safe, how do you make sure we have 3,000 open positions right now for custom and border patrol. we need to fill those positions. you know, if you want to talk about drugs coming into this countrying which the president talked about yesterday, 90% of cocaine, 88% of opiates and 80% of fentanyl comes in at the ports. we re doing nothing maria: congresswoman, we re going to take a quick break, but with all due respect, everything you re saying we ve heard from the president, and that s the reason he put the proposal on the table. i want to take a short break, i want to show you when we come back the map of the wall that separates tijuana and san diego, because it s real compelling. okay. maria: stay with us. more as we get your thoughts also on special counsel mueller s statements disputing buzzfeed that the president directed his personal attorney, michael cohen, to lie. we ll be right back.
million on the other side. if you want to tear that wall down, do you think eventually those people would just assimilate, and those three million in tijuana would, basically, just become citizens in the u.s.? not legally, obviously, but just assimilate into the population? would that happen? first of all, nobody is saying we don t need border security. maria: no, no, congresswoman, i m specifically asking you about the border in nancy pelosi s state. they re not even filling all the positions to keep that border safe finish. maria: should that wall be torn down? no, i don t, i haven t been to visit the site. i don t know all the specifics of it maria: well, let me give you some specifics. let me give you all right, go ahead. maria: border apprehensions just from that wall just in the month of november, 2018, and in california there were 7,764 apprehensions. nearly 7,800 border ap apprehensions in california
very little effort to stop that. and now you have this situation here playing out. now, we talked just 15 minutes ago to a gentleman off camera in spanish that said he was part of the first caravan, made it to tijuana, went across at san diego, got deported, and he s making the second trek. just to give you some idea, the southern border of mexico all the way to tijuana is, essentially, 2500 miles, the equivalent of walking from washington, d.c. to los angeles. so this gentleman i m just describing did that trek, now he s doing it again in so many weeks. but as you can see, this just isn t a safe situation for these people as both local folks here as well as the local governments seem to be helping to assist this migrant caravan. so there is another one started, as i mentioned. and interestingly enough, in honduras today we re told this is a call for a national strike against president hernandez, that s part of the reason why they re fleeing. they don t trust what they say is a corrupt
honduras today we re told this is a call for a national strike against president hernandez, that s part of the reason why they re fleeing. they don t trust what they say is a corrupt president there. i will say one more thing, maria, we do have some new numbers, 2,69 3,691 are the migrants who took the mexican offer to get a temporary work visa. maria: the president had tweeted earlier in the week saying mexico wasn t helping us with this. you mentioned the border near tijuana, that border wall is right in nancy pelosi s state. we re going to talk with congresswoman debbie dingell about that in a moment. look, you ve spoken with a lot of these migrants, i saw you on the air yesterday, and he said, oh, you know, they re going to just sneak in. what are their intentions, griff? because you ve been talking with some of the people in there. can you explain who s on that bus, who s in the caravan and what their intentions are? reporter: absolutely, maria. their intentions are to come to
they haven t voted for any to the above? you know, yes, i can say that, and i m going to talk about how we need to support actual policy that works. how do you keep our borders safe, how do you make sure we have 3,000 open positions right now for custom and border patrol. we need to fill those positions. you know, if you want to talk about drugs coming into this countrying which the president talked about yesterday, 90% of cocaine, 88% of opiates and 80% of fentanyl comes in at the ports. we re doing nothing maria: congresswoman, we re going to take a quick break, but with all due respect, everything you re saying we ve heard from the president, and that s the reason he put the proposal on the table. i want to take a short break, i want to show you when we come back the map of the wall that separates tijuana and san diego, because it s real compelling. okay. maria: stay with us. more as we get your thoughts also on special counsel mueller s statements disputing