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 President Trump has spent the weekend focusing on immigration. Hes renewed threats to shut down threats between the u. S. And mexico if mexico doesnt do more to stop immigration into the u. S. This is not the first time hes made this threat but it is the first time hes attaching a deadline to it. He could close all or part of the southern border if he doesnt get mexico to step up and do more. The president is also calling on congress to address the immigration laws. Hes blaming democrats for congressional inaction and wrote in a tweet saturday it would be so easy to fix our weak immigration laws. The problem would be solved but the dems dont care about the crime. They dont want any victory for trump and the republicans even if good for the usa. Customs and Border Protection said over the weekend that they are reaching a breaking point. The increase in families and those coming over the southern border has put a strain on their resources. They say their facilities were not designed to accommodate families and children. They are calling for congressional action to change the laws. Trump speaking about the border shutdown said that could involve shutting down trade between the u. S. And mexico which would be enormously expensive for both countries but it remains unclear what exactly the president means when he says he could close down the border as soon as next week. Cnn, west palm beach, florida. Surely a lot of uncertainty there. Federal authorities struggling with so many migrants. Officials in brownsville texas say theyre dealing with the release of hundreds of migrants every day. Cnns martins savage has been in brownsville and spoke with the mayor about how the city is preparing and handling it. So far we have been able to hand handle anything thats come our way and i think we can so long as we have adequate notice to know whats coming. Right now theyre bringing them here. Were feeding them, sheltering them, clothing them, whatever they need at the time. Any Health Issues that they shouldnt have when they get here but if they do and we have asked some of our local doctors and friends in the medical profession to come give us assistance and thats what were doing. Lets talk about all of this now with noel bernal. Hes joining us by phone this hour. Good to have you with us. Good evening. How are you . Very good. Thank you for taking time with us to explain whats happening there. Youve indicated that the Rio Grande Valley could see some 500,000 migrants released in the coming days. From your perspective, how do you see it . Well, i do believe this can be considered a crisis. For the most part the way the city our city perspective is that we cannot sustain costs over a long period of time should these numbers continue. What were doing is staying focused on one thing and the one thing is helping families transition through brownsville to their preferred destination. Whenever the citys costs are jeopardized, taxpayer dollars that are meant to support the city, our local operations here, to me thats to passty the crisis. We know that facilities are well over capacity. More than 12,500 people are in custody so when migrants are dropped off at bus stations, places like that i understand your city staff, nonprofits as well are doing much more hands on work to help facilitate and provide migrants with the help they need when they reach your town. Clearly your staff is busy. That is correct. The brunt of the workload to do this, to have this transition that im calling happen is primarily falling on the hands of our nonprofit entities, the city staff, and it its just not a sustainable system. And the cost that were incurring at this point i would still consider nominal. Were incurring some overtime. Things of that sort where were still seeing support from private donors, helping provide relief to our nonprofit so that they can sustain themselves as well. But its something that could escalate. If these numbers that were receiving do reach that threshold, that point to where its upwards of for us somewhere between 500 to a thousand a day and we can incur significant costs so the end game or the end to me, it is what is the going to look like in not just the coming days but weeks and months because the costs for now are managed for the most part. Were our system is working where the majority of the migrant families do leave and depart through either airfare or bus throughout the day leaving a fraction that say overnight. When that becomes a multiple night affair, costs increase for us. Families are still leaving early morning. Those that do stay overnight, but were at that delicate balance. The u. S. President sees closing the border as a solution here. Do you agree . I would be concerned for the unintended consequences. The solution im not sure that thats the solution at this point right away. I believe that our system is working. If we were to be provided more federal dollars our system could work to find more collusions that are more comprehensive. I think that our system is working as long as we have more federal support. Noel bernal is the city manager of brownsville, texas. Thank you for your time today. Thank you. And now with us, scott lucas. Hes at the university of birmingham and the founder and editor joining us from england. Good morning. Good morning, george. I want to start by listening to the Republican Party chairman in el paso, texas, giving his assessment of whats happening and why its happening on the border. Lets listen together. Thats why there are family units coming across today, because they know that theres a law that that protected them and it was set for a specific issue a number of years back and now its being taken advantage of. Thats why its what we have what we have. Do these people have problems in their country . Without a doubt. We have a civil war and we had an an American Revolution and people stayed here and fought for what was right. These people need to learn to stand up for whats right for them too. A very hard line view on immigration and thats how some people see it. Well, with respect, america is actually built as a country upon people who ran. In other words, people who pled pers occasion, who fled conditions and that is part of what made america great. If youre not wanting to dehuman nice them and saying theyre cowards and theyre running, im not going to go there. Migration was dropping year on year across u. S. mexican border. The reason why weve had a surge is for two reasons. Weve had increase in families because they are fleeing violence and poor conditions in their countries in Central America and because of donald trump. Yeah, thats right. What has happened is the administration manufactured a cris crisis. They gave a signal to people which is youve got a certain amount of time to get into the United States and that has accelerated rather than decreased the flow of migration. But do they care about it . No. Because the Trump Administration is going to use this as an election issue. Theyll take the crisis they manufactured and say we have to be the one that has to deal with the crisis. You have to vote for us to stop these migrants running to take over quote, your country. Those who say bring your tired, your poor, those yaerning to be free and theres also those saying figure it out where you are. He plans to dut aid to three Central America countries. The Aid Organization had this to say about that, scott. Heres the quote. Cutting foreign aid to Central America is the absolute last thing the Trump Administration should do right now. It also counters efforts to address the root causes behind migration. Aid cuts would be devastating to the region and would only foster the same