my advice would have been, go to the border, own this issue. send a clear message to the parents in central america. please don't send your children here. we'll work with you not only to see that the children already here are treated compassionately, but we'll work with you on the violence back in your home country. you don't have to make this horrible choice by having your child killed by a gang in honduras or sending your child 45 days through the wilderness and being raped and assaulted and walking past dead children. what a horrible dhois for these children. >> the president tried in his comments there, he didn't emphasize it significantly but he said it and i think with great purpose that he's deported 400,000 in a year. that was a record. a democratic president setting a record for deportations, something that frustrated a lot of people on the left. i want to ask the congressman about that. but something for the president is a point of pride. he's tough on immigration. will that message go out here or is this crisis going to undermine all that? >> i think this crisis has