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>> kat: i am all about securing the border, got to do it. i don't know we need a wall for that. >> eboni: you know my theory. i think trump's rhetoric is so effective. i believe in securing the border, i believe in sovereignty. i think they are democrats that are in trump-favorable districts. if they do what you are suggesting and they isolate the border security issue on its own, they will get some democrats. they can get it done. >> eric: i am smiling because you know if this is, a day after president trump introduces his policy commits pretty much a similar policy. we are talking about -- >...

Today it's not a border security issue it is a border management issue. people are turning themselves in to the border patrol or at our ports of entry. they are not fleeing and eluding us. >> what are you saying? it is a waste of money to build a wall along the 2,000 miles where there is no fencing? >> i think you can put additional infrastructure in place. there are probably some improvements that can be made, but when we think of unmanned aircraft, 21,000 border patrol agents, 18,000 of whom are on the southwest border, we have a lot going on and we have low crime rates along that entire sou...

Deportation than any other presiden presidency. 121 mothers and children, coming from states from those who were legally deported. you know that the legal aides that can get through due process have been inundated, but how would you get to that assistance to go through that the due process? >> this is the challenge that we're having with the obama administration. to the administration is treating this as a border security issue when we're having a border control crisis so the same way in which you deal with other refugee crises, we talk about due process, legal assistance and figuring out lega...

With this all the time. these are people from guatemala, el salvador and honduras. the numbers are impressive. more than 10,000 unaccompanied kids in the last two months and the numbers for families are even higher, more than 12,000 family members crossing the border. that's nearly triple the same amount this time last year. so they're climbing up the u.s. customs commissioner, he said this may very well be the new normal. he's concerned about this. he had homeland security people, not saying this was a crisis. they're saying this is not a border security issue, a humanitarian issue. officials...

Costume? refugee. >> i'll try to be quick. i think there's a couple of things. one, i think that we should, we should consider the fact that it does take two years to do a vetting process. what we should be probably a little more worried about are the people that are trying to get in here illegally. so we have a border security issue on all sides. that means including at our airport where people come in, overstay their visas. there's a vetting process, it's rigorous. i don't think that the president helps anything. see how this game can go. when the president of the united states says oh, they...