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Law and order in america. the trump administration is hard at work trying to secure they,y, border.. dhs secretary nielsen announced the deal with mexico to overhaul the asylum process and combat catch and release. secretary nielsen was on capitol hill today to discuss the agreement where she was confronted by democratic congressman luis gutierrez. he wont believe what he had to say. >> there is one thing that this administrationas has done better than any other administration in american histor...

Numbering their children for identification purposes with numbers made by permanent markers on their forearms. >> first, give us an update on jacqueline and what her father is going through. >> so a couple of questions. one, what is the capability of folks along the border? theres a language barrier. she only spoke an indigenous language. thats a problem. >> its not just spanish. everyone doesnt speak spanish. >> spanish was their second language. up until a few months ago, you could come to the...

>> meanwhile this nbc news footage shows mexican officials putting numbers on the arms of migrant adults and children. its all part of a new deal quietly struck between the trump administration and mexico about two months ago. cal perry recently transferred to the border to cover this story. cal, good to have you with us. walk us through what you saw. put those video images in context for us. >> this is a center in juarez as you said. normally what would happen is migrants, refugees can go to th...

So with more on this cnn, ed levendera is in el paso and what are we hearing from the girls family? >> reporter: well, we know that the girls father is still here in el paso being cared for by one of the shelters here in el paso that caters to recently-arrived immigrants here into the country and people going through the asylum process. but we have also been able to reach the small village where this girl and her father came from, several weeks ago, and were able to speak with her mother and gra...

Honduras, demanding entry, he has been living in mexico, demanding this amount of money so that ties into it. in your opinion, does this tip their hand and show this is political in nature? >> it is almost like the mafia coming to ask for money. this is political blackmail. we have a situation where instead of asking the taxpayer to pay for them and their mistakes they should be asking this character and people without borders, this group without borders that encouraged them to make this trip to...

Of a couple from honduras. the husband pushes the 8 month old baby through a hole under the wall. the mother turns herself into border patrol. he stays in mexico to work. we saw video of parents dropping children. dropping a child from a 18-foot border wall and another parent catching them. one child injured there. it shows how tough things are and the measures people take there. is an asylum process here. slow and long. at least 3 months. not everyone is a biding by. that some crossing illegall...

Central america remain at the government run shelter here in tijuana. after 2000-mile hike for many of them they still have months to wait for asylum. some of them have gone home. some had crossed the border illegally. we talked to some of those who were waiting for the asylum process. it is a three month process they go and check their places on the list every couple of days. they said we have no choice. there is no going home. >> i want to go back they tried to recruit me for a gang. i dont re...

Month of november which saw record arrests of family members crossing over illegally into the u.s. border, more than 25,000 individual family members detained by customs and border patrol, they can still apply for asylum after the court ruling they can also refuse to be deported if they fear violence at home. as far as the numbers here go in that shelter of the caravan from central america the numbers are down from 6,000 to just about 2,500, several of the people deciding to go home, not wanting...

That always come, they dont want to take the risk on getting stuck here. >> some of the people arriving here from central american nations deciding not to wait for the asylum process to play out to cross over into the u.s. the huma customs and border patrol released video of a family from guatemala, a mother, a father and three children age 2, 7, and 10, scaling an 18-foot wall. now two of those children can be seen being dropped from that wall. the parents catch them. one child suffered facial ...

>> maria: here is the scene in tijuana late last night. several migrants breaching the border. the border was breached in mexico. they are waiting out the asylum process. as you can see from these pictures steve harrigan is in tijuana, mexico with the very latest. steve? >> maria, local officials are saying this caravan is costing businesses here in tijuana millions of dollars not just from the brief episode one week ago when that border was shut down for several hours after violence but really ...