Sanctuary cities. You can join the conversation on twitter or go to facebook. Com cspan. While we wait for your calls, lets listen to the president yesterday. He visited the Homeland Security department and here is what he had to say. The secretary of Homeland Security working with myself and staff will begin immediate construction of a border wall. [applause] pres. Trump so badly needed. You folks know how badly needed it is. Help mexico by deterring illegal immigration by Central America and by disrupting island cartel networks. I have said repeatedly, we are going to get the bad ones out, the criminals and the drug dealers and gangs and gang members and cartel leaders. The day is over where they can stay in our country and wreak havoc. We are going to get them out and get them out fast. John kelly is going to lead that way. President yesterday at the Homeland Security department with his secretary that was sworn in before that. Immigration promises, he will fulfill them. What is your reaction . Let me show you reaction from capitol hill. Speaker of the house tweeting this out, you also have his full statement. Some other reactions. Also a republican from virginia. Emocrats also senator jeff merkley saying the headline in the usa today, trump clamps down on immigration. Rodney, memphis, tennessee. You are supporting the president. Caller i am supporting him, because i am on Social Security disability and you go to the Social Security office and you are the only white person there. Yesterday i went to the doctor, and all that was waiting to see the doctor was spanish people. Dont know who is legal it is pitiful. I live in the texas panhandle, and i dont understand is there is a hiring freeze but they are hiring 5000 more Border Patrol. Is there a freeze on hiring Government Employees and hiring 5000 more Border Patrol . The spanish people here in texas is taking over. That is host rodneys viewpoint in texas. We will talk about the hiring freeze and get a take on the hiring of border agents. We are going to talk with david coxe. That discussion coming up. Here are viewpoints on immigration, what the president did yesterday. Yattsville, maryland you oppose what the president is doing, why . Caller thank you for taking my call. I think this is a smokescreen. Built,ll that is being who is going to build it . How Many Companies belonging to donald trump will be building the wall . I think he is making money off the country. Company was going bankrupt until he ran for resident. Ran for president. I believe trump tower was losing money. All the rich billionaires he has hired, i dont so much oppose patrols. The border this wall, who is going to build it . When are we going to see his taxes . Host in his very first interview since being sworn in, about the wall and who will be paying for it . Ultimately, it will come out of what is happening with mexico. We will be starting those negotiations soon. Back . Y will pay it absolutely, 100 . We will be reimbursed at a later date from whatever transaction we make from mexico. I could hold off a year. We have to build a wall, we have to stop drugs from pouring in. We have no idea where they are from. I campaigned on the wall and it is very important. That wall will cost us nothing. You talk often about mexico paying for the wall. Mexicos president said that mexico will not pay. It goes against our dignity as a country and mexicans. I think he has to say that. I am telling you, there will be a payment it will be in a form, complicated form. What i am doing is good for the United States and mexico. What are you going to say to your supporters who said i thought mexico was going to pay from this from the start . I never said they were going to pay from the start. When does construction begin . As soon as we can. And months. Planning is starting immediately. Host usa today front page story says this they go on to report we will show you what the mexican president has to say after a couple of phone calls. John in louisiana. You support the president. Caller a couple of minor points. Illegal immigration exists. I believe those individuals are illegal aliens. As a sovereign nation we have a right to determine who comes into our nation. It is our call, whatever criteria we want to use. Our southern border is rather porous. They are Something Like 11 million illegal aliens. It is a problem, cutting off foreign aid to mexico who happens to be the nation that is on the other side of that border and who is allowing those people to travel through their country other places. I have no problem with securing our borders of our sovereign nation based on what we the citizens of our sovereign nation want. We are the ones that make up the criteria. That is all there is to it. I have no problem with this whatsoever. Im retired, i spent 28 years in the military defending this great nation. I want to continue doing that. Yes, i support it. Host let me read to you the wall street journal editorial. Caller i understand that. I am not talking about legal immigration. Immigration is a legal system whereby naturalization takes place. The word immigration is not even in the constitution. Naturalization is. The fact that the wall street journal says, weve got to let all those people in legally, yes. They go to the end of the line. They go through the proper seizures to come into the the proper procedures to come into the United States. Yes, we are a nation of immigrants. My family is traced back to 1723, before the United States even existed. It is a legal system. Host what about all those folks who are here who are not going to go back . Logistically impossible to make them go back to mexico or wherever they are from what about changing the laws so they can get in line, payback taxes . Wait a number of years . Are you on board with that . Caller yes and no. The problem is, we cannot send them back and then you come up with a whole bunch of ideas of things we will make them do. That is not going to make them guess that