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Construct a border wall or protect this country from the violence destroying our nation from the south. how long can this go on. mark morgan is the acting commissioner of customs and border protection. he joins us tonight. mr. commissioner, thanks very much for coming on. are we overstating the crisis in mexico. >> no, sheriff daniels was spot on. this is what we have been saying all along. when we were told but the crisis we were told manufactured crisis. when they couldn't perpetrate that lie anymore. they said it's humanitarian crisis. well, no, we have been saying from day one it's both hu...

Worth in laredo, texas port of entry meth, hard narcotics. the drug czar jim carroll says listen this is all a support of the border patrol being stretched too thin. listen. >> we are talking about tons, literally tons of drugs coming into this country across the southwest border. and they're coming in knowing because the immigration crisis they're taking advantage of it. they are sending people across the border knowing that these fine men and women down here are going to be tied up with them and then it is complete carte blanche to send the drugs across. we need to think of this as our backy...

U.s./mexico border, but is he right? let's look at the facts. according to custom and border protection data, the number of people arrested at the border is at historic lows. nearly 1 million people were brought into border patrol custody annually in the early 2000s. compare that with the last two years, only around 400,000 migrants have been apprehended. as for the drugs being smuggled into the country, according to the drug enforcement administration, the majority of hard narcotics like heroin, opium, fentanyl, seized by customs and border protection come through legal ports of ent entry, no...

Flour but if this were street fentanyl it would cost about 8,000 to make, could be turned into a million pills, and then sold for $20 to $30 million on the black market. all of that from a small container that looks like this. >> the vast majority of fentanyl is produced in china. it comes into the u.s. two ways. you know, it comes into mexico, where it is compressed in pill form or combined with heroin. the other way is american consumers buying it direct often times from vendors out of china. and mailed in u.s. mail, the most common, a very small quantity of fentanyl is very hard to detect i...

Container that looks like this. >> the vast majority of fentanyl is produced in china. it comes into the u.s. two ways. you know, it comes into next, where it's either pressed into pill form or combined with heroin. the other way it comes in, american consumers buying it direct, oftentimes from vendors out of china. >> then i want gets mailed in? >> u.s. mail, which is the most common. a very small quantity of fentanyl is very hard to detect in the masses of letters that come into the u.s. every day. >> how effective is a wall at preventing drugs from getting into the united states? >> in term...