Force that they can respond to kids in crisis or who need help and i want to make sure that we put the well being and welfare of those kids before we put any other concerns. Rick william is live in los angeles with the latest on this. William . Rick, what im told by agents in the field yesterday and this morning is this system right now simply cannot handle the overwhelming number of Central American immigrants flooding the border especially families. 7,000 apprehended last november. 25,000 apprehended last month and because of that, the Border Patrol and ice are forced to shift migrants from place to place or drop them off at a bus station like this one in el paso. More than 400 released sunday and monday because, again, theres nowhere to put them. The case of this 8yearold felipe alonzogomez im told illustrates the problem. Heres the timeline. Agents apprehended this boy and his father near el paso last tuesday, december 18th. They were processed, given food and water. Two days later
Into the new year. With border wall funding the big sticking point. This is so ironic that the democrats, like schumer, who said we need Strong Border security, where durbin has said we need to find a bipartisan solution to Border Security. Yet they are not willing to budge, at least at this point in terms of providing funds for physical barriers in that area. Allison barber live at the white house with more on this. Reporter hi, molly. The white house is not backing away for their demand for some physical barrier on the southern border. Nick mulvaney say not only could this shutdown last into the new year, it could continue into the new congress. President trump said he wants something that looks like this at the border. He called it a steel flat barrier. Nick mulvaney said they know this is what twhaeupbt. Mr. Trump was supposed to be in florida but instead he is at the white house writing in one tweet, i am all alone, poor me, waiting for the democrats to come back and make a deal o
A nonstarter as well, right . No doubt. Listen, this is a stalemate that the president is content to ride out unless he gets funding for the border wall and Border Security, he simply just will let this thing play out and see how much pressure he can apply on the democrats. Lets go to twitter. The president is up and tweeting already in 2019. He said this. The democrats much as i suspected, have allocated no money for a new wall. So imaginetive. Without a wall there can be no Border Security. Our country must finally have a strong and secure southern border. Yesterday the president was in the oval Office Working to find a way for the white house and lawmakers to ind the impasse. White house officials was working the phones as well. The shutdown affects real americans, many of whom are beginning to feel the pinch of not being paid for the time being. Even though they will eventually get paid once the shutdown is over. That said the president is Standing Firm and he wants the American Pe
Thing . The ones that love trump, the ones that are really the trumpers like he meadows, jordan, gates, so many of them, i could name so many, theyre the ones that win. I mean, its like they dont even have an election. Its the one thats sort of theyre shy about embracing what were all about, they get clobbered. They get clobbered. Take a look. Those are the ones that get clouggetclobbered. Theyre all starting to find that out. Just this week Senate Democrats opposed legislation to prevent the killing of newborn infant children who survive abortion. Virtually every democrat voted against protecting these precious babies. Everyone. They vote inand we did have thae didnt like got out. They said they retired. They didnt retire. They were retired. [ cheering and applause ] they said these two senators have decided to he retire. No, no, no, they retired because they had like very little support, like how about 5 and 8 . No, we did great. We had 53. We picked up in the senate. They were going
People. And they want more people in their sanctuary cities. Well give them more people. We can give them an unlimited supply and lets see if theyre so happy. They say we have open arms, they always say we have open arms. Lets see if they have open arms. Arthel jeff paul is live in los angeles with reaction there. We begin with Allison Barber live from the white house. Reporter President Trump says this is an idea he is strongly considering even though the white house has been warned that it is likely illegal. Sources tell fox news, the white house previously asked the department of Homeland Security and i. C. E. , immigrations and customs enforcement, if it would be possible to bus large numbers of immigrants from the southern border to sanctuary cities. I. C. E. Told the white house that it would violate the laws guiding Immigration Enforcement authority and also run afoul of appropriation restrictions. The idea was reportedly bounded around and the white house decided against it unt