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Border Patrol officials said that the weekly revenue for human smuggling has quadrupled since last year.

Bus driving 95 miles, and what would you want for your child? i would want my child to get care, and in this case it was an hour and a half before that child got medical attention and then she stopped breathing and then she was seizing. >> was it because they were not close to a medical facility? >> that's what dhs says to me. >> a helicopter couldn't have got there? >> i have been out there and there's a border team that specializes in rescuing people, and i know there's a capability for border patrol to quickly rescue people and give them medical attention and we know it didn't happen in thi...

You don't hear that kind of talk on the border. you hear it everywhere else. but on the front line where you deal with it every day, 34 years i've never seen a complaint on a law-enforcement officer that's based on race. you just don't see that. what we see as a community working with law enforcement on all levels trying to come up with solutions to stop the flow into our country. to enhance the quality of life on our border and throughout the nation. that's what we see down here. but the rest of the country doesn't see as the violent aspect of this, too. i'll give you an example. last night m...

>> reporter: well, good morning, alex. right now the hunt is still on the streets are closed all of this began with a 911 call vacationer who realized his camper had been shot at. he phoned police police brought in a border team in a chopper that landed in the woods and then encountered matt and shot and killed him. people here went to bed hoping that overnight with flares in the streets and an fbi plane circling overhead they would find david sweat. they are waking up to the news he is still on the run and the manhunt is still on. david sweat is thought to be in these dense woods, still at la...

>> reporter: the border patrol chief is gone, effective january 31st. we are told he wasn't fired for cause, but simply the president wanted to move in another direction. you may remember trump was endorsed by the union representing border patrol agents. he was not very popular -- that outgoing border team was not popular with that union. >> all right, jon. thank you. president trump taking air force one for the first time today, and at one point allowing cameras on board. he was on his way to meet with members of congress. republicans who now, of course, control the house and the senate. wh...