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The president has the power t e declare a national emergency for funds? what is the central legal question theyll answer? >> they can review whether theres a national emergency, but they usually give the president wide discretion and deference there. the thing is, when you declare a national emergency, what you do is unleash all of these other laws where congress has said if there is a national crisis, the president can do this. but when the president does something like build a wall, he has to ...

Of representatives. republicans controlling the senate. and in divided government, you cannot get everything that you are looking for. the president is highlighting as a victory the fact that he got $23 billion in overall border security. though he didnt get what he wanted for the wall. there are also some restrictions within the bill such as where they can and cannot build a wall. the national butterfly center west of mcallen, texas, for example, they cant characterize as a win and they need to...

We build a wall in 2008 after the 2006 secure fence act voted for by republicans and democrats alike and el pasos crime rate actually increase after that. i dont know if its correlated but what i can tell you is didnt have to do with the wall. >> reporter: like this stretch they could come across. but its not like the city of el paso is under an invasion? >> it was not. and a really important thing to remember is weve always had some level of migration from mexico and central america, most of it...

Too, and existed as a country. then another thing you hear not just from the president but really from politicians across the political spectrum is we need to secure the border and yet, no one ever seems to define what the heck that means, what is the goal that you want to reach? it means in practice is always more, more money, more fencing, more drones, more technology. more border patrol, more enforcement, more punitive measures and somehow its it early never enough and its not about the borde...

Never good for echo tourism and lose our property that will be south of the border wall. >> reporter: border patrol are out in force picking up large groups of people, the vast majority of which are families. agents can see whats happening on the mexican side of the border. >> they want tuse leave so they can cross more bodies. >> so theyre motioning for you to go away? >> yes. theyre not scared of anything right now. they want me to leave so they dont have to worry about their guide getting cau...

Its never been as safe and secure as it is now and asman a people know, el pasos been one of the safest in the u.s. for the last 20 yeefrs. in fact a little less safe after we had a wall. mccallen is safe, the border sit as are safer than the average city on the interior. theres no rational reason to do this. >> reporter: ive been interviewing you for years and you would always say el paso is one of the safest cities in america and the president turned that against el paso. for a while it was sc...

Line is not the issue. the issue is what this country as a whole looks like and who gets to call it theirs, which is why the wall will never be built and always be needed. the border will actually never be secured but always need to be secured. its because america cannot be and will not be one hopes the kind of nation those folks want, the president, his advisors, one bound by ethnic and racial affiliation rather than a collective vision of a pre society. the border is not what we need secure. w...

>> yes. >> if theres a referendum in the city, that would pass? >> i do. hes what we know after the secure fence act we have built 600 miles of wall and fencing on a 2,000 mile border. its cost us 10s of billions to build and maintain and pushed asylum seekers and refugees to the most hostile stretches of the u.s. mexico border, insuring their suffering and death. more than 4,000 human beings, women, children, dead, not in cages, as we have walled off their opportunity legally petition for asylu...

Wilderness. a return of civilization and so the return of the wall. you can see the wall picking back up here for the obvious reason. its possible for people to cross here. beyond eagle pass, the wall become as small fence and the elements can be hostile. there are no paved roads close to the border in this part of texas so if you decide to cross, youre definitely talking your life unyour hands. no cell lines, which is why people leave giant blue buckets out. theyre fulled with water. new sectio...

United states understands whautsds rr happening on the border? >> no. i think they think trying to steal our job when in reality there are no jobs to steal. >> reporter: do you think theres a border crisis out here? >> no. i think its ridiculous. we dont need a dam wall. >> reporter: 100 miles into california at the only cafe in camp oo, fox news is up and the crowd is mostly border patrol and some nearby say there is a crisis. >> you used to not see any immigrants passing through but now you se...