President trump says its mexicos fault that they are failing to plug holes in the border. So the president s plan is to close the border which he says he may do this week. The acting white house chief of staff was on cnn earlier today. Watch. But were also concerned about the effect of the American Economy and the nation as a whole from having more than 100,000 people cross illegally this month. If we close the borders, why would we do that . Because we need the people who are working at the legal ports of entry to go patrol and im not making this up where theres no wall. We were not lying to people when we said this was an emergency. Very few people believed us, especially folks in the media and the democrat party. Cnns ed lavandera is in el paso, texas, where this weekend we saw those startling images of crowds of migrants, families and children herded under a bridge. That bridge behind you, in fact. And there was a chainlink fence around them. Theyre not there anymore. Where are those people today, and what is the plan to deal with the shelter overcrowding . Well, that is that area. Thats one of the bridges that takes you from el paso to juarez. And those migrants were being housed in that area behind that barbed wire and chain linked fence. Hundreds of them over the course of the last two weeks. This morning we showed up, and they were gone. They have been moved to other facilities in the area to be processed and that that will continue. The agencies also say here they have been reassigning agents to be able to handle the mass amounts of numbers of people that are coming across the border here in the el paso sector specifically. But the customs and Border Protection says 100,000 apprehensions expected for the month of march. If those numbers hold, it will be the highest numbers in more than a decade. However, critics of the administration say that the Administration Simply is trying to create a sense of chaos down here with these images and say there is plenty of infrastructure and resources in place to be able to handle the migrants coming across and that need to be processed so that is what the controversy is swirling around here. But the agencies and Border Patrol officials and cbp Officials Say theyre overwhelmed and theyre having to move agents around to deal with these numbers. If President Trump now follows through with his threat to close the border, how will that impact places like el paso that depend on that border being open . This is a striking threat and is really sending shockwaves along the border from brownsville, texas, all the way to san diego, california. That bridge that you see behind me you may be able to see through the walls there. People are constantly going back and forth. This is part of daily life. These ports of entry are a lifeline to these communities along the border. People going back and forth to see family and friends for work and school. Also the Economic Impact. Taking place just down river from where we are closer to south texas, laredo, texas, one of the largest inland ports in the United States. More than 4 million trucks cross that port of entry every year. And that is the Economic Impact of that will be staggering. So that is the kind of thing and the kind of threat that really strikes and makes people very nervous in these border communities as they wait and see if the idea of not being able to cross back and forth through these ports of entry thats done routinely every day will really have a Ripple Effect and really stun a lot of people along the southern border. Ed lavandera in el paso, texas, thank you. Chris cabrera is a u. S. Border patrol agent and also with us alberto hinojosa. If the president goes through with his threat and closes the border this week, wouldnt that just lead to more undocumented immigrants trying to cross in between the ports of entry . Well, first off, at our area, were about five to six times capacity. So were getting slammed like never before. And right now what were having is, once the port of entry is closed for the night or whenever they are not open for operation, nothing crosses through there. We dont have that luxury in the Border Patrol. Were between the ports of entry. Were going to get that flow no matter what. If they close down these bridges, maybe we can get the Customs Agency office and Field Operations out there to help us. Maybe thats whats needed to kickstart some of these congressmen and senators into doing their job. If they are the ones that have put us in this situation by not acting. I want to read a tweet we got from the president , chris. The democrats are allowing a ridiculous asylum system and major loopholes to remain as a mainstay of our immigration system. Mexico is likewise doing nothing. A very bad combination for our country. Homeland security is being so very nice but not for long. That last line there, Homeland Security is being so very nice. But not for long. What do you think he means by that . You know, im always nice so i dont know whats going on there. But i know were going to go out there and do our job. I dont put this on one side or the other. The issue here is both sides have failed to come together and act on this. They are the ones that can change this. Get in there and fix this loophole with this catch and release system because we dont have any more places to hold these folks. The places we have arent set up for longterm. Were shortterm facilities. We dont have the means to care for these people. Its unsafe for them. Unsafe for our agents. Its unsanitary. And its inhumane. And somebody either these lawmakers need to get to work or step aside and let somebody else come in who will do it. Im going to come back to you about the solutions here. We had the head of the gop in el paso, your counterpart on yesterday. I asked him why he thinks its getting worse at the border two years into the trump presidency. And i want you to listen to what he told me. Thats why there are family units coming across today because they know that theres a law that protected them and it was set for a specific issue a number of years back and now its being taken advantage of. And its being promoted. And thats why 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 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, not just run. Whats your response to that . Well, i mean, for him to say that these people have the ability to stay in locations where their children are being murdered every day, their daughters are being raped by gangs and that they shouldnt take any action to try to save their families and to come over here to try to find some kind of refuge is pretty cold blooded as far as im concerned. Look, i mean, its sinister and more than disturbing that this president is using human suffering to manufacture a crisis so that he can build a wall in order to please his rightwing base. Thats not what america is all about. And thats not what we should be doing. We should be finding solutions through a comprehensive Immigration