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Wall on the entire southwestern border, in some places, it is going to be a good idea, and at some places it is going to work, but there are areas that the southwest border that is virtually impossible to put a fence up. you get to the big mountains, the canyons, stuff like that -- >> laura: the president has never said put them in the mountains, the rio grande river, excuse me for putting you in pima county, obviously i knew where hudspeth is. we were referencing another sheriff earlier. the th...

Or not welcome. no country wants a free flow of humanity across the border. i dont know any country personally that wants that. >> the wall is not necessarily the right way to fix this. we already have 7 miles of fencing. theres definitely ways we can improve. >> laura: does operation gatekeeper work in san diego? >> i dont recall the specifics of it. we have a lot of friends there already. we have it all away to el paso. theres plenty of other things we need to do. for example, making changes b...

Operation gatekeeper in san diego. that was a bill clinton initiative. i covered it for cbs news. in 1996, i was at the border. huge barrier, steel barrier. they were all for it. what has changed? >> one of the issues is donald trump is an expert at creating a crisis. >> laura: you deny that this is a crisis at all. >> its a problem we can deal with efficiently. we have the resources and the people, we have the ability. >> laura: we dont have the people. i hate interrupting you. i dont want to d...

Force veteran sleeping in the streets tonight. >> priority needs to take place. 160,000 family units. a ninth circuit judge ruled tha we cant detain families more than 20 days. back when we first started we had these hearings and once we filled planes up with 90 percen less ga some judge in the ninth circuit says which means they get released and thats why there i a surge ofs family members rig now because they know they want to be detained, they get released to the public and then dont show up ...

Border just before christmas, what was your experience and what can you share with people? >> what i know for a fact is that the border patrol agents that are working very, very hard tirelessly to make sure we are safe, they are doing a lot of humanitarian efforts, working with people who are not well and they are definitely focused on keeping our border safe and i was actually reminded of operation gate keeper which happened in 1990s during clinton administration and it was when they increased ...

As to how the rest of the caravans in these central american companies will behave? >> yes definitely. if you look back in the 1990s there was an influx of hundreds and hundreds of aliens running up the freeways in san diego, and the government instigated operation gatekeeper to stop this traffic. now we need to stop this traffic before it gets to the united states, i.e., work with mexico. griff: and you having been a border patrol agent and an i.c.e. agent one of the parts of this story that ge...

Kept coming. but was there one incident in particular which you felt was the moment when you needed to make your song? >> well, our second album, actually the album that had "baby 0 i love your way" on it also had a song called "border town." it centered around the activities that were going on back then, 1994. if you remember, that was the year that nafta was inducted, a big militarization of the border called operation gate keeper was taking place. so weve just been very tied into the activist...

And now, im going to say something i dont usually say, its not all president trumps fault. questionable border policies is not just a trump thing. its a u.s. president thing. from teddy roosevelts mounted watchmen, to official border patrol under calvin coolidge, to the nasty deportation wave called "operation wetback." yep, it was called "operation wetback." to clinton who passed nafta. and operation gate-keeper that built walls and further militarized the border. to george w.s homeland securit...

For, these are things that we need. the subject matter experts that have done is drop for decades on end, are telling us, we need a wall, we need infrastructures, we need roads to be as bold to respond, cameras to detect the traffic coming across and we need the brave men and women out there to do the job right. >> laura: you guys are the facts in the "angle" parade $175 billion, just in fiscal year 2017 on countermeasures. and we can find $25 billion over a period of time to pay for a physical ...

>> thank you for having me. i hear theres a birthday wish we should pass on. >> laura: i decided to celebrate with you guys. i have to celebrate the birthday the border patrol. >> thank you. >> f laura: thank you so much. i was here in 1997 covering the operation gatekeeper, clinton-era double fencing which reallywa worked. it was really successful. now, its 21 years later. whats changed? >> well, coincidentally i was there as well. >>ar laura: maybe you should show me around. >> i start my care...