to a town 1100 miles from the border. is the president trying to bring immigration loopholes. or is this about ginning up republican voter enthusiasm by depicting the caravan as an immediate threat. as the president has done since the first day of his presidential campaign. they re bringing drugs, they re bringing crimes, they re rapists. her plan will import generations of terrorism, extremism and radicalism into your schools and throughout your communities. and the democrats open border policies have also allowed ms hich 13 to break into our country and drugs to pour into our streets. the murder rate in our country is the highest it s been in 47 years, right? did you know that? crime is rising. people are scared. by the way, the murder rate is not the highest it s been in
with all eyes on that caravan of migrants more than a thousand miles away from where we are in texas, the state border already overwhelmed. just yesterday more than 750 apprehensions of illegal aliens crossing. more than 800 pounds of marijuana confiscated. they say the combination of both manpower, technology, the cameras that keep watch b,20 a day and infrastructure, the combination that will stop this problem. you see behind me some wall but it is only 55 miles of the section that are covered. it is 277 miles of the border that is mostly the rio grande river. the sector chief year, manuel padilla, says when here s a present talk about the need to build a wall it is welcome news. actually to give our agents the tools, the personnel, technology and infrastructure. and then look for a way to close immigration loopholes that are really impacting the
is your reaction to that? we can do a lot of it. we can now have the agents working around the clock as you have seen. at the end of the day with the technology and immigration loopholes that he may hinder to our operations. leland, that the situation going on here and it s very fluid as they have eyes on the caravan about a thousand miles away. already seen their already overwhelmed. griff jenkins close to the border. thank you, griff. with more and what we can expect to see come in the policy director of the center for immigration studies. jessica, thank you for joining us today. glad to be with you. when you start with asking you a little bit about timing. given where the migrants are right now, where the caravan is right now, if they re able to make it to the u.s. border, how
as many as 4,000 i am told. another so-called migrant caravan making its way from honduras to the united states. president trump has had just about enough. we have the dumbest immigration laws in the world. the world laughs at us, but we are getting them changed. we need some more republicans. laura: i will say. for many years voters have been telling politicians, enforce the border and close immigration loopholes. in fact even on the issue of legal immigration, a lot of people don t know this, the country is not clamoring for big increases. check this out. only 28% of americans want immigration levels increased. 29% of americans want them decreased. of course most politicians continue to just ignore the wishes of the people, so what
now we have another mass of people, as many as 4,000, i m told, another so-called migrant caravan making its way from honduras to the united states. and president trump has had just about enough. we have the dumbest immigration laws in the world. the world laughs at us, but we are getting them changed. we need some more republicans. we need some votes. laura: i ll say. for many years voters have been telling politicians, enforce the border and close immigration loopholes. in fact, even on the issue of legalism graduation and a lot of people don t know this, the country is not clamoring for big increases. check this out. only 28% of americans want immigration levels increased. 29% of americans want them decreased. the plurality, as you see, want them to remain the same. of course most politicians continue to just ignore the wishes of the people, so what they do is continue to expand