everything i could, the democrats don t care about keeping the border safe and i m doing everything i can but they re stopping me. so for people who care about that issue as a top issue, i think that they re going to be inclined to believe that. but the problem is, is that his solution and his assistance fixing the wrong problem, joe. i mean, so there s going to be this there s a national emergency declaration and he s going to veto the attempts to block it and so it s probably going to happen. but the 41,000 family apprehensions that have just happened in the past month, this spike at the border, they weren t coming across the rio grand valley, they were presenting at legal points offent. so he s solving the wrong kries skblis yeah. i mean, pick up on what kirsten just said. he s not campaigning on the real issues on any of these things. he didn t campaign on the trade deficit. he campaigned on china screwing us and, you know, they re taking your jobs, china, because they re bad p
colleagues this is a national emergency. i gave the statistics. drugs, cartels, gangs, human trafficking, murder, rapes assaults. that s only a tiny percentage, but the numbers are real for americans. that s a crisis. well, what did we learn today? we had the border patrol commissioner and dhs secretary neilsen testify that family apprehensions have gone up 335%. unaccompanied minor apprehensions have gone up 55% compared to last year. if you re a family from central america and you can make it to the united states, you will never be deported. you can be only held for 20 days. we release you within the country. 2% of the unaccompanied minors who make it to america go back to their home country. our laws are broken and we need a barrier. a man dealing in sex trafficking, a law enforcement official, and he said that most children brought into america come across the open area of the border because the smugglers are
emergency.rg i gave the stats. drugs, cartels, rains, assaults, that s the tiny percentage. the numbers are real for americans. that s a crisis. well, what did we learn? we had the border control and dhs secretary nielsen testify that family apprehensions have gone up 335%. unaccompanied minors apprehensions have gone up 335% from last year. if you are from central america, and you can make it to the united states, you can never be deported. youor can be held for 20 days. 2% of the unaccompanied minors make it to america go back to the home country. the laws are broken. we need a barrier. the most stunning testimony was the man who has been dealing in sex asking a law enforcement official. he said that most children brought into america come across the open area of the border, because the smugglers are aparade to go through the points
because as you know there are these staggering new numbers that cbp has just put out. they say they re overwhelmed. i ll just put up the numbers for you. 76,000 border apprehensions in just february. that s the highest in any february in the last 12 years. 7,250 unaccompanied children, 40,000 plus family member. that is a 300% increase in family apprehensions. and basically, you know what they say is they are overwhelmed. they can t accommodate all these people, so they do have to release them into the country after 20 days, i think is the law, if there s children involved. and they give them a court date but it might be months or years away and they don t show back up. i mean, do you understand why cbp says something is terribly wrong and they re overwhelmed? first of all, there were greater numbers of people coming across our borders before, but it s in the context, sure. the fact that we have exacerbated the situation by separating children at the border, some of whom still can t
fence with barbed wire on top the mexican officials don t want them out on the streets. they don t want to go home either. the situation here across the border from eagle pass, texas is one where there is a river, not much wall, not much fence of any kind in this sector. and the concern is that they will come out of this structure, go down to the river. find a shallow point and cross that sector over there, the del rio sector the u.s. border up 300 percent and family apprehensions. we talked to the governor. governor miguel, the governor of the state ha bused them on almost 50 buses to come here yesterday. assistance and support. i asked him i said what are you doing to try and prevent these immigrants from crossing illegally into the u.s.? here s what he had to say. [speaking spanish] we are seeing institute