we have in the last 20 years. all this as republican lawmakers this week on this show and on america reports recount similar stories about their conversations with border patrol agents. i looked out and talking and said the night before, 100 had come across. he said some of them are on the list. he said what list? the terror watch list. we go to monument 3 and talk to the agents. it s not just people from mexico or honduras. they re finding people from yemen, iran, turkey. people on the terrorist watch list they re catching. those remarks prompting this from rubin guillegos comments. in 2019 the state department said there s no credible evidence indicating that terrorist groups have sent operatives via mexico. that same year, dhs said we stop ten individuals on the terrorist watch list per day from traveling to or entering the u.s. former white house press secretary kayleigh mcenany is standing by on this. let s begin with tom holman, former ice director and juan will
decades. our hats are off to you again, sir. it s an honor to be here. it s an honor for sheriffs to be involved in this and it s an hahn for for law enforcement as we fight the drug trade every day in this country. all the things that go along in our business, in our profession from an insecure border. so again, sincerely, we thank you, sir. thanks very much. thanks for . as you all know, there are men and women in law enforcement across this country, that are fighting to battle every single day. they are in the trench. we americans make up 7% of the world s population, about 68% of the world s total drugs are consumed here in the united states every single year. this is not political propaganda. we have a dire crisis on our southwest boarder and america s sheriffs stand behind the
southwest boarder in arizona and new mexico that have been there for several years tracking illegal immigrants and narcotics traffickers. this is something expanded. general, you said it allows you to see. literally, is there cameras or radar? is it infrared or? yeah, this one on the east coast is purely radar and the radar underneath it, that big nose that you can see on the pictures is a 7,000 pound radar part of the issue and why it take sos mus so much power to l. the ones in the desert are smaller and don t have to lift much and have cameras with infrared radar that can detect people at a long distance. two different types. this one is being tested since about december of last year and they are still working some of the bugs out, but it s going to be a good system in my view. you re a former navy, the
that system of determining that right now. it takes awhile and i think one of the challenges that is in front of those who are managing this is trying to speed that up and speed it up in a way that doesn t trample on rights. ralph, it s hard to send the message to parents in central america, look, don t send your kids because it s dangerous. most parents know it s dangerous but are doing it even with that knowledge. some in congress had asked for more agents or the national guard to be deployed along the boarder. do you see that as exacerbating the situation? first of all, boarder patrol, cbp need additional resources, just to handle their current mission assignments setting aside this current crisis that exists down on the southwest boarder. but they need to, i think, maybe they are looking at the wrong group of people to bring to bear against this problem. they need additional facilities. they need additional caretakers. they need additional immigration
yet, if somebody from central america goes to mexico, they are sent back immediately or put in jail. not only that, in mexico they are brutalized. we don t do that. what we ought to do, haven t we learned a single lesson in the last 25 years since this started? we need a boarder security fence along the boarder from san diego to brownsville. you need every ten miles, you ought to have a boarder patrol post there. it would cast a fraction of what we spent fighting wars and what is more dangerous to the united states of america? for example, what is going on in crimea but what is going on on the southwest boarder of the united states. why don t we do this, republicans ought to adopt a penny plan, balance the budget. have a consensus to obamacare, school choice and secure the boarder. where are those voices? now i keep hearing and reading