$14 billion for the border wall, is a pretty big deal, i think. this shows that donald trump is controlling the agenda on capitol hill right now. he has turned the republican party on this issue of immigration into his image. remember, paul ryan was someone who always supported the comprehensive immigration reform, that was a sort of bipartisan compromise, he was not someone who was big on building a wall. just for viewers to put that in perspective, 12 to $14 billion, immigrations and customs enforcement, their annual budget is like 6 to $7 billion. so that is an enormous amount of money to build that wall. so manu, is president trump controlling the agenda? are lawmakers, for lack of a better term, slaves to him at the moment? reporter: he is really driving the agenda, ryan is absolutely right. on a separate issue, on obamacare, initially republicans
manu raju reporting live from philadelphia. i want to take you to mexico city. donald trump tweeted out this morning that maybe mexico s president shouldn t meet with the president of the united states if mexico won t agree to that i pour that wall. leyla santiago, has that tweet made its way to the office of the president in mexico? reporter: it s absolutely made its way to the president s office. i checked with them minutes after the tweet went out, they re very much aware of that. now it s very much a wait and see, let s see how he responds. let s go over the sequence of events, what led up to this. a few days ago, the mexican senators called on the president, enrique pena nieto, put out a three-minute video saying, we don t believe in walls, we re not paying for the wall, but we believe in
reporter: on the border s edge from nogales, arizona, several dozen migrants gather for breakfast inside a shelter known as the border initiative. jesus garcia is trying to figure out how to get into the united states. over a map he recounts how far he s traveled since the left home the day before donald trump was elected president. he started here in san pedro, in honduras, made his away across guatemala, and this is where he crossed into mexico? he says he hasn t been able to cross, he left home november 7th of last year and has tried three times already to get across but hasn t been able to. garcia says it s the first time he s ever tried crossing the border illegally and says it s harder than he imagined.
country yesterday and said essentially we re not in favor of walls and we re certainly not going to pay for it. donald trump walk up this morning and shot back on twitter. this is what he wrote. the u.s. has a $60 billion trade deficit with mexico. it has been a one-sided deal from the beginning of nafta with massive numbers of jobs and companies lost. if mexico is unwilling to pay for the badly needed wall, then it would be better to cancel the upcoming meeting. the two were slated to meet next week. the mexican president is catching plenty of heat in his own country for agreeing to this meeting. we ll see if it still comes to fruition. as for donald trump, today we are expecting him to take some executive actions on trade. he s also going to be heading to philly for that gop retreat, carol. sara murray, thanks so much. i want to bring in cnn s senior political reporter manu raju in philadelphia. reporter: republicans actually broke some news here, the republican leadership sayi
he says, i ve made it this far, i m going to keep trying. on the other side, a legion of border patrol agents, cameras, barricades, ground sensors, are waiting. even some private citizens working on their own to stop migrants like jesus garcia from getting across. this is the scene in the matrix. reporter: in this man s world, the border crossing is a dangerous place. he leads a volunteer group called arizona border reconthat patrols the border around a town on the u.s./mexico border with less than a hundred people. i ve been called everything in the book. i ve been called a domestic extremist. reporter: the southern aborti poverty law center says foley s group is made up of native extremists. foley sees the border as the country s biggest threat. there is already 700 miles of