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Checker, daniel dale of the "for on-toe star" and a frequent guest on this broadcast wrote on twitter wrote, trump calls the rio grande legendary. he says they started construction there today. not sure, but i know they were planning to start building their first new fencing of trump's tenure in the rio grande valley this week. again, outside of the trump rally there was the beto o'rourke-led counter event. o'rourke gave up his seat in congress for el paso for what became a losing senate campaign against ted cruz. nonetheless he remains a voice and tonight went after the president on his treat...

Do not make us safer. walls will require us to take someone's property, their house, their farm, their ranch, to build a wall at a time of record-low northbound apprehensions. the president describes mexican immigrants as rapists and criminals. we have the chance to tell him and the country immigrants commit crimes including violent crimes as a lower rate than do americans who were born in this country. el paso has been the safest city in the united states of america, not in spite of the fact that we're a city of immigrants, but because we are a city of immigrants. >> again, these two competin...

Walls will require us to take someone's property, their house, their farm, their rnanch, to build a wall at a time of record-low northbound apprehensions. the president describes mexican immigrants as rapists and criminals. we have the chance to tell him and the country immigrants commit crimes including violent crimes as a lower rate than do americans who were born in this country. el paso has been the safest city in the united states of america, not in spite of the fact that we're a city of immigrants, but because we are a city of immigrants. >> again, these two competing events really withi...

>> we can show the rest of the country, as we make our stand here together tonight that walls do not make us safer. walls will require us to take someone's property. their house. their farm. their ranch. to build a wall at a time of record low northbound apprehensions. >> let me bring in msnbc's garrett hake. he was at that o'rourke rally last night. and the host of a nationally syndicated radio show. what did those at the o'rourke rally tell you? >> reporter: the folks i've been talking to feel like when the president talked about their city on the night of the state of the union like he was ...

Pa paso, we do not need a wall. we have used fbi crime statistics, the second or third safest city for 20 years in a row. we absolutely don't need a wall. we have record low levels of northbound apprehensions. last year was one of the lowest on record. more mexican nationals are flowing south than coming north. we have less than zero migration from that country. those who are coming across are very often kids fleeing the brutal, violent countries, el sal va dar, guatemala, asking us for refuge. we are spending $20 billion on border security rate now. instead, we need to focus on the business b...