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>> we will continue conversations with this new administration about reaching an agreement to permit the united states to process asylum applicants while individuals remain in mexico. but those conversations and those negotiations are ongoing. we remain hopeful that we'll be able to reach that agreement. going forward. >> there may be progress on that. jeff paul is lives in tijuana with the latest.>>reporter: we are standing here on the tijuana border. this is in fact the exact spot where one week ago, hundreds of migrants from the caravan at a protest and marched up to this border wall. you c...

Doesn't have any military service. he avoided it. sometimes he does speak as if he knows how to channel how the military is feeling. here is this moment from tuesday about what he said about how they're feeling at thanksgiving. listen to this. >> oh, you -- don't worry about the thanksgiving. these are tough people. they know what they're doing. you're so worried about the thanksgiving holiday for them. they are so proud to be representing our country on the border. >> what did you hear in that statement? >> lack of empathy. they are tough people. they're doing incredible things. they also nee...

There's no way that we think the united states or mexico can guarantee their safety. it's a nonstarter legally. exactly the way you put it. it's not an aside. it's part and parcel of the legal requirement. >> also the legal process. due process. would it be possible to provide the legal counseling that these migrants seeking asylum would need if they're on the mexican side of the border? >> i'm glad you asked that. people are forgetting that. the other half is they'll provide full asylum hearings in the u.s. but we don't know how that could possibly happen. when are they going to talk to lawye...

>> go ahead, anna maria. >> let me add to that. there clearly has been conversations between the incoming mexican government and the current government, which is hours away before they leave, about this issue. the fact is on the tijuana border, you have hundreds of haitians trying to get into the united states that have barehand waiting for months and years, and central americans trying to get in through this process, and in a sense it's already happening that mexico is keeping these people on this side of the border until there's a resolution, although there may not be a formal agreement to d...

The caravan, though, 5,000 to 9,000, depending on which count you believe that is in tijuana, those are people coming to the border, as far as you know, for asylum. isn't it? >> i do not believe that is true. there are definitely people in that group that are going to try to claim asylum. the vast majority of those, from what we call the triangle are economic reasons. they can still apply. i did not see people walk up to border agents and asked to claim asylum. one of the groups i've seen, several of them that were arrested, they past 10 or 15 marked border patrol units walking east to west, n...