great expense two major caravans but a big one has now formed and is coming. at least 8,000 people. if we had a powerful wall they wouldn t even try to make the long and dangerous journey the president concluded with his go to tag line, build the wall and crime will fall. as the president continues to ham terrify need for a border wall, a new los angeles times report says two years after he billions of dollars to hire agents there s more vacancies than when he first began the customs and border protection allocated nearly $61 million to central services. it was to recruit and hire border officers over five years. but the company has produced only 33 new hires so far and the agency is nowhere close to hiring the number of agents
only a waste of money but one that won t work very well. these men and women patrol the border every day as border officers. we road with a sheriff border in texas who supports president trump 100% except when it comes to that wall. keith hughes is a border county sheriff in a remote county in texas where illegal immigration apprehensions have increased. reporter: how big of a problem do you think illegal immigration is? i think it s going to devastate our country one of these days if we don t do something about it, if it hasn t already. reporter: no county on america s southern border gave donald trump a bigger win than this county. this sheriff voted for him. i support him 100%. i think he s done a great job. but the president said professionals want and need a wall. do you want and need a wall in your county? no, sir, i do not.
generals, but he doesn t know more or nobody knows more than these unnamed border patrol officers who work very hard who we re talking about? right. they re not a name, first of all. brandon judd has been all over television telling us. a union official. what i m saying right. and his membership, by the way. but what i m saying is this. customs and border protection, which is the most hispanic agency in the federal government, which has been unfairly demonized constantly by the left, that group has told us this is the resource we need to secure the border. on top of that, it just makes common sense, i think, for anybody who looks i don t think they said this is the resource. in fact, they re understaffed right now. and so, i m sure there are plenty of border officers of course. it s not the resource. david gergen, we haven t heard from you. if the president does declare a national emergency and order a border wall built, which is where this seems to be headed, to get
there are just not that many people. they re finding every way possible, as you said, to create this chaos and try to create images. so let s create a counter factual. imagine an administration that didn t want that image. you could put border officers at san ysidro, a port of entry, process the people coming through. for sure. that s what u.s. law says we should do. for sure. and we re not doing that. some people will get asylum and some people won t. we re not arguing everyone has a right to come here, but they should have a process. there is no question we have the resources to have an orderly process as you just said. to be clear, the reason the images appear on the television, blanket, no, you can t do that. exactly. one of the things they re trying to say is look, we ve e we re being overrun, we haven t seen these numbers. i read the numbers to the judge
they re finding every way possible, as you said, to create this chaos and try to create images. so let s create a counter factual. imagine an administration that didn t want that image. you could put border officers at san ysidro, a port of entry, process the people coming through. for sure. that s what u.s. law says we should do. for sure. and we re not doing that. some people will get asylum and some people won t. we re not arguing everyone has a right to come here, but they should have a process. there is no question we have the resources to have an orderly process as you just said. to be clear, the reason the images appear on the television, the administration said, no, you can t do that. exactly. one of the things they re trying to say is look, we ve e we re being overrun, we haven t seen these numbers. i read the numbers to the judge