Well, the white house is defending president Donald Trumps threat to close the u. S. Mexico border. The president fired off this on twitter sunday. The democrats are allowing a ridiculous asylum system and major loopholes to remain as a mainstay of our immigration system. Mexico is likewise doing nothing. A very bad combination for our country. He also closed with what could be a vague threat. Homeland security is being so very nice but not for long. The white house isnt just threatening to seal the border, the state Department Says its cutting off aid to three Central American countries, guatemala, el salvador and honduras. Mr. Trump has accused those countries of setting up migrant caravans. The acting white house chief of staff backed his boss on sunday. We could prevent a lot of whats happening on the southern border by preventing people from moving into mexico in the first place. Right, but thats what the u. S. Aid money does is it makes these countries more stable. This is not according to me. This is according to experts in your own administration. Okay. Career staffers. Lets talk about that for a second. If its working so well, why are the people still coming . Why are these historic numbers, again 100,000 people will cross the border this month alone. That is that is a crisis. Its a humanitarian crisis. Its a security crisis. U. S. Customs Officials Say there is a crisis at the border and its pushed them to breaking point. They are dealing with a surge of Central American migrants and facilities are packed way beyond capacity. Thousands of migrants have been released over the past week in south texas with more expected in the coming days. Cnns ed lavandera has more now from el paso. Reporter communities like el paso here along the u. S. Southern border where we are are waiting to see if President Trump is going to follow through on his threat of closing down the border. Here in el paso, this is one of the main bridges that takes you from the United States into mexico, into juarez mexico. Tens of thousands of people use bridges just like this up and down the border in texas which crosses the rio grande and other ports of entry from new mexico all the way to california. It would be a significant blow to local economies and local communities if these ports of entry are closed. Not to mention just to people everyday crossing you see family and friends to get to work, to get to school, but also economically. There are millions of trucks with goods that cross back and forth across these border points of entry every day. It is part of the economic engine that exists daily between mexico and the United States. So the threat of closing down thee border points of entry is taken very seriously here along the u. S. Southern border. And then theres the question of what is being done to process the large amounts of migrants that are coming here to the u. S. Southern border. Just underneath this bridge over the last few days there had been hundred of migrants essentially being stored there by Border Patrol agents as they waited to process these newly arrived migrants. Were told as the images of these people standing behind these chain link fenced started to circulate around the world, that area has been shut down and though migrants have been moved to other facilities. Over 100,000 apprehensions, if those numbers hold true, that would be the largest number theyve seen along the southern border in more than a decade. Critics of the administration say the administration is simply trying to create a sense of chaos with the images coming out of the border to try to bolster their argument for the National Emergency and building more border wall in these types of communities. So that is what is going on here. Many people looking here toward the week ahead as to what is going to happen next and if President Trump is going to follow through on closing down the border points of entry. Ed lavandera, cnn, el paso, texas. Thanks for that, ed. President trump is expected to travel to Southern California this week near the mexican border. Heres what some of his political opponents were saying about the border on sunday talk shows. When the president says hes going to close the border, that is a totally unrealistic boast on his part. What we need to do is focus on whats happening in central america, where three countries are deassembling before our eyes and people are desperately coming to the United States. The president s cutting off aid to these countries will not solve that problem. You have a terrible humanitarian crisis. You have women and children traveling 1,000 miles or more, often by foot, in order to escape the violence and poverty in their countries. So what we need to do, of course, is, a, comprehensive immigration reform, but, b, we need to make sure that our borders are secure, but also we need a humane policy at the border in which we are not yanking tiny children from their so would you keep these children in detention. Thats not what america is about. And cnns ana cabrera spoke earlier to a u. S. Border patrol agent in texas and the chairman of the Texas Democratic party. They offered very different views on the situation on the border. I think the issue here is both sides have failed to come together and act on this. Theyre the ones that can change this. Get in there and fix this loophole with this catch and release system because we dont have any more places to hold these folks. The places we have set up arent for long term. Were shortterm facilities. We dont have the means to care for these people. Its unsafe for them. Its unsafe for our agents. Its unsanitary and its inhumane. They need to get to work or step aside and let somebody else come in that will do it. I want to come back to you on the solutions, but we had the head of the gop in el paso, basically your counterpart on and i asked him why he thinks its getting worse into the border crisis two years in the trump presidency. Listen to what he told me. Thats why there are family units coming across today, because they know that there is a law that protected them and it was set for a specific issue a number of years back and now its been taken advantage of and its being promoted. Thats why we have what we have. Do these people have problems in their country . Without a doubt. We have a civil war and we had an American Revolution and people stayed here and fought for what was right. These people need to learn to stand up for whats right for them, too, not just one. Whats your responsibilie to . Well, i mean, for him to say that these people have the ability to stay in locations where their children are being murdered every day, their daughters are being raped by gangs and that they shouldnt take any action to try to save their families and to come over here to try to find some kind of refuge is pretty cold blooded, as far as i can im concerned. Look, i mean, its pretty sinister and more than disturbing that this president is using human suffering to manufacture a crisis so that he can build a wall in order to please his rightwing base. Thats not what americas all about, and thats not what we should be doing. We should be finding solutions through a comprehensive Immigration Program where we look at the asylum program, figure out how we can accommodate some of these people that are coming to this country in order to save their families and at the same time ensure that we are securing our borders. The Trump Administration is not even doing that. All they want to do is a bunch of hype. You know, talk about closing the border. What good is it going to do to close the border in the state of texas or any border state . You know, there is 1 billion of commerce that passes through those border stations all across the border. 