crossing illegally in the first six months of this fiscal year than the entirety of fy-17. and at the current pace we are on track to encounter close to 1 million illegal aliens at our southern border this year. our capacity is already severely restrained but these increase also overwhelm the system entirely. this is not a manufactured crisis, this is truly an emergency. very unfortunately, because of the increase in violence at ice, when we have families with children, we have to give every girl a pregnancy test over 10. this is not a safe journey. ainsley: that is so sad. girls 10 years old and up have to have a pregnancy test. steve: every one. unbelievable. ainsley: what is happening with these kids on this journey. what is happening to these women on this journey. brian: thereson attraction. show up with a magnet and make it halder tore get across. word will get out. expand what we are doing for humanitarian purposes in
encountering nearly 75,000 aliens. this is an 80% increase over the same time last year i can report today cdc is the problem will get worse this spring as the weather heats up. more migrants crossing illegally in the first six months of this fiscal year than the entirety of fy 17. and at the current pace we are on track to encounter close to 1 million illegal aliens at our southern border this year. our capacity is already severely restrained but these increases will overwhelm the system entirely. this is not a manufactured crisis. this is truly an emergency. what s different about the current migrant flows and this is important, is not just how many people are coming, but who is arriving. historically illegal aliens crossing into the united states were predominantly single adult males from
does that hurt the credibility in the white house were we don get these basic facts right and someone s not doing their homework in the way they describe it. this presentation put together by the department of homeland security, secretary nielsen haspl not briefed the principles that were in the meetings over the weekend. today, i sat there issue briefe about and then she also did it with some other journalist. i think this is important because on page three and i believe it s on the website as well, this is the 3755 number does not refer to people at the southern border. fy 17. i believe that includes and som international airports. overwhelmingly at the airpor for the other two statistics whirl about the southern border sord that the apprehensions of border of gang members, of know criminals, these are all again
and reaching over to climb down. that s the best stuff in the inventory right now. previously this year, last year, we completed a prototype project in san diego and learned a number of things from that process that will go int the futureestments that we want to make in wall to eventually deliver on the president s progress of control of the border. neil: the latest news, commissioner, the president was allocated $1.6 billion to get cracking on some aspects of the wall. is this what they re talking about or is that the shore up elements of the existing wall in some locals? what w ng, the construction projects on the way in colexico and santa fe, they were started on may 31 in san diego. that was funding that the president arranged for in fy-17. so we re going to use the
there is a national and economic safety issue by having a wall that ensures our country s safety and there s plenty of playing that can be done and in fy-17, and we ll continue to ask for more in fy-18. you ll notice that in neither president trump s comments nor in the press briefing is there someplace mentioned south of the border called mexico, which means you and me and all of us are going to be paying for the wall. we are going to build a great border wall. we will build a great, great wall. we re going to build a wall, don t worry about it. we will build the wall 100%. i promise, we will build the wall.