Program where we look at the asylum program, figure out how we can accommodate some of these people coming to this country in order to save their families and at the same time ensure were securing our borders. The Trump Administration is not even doing that. All they want to do is a bunch of hype. You know, talk about closing the border. What good is it going to do to close the border in the state of texas or any border state . Theres a billion dollars of commerce that passes through those border stations all across the border. A billion dollars that creates jobs in the United States. Why would you want to penalize americans because you are wanting to create and manufacture this crisis so you can get the stupid border wall. Thats what this whole argument is all about. You know, i understand that a lot of these Border Agents are working 24 7 to try to ensure they can do their job. But most of these refugees, most of these people that are seeking asylum are coming in the front door. Theyre not sneaking across the border. Theyre not crossing the river on inner tubes. Theyre walking to the border station and asking for asylum at that point. And what mr. Trump is doing through his administration is hes taken these people, putting them in detention and then releasing them out to the community to make it look like theres chaos and that something has to be done immediately. Hence, he makes the argument for his border wall. This is not what were all about and i think americans can see right straight through this. I hear what youre saying but the reality is there are large numbers of people coming across the u. S. Border whether its at a port of entry or in between the ports of entry and so now they are in the u. S. And i know, chris, you are saying your facilities arent ready for the numbers, for days now weve seen the images from el paso where a group of migrants were being kept in a makeshift camp under a bridge surrounded by the fencing topped with barbed wire. Cbp is in the process of moving them, but under the law, those migrants are guaranteed safe shelter, food and water and adequate medical care. The system is being strained but is cbp able to comply with that . You know, interestingly enough, first off, i mean, you just mentioned the people under the bridges. We have over 1,000 a night coming in and for the gentleman to say its a manufactured crisis, come on, man. You have to turn on a tv and look. Its all over. Can you please answer the question. Are you guys able to provide the food, shelter, water, medical care these people need . Quite frankly, we are not. We didnt create this problem. It was dumped into our laps. Weve been doing the best we could for the last five years. Finally were starting the wheels are starting to come off this thing. And nobody wants these port of entries to close. Thats just not what we want. But we may have to do that in order to get this problem fixed. Its everybody has kicked the can down the road since 2014. Its time to get something done. And manufactured crisis, i dont understand that. Maybe you guys need to come and strap on a pair of boots and walk around with me for a day and youll get that little catch line out of the vocabulary real quick. Its a real crisis. We have men, women and children risking their lives every day to come here because we have this beacon of light beckoning them in. Granted they need to be taken care of once theyre here, but where do we house them . Where . We dont have any place left. I dont unless you guys have some answers or empty space somewhere because we dont have it down here. We know at least five cbp facilities are well over 100 capacity. Clearly the status quo is not working. What do you think needs to change . Let me just tell that officer, i live eight blocks from the border. From where i am right now, i live about six blocks. I know whats going on on the border. I know whats coming across the border on a daily basis. These people that are being are coming to the border right now are Central American refugees. Under the law that exists today, they were required to be processed and then to be released after they get the necessary information. Whats happening now is that the Trump Administration is just picking them up, arresting them, detaining them, holding them for more than the required time and thats why you have this manufactured crisis. They are making it look like all these people are crossing the river. Theyre not. Theyre presenting themselves at border stations asking for as asylum and then being detained. Thats whats creating the problem. I was a county judge in this community for 12 years. You know, they are talking about closing the border stations in order to be able to use agents that are on the bridge to be able to patrol the river . Thats absurd. Theyre not crosstrained to do that. We tried to get them to do that on more than one occasion and were told those people do a different and completely different function than the Border Patrol agents patrolling out there. So for the administration or anyone to say that you can close the border stations in order to have more manpower to patrol the areas where the immigrants are not crossing is ridiculous. But what is the answer . What should be done . For the Trump Administration to follow the law, to talk to these people coming here that are fleeing their country, fleeing gangs, that children are being murdered or trying to prevent them from being murdered when they come to this country that they be properly processed the way the law requires them to be processed, that they thats the problem that theyre trying to do just that and they dont have the resources or the facilities is what im hearing from chris here in order to go through the process because there arent enough Immigration Judges or facilities for people to stay overnight for a period of time while they work their way through the immigration system. They receive billions of dollars of funding the last budget cycle. A lot of that money was designed to create Detention Centers or facilities to be able to hold these immigrants or to properly process them and for Immigration Judges. All that money has been provided to this administration yet all theyre talking about is building a border wall. Thats all they want to do. They dont want to follow the law and thats created the crisis here. Gilberto and chris, i appreciate the discussion, gentlemen. Joe biden hasnt even entered the president ial race just yet but hes having to defend against allegations of inappropriate behavior. What a former nevada lawmaker told cnn about what happened to her in 2014. And as we go to break, these are pictures from the university of South Carolina where a vigil is being held for samantha josephson, a College Student who was murdered after police say she got into the wrong car thinking it was her uber. She was 21 years old. Straight from the worlds best plant scientists comes miraclegro performance organics. 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