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Policies, this after a fox obtained video of migrants arriving at an airport north of new york city last august. and this week fox cameras caught an apparent mass if relocation of migrants in texas. one immigration and customs enforcement source accusing the d. of becoming a, quote -- department of becoming a, quote, unofficial travel agency for if illegal immigrants and criminals. lets bring in fox news contributor and columnist for "the hill," joe concha. joe, as you know, im a private pilot. ...

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Occurred before, but rarely of course. were hearing many airlines particularly here in europe are changing the cockpit rule to have two people in the cockpit at all times. do you think this will make flying safer? is this the way to go? >> absolutely. i mean, you have to do something. and theres not much technology that can help you here. you cant improve the technology or the procedures. but you can -- this is a human element that you can do very quickly. it will make flying a lot safer. >> wha...

Cockpit, you have no business being there. and you may fly with one person one day and then not see that person again for three years with the amount of pilots and so sometimes its not so easily recognizable that somebody may have a problem. >> dr. kay, this is something. theres so much stigma associated with mental illness in society, not just the pilot community, but its very difficult for people to come forward and say, im having an issue no matter what realm of life theyre in and just in ter...

Meticulous. he knows he has a high profile and people expect a lot out of him and he takes it seriously. >> and this is not the first time harrison ford has crashed in a plane. will this be the time he is deterred from getting in the cockpit again? >> i dont think so. the other incidents over the years were fairly minor training related things and hes very passionate about his flying and love his airplanes and loved the pilot community and the aviation -- the small airports across the country th...

Major crashes in the u.s. every year. and by the time i retired ten years ago, wed go four and five years at a time without a major crash in the u.s. so the long-range picture, flying has gotten safer. the first malaysian mystery, and the second was a shoot down. i think its unusual that that is a blip in the long-range blend. >> the other thing i want to ask you is this discussion about the use of auto pilot. and there have been many articles talking about criticism from some in the pilot commu...

Accident rate, if you want to do that, its hard to have this highly evolved monkey sitting in the cockpit. >> unsurprisingly those comments turned up quite a bit of backlash from the pilot community. with us is jeff wise. gentlemen, good to have you both here. so obviously, there has been some backlash about what you said yesterday. they reached out to us. the airline pilots association. and they sent a statement. id like to read it and i want you to clarify or whatever you want to say to the co...

>> had at his home. >> yes, that leads me to believe he was a very dedicated captain. and im leaning more toward an intruder. >> now that were getting a little more information from the malaysian government and a little more feeling of at least closure about the fact that this is probably a downed airplane and not something else. what is the kind of view of sort of the pilot community on this as folks around the world who do this work, which is high-impact and can be risky. what do you think is ...

And one of the problems is where is the money going to come from? heres what the f.a.a. says, peter, they say the f.a.a.s rigorous training programs ensured new controllers earn that certification while maintaining our high safety standards so they say theyre safe. what say you? are we safe? >> oh, listen, we have the safest air traffic system in the world. because the last time we had a mid air collision was over 25 years ago. we have the government and the pilot community have focused on this ...