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Quote "it is elemental to border security to new who is coming into the country. today, more than 9 million people are in the united states outside the local immigration system. we must also be able to respond onto entrances between our poins of entry working with canada and mexico as much as possible" end quote. that was 20 years ago. 20 years after 9/11 our border with mexico is completely open. in this year, more then a million people will come across. hundreds of thousands every single month...

Reality they face. their names were angelo and angie. on sunday they drowned as they tried to cross the rio grande. you can see the two face down in the water, you can see little angie just 23 months old clinging to her dad. what you cannot see is what led up to this point. and again, please dont look away. the martinez drowned after a two month wait in mexico, sometimes in triple digit temperatures all in hopes of getting political asylum from the u.s. his widow tells a mexican newspaper that t...

>> the security situation, in this small town of eagle pass, in a word, it is intense tonight. normally we would be allowed all the way down to the banks of the rio grande. thats about a mile away from where we are standing. once it gets dark, it is believed were in too much of a risk and the officers on the line down there, that our lives, our presence would be a distraction. it is just one small indication of how much life has changed in this town as a result of all the security. the texas sid...

>> if an agreement comes out, ill support it, yes. >> well, as the political standoff heats up, a physical standoff is taking place at the border. hundreds of u.s. and mexican law enforcement officers are in eagle pass, texas, facing a caravan of nearly 1,800 migrants across the rio grande who want to come into the united states. our martin savidge is there. >> the texas side of eagle pass has been invaded. thousands of federal, state and local authorities, even military personnel, have flooded ...

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The trump administration is using eminent domain to try to seize land along the southern border to build the wall that will actually never be built, but they are still trying to seize the land. president trump is trying to seize the land of la lomita, a small 120-year-old catholic church on the texas side of the border. this is what democratic senator micha michael bennet from colorado was talking about last week in the very best speech ever delivered on the senate floor on this subject. >> if a...

Coming up from governor greg abbott. we will monitor that and bring you any updates. >> and harvey is having an impact nationwide as millions of people hit the road this weekend. the average for regular gas has risen dl$2.50. the reason? harvey shut down part of a may nor part-time line that carries more than three billion gallons. the texas side is closed. they hope to have it back up and running by sunday. a quarter of the nations refining capacity is shut down. now theyre tapping oil from

Worked a day in my life. i worked. so, you work and you cant get it. youre sick and you cant get it. what is it? >> reporter: she lives on the texas side of the state line. another woman, a few miles away, on the arkansas side is having a different experience because shes on medicaid. how long after you got diagnosed with cancer did you start getting treatment. >> immediately, once i got surgery, the treatment started. >> reporter: she is a 37-year-old mother of three with breast cancer. >> the ...

Time now far check of the headlines at the half hour. top administration and congressional leaders focussing on immigration and border security today. the speaker of the house paul ryan, he is getting a firsthand look at the border from the texas side. secretary of state rex tillerson and homeland security secretary john kelly are heading to mexico. president trump meanwhile meeting with his budget team at the white house today. president says his first budget which is expected to be released in...

Strengthened border security beyond what many believed was possible. they wanted more agents at the border. we now have more boots on the ground on the southwest border than at anytime in our history. martha: so this administration claims they have done more than anybody to stop this problem? >> they may have done some but issue is, is the border secure and it is not. the president is absolutely incorrect when he says the border is secure. you can stand on the texas side and watch people cross i...