something that s called a safe country agreement, and that, essentially, is mexico declaring that it is able to take people who are seeking asylum, process them, and deal with them so that when they come to the united states, as the third country, the united states will have a much easier time of saying no and turning those people away, john. joe johns, thank you. let us know if you learn anything new. we ll be right back. nothing says summer like a beach trip, so let s promote our summer travel deal on choicehotels.com like this: surf s up. earn a fifty-dollar gift card when you stay just twice this summer. or.. badda book. badda boom. they use stamps.com
there are no more lines in the sand that you can cross and we ll do nothing. there are consequences. we re willing to take action and what we say is what we mean. and so it s very encouraging, i think, because what he did is he proved that win-win can come out of putting things right center on the table. eric: it seems like he s not afraid to step on some toes. the funny part is, this may be an inflection point in u.s./mexican deblow m diplomacy. both presidents are claiming a victory. it will help both of their countries if they can shut down the flow. eric: it s astounding that mexico hasn t been able to deal with it effectively. they said they ll deploy 6,000 troops on the southern border, about 600 miles long. with guatemala, to stop the dloa flow there, as well as process asylum seekers instead of them coming here, process them, provide education, employment opportunities, health care for them, so they do not cross the
how do they do that while at the same time keeping these families together? it s a real monumental task that involves all these agencies working together, and they re trying to do it on the fly. and i guess according to reporting customs and border protection are the ones raising the biggest alarms about this since they re the front line agents and officers. reporter: right. so, you know, a family comes across, mom and dad come across, they ve got a little, you know, child with them illegally across the border. they raise their hands and say here we are. it s the customs and border protection agents that are going to be those folks that are going to take them into custody. they re the ones on the border, the literal border. and they ve got to figure out how to sort of process them, their initial entry into the system. do they hand them over to justice for immediate prosecution? do they hand them over to dhs and i.c.e., which is the immigration system? and they are, we re told, the
there s record there are. or whether this will be made a big deal to step up a national guard presence there. this next fellow is on top of it. this david whorter joins me. thanks for being here. thanks for having me back. neil: what will happen? they get there let s say tomorrow, saturday. then what? it all depends where they come from. if they come from the port of entry, the inspectors there will probably turn them around and have them go back south. if they persist, they ll be referred to an asylum officer. what i m afraid of, they ll be going backs into mexico and do an end around around coming across the border around turn themselves over to the border patrol who will have to leave their porschst, process them, opening up the border for the cartels to exploit with drugs and whatever else comes across. the other thing with this migrant group, it s a concerted
people. they want change, they want solutions, and people like enrique just throw off slogans. they are sick and tired of the outcome, laura. they really want solutions and that s what i m going to be talking about in this race. laura: thank you so much, john. love the insights. now i want to get to another serious matter on the border. last week, congressman ron desantis made the startling claim on this show that border patrol agents are still basically practicing catch and release with illegal immigrants. the go to the border, get their information, process them, and pretty soon release them. let s find out what is really going on and bring in andrew from the center for immigration studies. he came on radio today, such a great segment. you are a former immigration judge, you are not a pundit who just shows up on tv. you know this stuff. when people hear catch and release, it makes them crazy. it makes no sense. you coming to the country, caught at the border, you would