Im George Howell. The cnn newsroom starts now. 5 00 a. M. On the u. S. East coast. The u. S. President is renewing his threats to close the u. S. Border with mexico. Mr. Trump calling it a u. S. Threat at the border. This isnt the first time the president has raised this alarm but his state department is taking it a step further according to the state Department Aid will be cut off to three Central American countries. El solve door, honduras and guatema guatemala. And u. S. Authorities say they have been struggling to handle a huge surge of migrants prosszing centers are overflowing with people. In el paso, texas, entire families are being corralled behind a chain link fence under a bridge there. U. S. Customs reports every sector of the border has passed its capacity. It was built to process hundreds of single adults from mexico. Theyre not ready to house families. The president homicide ban talking tough about whats happening on the border. More now from west palm beach. Reporter Pre
Texas, they cant handle any more people mcallen, 358 over capacity. Cnns natasha chen is on the u. S. mexico border and cnn reporter Sarah Westwood is at the president s maralago resort in florida. Give us more details on who are the people being released and what is the plan after theyre released. Reporter ana, for the past a couple of weeks, the brownsville city manager tells me hes been observing migrants dropped off in the city at the bus depot, at first 50 people a day or so but now its really ramped up. In the past hour we contacted one of the nonprofits in brownsville helping to receive these migrants and as of today, right now, they have 200 that they have been trying to help just today. And so the problem theyre seeing is that some of these people are arriving without any paperwork at all. And the nonprofit staff says they called customs and Border Protection to ask about how these people have been processed, whether they were processed, because they were dropped off with no p
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