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Fact president trump and secretary of defense jim mattis had a meeting. they discussed this. it wouldn't be the first time the u.s. military was brought in for southwest border control. there was an operation a mission down there from 2007 to 2008, where several thousand u.s. national guard soldiers were a part of the border control mission. it involves actually them building more than 30 miles of fencing. not a wall, of course, but some fencing, repairing roads manning border control stations. they weren't involved in any interdixs. alex, it wouldn't be the first time they were brought down t...

Part of an ongoing joint european border control mission in the mediterranean. it didn't take long for them to spot refugees. >> you can see one, two boats. two rubber boats reach the shoreline. >> 12:00, boats are landing on shore? >> yes, 12:00, 10:00, 11:00. >> at 12:00, 11:00, 10. i see them, yes. >> the chopper's camera focused on one boat in distress. to rescue it, the crew called in a nearby greek coast guard cutter, cutter 080. >> 080 radio check with romanian helicopter. >> guided by the chopper, it sped over to help. to get a closer look of how all this works we boarded it 80 before ...

Times before about the fact that italy was asking for help. they couldn't keep up the cost of trying to mount the operations. it is my understanding that italy has been more active in the seas. >> absolutely right. for one year italy had a program that cost the country 9 million euro a month and had dedicated vessels out there looking for migrants in trouble. 174,000 people over the course of 2014 were rescued in that operation. they stopped the operation in november. the european union's border control started their own program. they only have one or two boats and a couple of airplanes lookin...

Suffering of so many people. >> well at this point it really is just a rs cescue mission. the coast guard, rescue the people bring them to sicily. not much more than they can do that that. they have called on european union to help to try to take some of the people coming into sisly. the european union mission, border control mission, controls a couple of ships out there. they have a nice landing ship, helping and some of the rescue operations right now. right now it really is just a -- a response mission. a rescue mission. trying to get people into safe, land, safer situations. of course many...