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Okay, we were able to re-establish a connection with mexico city and jorge. i had one more question i wanted to ask you. i want to ask you a lot more but i don't have time do it now. here it is because you have to be fair. the fact is in the last month border agents apprehended 144,000 imgrarpts coming across the border, 132,000 were illegal migrants. that number spiked. it's the highest in a decade. so has mexico dropped the ball to some degree as the president alleges? >> i think this is largely mexico's fault in the sense that back in december when president obrador took office he pretty

We got to remember terrorists and enemies of america have always tried to infiltrate. the battle of the and very dangerous when we have a border so out of control. rob: i want to move to the second part of that, the crisis in general, and 5% from mexico starting on monday as we look at numbers, we can show you how bad may was. a tremendous for illegal apprehension. 144,000 coming in, tremendously high number, we're getting into closing in on really high numbers. they were higher in the early 2000s.

Timing, because as we know, st. petersburg, vladimir putin is meeting with the president of china, president xi, and they have just declared themselves best friends. how do you interpret that? >> i don't know that that plays into this instance. mostly situations at sea occur because of failed communication, they occur because people have set courses and the commander on watch was not paying attention. i don't know. i doubt this has to do with the meeting between russia and china declaring themselves best friends. that just doesn't make any sense to me. >> let's move on to what's happening at b...

Punches. he is busy doing his leftist thing in mexico. i think the mexican will go out of their way to be cooperative but i have to say it is a national embarrassment that instead of congress doing the little tweaking that is necessary to be done on asylum we have to go to mexico? >> bill: they're outsourcing the responsibility. >> a national embarrassment and congress should be ashamed of themselves. the house isn't doing anything serious. >> look at the numbers, juan. what is serious is 144,000 immigrants a month. that's what's serious and that's what has to change. >> what republicans think...

Asylum extraordinary in size and scope with more than 19,000 immigrants currently in custody. many of those people are held in shocking conditions as pointed out over and over by the detainees themselves. the families and lawyers. at two stories that are egregious. migrant children are sleeping on benches or outside of stations because of overcrowding. they are cancelling english classes, recreational programs and legal aid for migrant children in federal shelters. the trump administration said the surge has tied their hands and there has, let's be clear, a surge in apprehensions at the border...