it s a 2,000-mile border. there are border patrol agents out there but not a border fence like this one. but president trump has said he does not want a border fence. he wants a border wall and mexico to pay for it. that s that constant refrain we heard throughout his campaign at his rallies. his supporters saying build a wall. build a wall. but here, residents don t think this type of wall will be effective and they are worried about the costs. this particular stretch every mile is about $6.5 million. a wall would be considerably more expensive. obviously, donald trump says mexico should pay for that wall. mexico says they are not paying for that wall. and, oh, we have talked to immigrants in this area. they say they re not paying for this wall either but they are happy to be paid to work on this wall because they don t think it s going to stop immigration. hallie, back to you. gadi schwartz there in nogales, arizona, thank you. i want to bring in the executive director of the nat
of homeland security to unveil these new executive actions on immigration. including one that gets the ball rolling on his signature pledge, right, that pledge to build the wall. build the wall with mexico. well, we re live on the border with mexico in the town of nogales, arizona, with gadi schwartz. we saw you in the live tease just before the break. there s a fence up where you are. how effective has that been? this is one of those border fences. we just spoke to a man on this side of the fence. it s not particularly effective. somebody can get over this fence in about 15 seconds and he also said when we asked him about this wall, the same principle applies when it comes to a wall and a fence. people that want to come over here will continue to go under it or over it. we know what a border fence looks like. this is just part of a 700 miles of a border fence between the united states and mexico. the rest of the border is unprotected.
news. donald trump is asking for a major investigation into allegations of voter fraud. and depending on the results he ll call for strnengthening u voting procedures. this after sean spicer tried to back up his boss claim that millions of people voted illegally in november costing him the popular vote. also directing federal resources toward building that wall along the u.s./mexico border. this is the first in a whole series of things expected this week to crack down on immigration. hundreds of demonstrators from seattle to washington, d.c., staging rallies against his other executive orders to advance a couple of controversial pipelines. the keystone and dakota access pipelines would hurt the environment. backers say it would create thousands of jobs and cut energy costs. in a little more than a week, a week from tomorrow, president trump will make one of the most consequential decisions
that s something senior administration officials continue to insist. but as recently as january 11th, hallie, the president of mexico, enrique pena nieto was quoted as saying, mexico, of course, will not pay. and president trump will be meet with the president of mexico in the coming weeks. it sets the stage for that bilateral meeting. we also expect him to sign another executive action that s going to prioritize the, quote, removal of criminal aliens. and also in the works, steps to take put into action those extreme vetting measures he talked about which would potentially call for preventing refugees from majority muslim countries like syria, like yemen, like iraq and iran. immigration will be the focus. highly controversial measures here, hallie. but this is yet another moment where we see president trump saying, i am putting my campaign promises into action. hallie? kristen, one more quick question from you on these
smart law enforcement is actually they have immigration reform that requires people to attain legal status, pass a criminal background check and pay taxes. another thing in the works is a plan to follow through on his pledge for extreme vetting. in other words, something that in the language that s still being crafted would temporarily ban people coming in from certain muslim majority countries based not on religious purposes or religious background but history of terror in some of these nations. your take. this is a back door plan to get to a ban on muslim immigration. you think this is just sheep by a different name? yes. whin you look at our refugee resettlement policy and security vetting that goes on already, an individual before they set foot in the united states of america, they are going through two years of security checks and they re residing in really difficult refugee camps. there s nobody leaving syria today and coming to the united states tomorrow. they are fleein