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As to how the rest of the caravans in these central american companies will behave? >> yes definitely. if you look back in the 1990s there was an influx of hundreds and hundreds of aliens running up the freeways in san diego, and the government instigated operation gatekeeper to stop this traffic. now we need to stop this traffic before it gets to the united states, i.e., work with mexico. griff: and you having been a border patrol agent and an i.c.e. agent one of the parts of this story that gets left out, we had this story last night in yuma, arizona, agents coming under assault. are you con...

Kept coming. but was there one incident in particular which you felt was the moment when you needed to make your song? >> well, our second album, actually the album that had "baby 0 i love your way" on it also had a song called "border town." it centered around the activities that were going on back then, 1994. if you remember, that was the year that nafta was inducted, a big militarization of the border called operation gate keeper was taking place. so we've just been very tied into the activist border community. i'm appalled every day at some of the things that president trump is using, some...

And now, i'm going to say something i don't usually say, it's not all president trump's fault. questionable border policies is not just a trump thing. it's a u.s. president thing. from teddy roosevelt's mounted watchmen, to official border patrol under calvin coolidge, to the nasty deportation wave called "operation wetback." yep, it was called "operation wetback." to clinton who passed nafta. and operation gate-keeper that built walls and further militarized the border. to george w.'s homeland security and our current wall, president after president, keeps devoting our taxpayer dollars to tig...

For, these are things that we need. the subject matter experts that have done is drop for decades on end, are telling us, we need a wall, we need infrastructures, we need roads to be as bold to respond, cameras to detect the traffic coming across and we need the brave men and women out there to do the job right. >> laura: you guys are the facts in the "angle" parade $175 billion, just in fiscal year '2017 on countermeasures. and we can find $25 billion over a period of time to pay for a physical barrier? it's not everything. but it's a statement and it will stop a lot of the flow. we saw the o...

>> thank you for having me. i hear there's a birthday wish we should pass on. >> laura: i decided to celebrate with you guys. i have to celebrate the birthday the border patrol. >> thank you. >> f laura: thank you so much. i was here in 1997 covering the operation gatekeeper, clinton-era double fencing which reallywa worked. it was really successful. now, it's 21 years later. what's changed? >> well, coincidentally i was there as well. >>ar laura: maybe you should show me around. >> i start my career in 1992 in this park and it was complete chaos. systematically over 26 years i've watched the ...