>> thanks for having me. there has been an open border from the start of this whole crisis and that's why they have deployed hundreds and hundreds of personnel, tabs tabs department of public safety personnel to the southern border to help our federal partners to secure the board. i was in del rio saturday afternoon. thousands and thousands of migrants were crossing into the u.s. from mexico freely with no resistance until our troopers got there and they put a stop to it and contained the area. it was a very effective strategy from our personnel to put a some to that current surge in that particular area. >> we saw how they did it, backing the patrol cars up against the river creating a wall of steel. in june they sent letters to the sent for heads, or marls, rather, to sector heads saying we're expecting something will happen and it will require a lot