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States. steve: griff jenkins is live in washington as thousands of soldiers are heading to mexicos border with guatemala. good morning, griff. >> good morning, steve, ainsley and dan. all eyes are on mexico we have to remember when the mexican president took over on december 1st its clear that border enforcement would not be a priority we walked across their border with guatemala in january with live cameras rolling into. single officer was in sight. six months later the story changes. after nea...

Time we lose money, power and this presidency in the way we used to look at, particularly face, the media dont like it unstable regimes. because its good for america. >> its a pattern we have seen repeatedly with this president. >> greg: there is this argument he sort of creates a crisis, has they already agreed to it but i think the tariffs pushed them some sort of a fairly general faster to the agreement. resolution to it thats lacking any details and then declares i think thats what the threa...

That the people would stop leaving them if they werent in such dire circumstances. so you know, i dont think its an apples-to-apples comparison at all. >> well, i ran the usaid program for central america for six years -- >> well, that doesnt mean you can do analogies, apparently. i mean, i dont -- >> in the bush administration. i dont think there is enough aid to stop the flow without significant border enforcement on the guatemala/mexico border. also -- >> its not -- >> well, let me finish. th...

And mexico commit to a mexican enforcement surge, mexico will take unprecedented steps to increase enforcement to curb irregular immigration to include the deployment of national guard throughout mexico, given priority to its southern border,mexico is also taking the attempt to dismantle human smuggles and trafficking organizations as well as illicit financial and transportation networks. >> now many republicans on capitol hill had expressed concerns about the presidents threat and afraid this c...

Dramatically. if that happens again, well see the tropicdrop in numbers, and see whether the president declares that a major victory because of this agreement with mexico that did get some things but not anything so impactful as, you know, what the u.s. would have wanted in an ideal situation. >> 130,000 last month, were talking about huge numbers here. michelle kosinski in washington, thank you. with extra border enforcement and help in breaking up trafficking networks, the u.s. got almost ev...

Better border enforcement and doing more to break up its elaborate trafficking networks. that though will take some time. that is not something that you see results on overnight. although the better border enforcement with mexican national guard might drop the numbers somewhat of people crossing the border. what the u.s. didnt get is what it really wanted on the asylum issue. it wanted mexico to degree to be declared legally what is known as a third safe country so that people passing through lo...

Reached a signed agreement with mexico. the tariffs scheduled to be implemented by the u.s. on monday against mexico are hereby indefinitely suspended. mexico in turn has agreed to take strong measures to stem the tide of migration through mexico into our southern border. this is being done to greatly reduce or eliminate illegal immigration coming from mexico and into the united states. details of the agreement will be reached shortly by the state department. thank you. president trumps threat t...

Tariffs against chinese goods, so now, the u.s. president moving forward will not impose the escalating tariffs on mexico in exchange for the stepped-up enforcement deal, the mexican side saying they encouraged the u.s. to step up aid to central american countries where the migrants are coming from to improve conditions there. >> sarah westwood, appreciate you so much. thank you. now, there is the additional border enforcement and help in breaking up trafficking networks. the u.s. got almost e...

Christi. extra border enforcement and help in trafficking networks being broken up. >> the talks arent over yet though. theyre going to go on for another three months. cnn national correspondent, dianne gallagher live from el paso, texas right now. wondering what the people at the border, how theyre framing this, what they think. >> reporter: nobody on either side of the border wanted tariffs on mexican exports to the united states. it would have been difficult for business. and life here alon...

Kosinski. right now the presidents tariffs set to go into effect monday even though negotiations are still going on. what are you hearing from sources as to how far apart the two sides remain? >> reporter: its tough to know. i think it was telling yesterday -- by the way, most of the information weve been getting on the detail has come from the mexican side. the mexican foreign minister said that while there was progress, the u.s. is focused on immigration enforcement while mexico is focused at ...