1 billion that creates jobs in the United States. Why would you want to penalize americans because youre wanting to create and manufacture this crisis so you can get this stupid border wall . Thats what this whole argument is all about. You know, i understand that a lot of these Border Agents are working 24 7 to try to ensure that they can do their job, but most of these refugees, most of these people that are seeking asylum, theyre coming in the front door. Theyre not sneaking across the border. Theyre not crossing the river on inner tubes, theyre walking to the border station and asking for asylum at that point, and what mr. Trump is doing through his administration and hes taking these people, putting them in detention and then releasing them out into the community to make it look like there is chaos and that something has to be done immediately, hence he makes the argument for hi bords border wa. This is not what were all about. Americans can see right straight through this. We didnt create this problem. It was dumped into our laps. Weve been doing the best we can for the past five years. Finally the wheels are starting to come off this thing. Nobody wants these points of yernt entry, but we may have to do that in order to get the problem fixed. Everybodys kicked the can down the road since 2014. Its time to get it done. Manufactured crisis. I dont understand that. Maybe you need to come and strap on a pair of boots and walk around with me for a day and youll get that little catch line out of the vocabulary real quick. Its a real crisis. We have men, women and children risking their lives every day because we have this beacon of light beckening them in. Once theyre here, where do we house them . Where . We dont have any place left. Unless you guys have some answers or some empty space somewhere because we dont have it down here. That was Border Patrol agent Chris Cabrera and Democratic Party chair speaking earlier to cnns ana cabrera. A woman accused of killing kim jonguns half brother could soon see freedom. This woman pleaded guilty to causing hurt by a dangerous weapon as part of a plea deal. The Vietnamese National and another woman were arrested in 2017 for wiping poison on the case of king jongnam. An automatic reduction means she could be out by may. Her alleged accomplice was freed last month after her charges were dropped. Now ivan watson is following the story from hong kong. He joins us now live. Good to see you, ivan. So this vietnamese woman was facing a mandatory death penalty. Now shes accepted this plea deal. She could very well be free as early as next month. But why did she receive such different treatment compared to her alleged indonesian accomplice and how has this been the end point to all of this . Well, rosemary, my suspicion is that in the case of the first suspect who was abruptly released after the prosecutor dropped charges last month that indonesian lobbying had a great deal to do with that decision to set her free. And the moment that happened, that put the onus on the vietnamese government and the Defense Attorneys for her to say, hey, this isnt fair. Both of these women faced the same charges. This is not justice if our suspect now, our citizen will be the lone person to take the rap for this. So that was an immediate argument made by the defense, made by the vietnamese government as well, and ultimately the prosecutor did offer a lesser charge against her, provided she accept a guilty plea for this charge of, quote, voluntarily causing hurt by dangerous weapons or means. Now, the judge spelled out that the penalty for this was a maximum of ten years in jail, a fine and whipping, though he ruled out whipping in the case of a woman. He ultimately gave her three years, four months. Her Defense Attorneys think she may be out within a month. This does seem to be drawing the trial for one of the most brazen assassinations in recent history, drawing it to a close without either of these suspects ever really testifying about what they said was them being fooled into carrying out this assassination. Right. And ivan, when we look at this outcome, it looks like these two women initially at least were the fall guys for this crime. So what about the true suspects in this case . There are four north koreans who are wanted, but managed to escape malaysia quite quickly after the initial murder took place in kuala lumpur airport in february of 2017. At that time there was a diplomatic spat between malaysia and north korea. North korea effectively holding malaysian diplomats hostage, so there was a kind of informal swap that took place. So those wanted people are gone and missing. The Defense Attorneys for the vietnamese suspect, they told me last month that the real criminals here are those north korean agents. Will they ever face justice . Probably unlikely the way things are going right now. And the vietnamese ambassador was quoted as being quite pleased with the end result of her now facing a much smaller sentence. The judge the prosecutor have said there had to be some kind of charge and crime and sentence for the sheer brazenness and seriousness of the crime on the grounds of deterrence, to perhaps try to deter other organizations or groups from trying to carry out murders in the Main International airport and gateway in and out of malaysia in the future. Rosemary . Indeed. Well see, of course. Thank you so much, ivan watson. Bringing us the latest on this story from his Vantage Point in hong kong. Appreciate it. Well, after nearly three years of polit week where parliament finally decides about what to do with brexit . Well take a look at that. Plus, ukrainian voters may have just elected a tv comedian to be their next president. Why the two runners up in sundays election a and more. You wouldnt accept an incomplete job from any one else. Why accept it from your allergy pills . Flonase relieves your worst symptoms including nasal congestion, which most pills dont. 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Were not planning for a general election. The conservative party are you preparing for one . Well, ill be completely straight with you. We have got a we have got a minority government in a turbulent time. So we, you know, just in terms of sensible, pragmatic planning, but we are not seeking, preparing in that kind of sense that i think you mean for a general election. What the government, what the party, what mps are focused on, for the most part, and should be focused on is delivering brexit. Well, Stephen Erlanger is the New York Times british correspondent. He joins me now. Good to see you, stephen. You, too, rosemary. So the British Parliament will be considering its options on april fools day. The Customs Union with the eu appears to be the most popular alternative at this point. Hardline brexiteers wont support this. The question is whether you can get a majority of members of parliament. Thats not at all clear because what happened last week is that everyone voted on all kinds of options, but none of them got a majority, including Customs Union. Customs union seemed to be more popular than other things. So lets say they do vote a majority for Customs Union. Im not sure they always understand what a Customs Union is or what it actually means, but then Prime Minister may will have a very difficult choice because thats very much against what she has promised her voters. So she will, i think, try to bring her deal, which was negotiated with the eu over 18 months, back to the commons as a runoff against the idea of Customs Union and try to finally get it passed. If not, then were going to have a problem because then i think shes going to have to decide, you know, whether to go ask for a long extension from the eu for brexit, which she says she doesnt want to do and wont do, or whether she wants to throw her cards up in the air