reporter: last night commissioner staples actually launched a website, so frustrated and scared farmers can share their stories. he hopes lawmakers in washington actually log on. if you d like to see that link there s a link on our website. megyn: kris, thank you. let s bring in juan hernandez, secretary for migrant affairs and former adviser to president vicente fox, also mark kerkorian, center for immigration studies. gentlemen, thank you very much for being here. mark, let me start with you. as you hear kris gutierrez s report about what s happening on the border on the united states side and we hear about more and more of our agents who are working south of the border coming under fire or being attacked and then in the case of agent zapata, killed, as he was unarmed, the question has to be asked whether we need to be focused more on that, on protecting our own citizens, than they do on funneling money and other assistance down to help mexico within
violence is pushing north, megyn. again, these are all very stark examples of what s been happening in the past year, south and north of the border. megyn: wow. trace, thank you. the drug wars claiming several american victims. the most recent, i.c.e. agent jaime zapata. the texas native joined the agency in 06. he serves on the human smuggling and drug unit as well as the border task force. he was recently assigned to the u.s. embassy in mexico city. zapata graduated from the university of texas-brownsville and began as a member of the border patrol in yuma, arizona. he s one of a growing list of americans killed in the drug wars. it later came out that agent zapata was unarmed as he was gunned down by those thugs south of the border. that is also one of the issues expected to be discussed between our president and the
our law enforcement should be armed. these two agents were sitting ducks, and sitting targets in what was an intentional ambush. well, president obama telephoned the mexican president, felipe calderon yesterday, we know, thanking him for the capture of one suspect so far. the fbi is working with mexican authorities to find the other killers. there are several of them. calderon, by the way, will be visiting the white house next week. surely the subject will come up. some 35,000 people have died in the drug war since calderon took office. we have these ice agents there in mexico and megyn, they are utterly defenseless for now. megyn: you got to wonder how their family members feel, knowing that, in the wake of situations like we saw with agent zapata. gregg, thanks. sure. megyn: some of the millions of americans who live within their means every month might be interested in a proposed deal to bail out homeowners who got in over
we re getting reports right now that the mexican army has detained a suspect in connection with the murder of u.s. immigration and customs enforcement agent jaime zapata. zapata was killed while working in mexico. another agent he was with is recovering from his injuries. the department of homeland security has called for the full resources of the mexican government to go after agent zapata s killers. and it looks like now there is a suspect in custody down in mexico. we ll follow that as we get more details. new controversy over a book that describes sex in detail. what is it, how it s done, complete with illustrations. the problem is, it s a book for children and it can be found on the shelves of your public library. it looks innocent enough. reporter: when rose opened the children s book from the carrollton library.
fifty-two thousand. yow! martha: that s a big number, right? it s bound to drive high ner the next couple of hours. we want to know what you think about it. it s being called a big game changer, that from a texas lawmaker, pushing for a forceful response to what we now know is the ambush in mexico of two immigration and customs enforcement agents. agent zapata, killed in that attack. we ll have the latest on this troubling investigation. bill: a texas beauty queen trying to keep her title after pageant organizers said she had gained too much weight. today a judge will decide whether or not she can keep her crown. plus i just said it, and i am still standing here! i did not vaporize into the carpeting! martha: no, he did not. new jersey governor chris christie, playing hard ball, talking about the need to raise the retirement age and to raise social security in terms of how to save that