is not going to be better. You can do anything you want. Are we supposed to say lets say a step thing taxes for 20 years . And say i didnt pay taxes and you can catch me. You have been illegal for 20 years so we are going to forget the fact that you are illegal, that violates every principle of law. Contradictory to do what we are try to do. We have got to get a handle on it. Look at americans that are denied work because somebody who is here illegally does not have the responsibility that the american citizen does gets the job. I bear a lot of that on employers. That is where we need to put the point of the spear. I support controlling immigration into this great nation. It is our nation, we should control it. Host lets go to brooklyn. Alan, you are opposing the president S Immigration policy. Caller mostly on the grounds of hypocrisy. Ostensibly, he is protecting the public from the danger of visible threat by ordering the localities to stop giving sanctuary to these people. At the same time, he is ordering information about Climate Science held by the epa, the department of interior and other government scientists to be kept secret and let out only when the government decides to release that. In effect, he is giving sanctuary to the dangerous agents that are represented by climate destroying Carbon Industries in the name of protecting his political constituencies from the industries that supported him, any foreign governments that want to see us continue to exploit and overuse carbon fuel. That is six where he and his self i telling them they cannot release scientific information in the formay harm of climate destroying gases. Host we will move on to samuel in maryland. Supporting. Caller thank you for taking my call. The gentleman that was from was very correct. Marlboro, and i say that it is a problem. The guy from louisiana, he was correct. Myself, in the military and i only did four years, but i was in south korea. To go through different parts of south korea, you have to show papers. Right. S i am supporting him on that. Caller you want to see a militarized border . Host you want to see a militarized border . Caller i want to see some kind of border. I watched programs that shows how people cross the borders, just walk right across. If you have people that are coming in the country, that are host if you are referring to our program we did last year from laredo and video earlier, those people have the right documents and paperwork to get in line. They are going through metal detectors and they are checked by order security. These are official checkpoints. As we learned from the mayor of laredo, you have americans and mexican citizens crossing back and forth shopping, touring. Caller that is fine and dandy, but what about those who are writing trains from different parts of the country and walking across the border. Host we talked about that as well. Caller what happens if an illegal commits a crime, can i sue the county or State Government . Law, can igning this now sue the governments of those six where he cities . Cities . Ose sanctuary it is anhost interesting question you pose. The mexican president did a National Address to his country last night. This is what he had to say about the prospect of a wall. I regret and condemn the United Statess decision to pursue the construction of a wall that far from united us has been dividing us for years. Mexico does not believe in walls. I have said it over and over again. Mexico will not pay for any wall. Host that was the mexican president. The wall street port wall street journal reporting that the move made by President Trump is shaking u. S. Mexico relations. Officials are threatening retaliation and where the new u. S. That could fuel a countertop populist movement of its own counter trump populist movement of its own. Both sides were expected to hammer out a primary a framework to discuss nafta, preparing that groundwork for a summit between President Trump and the mexican president. One of those mexican officials told mr. Kushner it would be impossible for the mexican president to go to the u. S. Mr. Trump during his presentation did say mexico would pay. The president of mexico is under pressure to cancel his trip to washington. In a reference to the trip, mr. Neah to said he would make a decision on the next step to follow after after evaluating a report from the mexican officials who met wednesday with u. S. Officials here in washington. Ets go to new york you are opposing the president. Go ahead. Caller hello, good morning. Thanks for having me. People from countries like syria, iraq, libya, somalia and yemen have been banned by mr. Trump. I think this action is somehow bysidered islam a phobic muslim communities in our country. Ebola radicalized muslims. The muslims in our country would not think our government is serving this way serving them this way. They want a normal allegiance to this country. The other thing i would like to say is all of most of those byntries have been affected policy. Eign iraq was invaded by mr. George w. Bush. Of course we helped saudi arabia and yemen. All those muslims were somehow affected by our foreign policy. I think we should not treat them like that. I think the outcome of that would not be so good for our country. Host the president expected to announce what you are talking about today. The headline in the wall street journal moreover calls coming up, but first joining us on the phone from the texas tribune, cooley and Aguilar Julian aguilar. Talk about what he did yesterday and what that means for border cities and border states like texas. That means is you get a mixed bag of reaction from lawmakers here. Pretty predictable. The democrats whether they represent cities on the border were outraged at the idea of the wall. Also stepping up on immigration enforcement, what happens with the dreamers. The democrats have said there are plenty of votes on the ground regardless of statistics. Down the valley, there are hundreds more