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Trade towers and would have stopped that. what he is doing is alleviating pressure on the border patrol. heather: there has been a 40% drop in border apprehension between 2017, 351,000 in 2016, 615,000, in december alone, 40,516 border patrol apprehensions. what is going on here? >> that is true leadership. if you look at the rhetoric he has brought to the table the message he has sent to all people from around the world, illegal immigration is solely a problem we share with mexico and that is not true. if you look at the apprehension we have we are arresting people from all over the world, fr...

Billion people, would be a better country than it is now or a worse country? >> not if it's not sustainable. i think that we currently have a level of immigration that in some ways isav merit-based, buts often not. we also have a lot of unaccounted for immigrants that our crossing the border. the levels of immigration specifically at 1.2 million, seemed to be -- it seems to be a number that has worked for us up to a point.mb when we up to a point were still building, the housing boom when there are still jobs to sustain them. that number at least in terms of border apprehension as we saw today...

Billion people, would be a better country than it is now or he was country? >> not if it's not sustainable. i think that we currently have a level of immigration that in some ways is merit-based, but is often not. we also have a lot of unaccounted for immigrants that are costing the border. the levels of immigration specifically at 1.2 million, seemed to be -- it seems to be a number that has worked for us up to a point. it works up to a point when we were still building, the housing boom when there are still jobs to sustain them. that number at least in terms of border apprehension as we saw ...

If you had a country of half a billion people, would be a better country than it is now or he was country? >> not if it's not sustainable. i think that we currently have a level of immigration that in some ways is merit-based, but is often not. we also have a lot of unaccounted for immigrants that are costing the border. the levels of immigration specifically at 1.2 million, seemed to be -- it seems to be a number that has worked for us up to a point. it works up to a point when we were still building, the housing boom when there are still jobs to sustain them. that number at least in terms of...

Frequently. and it is the result of sending the message -- not just here in this country but in central america and elsewhere in the world -- if you come to our border, we will release you into the interior of the country.n that's now changing with this new administration. it's very exciting, we have seeu a steady decline -- 40% decline of border apprehension to 60% decline in march. if they keep enforcing the law and keep sending people home where they belong,ng particulary these unaccompanied minors -- we should make sure they are safely returned home as rapidly as possible. that certainly i...