the president, homeland security, and for that matter, american citizens? so i think that we have to take a comprehensive, all of government approach to this. and a lot of o people are talking about the troops being on the border, but that is just one element of the national security strategy that the president is trying to pursue. and i should say it s important to note that this is a national security strategy. by mattis going down just last week to the border, i think he gave a lot of credibility and relevance to this. he said publicly, we don t do stones. so in one bucket you have our troops at the border meant there for a deterrence effect to say, don t come here, don t invade. you have to go through the proper channels. one of the biggest things is the fact that we have so many failed states in central america and on our borders. and we have to look at radical new ideas for foreign aid because the foreign aid that we have sent, billions of dollars worth over decades, we haven t
security, and for that matter, american citizens? so i think that we have to take a comprehensive, all of government approach to this. and a lot of o people are talking about the troops being on the border, but that is just one element of the national security strategy that the president is trying to pursue. and i should say it s important to note that this is a national security strategy. by mattis going down just last week to the border, i think he gave a lot of credibility and relevance to this. he said publicly, we don t do stones. so in one bucket you have our troops at the border meant there for a deterrence effect to say, don t come here, don t invade. you have to go through the proper channels. one of the biggest things is the fact that we have so many failed states in central america and on our borders. and we have to look at radical new ideas for foreign aid because the foreign aid that we have sent, billions of dollars worth over decades, we haven t looked at central ameri
the president, homeland security, and for that matter, american citizens? so i think that we have to take a comprehensive all of government approach to this. and a lot of o people are talking about the troops being on the border, but that is just one element of the national security strategy that the president is trying to pursue. and i should say it s important to note that this is a national security strategy. going down just last week to the border, i think he gave a lot of credibility and relevance to this. so in one bucket you have our troops at the border meant there for a deterrence effect to say, don t come here, don t invade. you have to go through the proper channels. one of the biggest things is the fact that we have so many failed states in central america and on our borders. and we have to look at radical new ideas for foreign aid because the foreign aid that we have sent billions of dollars worth over decades, we haven t
in a conference call this morning, officials from homeland security at health and human services said 2,342 children have been separated from their parents in the month between ma. they insisted the children are being well cared for but they contradicted the dhs secretary who said the zero tolerance policy was not adopted to discourage illegal immigration. we expect that the new policy will result in a deterrence effect. we certainly hope that parents stop bringing their kids on this dangerous journey and entering the country illegally. 21 of the children removed from their parents are mexican. the zero-tolerance policy drew an official response from mexico s foreign relations secretary today. calling it cruel and inhumane. president trump firing back that mexico is only too quick to allow migrants from central america to pass through mexico as long as they are bound for the united states.
impossible to be able to target that ahead of time in order to stop this. if it s random against civilians unarmed, and it obviously parliament is an iconic structure, it s the center of the british power structure. it s obviously going to be a target. but even that doesn t give you the ability to be able to fortell that this is possibly going to happen. and that s one of the things that you ve mentioned before is that britain and london in particular have so many cameras, but what that reminds us is cameras are not preventative. they are forensic. we re going to know what this guy did before he got to the scene, but in terms of preventing it, maybe a deterrence effect, nothing more than that. michael balboni here in new york, thank you for the time. appreciate that. and of course we are going to continue to monitor that scene in london. we ll bring you another update this hour. anything else that we learn about the attacker, the attackers potentially, the motive, we will have fo