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Breaking news. a border emergency in texas, as more than 9,500 migrants that have arrived are living under a bridge and thousands more expected in the coming days. the migrants, many haitian, are camped out in del rio, texas, fleeing a country that's been torn apart by a coup and a major earthquake. our reporter has just returned from an aerial tour of the area. rosa, you're talking about nearly 10,000 migrant, thousands more expected in 48 hours here. border officials are calling this situation unprecedented. what did you see? >> reporter: you know, erin, the visuals are shocking because what...

In the Mexican border town of Piedras Negras, the Hotel Santa Rosa sits just three and a half blocks from the crossing into the United States. But the promise of a better life in the U.S. may seem miles away for the migrants filling the 25 rooms at the hotel. Enrique Acevedo traveled to Piedras Negras for his new 60 Minutes+ report on the recent rise in immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border. He met Donley and Esley Boden at Hotel Santa Rosa, where they and their two children had stayed for a month and a half after they had traveled nearly a month from Honduras.

The deadline at the end of this month. and well placed republicans for the hill told fox news today president trump may actually want a shutdown and use it as politically damaging for the democrats, who will not support that border wall. we will see how this plays out, back to you. >> mike: david savard, live in washington, thanks a lot. majority of republicans in the senate facing a squeeze for minority leader chuck schumer, trying to push a vote on president trump's border emergency and senate majority leader mitch mcconnell pushing ahead with a potential vote on guns. all this as the nation...

Democrats are putting pressure on republicans to take a vote on the senate floor to terminate the national emergency use to fund the border wall with mexico. the white house announced last week $3.6 billion will be moved from 127 military project to construct the wall. >> the president's national emergency declaration wasn't is an outrageous power grab by a president who refuses to respect the constitutional separation of powers. >> reporter: congress is up against the clock to fund the government, a deadline at the end of this month, a republican source on the hill told fox news donald trump ...

Are going to have to take responsibility. this is the schumer-pelosi border emergency. they are refusing to make the changes that are necessary and to fund the resources necessary to deal with this. this is on them. ed: mark, to your point, we are showing video next to you a second ago of something just over a thousand immigrants crossing the border in one point. the video we saw just this week alone, one spot on the border. you can see it there. yet we played a clip earlier in the show in 2006. senator joe biden was saying we need a fence and he voted for 700 miles of fencing because basicall...