depending on where it is. The fact that the president ordered 5000 more Border Patrol agents and want to triple the amount of ice officers sounded the alarm bells with democrats, specifically because he announced a federal hiring freeze last week for other agencies. Cruzlican lawmakers ted said it is about time. Michael mccaul who is the chairman of the Homeland SecurityCommittee Also praised the decision. The wall is going to be a very divisive issue. Moving forward, mexico as the president reportedly considered canceling his trip. The United States is going to pick usa first. With ourtaring contest number one trading partner. It is a look like anybody is going to back down which has a lot of folks on the border nervous. International trade host what is the Economic Impact of owning a wall . Impact of building a wall . Caller it sends a negative message to a southern neighbor. A lot of folks that are from the day,r in el paso on any whether it is clear or not, you can look out and see walrus and see juarez. The thought of a wall there is very upsetting. , theresd eagle pass some actual arcs they go to the banks of the river actual parks they go to the banks of the river. People envisioning a wall, again, it is very displeasing. ,ou have Big Bear National park one of the most treasured parks in the country, not only the state. There is a lot of questions about what is going to happen there. As far as trade, theres thousands of shoppers that pass into laredo, texas, on a weekly basis from mexico. Plummets, theyy are going to be deterred to come shop for a day. They are going to expect longer lines. From might be harassment Border Patrol. It is too soon to quantify it. We need to look at what the details look like. Like thats right now there is a lot of anxiety. Right now there is a lot of anxiety. Givingor of laredo was was willing to give the president a shot. He hopes some folks from demonstration would of reached out to border lawmakers before he made this executive decision, less than a week into his presidency. Host talk about the logistical challenges of building a wall on natural borders. The land that is owned by ranchers the way up ranchers all the way up to the border. Obviously we cannot go into a foreign country and building their. And build there. Eminent Domain Protection and the executive director told me the day before yesterday, granted this was before the order came down. There are many members who are split. Saying why do we find a 100 year lease . And if the other if ever there is a time you dont need back in we get our land proper compensation. You have to consider there are treaties in place since 1970s. Any barrier on the southern border cannot obstruct the flow of the river which is a natural border. You have water treaties between texas and mexico. You have a lot of places, say el paso, new mexico where desert, it might be easier, but then you go down the river toward the there theyland had trouble building the wall because of the soil and foundation issues. I dont think it will be anything easier with the proposed barrier that is going to be more massive in size. Host to follow julian aguilars reporting, go to texas tribune. Com. Back to the phone calls. Border residents, good morning. What you think about what the president is proposing . Caller it is the best thing we could ever do. I live in a border town, when my son came back from iraq, he was robbed at gunpoint. We started the border watch program, it worked and we had the army here at what is interesting is anybody that lives away from the border does not understand the border. We are a sovereign nation. Aixa is a sovereign nation. We have to protect mexico is a sovereign nation. We have to protect it. The people come across the border. I understand the economics of mexico. What mexico needs to take care of the people as we take care of ours. The are people who come from many many nations across this border illegally every night. Host respond to the New York Times editorial and the numbers they put in their piece. Caller well, here is what i think happened, everybody wants to hide their numbers. Each administration wants to make themselves look good. I was here on the border the day that president bush came down and wrote around in a doom buggy. He never went to the places where the troubled places were. Nobody ever comes and talks to the hardworking men and women in our town along the border and get the true numbers. Car accidents. These cars come flying across the border. They put these metal poles and gaetz in these vehicles would smash into it. Innocent people were killed in our town. Vehicle smashed, they commit a crime and they run back across the border. If you got a wall as to protect our nation, as determined from nation from texas said. We have to have this protection. Mr. Trump is right. Host i want to get your reaction to one thing, the Homeland Security rick perry when he would secretary when he was at his confirmation recently, here is what he had to say about the wall and how it is not enough. A physical barrier, a military person that understands defense and defenses. If physical barrier a physical barrier itself will not do the job. If you were to build a wall from the pacific to the gulf of mexico, you would have to back it up by human beings, sensors, devices. As i have said too many senators present, i believe a fence on 1500outhwest border starts miles south and that is partnering with ray countries that are very corporative with us in terms of getting after drug production. To include mexico, we could have a better partnerships. We could work close with them and give them more of what they need. Host let me go back and get your reaction. Are you willing . Do you think american taxpayer dollars should go toward an even greater effort beyond the wall . Caller no, here is why. Each country as you come up from the south has the immigration laws. Mexico has one of the most strict immigration laws there are. You look at the plight