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Was made public by local media here in puerto rico. so it is going to be a very difficult transitional time for the island, which is still recovering from two hurricanes that hit it very hard back in 2017. hurricane irma and hurricane maria. the financial crisis here on the island is still a very huge problem so the announcement was made but there's a lot that remains to be done, john. >> raphael, hundreds of thousands of people have been on the streets for the last week or so demanding for this to happen, this resignation. so at that moment when it finally came in, you were on the streets the...

>> and the numbers have 30 million crossing from mexico last year at that very point. helping underscore as you said the world's busiest land crossing. >> and some of the images shown earlier it was not only younger or able-bodied people who were making it across this area. it was also families with young children and at one point the police officer essentially lifted his hands up as if he had given up. as saying there was nothing we could do about this, there was not going to be any violence perpetrated from the police officers against the migrants. it was very evident they were outnumbered a...

And they sent us a statement saying there's essentially no deal because the president-elect has not yet taken office, and number two, they make the point that they don't want to be a holding country for immigrants trying to get asylum into the united states. we know that there have been conversations between u.s. officials and the transition team, but, again, the mexican president doesn't take office until december 1st and we really have to wait until then before any official agreement between the u.s. and mexico. however, president trump has said and he posted it last night on twitter that no...

>> hello, everyone. we're following breaking news at the southern border. around 500 migrants outnumber federal and local mexican police there, rushing towards the u.s. border near tijuana mexico. u.s. border and customs patrol has closed the border crossing between. this happening as the incoming mexican government is denying reports it reached a deal with the trump administration to keep asylum seekers out of the united states and remain in mexico while their cases are being processed in u.s. courts. all right, let's bring in cnn's raphael romo. first let's address this now. this is the emea...

Coming through. >> when have you guys been in favor of that? >> ben, the images that you are seeing are while there are a lot of people, you don't see anything that is disturbing except that there are a lot of people. >> they are all in pursue of trying to get across the border or looking for air better way. >> fredricka, remember when they were at the bridge crossing several weeks ago and they were going after the police and attacking the police. the idea that this is lawful, this is lawless. >> raphael, is this lawlessness or -- how do you interpret this? >> it's a numbers game if i can say ...