From the National Press club, this is about an hour. Good afternoon, and thank you all for being here to todays newsmaker interview. Our guest is mark morgan, who is the acting commissioner of protection,border one of the dhs agencies, the Largest Law Enforcement Agency in the country, and brings in the second highest amount of revenue of any Law Enforcement agency, and i would venture to say, probably more popular than the agency that brings in the most, which is the irs. Thank you for being here. Mark of course. Jessica the acting commissioner has had a long and distinguished career in Law Enforcement, including, he was named to his present post in june of this year. And prior to taking the job of acting commissioner, hes been chief of Border Patrol. Charge ofthe agent in the office in el paso, so plenty of border experience and has plenty of roles in crime,terrorism, violent gang suppression, and a lot of things that relate directly to his job today. And he has been a Deputy Sheriff
Good afternoon, thank you all for being here for todays newsmaker interview. Today our guest is mark morgan, acting commissioner of customs and Border Protection, one of the d. H. S. Agencies. Its the Largest Law Enforcement Agency in the country and brings amount of nd highest revenue of any agency, probably more popular than the agency that brings in the most which is the i. R. S. The acting commissioner has had a long and distinguished career in Law Enforcement, including, he was named to his present post in june of this year. And prior to taking the job of acting commissioner, hes been hief of Border Patrol. Hes been the agent in charge of el paso, a big role. Hes had roles in counterterrorism, vinyl crime, gang suppression, a lot of things that relate directly to his job today. And hes been a Deputy Sheriff and a Los Angeles Police officer. Not only that, he has an engineering degree and a law degree. So its my great pleasure to welcome acting commissioner mark morgan. Thank you f
Update on what is happening at the southwest border . Sure, when we talk about the border we have to put it into two pockets. One is the crisis regarding immigration and the other is the massive security crisis. The drive or focus in the last year plus has been the migration flow from the northern tribal countries specifically the families. The reason that has been the focus is because of our broken Legal Framework. Agreement thate if you come to the country with a child, we can hold you for 20 days. That was the genesis of catch and release. We would apprehend families entering illegally and release them into the u. S. Often within days. We had to fix that. The last six months, this , we have and cbp instituted a network of initiatives and policies and rules and regulations that have given us the tools to close the loopholes. Had 140ht of may, we 4000 apprehensions in may alone. 42,000ths later, apprehensions. Jessica how do you know that is not just seasonal . In october seasonally t
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Iraqi forces dressed as civilians being held in trucks and then led by men with guns to their death. They claim they are fighting back. The ministry of defense released this video showing air strikes against isis in mosul. Thousands of volunteer fighters have responded to calls to protect their country and iraq claims it is taking key territory, even with reports that isis is moving closer to baghdad. Were covering this story in iraq and from the u. S. , of course, Nic Robertson is live for us and athena jones is in washington. Nic is joining us by phone right now. What do you know about the latest moves by isis . Reporter well, the latest were hearing is that they are attacking a ton just mosul and they are attacking an Iraqi Army Security base. Seven People Killed so far, 33 wounded in that attack. Isis still on the advance. They took the town of baquba late saturday after the army flew from there, taking their weapons with them. Baquba is so important because its only a 45minute dri