Miami mayor running for president dodges question about building a border wall

Miami Mayor Francis Suarez, a 2024 GOP presidential candidate, is refusing to answer whether he would resume building a wall on the southern border if elected to the White House. 

Fox News host Stuart Varney asked Suarez if he were elected president whether or not he would continue former President Donald Trump's border security policy by building a wall to keep illegal immigrants out. Trump made building a wall at the southern border a primary focus of his successful 2016 campaign.

"The border is an enormous issue," Suarez responded. "We have 80 to 90,000 Americans dying every single year from fentanyl that's coming through our border and is being pumped into our country from China."

He went on to say that millions of people have come into the country illegally since Joe Biden became the president. 

"Will you build a wall and put the ones who are here already- put them to work? Will you do those two things?" Varney asked again. 

"I will dedicate whatever resources that are necessary, also discussing it with the law enforcement partners on the ground to make sure that our border is secure," he answered. "Whatever that is, I will do it."

Suarez said that immigrants in the country who are already here cannot be teleported out, but there has to be a process to make sure they are not national security threats. He added that they should be given some legal status if they were not a threat and be put to work.