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Happen when you have sort of a very rapid news cycle is these you know you simplify stories so there's always a villain and a hero i sort of take a little bit of issue and i think it's really important to think about that pew study and other studies that look at negative verse positive because they're basically looking at it as sort of keywords and it's true that a lot of time some of the language and you know where things that may seem critical would be described as negative but i don't necessarily judge it that way i judge positive and negative and i think the important the best way to do it...

The white house and many in the gop blame parents for putting their kids in harms way. hey, you don't want to get teargassed, don't bring them. these mothers say they are here to escape harm. that as bad as this is, that there is still hope here, no matter how slim. the most disturbing image for now, however, may not be anything that you're seeing here. this is bad. but hearing the american president say that all this, all that's happening -- this -- is a win for him and his party. there is no invasion, okay. here's a little fact for some context. a new pew study concludes the overall number...

How much do they want it? let's make it as hard as we can. the same philosophy that led to the separation of those kids the last time were at a flash point like this. the president is exacerbating these conditions because time is an enemy here, and he knows it. the white house and many in the gop blame parents for putting their kids in harms way. hey, you don't want to get teargassed, don't bring them. these mothers say they are here to escape harm. that as bad as this is, that there is still hope here, no matter how slim. the most disturbing image for now, however, may not be anything that yo...

She has been to the border with mexico. we'll get to this mother you tracked down in a second. you looked at this pew study. what jumped out at you? >> reporter: it's pointing out what many of us who have studied immigration for a while already knew. you're seeing an all-time low in terms of unauthorized immigrants from mexico. if you look at the last ten years, more mexicans have been returning to mexico than those who are going to the u.s. so what are we seeing in terms of rising numbers? that is the number of central americans and we have been seeing that steadily rise now for years. we're ...

11. that's based on census data in 2016. economy coming out of the recession and doesn't fully reflect the surge of central americans. it says recent immigrants are such as likely to cross the border illegally as someone who over stays their visa. mexicans today only make up about half the illegal population. asians 22%, and 2/3 of the migrants have lived in the u.s. for 10 years or more. 43%, it says, have a u.s.-born child. >> we have for the first time a majority of those coming to the u.s./mexico border are not mexican. not single men. they are not just looking for work. >> so that pew stu...