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Thank you, sir, really appreciate you joining us. let's get right into this discussion. it's a crisis. we want to drill down on some of the numberses fr s from the humanitarian crisis from the cbd. okay? they say, you can see on your screen now, total apprehensions went up from a low point in april of 2017 to over 144,000 i increase in two years. why are we seeing this incredible surge? >> don, it's a couple things going on here, first of all, we have conditions ripe for mass migration in central america. economic instability, failure of the government to be able to protect their people. high,...

Let's get right into this discussion. it's a crisis. we want to drill down on some of the numbers from the humanitarian crisis from the cbd. okay? they say, you can see on your screen now, total apprehensions went up from a low point in april of 2017 to over 144,000 in may of 2019. that's an almost tenfold april of 2017 to over 144,000 in may of 2019. that's an almost tenfold increase in two years. why are we seeing this incredible surge? >> don, it's a couple things going on here, first of all, we have conditions ripe for mass migration in central america. economic instability, failure of the...

Southern border with mexico. in may of 2019, the month just completed, the month we have stats for now, that number was 144,000. that number has been rising, it's been surging, it's been spiking. it doesn't seem to be slowing down. is that number a crisis? >> well, what it shows is that this president has been a total disaster when it comes to the issue of immigration. because he told us just a year ago that if we would be cruel enough as americans to separate little children from their mothers that that would deter more families from coming to the united states, and instead, as you pointed ou...

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 with more than 144,000 people detained or found inadmissible last month. there are two issues to consider. first, migration in the u.s. unauthorized and apprehensions began shooting up in january. as the president began his bloody political fight over the wall. it's unclear if there is a connection between him starting to fight and a bunch of people thinking the door was closing and coming towards the border. ...

Or arrested at the southern border last month, more than 144,000 people. and of those nearly 133,000 crossed the border illegally. including over 11,000 unaccompanied children, imagine that. since the first of this year there has been a steady increase in migrants apprehended at the border. you can call it whatever you want. it is a huge, huge problem. is the answer slapping tariffs on goods imported from mexico if they don't stop the flow of migrants with no clear idea of what it will take to satisfy the president? is the answer raising prices for americans on goods from cars, tomatoes to air...