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Refused to step up and do what they said, we still continue to work with them. we should still continue to work with the governments of the northern triangle countries to help them in any way they can. absolutely. but that's not going to address the pull factors that are broken asylum laws are really largely responsible for these individuals coming to our one country. it's our own laws that are producing the incentives and pull factors to come. >> let me ask you this, because you in your capacity at i.c.e. you work with your mexican partners on this, right? we are neighbors and allies, both in...

Price of avocados. >> maria makes a specific point. there's push factors from central america and pull factors that are important. we saw this with george bush when he was thinking about immigration the last two years. he realized, the pull factors are important. his friends and people in his party want cheap, if not free labor. they want to make sure they don't have to deal with human rights violations. trump says, i am getting everything from mexico. they need what is happening, unfortunately, in a global sort of economic and human rights version. we are doing things in this crisis. >> i thi...

Had committed $420 million in aid. but that was stopped earlier this spring by the trump administration. they cut all of that aid. are you concerned that cutting that aid just makes the crime go up in those countries and makes the economy worse, so that more of them are fleeing to the united states? >> i can certainly say that we need to be addressing those push factors, which is what you're talking about there. and we are working. we have individuals in those countries working with them on the push factors. the vast majority of the families we're catching are saying they are coming here for e...

Apprehensions and encounters across the entirety of the southern border. a migrant caravan every day. i can't say enough about what our front line border patrol agents and officers are doing. we need everyone and anyone who can positively impact the situation to act now. that is absolutely critical. >> bill: everyone who goes down there comes back with stunning statements about the reality what you're dealing with down there. what would explain why you had 1,000 in one day? >> a few things, bill. first certainly what i've been talking about with many of us in the department and the agency are ...

We're doing all we can, continuing to do it. we need congress to do their part. >> neil: real quickly, bid remiss if we didn't get an update on reinforce the 1996 immigration laws that call on those that sponsor immigrants to also have affidavits of support filed for them. that they will take on the financial responsibility to those that they sponsor. to tighten that up. how do you feel about that? >> our colleagues and citizenship and immigration services are working on those sorts of potential remedies. these are all contributing pull factors that we continue to deal with, that we're going t...