Protection commissioner mark morgan now on lawenforcement efforts at the southern border. From the National Press club this is about one hour. Good afternoon. Thank you all for being here to todays newsmaker interview. Today our guest . Morgan who is the acting commissioner of customs and Border Protection. It is one of the dhs agencies and it is the largest lawEnforcement Agency in the country and brings in the secondhighest amount of revenue of any Law Enforcement agency and id venture to say probably more popular than the one that brings in the most which is the irs but [laughter] thank you for being here. Of course. The acting commissioners had a long and established career in Law Enforcement, including while he was named to his present post in june of this year and prior to taking the job of actingg commissioner he has been chief of Border Patrol and has been the special agent in charge of the fbi in el paso so plenty of border experience. He has had a number of roles in Law Enfor
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Hatred, terror that remain, fueling violence like the antisemitic Hanukkah Party attack Texas Church Attack sunday. We shall overcome. We shall we shall overcome someday. Deep in my hear do believe we shall overcome someday. And let uss hour with this weekends Violent Attacks on two communities of faith in america. On sunday at a church in white settlement, texas, worshippers were finished taking Holy Communion when a man opened fire in the sanctuary. The churchs live stream captured the moment it happened, and i want to warn you this video is very disturbing. [ gunshots ] the gun then killed two people before volunteer members of the churchs Security Team returned fire and ended the attack. Meanwhile on saturday evening at a rabbis home in monsey, new york, the rabbi had just finished a hanukkah candlelighting ceremony when an attacker entered the home and began hitting people with a machete. One man tells cnn he immediately started helping people escape out the back door. He was tryi
Good afternoon, thank you all for being here for todays newsmaker interview. Today our guest is mark morgan, acting commissioner of customs and Border Protection, one of the d. H. S. Agencies. Its the Largest Law Enforcement Agency in the country and brings amount of nd highest revenue of any agency, probably more popular than the agency that brings in the most which is the i. R. S. The acting commissioner has had a long and distinguished career in Law Enforcement, including, he was named to his present post in june of this year. And prior to taking the job of acting commissioner, hes been hief of Border Patrol. Hes been the agent in charge of el paso, a big role. Hes had roles in counterterrorism, vinyl crime, gang suppression, a lot of things that relate directly to his job today. And hes been a Deputy Sheriff and a Los Angeles Police officer. Not only that, he has an engineering degree and a law degree. So its my great pleasure to welcome acting commissioner mark morgan. Thank you f
Update on what is happening at the southwest border . Sure, when we talk about the border we have to put it into two pockets. One is the crisis regarding immigration and the other is the massive security crisis. The drive or focus in the last year plus has been the migration flow from the northern tribal countries specifically the families. The reason that has been the focus is because of our broken Legal Framework. Agreement thate if you come to the country with a child, we can hold you for 20 days. That was the genesis of catch and release. We would apprehend families entering illegally and release them into the u. S. Often within days. We had to fix that. The last six months, this , we have and cbp instituted a network of initiatives and policies and rules and regulations that have given us the tools to close the loopholes. Had 140ht of may, we 4000 apprehensions in may alone. 42,000ths later, apprehensions. Jessica how do you know that is not just seasonal . In october seasonally t