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Try to deter essentially lawful asylum seeking on the part of people leaving the most dangerous countries in the world and one thing i've got to tell you, by cbp's own admission, family unit apprehension is down 4% to date this year over last year. unaccompanied alien children is up only 3% over this same time last year. so insofar as we have a crisis. >> wait a second, wait a second. >> the administration is making the crisis. >> the numbers are down year over year? >> if you look at fy-18, may 30th to fy-17, may 30th, this is from cbp's own website. looked at it before i came on your show. t...

We can get them together with their parents. it's unclear if the administration dysdoing at all to make sure that they are reunited. temporarily at least they'll stop taking kids from parents but this idea to build out 20,000 beds for additional days and months and maybe years of detention shows that this administration, the president admitted it today is using these punitive traumatic measures to try to deter essentially lawful asylum seeking on the part of people leaving the most dangerous countries in the world and one thing i've got to tell you, by cbp's own admission, family unit apprehen...

The right request and over what period of time is necessary to meet, just as we've done in katrina and just as we did with sandy, try to meet the needs of the federal responsibility working with our state and local partners. >> all right. >> does that include offsets? >> we have to wait and see what the appropriations -- yes, thanks, peter. we have to wait and see what our appropriations committee leadership, when we get back to the city next week, recommend on how to finance and fund that project -- those projects for fy-18. >> alex, can i say something. >> last word to you. >> sure. you ment...

We had no hearings on the health care bill that the republicans are considering. let's work together. we've worked together on on the fy-17 budget. we want to improve the affordable care act, not repeal it, and there are ways we can do that by bringing down overall health care costs and making particularly in the individual marketplace health insurance more affordable. on the budget issues, we have members of the authorizing committees on both the democratic and republican side, the environmental public works committee we'll be passing out some authorization bills that deal with the budget. we...

Care bill that the republicans are considering. let's work together. we've worked together on on the fy-17 budget. we want to improve the affordable care act, not repeal it, and there are ways we can do that by bringing down overall health care costs and making particularly in the individual marketplace health insurance more affordable. on the budget issues, we have members of the authorizing committees on both the democratic and republican side, the environmental public works committee we'll be passing out some authorization bills that deal with the budget. we need to deal with a realistic bu...