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Know w-the united states only procession a limited number of asylum seekers every day, theres already a de facto policy in place thats making the vast majority of these caravan members wait on the mexican side and mexico says its doing everything possible to alleviate the situation. its working with local businesses, particularly in the tijuana area to offer jobs to the central americans who are waiting there, and they say there are thousands of jobs available in tijuana and 100,000 jobs across ...

Waiting there, and they say they have thousands of jobs available in tijuana and 100,000 jobs across the country that central american asylum seekers could take. >> to someone who wants stricter border policies, this may look good on paper, but what are the concerns? what are human rights groups saying? >> well, the biggest concern is that mexico simply isnt a safe place and certainly not the border states and border cities where a lot of these asylum seekers may end up having to wait. the unite...

Look at themselves and say why are areas so dangers we are worried that people who have risked their lives, we are worried about safety. one good thing that business leaders in tijuana and other border cities have actually welcomed these migrants to work while they are waiting and its -- looks like theres 100,000 jobs that are going to be available around the border areas for these migrants. i think thats a great first step in that try to improve lives of these people who are looking for a bette...

Well start with you, richard. you saw a little bit about what heather nauert had to say, she went on to say under the trump administration domestic passport denials for midwife cases are at a six year low. the reporting it as a political cheap shot, they put the numbers out and it appears as a drop-off on these denials under the first two years. >> this has been an ongoing issue but lets be real here, i dont care if the number is one or 300, if you are a u.s. citizen born in this country and a l...

For more lets bring in richard fowler and the editorial director, i will start with you. you saw a little of what heather said, she went on to say domestic passport denials for midwife cases where at a 6-year low. they put the numbers out from the last administration and appears to be a drop off on denials the first two years of the trump administration. >> lets be real here. i dont care if one of the numbers are 300, a lot of these border cities dont have access to healthcare. and -- >> america...

Immigrants or what it said about justice department data. i have had a year-long sort of the foya back and forth with the justice department. they finally wrote me a letter after we had agreed on what search they were going to do, and they agreed to search for data records reflecting the data on all terrorism and terrorism-related convictions foreign and international and domest domestic. and there are no records responsive to that request. so the day that the president is talking about dont exi...

He was on the campaign trail. nobody was talking about immigration until i came along. in some respects that is true. he made it a much bigger issue than it was. the undocumented immigrants coming across the border, correct me if im wrong on the numbers, were down significantly since i believe some time in the early 2000s, down significantly than where they were. donald trump comes along, he starts campaigning, campaigns on building a wall, campaigns on all of this crime, ms-13, murdering famili...

Especially if youre forced to wait for days, weeks at a time in a place as dangerous as some of these border cities are in mexico. >> julia, call me skeptical, but from what youre saying, it sounds like the administration, at least tacitly, intended this to happen, to use this as leverage for the president to get his immigration bill, the one he wants with the wall funding, et cetera, passed through congress, to use it to strong a stro strong arm the democrats so they have it for the midterms th...

Ago, people from mexico could cross the border easily and go lunch in america and become to mexico and its not happening right now and its strangles border cities. >> you talked about people who try could cross the border and dont. >> i talked to one of the priest who runs that and i got to meet people after coming off the bus after being deported. some of those rb in america for years and some trying to make it across the border and you see people in that moment as they come off like what happe...

That? >> the border is a dangerous place for your people come from all over the world through mexico and other places and you would have a much different situation in big border cities of the border control wasnt there protecting people. >> tucker: this has been a debate to which the degree of mexico helps control the flow over its borders. youve heard calls in the mexican legislature to stop all cooperation with the united states. if that happened, what would our borders look like? >> we have a...