instability that would make people flee in the first place. Well, crossing the border, i think trump is blowing smoke just to get headlines. If you close the border you cause damage to both the u. S. And mexican economies and i dont think trumps officials want to go that far. Far more serious is the cutoff to money to el salvador and the honduras. It goes for anti violence, it goes for education. If you cut that money then violence goes up. Job opportunities dry up, people do not have Educational Opportunities so what do they do . Theyre more likely to migrate because you have cut off your assistance. Does trump care about what the effects are . No. Because he simply grabs a headline that says hes being tough and punishing these countries when some might say he might be needing to look closer to home. A pleasure, scott. Thank you for your time. Thank you, george. In the u. S. State of Texas Democratic candidate beto orourke made his first appearance in el paso, his hometown. Speaking there just blocks of the u. S. mexico border. Reporter beto orourke has now wrapped up his official Campaign Launch in texas saying it was very important for him to come back to el paso. This is his home turf, this is also where the u. S. Meets mexico. The southern border half a mile from where he gave his speech today to a crowd hes very familiar with. Not only friends and family but constituents of his when he served as a congressman. This is a man who really got a bit of an energized following during the mid toerms when le ran against senator ted cruz. Raised 80 million. Already his campaign tells us that he has raised 6. 1 million in his first day. So the big question, hes going to hes talking about a lot of the issues hes already mentioned. Health care, climate change, immigration but will that be able to generate the type of support that he generated in texas for the midterm elections despite the fact that he lost against ted cruz. Thats certainly what hes hoping for and certainly what he believes he can do. From here he goes to houston and then the states capital, austin. Thank you. One, two, three times in a charm. No. How about four times is a charm . Teresa may may not give up on her brexit deal. Shell try to put it forward again for a fourth vote. Plus, the polls are open in ukraines president ial election and right now a comedian with no political experience is the favorite. But will he be able to stand up to russia . Stay with us. 1 minute hair masks. S tres the new way to nourish hair. 98 naturally derived ingredients. 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Tre teresa may takes on brexit. After her withdrawal bill was voted down three times there are reports that she will try yet another time to try to get that deal through, but is sunday times that ms. May risks the total collapse of her government if she fails to get it through and the guardian reports that shes threatening to get through any attempts to what some may call a snap election. Teresa may here, this seems to be her play to run the clock out, to force mps perhaps out of desperation to reconsider that deal a fourth time. George, thats right. Thats what analysts will tell you. Theyll say this was her plan all along. Grind parliament down, take over these votes one by one until they can see her option is the only option. So she lost the first time by 230. Then the second time by 149 and then on friday by 58. So you can see those margins are getting smaller and smaller so she just might try for a fourth time now. Who knows if the speaker will let her hold that vote. And downing street hasnt confirmed that that is oothe plan. Ive brought you some of the sunday papers here. Brexit the final trap on the sunday express today. The sunday telegraph saying snap election under may, and then here number 10, at war over suicidal election. So you can see the other option that lawmakers are considering is the possibility that the Prime Minister would call for a general election. Members of her party as you said, have already said that they would not support that. She would need two thirds ma skbrorty to push that through. So if not an election, if not a fourth vote what else does she have . She could go back and ask for a lengthier extension that would add two more years to the process. There is that looming deadline of april 12th. If they do not find a solution by then they will simply crash out of the eu so you can see her options are getting slimmer and this is as lawmakers are finding their own solution to brexit. They tried this last week. They had eight options on the table. All eight were defeated but who knows, maybe theyre going to try to find some consensus so another week of unstability still ahead. All right. Well continue to follow it with you. Thank you for the rt roing. Those who chose to leave the, u says the government is letting them down. They are angry with the lack of progress and they blame parliament. Reporter im tired. The government arent doing what the people have asked them to do. Reporter the same message again and again. All areas that voted leave although for different reasons. We started our tour of Brexit Britain with a trip to the seaside. South end on sea sits on the essex coastline east of london. Once a glamorous hot spot, its seen better days. Theyd rarter the conversation moved on. It is lingering and i think the general public is getting annoyed and want it to be over. Reporter next stop, the market town. The highest vote in the uk and also has the highest concentration of immigrants outside of london. People are frustrated by the political process back in west minister. The trouble is the longer it goes on the more complicated it becomes and the more difficult it is for the common man and woman to understand exactly what theyre voting for and whats going on. Reporter we headed further north. Despite being a gateway to europe, the cargo going to the netherlands and belgium, most here want to leave the eu. The local economy here is the hot topic of conversation. The eu has caused a decline in the citys fishing industry. The germans, all fishing in our water. Theyll catch the fish and then trick it and sell it back to us. That cant be right. Reporter last stop, its market day in the city center but its not what it used to be. We used to have a lot of businesses. We used to have the coal mines. I mean, its the Central Network for road and rail in this country. And i just find it so bizarre that its really not getting the recognition that it deserves. A trip around brexit shows different areas have different concerns but certainly from the leaders that weve spoken to, theyre united on two fronts. They still want to leave the eu and the majority of people weve spoken to would like a no deal brexit. People are saying their voices are not being heard by the politicians they elected and where the Brexit Debate just goes round and round in circles. Thank you. History has been made in slovakia as voters have elected the first female president. She topped her opponent on saturday in the second round of president ial elections. Shes known as a pro europeandown i dont know and anti clupgs corruption. A record 39 candidates are on the ballot. It is a packed race. The top contenders are running on the promise on closer ties to the west all under the shadow of a years long military conflict with russia. A comedian who never has been a politician before but he plays one on tv. Fred, from standup comedy to standing up to putin voters seem to be giving him a chance here as he is the front runner and also, we each watching right now his front runner, his top competitor is in the lead right now. Reporter yeah, he certainly is and you know, by all accounts he at least seems to be able to make it into t