harris: we are going to go to the tensions at our southern border with mexico, now. mexican officials say they are deporting some 100 migrants who rushed the border on sunday at the san isidro crossing into san diego. tijuana s major is calling this mayor, rather, is calling the situation a humanitarian crisis. meanwhile, president trump at a rally in mississippi for cindy hyde-smith touted the need for better border security. watch. when you have open borders can be of crime. when he of century cities, you have crime. republicans are committed to defending the sovereign territory of the united states of america. harris: meanwhile, homeland security secretary kirstjen nielsen is defending the response to the migrants at isidro. in her statement, issued last night, she also said we have confirmed that there are over 600 convicted criminals traveling with the caravan.
ignored. criminals could want to use this caravan. i will also note, under the obama administration, at least once a month, gas was used as aborted by border patrol. 26 times in 2012, 26 times in 2013. 29 times in 2017. pepper spray 100 times in 2012. this is what is used when you don t have deadly force. it s actually not horrifying. it s humane. harris: as a veteran, you have seen this probably of clos close. it s called rules of engagement. he won t shoot a people, but you prevent massive mobs of people from overwhelming your position. if you don t have a wall, you have to do things like that. harris: i talked to the president of the border patrol council yesterday, and he gave me hard numbers about where people are. in tijuana, you have between 4,006,000. try to absorb that level at a city that size. kennedy: have you been to tijuana? harris: i have, many times. kennedy: that s first time a lot of americans actually see real poverty.
this includes individuals known to law enforcement for assault, battery, drug crimes, burglary, rape, child abuse, and more. they are reporting of the white house is likely to extend the diploma and if u.s. troops on our southern border, beyond the original mid-december and date. we are looking at december 15th, that was leadership was saying. mattis says this is the real deal unnecessary. pete: i don t think they considered a science. they don t have the wall, they ll have the actual policy situations institutions required. the demagoguery has hot and fast and anything that happens at the border jenkins, in tijuana, has been with the caravan for a couple of weeks. one of the guys he interviewed on fox in france, they didn t prescreen the spigot is just put a microphone. he admitted to being convicted of attempted murder. deported, now trying to come back. he wants to clear his name. good for him, he s probably a perfectly nice individual. but if you are who know spray than ev
push back central american immigrants who said they wanted to seek asylum, a group including women and children. they rushed the border at one of the busiest crossings at tijuana and san diego. that port of entry is reopened after being shut down for hours yesterday and more than three dozen people were arrested. what happens now? let s go to cnn s miguel marquez in tijuana for us. what s the situation there this morning? at the moment, it is calm and business as normal. this is an entry to a foot bridge, pedestrian walkway to the u.s. from tijuana, shut down after several hundred protesters, migrants rushed the border, overwhelming this area and moved beyond it. the customs and border patrol saying there were older bits of
needs to be determined but as it is right now, they re clearly putting up hindrances to using the official border crossings because they know they won t be able to get their asylum claims in that way. hans nichols in tijuana, m s mexico, thank you. we have new information reacting to the reporting, mexico s incoming secretary of the interior says quote, there is no agreement of any kind between the future federal government of mexico and the united states of america. the minister olga sanchez continues quote the future government does not consider in its plans that mexico assumes the status of a safe third country for central american migrants. now, we should note there has been no official word from mexico s incoming president about this deal. for more on this, though, i do want to bring in former republican strategist and editor of the house united site on the maven, sherry, raul reyes and also back with us, ann o brien