where the majority of the american people stand and i think the administration needs to do the right thing and address this issue immediately. one of the most striking images of course showing the chain-link fencing and we ve heard it described as a cage. is that mostly what is in the facility, these individual chain-link fence cages or whatever you want to call them? that is correct. it is 100% in the particular facility in the mcallen area, about a 75,000 square-feet warehouse with chain-link fenced rooms with a ceiling of chain link so it is a complete capsule of chain link. and then it is divided depending on gender and age and some kids are some have been taken from parents and we certainly can do better than what i see now. i was just in central america a few weeks ago and i saw bus loads of people who had been deported from mexico.
. i have some breaking news right now out of laguardia airport in new york city where a departing delta plane reported spoke in the cockpit. as you can see from this twitter photo, police are on the scene evaluating. it s not clear how many people were onboard the plane and no word on injuries but it is important to know the flight never got off the ground. we re also getting our first bit of information from officials on the breaking scenario we re watching in st. louis. moments ago we got this from the police chief. this morning when employees came to work in city hall they were alerted to the cylinder tank that you have probably seen on the clark street side of the building along with a along with a bag that was discarded not far by. a search of the area around city hall identified a second similar cylinder device on the west side. right now you re seeing the
juarez cartel has been losing strength in the area for years. one of mexico s biggest cities along the u.s. border tell me what happened there. another major drug lord was captured. he was the leader of the gulf cartel, hernandez fuentes, and his arrest led to hours of street fighting in reynosa. around 60 gunmen were members of this criminal group, seized and set fire to them to block streets. also shot some government buildings in an attempt to stop the authorities from taking hernandez fuentes to mexico city to be interrogated. fortunately, they didn t achieve their goal. hernandez fuentes is right now in mexico city but authorities are expecting this violence to continue in reynosa. this is what usually happens when a big lord is captured an internal battle begins to see
congressman, immigration cross that we ve seen you know into the united states last summer we remember the crisis of the unaccompanied minors crossing a lot of it happened precisely in the brownsville/mcallen area. right now we continue to wait for real immigration reform. what s the sense on the hill right now? well i think, jose it s important to remember when we talk in terms of border security, we can t just be talking about securing one side of the border. you know the fact of the matter is is that until we address issues of cartel violence and economic development on the other side of the border we re going to be continued to see these immigration pushes but to answer your question directly, there s not a whole lot of movement on immigration reform front in congress right now. meanwhile, you know, these border communities don t know maybe what s coming down the pike soon but they are dealing with it as best they can.
cross border culture where people would come across, go across to entertain themselves to work, but recently over the past five to ten years there s been a degradation in security in the corridor and, you know what we re trying to do is make sure that both governments work towards bringing peace and security to that region. you know when i think of the mcallen/reynosa situation, reminds me not so long ago between el paso being one of the safest cities in the country and juarez at the time very dangerous. things have changed, what type of challenges does this provide now in the brownsville and mcallen area? well i think we should learn from history. in 2010, mexican authorities with support from the united states government had a major law enforcement push in juarez and i think that s what we need to see in reynosa.