reporter: why do you do this? because i crossed over one day and i saw it. how can you look away? do we do something? our gabe gutierrez joins me now. you have been covering this for some years. is there a fundamental change in the way that people who are coming to our southern border look at it? has the administration achieved that? yes, they have. the administration is having this dropping border apprehension is more than what we see year to year. at this point we see a continuous drop and that s huge. if you saw there, the administration says that remains in mexico policies. where these migrants have to wait on the other side of the
what did you learn? reporter: the commissioner came out to speak with members in the briefing room which was not used these days to tout the numbers of border apprehension by his agency in the month of august. the big headlines from the commissioner that numbers are down. he sees it as they are down dramatically. the numbers went from 82,000 to 64,000 over the period of a month or two. typically there is a seasonal drop this time of the year. commissioner morgan pointed out this drop is more substantially than what they seen in the past. their work in partnership, and other issues. emphasized that there are still monarch wo more work to be done and steps that seem to be with you, you can say what the briefing was. commissioner to come out and to tell lawmakers and frankly to show his boss that he s telling lawmakers that he s trying to
have since been brought back here. though, what changes were made to address the original concerns, officials are not saying, which has immigration rights advocates unsettled. a government review is now being done. we really have a dire situation here, but because of the unsanitary conditions that these children are being kept in, the unhealthy facilities that are being run there, it is not made for children. the number of children who are being kept there. now, customs and border control say that border apprehension continues to climb. they are simply not enough space to detain people. just this morning on capitol hill, top brass within the u.s. border patrol testifying and also expressing concern about the dangers that they face. 44 individuals, over 400 so
was supposed to be designed. speaking of families, caitlin dickerson we ve spoken about your trip to the border to visit families to see the detention center and through all of this today i would be remiss not to point out that today that we have learned since december a fourth guatemalan child has died in u.s. custody after a border apprehension and listening to the president today did you hear anything from the president that addresses the conditions of these folks on the border who have been taken into custody? what this plan really doesn t address and what the president didn t address was asylum and we know the vast majority of people, thousands of people sitting on the border right now waiting to enter the united states are coming to seek asylum. the 2 1/2-year-old boy from guatemala was very likely in that same process and seems to have died from some form of pneumonia. what we learned is that asyl asylum-seekers are trying to
he has called our president racist, sexist, xenophobic when our president is considered among the people for the job of a black man from a woman and overly person for the role to represent the united states on the floor of the general assembly. well, i m somebody that represents more than just my race. i am somebody who represents the united states of america combat veteran and willing to defend the nation to keep this country first and advocate what is best for this country in new york and around the world. i am looking forward to it. i m extremely honored to be considered for the post and serving mike country can honorably. sean: steve scully s, 25 gang members deported and ice haters alone in fading images of fallen heroes. at a museum, border apprehension doubled what they were last year as everybody try to get in quickly before the wall is built from a out of a massive drug operation in carolina and beto