Jackson a real pig . John Hancock was a dealer in today’s law . John Kennedy father bootleggers and became ambassador to Great Britain. Please , he that is without sin cast the stone . You are full of it .
What a lying pos partisan hack
Nationalist Republicans suuuuuuuuuckkk
This guy is so fake. I remember him from the Justice Kavanaugh hearings. Old rat!
damn it, build that wall mr. president.
Daca was the cause of the wave of children that migrants brought to use as legal shields.
All you needed to do was put in some wall funding and/or enforcement to package it with.
American jobs, oh wait jobs in America going to foreigners at a lower pay scale to feed the corporate cronyism of big tech and Washington. The only losers are American workers ðŸ‘
Classic politician……
Um , parts of the wall is being built by volunteers. This guy is such a tool.
Just got done listening to Steve Bannon, wanted to hear from the other side. Mr. Durbin is not fully honest here. Caravan a phoney. HAHA HAHA. Now you can see that it was a reality.
Another attempt, this time by DD, to demonize Stephen Miller and Pres. Trump, all the while engaging in false virtue signaling, trying to present themselves as humanitarians. What's DD's and other Dems' motivation? They want to protect cheap wages for the wealthy patrons of the Democratic party, companies like Apple and the like. The Democratic party used to be the party of the working person, but no more.  I wish DD would give some statistics that prove his claim that immigration doesn't threaten American jobs. In the meantime, Trump is trying to bring jobs back to the US. Then DD plays high and mighty and complains about some foul language he heard during a meeting at the White House and acts as if he was deeply shocked. DD is a good actor, but not fooling anybody, him or other self-righteous Dems, such as AOC when she went to the sourthern border and lied and said that illegal aliens had to drink out of toilets. Then DD claims that caravans of thousands of people trying to enter the US illegally are in Trump's imagination. Dems are just trying to sabotage the government for political reasons alone. DD calls Miller and Trump shameful, but in the meantime, shamelessly is willing to exploit the use of children being used by coyotes and others to gain dishonest entry into the country. And the policy of separating children was an Obama policy which Pres. Obama used. And also DD ignores the issue of immigrant women being raped on the journey here. Trump tried to negotiate on DACA, but Dems would not work with him because they actually want the country to fail because they lost the 2016 election.
Sorry, Trump wasnt wrong there. The west cant sustain on people from countries that cant do any thing, or haven't done anything for thousands of years. We should only be bringing over Europeans. Its in our blood. We dont need endless economic growth. The oligarchs sold us out to globalism. Sorry brown people, go back to your countries there and make them better. You wont replace us.
Support Durbin!! Thank you for protecting American IT workers! H1B abusers are asking about why it take them 100 years to enter American. Because they destroyed US work visa system!! They put interest of ICCs and cheap labor from India prior to American interest. Do they want to conquer American by giving green light ONLY to one country and overture American value of equality and diversity? Talents from all over the world have equal chance to enter US. S386 only benefit ICCs and India applicants. It deeply hurt Equality,diversity and immigrant system which are root of American Values. No discrimination to Indian fellows. If you want to become an American, receive American education, learn and protect American value. Then call yourself immigrants. Otherwise, harming American society to get what you want which is called COLONIZER!!
thanks Senator for bring the bill S.386 and HR.1044 to public hearing!
thank you for blocking S386! American first!
Hmm interesting, if S386 is that good, why supporters try to avoid all kinds of public hearing or public debate?
Sen. Durbin, thank you for standing up firmly against S386, and protecting the jobs of Americans and honest immigrants from H-1B abusers!
Still, Doesn't explain why he has blocked HR 1044 S386
Senator Durbin is a hypocrite who doesn’t really want to solve the immigration problem in the country. He is the only senator blocking the bipartisan S386 bill.
He needs to give a clean answer on why he is holding up S386 and HR 1044