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The other side of the border in mexico. matt, weve seen the conditions under the bridge. what sort of conditions are people facing on the way here? >> reporter: well, thats just the end of a very long journey, christine. theres no doubt about that. but we are in southern mexico. its basically where all those thousands of people that you see up at the u.s./mexico border now, they were here maybe a week, maybe ten days ago. and the number of haitians, specifically haitian migrants that we have see...

Data and research on international migration including migration stocks and flows, immigrants in the labour market, integration and discrimination., In January 2013, the OECD launched the project “Interrelations between Public Policies, Migration and Development: Case Studies and Policy Recommendations”, which aims to enhance partner countries’ capacity to incorporate migration into the design and implementation of their development strategies.

I hate to be logical about this, but one of the differences between a party and a prison is freedom. >> you have to look at the absurdity people go to to justify the images in front of their face. theyre going to tell you youre not seeing what youre seeing. youre not seeing something that looks like the torture of children. that looks like an atrocity. youre seeing an over crowded house party. whether or not its true the administration did not ask all these people to come here, this is there are...

Act as a result of these tariffs and then sending troops to the border and stopping flow of immigration up north is a win for the administration. >> mexico says a lot of thing but to enforce it if they do will be a big difference. lets look at what is in this deal, what has been agreed to. i would argue the biggest one is mexico deploying 6000 troops when they had only had 500 prior to this. 6000 troops to their much smaller southern border with guatemala, trying to stop these migrant flows wher...

The migrant flows end or go down to zeer oeo. >> do you think its going to embolden president trump to threaten tariffs in the future? >> i think its unlikely because mexico is an unusual position. its a very lopsided relationship. the united states is the richest country in the world. mexico is a developing country on its border. its an extremely unwise use of that power because you have ugnited an antiamerican nationalism in mexico. mexico is a country which, over the last 30 years the united ...

Recognize with this president the statements of presidential authority are no longer staumts of fact but thaw are rhetorical metaphorical statements because obviously nothing is go tag reduce the migrant flows to zero or end the migrant flows. theyve essentially agreed to enforce immigration laws more strenuously. theyve agreed to talk a few additional measures. it seems as though trump wanted an end to this crisis because it became clear to him there was opposition from republicans in the senat...

Weve gotthem to help us on these migrant flows. theres one thing important to point out. these are not mexicans true come into the united states. these are central americans crossing through mexico trying get to the united states. ap applying for asylum. the mexican government is caught in the middle between impoverished central americaned fleeing violence and poverty and the mexicans have been trying to help. mexico is not germany. they do not have the most competent state in the world. so all ...

Its simply still not enough. we need congress to act so that we can take operational control of the border as congress directed us in law to do. to protect vulnerable populations, to reduce the life ending flow of drugs in to america and confront the scourge of human trafficking. without congressional action americas borders will never be secure. until we deal with the outdated laws that contribute to this problem, the situation will only get worse. simply put, the laws are not keeping up with t...