thank you, sir, really appreciate you joining us. let s get right into this discussion. it s a crisis. we want to drill down on some of the numberses fr s from the humanitarian crisis from the cbd. okay? they say, you can see on your screen now, total apprehensions went up from a low point in april of 2017 to over 144,000 i increase in two years. why are we seeing this incredible surge? don, it s a couple things going on here, first of all, we have conditions ripe for mass migration in central america. economic instability, failure of the government to be able to protect their people. high, incredible rates of violence. dire conditions are pushing people north. they re encouraged along the way by smuggling organizations who have lost a lot of business as mexican migration fell off so they started turning their attention to central america. then when they get to the united states what you do have is an asylum system that is just overwhelmed. we ve never resourced it
let s get right into this discussion. it s a crisis. we want to drill down on some of the numbers from the humanitarian crisis from the cbd. okay? they say, you can see on your screen now, total apprehensions went up from a low point in april of 2017 to over 144,000 in may of 2019. that s an almost tenfold april of 2017 to over 144,000 in may of 2019. that s an almost tenfold increase in two years. why are we seeing this incredible surge? don, it s a couple things going on here, first of all, we have conditions ripe for mass migration in central america. economic instability, failure of the government to be able to protect their people. high, incredible rates of violence. dire conditions are pushing people north. they re encouraged along the way by smuggling organizations who have lost a lot of business as mexican migration fell off so they started turning their attention to central america. then when they get to the united states what you do have is an asylum system that is just ove
mexico is issuing humanitarian visas allowing migrants to stay in mexico or transit to the u.s. without question. i think it s very good. you see a cop and mexican migration officials. this is a great benefit they re giving us. mexico s migration institute said that central american s entering mexico surged. 80% from hond hond, 10% minors. most say they ll come to the united states. as for the u.s. border i spoke to agents in texas, arizona and california. they told me the situation is getting worse and spreading. most central americans used to primarily go to south texas they re showing up in greater numbers in yuma and other places. on monday agents apprehended 150 central americans that scaled the wall with a ladder. migrants jumping over a vehicle
people. i spoke to a mexican migration official who told me they want these people to be processed correctly. they want them to seek asylum here in mexico, that would give them around 45 days to move freely about the country and then decide whether or not they want to make it north to united states. but just keep in mind, as we re watching these images, a lot of women and children, even little babies, being held in their arms, they re still 2500 miles between here and tijuana, which is where the prior migrant caravan made it back in april/may, when we covered it. so the journey is just beginning for many of the folks here. alex? mariana, i remember you with some heartwrenching stories with that caravan this spring and i m sure there are many stories that are mirroring that which you reported before. so a difficult time. we thank you very much for keeping on top of it for us. we re going to talk new today about the major shift in tone from the president on the death of journalist ja
coming from central america and not mexico, particularly honduras, el salvador and guatemala, and they re fleeing violence and that s one of the reasons that this deterrent may not work, if you re looking down the barrel of a gun in your home community, whatever your chances are to get to a free country, you re going to take it in order to save your family s life. so if that really is what we re talking about here and this is different from, very different from the waves of illegal immigrants coming across the border 15, 20 years ago, mostly from mexico, simply looking for jobs. mexican migration has diminished enormously. if it is if you believe it should be treated more as a refugee crisis. for instance, how we handled the cubans in the 50s and the 60s and vietnamese in the 70s. how has the approximately see changed does the government intervention, should it be different if it s a refugee crisis? well, yeah, because if you re