18th street gang members. five predators, some wanted by authorities, and of course they frustrated drug smuggling attempt of the same time. well, that is just a few days, and only one region of the border. how do these people get into our country? and my table all stop the flow of illegals who pose a criminal and possible national security threat to our citizens? i disagree with the good people the president referenced earlier. now is the time to talk about the wall and to awaken citizens to the ongoing threat posed by an open border. and particularly on 9/11, we should remind people of the horror visited upon us by five hijackers who overstayed their visas. it is a whole separate issue. think of this as of 2017, we have over 700,000 people here on expired freezes. that is even separate from the
organization, part of customs and border protection, cdp, along with providing border security, our job is to facilitate lawful trade and travel. that is a very important mission and it serves both sides of the border. one of the things that is important to remember is what, we are not just talking about the flow, the volume of traffic coming across. what that consists of. you referenced ms-13 members and gang members. i can tell you in my sector alone, 1 of 9 along the southwest border, we have already caught almost 50 known gang members this year alone. over 770 criminal aliens that have been deported and came back after committing violent crimes, murder, assault, rape, you name it. there s of the type of folks that we are concerned with. we need to know about, we need to know that they are coming across and we need to be able to stop them. awol helps us do that. it also perpetuates wolf lawful trade and travel because it takes the criminal element away. if they cannot exploit the we
both sides of the border, both communities thrive. laura: real quick, henrique. just want to say, we can name one example of a successful terrorist attack on u.s. soil involving a crossing between the u.s. laura: how many people have flown planes into u.s. buildings before 9/11? what i m saying is, why are we focusing on the border laura: okay, i m glad we got to that. henrique, you really you really aren t for border enforcement or any wall or any fence. you ve actually believe in open borders and a free flow of peope and goods. i just wish more people would say that because it would make the conversation a lot easier. part of this world, open borders, open markets, free thought, whatever their lingo is. otherwise, awol but actually make their relationship with with mexico better because we could go through normal ports of entry and control trade and control the people in the flow. it would be much better. much better. gentlemen, we are out of time. thank you so much.
was also a target, under attack by terrorists on that day. that is why they chose new york city, that is why they chose laura: let s get to the wall. let s focus this conversation. jason, i got to go to you. we got to move this forward. the line for a bit more of an open borders crowd is a wall is unnecessary superfluous, you were on the ground every day, in san antonio now, on the ground every day, your border agents are doing their best, what a wall help or not? let me put the answer is simple yes, it absolutely would. i can tell you, henrique is right, we do have a 700 miles of border along a 2,000-mile border. it s not enough. what we have right now is not enough to fully secure the border. we had nearly 20,000 men and women in the u.s. border patrol, almost 2,000 and the laredo sector alone. it s not enough. we still have people getting through, we still have people coming across our border that we don t know about. if we want to have a secure border, we want to truly prot
lost because we were loss of some evil, sick people because they wanted to hurt a country that they heard it so much, a civilization they hated so much, a way of life they hurt so much. of these politicians would do their job that they swore to do, we wouldn t have half of these issues that we have. i don t know how they take paychecks and go home every night. i don t understand how somebody takes if you don t do your job as a soldier, you pay a price. with these politicians, they are not doing their job. they haven t done their job as far as immigration or any of these issues for 20, 25 years. i am not really too hopeful on them doing it now. laura: tom, i just can t believe we are still debating whether the country needs to have a secure border, all these years. i m not just talking about trump. obama, bush, all these years, we still want to have a secure border. i mean, thousands of people crossing the border. it is a security threat. it is a security threat. tom, thank you so m