capabilities at the border both to intercept illegal drugs and other contraband as well as people being smuggled across the border. we have now the ability to use and some of you have seen them. i know you have, i m sure, these trucks that ride alongside of a tractor-trailer. it s like a giant x-ray machine and it can determine what s inside that tractor-trailer and thousands cross the border every day in legal commerce. and so we re allowed to determine whether or not there are fentanyl in there, drugs in there, people being smuggled across the border. we re going to provide significantly more of those vehicles for the people to be able to determine if the border what what is coming across legally and illegally. a lot more to say but i probably already said too much. thank you. [speaking spanish]
cracking down drug smuggling. which is a serious and deadly promise or i m sorry, problem, and i made a promise that i would try this. my administration has record funding that added hundreds of additional border patrol agents and installed new cutting edge technologies that you can use effectively like an x-ray machine detailed able to look through large containers to determine what is in the container. at the border. for example, since august of last year s border patrol have seized more than 20,000 pounds of deadly fentanyl. that is enough to kill as many as a thousand people in this country. 20,000 pounds of fentanyl, it s a killer. it is a flat killer. next week i m going to travel to mexico, we will meet with president lopez, we have a big agenda. from climate crisis to economic
0 to decide a claim of asylum. someone says they come because i m facing oppression. there has to be a way to determine that quicker for people seeking safety from persecution. mayokas will detail this after i finish at homeland security. one step we re taking. over the summer we saw a huge spike of venezuelans traveling through mexico and attempting to enter the united states without going through our legal processes. we responded by using an insuring that there are two safe and lawful ways for someone leaving the country to come to america. go first, if they are seeking asylum, they can use an app on their cell phone called cbp one, o-and-e. you have to spell it out, not the number one trend. to schedule at a point of entry and make their asylum claim there without crossing the border unlawfully and having the decision determined by an asylum officer do they qualify. second, in october we worked with the mexican government to launch a new parole program. there is another program, you
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Persons deprived of liberty (PDLs) at the New Bilibid Prison (NBP) in Muntinlupa City have been allowed “stay-in” visits from their loved ones during the holidays, the Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) said on Monday, Dec. 26. “In the spirit of Christmas, joy, and love, BuCor granted conjug