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Meet with mike woods had voided areas like eagle pass, texas, where there were actual immigrants crossing while the president was in the state. >> he was receiving a sanitized review of what was going on at the border. and i pleaded with him to go talk to the ranchers, thousands of ranchers along the border whose lives have been completel disruptive as well as talk of the families who have lost a loved one because of the open border policies that he has had. >> when i was on the border in texas,...

Program for migrants south of the border to come up and process at that juncture, very similar to what they do in my district. this is done in partnership with other countries. have them process their asylum claim 1500 miles from the southern border. it takes the pressure off our border, one, and allowing border patrol and law enforcement to do their job and it takes the cartel element out of it as well. these migrants that show up to my border are paying between $6,000 and then $8,000 a head to...

Madrid to ask for asylum. people coming north stop in costa rica and panama, mexico which is somehow still considered a safe country. other places where they could ask for asylum and they should be required to do so. >> so you believe that particular point could have broad bipartisan support? >> i really do. it makes sense. if we dont make this political we could fix it. this -- what is happening on the border is not a democratic or a republican problem. it is a american problem that requires al...

Regularly. >> would it have helped to have a republican there? >> republicans were there on the ground. people that we talked to. donald trump used to come regularly to me border. he never invited me along. so that just happens. but we always work in a bipartisan way. this bill that im talking about the safe zone act is a bipartisan bill and well continue reaching across the aisle and talking to our republican friends. >> so in terms of the bill, so currently under current u.s. immigration law, ...

Police say that abby zerner was the last person to leave the classroom before she made her way to the office to seek help. there is another school employee being hailed as a hero. not talked about too much but this school employee rushed into the classroom as the children were rushed out and restrained the child who had committed the shooting until police got there. and the police told us that the child became combative and struck that school employee. but the employee was able to restrain the c...

Its hard to imagine how his second year in office could have been worse.

In place for the city of buffalo. youve seen authorities scale back considerably on those measures but not here. that is why folks, theyre instead going to be out and about. theyre going to do so on foot. carefully, though. >> as they are, they are right behind you. polo sandoval, thank you for that update. coming up, officials continue to deal with the surge of migrants at the souther border are thousands more waiting to cross. this as the supreme court could rule any moment on the future of ...

The same people who promote open-border policies want no part of the consequences.

Years, it is just tough to get it through the hill, shared responsibility, is there not? >> well, the president has to implement the law. and and as you know, the law allows for anybody presenting themselves at the souther border to apply for asylum and stay in the united states while they make that case and that claim. many of us would argue that president trump went above his statutory authority in denying many people the ability to make that claim. so if congress wants to turn people back aro...

The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and the Cocopah tribe requested the removal of several dozen crates in an October letter, which the state has refused to do.