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Residents in texas who have a view of what life along the border is like don't think so. joining me now, jason book who covered border affairs. welcome to you. i know you wrote an article about this topic. why do residents think a border wall is unrealistic? what are some of the reasons? >> well, for one thing, there's already several hundred miles of existing border fencing that's been put in. we talked to people who had mixed reviews about how effective that has been. then in texas, we have really wide swaths of very remote border along the rio grande river that a lot of people said it would...

Deportations of central americans coming through that country. the u.s. is spending large amounts of money on economic development in what they call the northern triangle countries. so there is an argument being made right now that you can attack some of the issues at the root rather than trying to fight them as our congressman says at the one yard line. >> jason, you say the root. immigration has been the root of donald trump's campaign. is it a winning approach for him, bottom line? what do you think? from those along the border there, the southern border. >> well, i think texas is going to ...