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Approach doesn't work is there are two things. one, we need a better qualitative sense of what's going on in order to come up with the solutions that might work. obviously we don't need any kind of military presence or more police. the police are working hard. in fact, they have done effective work along the lines of managing some of the gang problem there is. this is not all gang related. there is common sense gun safety/gun control issues here. the issues here have are to do with access to jobs and economic development. the neighborhoodses that represent the 80% or more of the homicide stati...

More for economic reasons because you can see from where they are coming from, they are coming from the highlands, from the rural areas. those are very very dirt poor communities that the children are leaving. honduras and el salvador on the other hand, they are just having a terrible gang problem. deportation of gang members back in the 1990s. you don't see that in nicaragua. they didn't have that group of deportees resettle in that country and become organized crime as i understand cats. >> obviously we don't want the gangs here either. it makes sense to get rid of them too. if we deported t...

These countries in honduras and guatemala and el salvador and we got to address that crisis. my former czar for dealing with prevention, intervention with gangs was working with u.s. aid to address the gang problem that's an epidemic there. >> you see the reason many of these kids are coming as legitimate? they are legitimately fearful for their lives in the countries they are living? they are not just coming to look for a better life? >> everything i understand, many of these kids are fleeing that crime wave, that situation, some of them are targeted for murder and assassination. there are ot...

It's concentrated in just part of chicago. part of that is a gang problem. then you look at the supply of the kind of guns they're using in these shootings. that is an indiana problem. there is a gun factory essentially that is streaming guns from a low gun control state like indiana where it's easy to go and buy a gun without a whole lot of wait time, without a lot of background check. then the guns are imported back into chicago. you have states that have strong gun laws like illinois that are having guns fed into them by states with weak gun laws that are their neighbors. that's another par...

We would see a huge amount of orel central american countries' children like panama and nicaragua, but three quarters of these kids are from three countries, honduras, el salvador, and guatemala, all of which have seen surges recently in the gang problem. >> dan, 47,000, i think, went up to 60,000 that are expected to try to cross the border? that was not a small number by any means. we know the u.s. is in talks with the countries to try to get the children home faster. a lot of people are looking at these children an the gang violence they're coming from and they're saying they're kids, 5, 6 ...