-mexico border and we look at her recent piece, construction or lack thereof of border wall funding . a single mileuilt of border fence after 30 months in office. the supreme court will let president -- let the president do just that, accessing pentagon funds for $2.5 billion for those funds. you have been on the border and you looked at this. why hasn't the new areas of fencing been installed why haven't knew border walls been built? guest: it's a combination of factors. the first two years president trump was in office, he had republicans in the house and senate, so there was no excuse not to move on this. it also comes down to how they plan during the transition, and during the end of the election, they got about $340 million of funding for 40 miles of wall in got, and in 2018, they $1.37 billion for far more. the issue they have had is senior administration officials will choose to work on the replacement project because it is easier, they have already -- they are replacing somebody so they don't need land approvals, the environmental approval, which they have been throwing around

the border. we have a long list of them. i'm concerned about drug resistant strains of tuberculosis, those types of things. i'm concerned about border patrol nutrition. is that something you are looking at in your inspections? the basic morale of border patrol personnel trying to cope with this. ms. costello: morale in and of itself is not a specific focus of our work, what we are looking into the driver behind that detention. to see what is going on with ice and hhs that is leading to some of these problems. chairman johnson: the commissioner talked about the larger aspect and i don't think the human trafficking element is reported enough on. we had a witness talking about a child that was sold for $84. will we are at the border, three-year-old boy was left in the field. his name and phone number written on his shoe. the fact that we are finding these families and staff being beaten, and it is being videotaped and sent to central america demanding ransom, the involuntary servitude with an invest

our border. comments from democrats in congress only serve to demean our brave border patrol employees and, frankly,ness importan this is important, spark outrage. abolish i.c.e., abolish dhs, entire department. walls are immoral, the speaker of the house said, even though there's a wall in her state. finance health care for all illegals. concentration camps. they called detention facilities conte concentration camps. earlier this week self-proclaimed member an teefia went to an i.c.e. center, set cars on fire and attempted to burn down the building. in this manifesto, this an teefia member said he felt it was necessary to take actions against these, quote, concentration camps. not one single so call cage has been constructed by the trump administration, not one. during the presidency of barack obama, we didn't see outrage from the democrats then. we didn't see prominent members of congress condemning, quote, concentration camps" and torture them. president trump has not built a single cage. the

border patrol stations are like police stations along the border. they're really offices and they manage that. but now they've also become places they have to hold children and adults by the thousands. thousands of people are crossing the border and they're trying to figure out how to be able to manage it. some of their facilities are exceptionally overcrowded. there is a facility that many people have seen the pictures of, they aaffectionately call the kids in cages facility. i'll tell you more about that in a little bit. it was designed for 1,500 people in total. it had 1,590 the day i was there. it has had as many as 3,000 in the facility the last couple of months. it is miserably overcrowded. there are people packed in together. but those individuals are getting meals, showers, toilets, access to supplies, snacks, all the basics are being provided and the border patrol are trying to figure out how do we manage this many people when none of them were trained on how to be able to detain people. because that's not their task. border patrol has now

to the border. i that would make things a lot easier. [applause] >> and you have to go more than one time. there is a number of perspectives that it is important to get and those perspectives are different. you have federal law enforcement and local law enforcement and you have landowners and you have businesses that are operating back and forth. so sometimes our colleagues when we go down they only get one of those perspectives. to truly understand how diverse the border actually is you should be getting all of those perspectives. henry lives there. he has been there his entire life. i spend so much time they're having more border than anybody else we constantly get those different perspectives and that informs the decisions that we make and then also do the right thing. i think because both henry and i are both unafraid to go against party dogma that makes it easier for our partnership on a lot of these issues. another person we need to recognize is john cornyn. he really does understand these iss

border. there's a lot of questions about how we ought to deal with the border issue on the southern border. but one thing that's certain is that people who are traveling from guatemala, from el salvador, from honduras, are fleeing conditions partly driven by violence, partly driven by abject poverty and they're looking for a way forward. i think it's in our economic interest, in our policy interest, in the national security interest, but also there's a moral obligation to try to do what we can to make sure people in that part of the world have opportunity. i was disappointed that the president stepped away from direct support to that part of the western hemisphere, the northern triangle, because that in part fuelled this really strong desire for people to flee that area. the caller makes a very good point. there's a moral obligation to support those who are far less fortunate, to be living in the kind of poverty that we never even see in this country. but there's also significant national sel

we have a northern border of this country as well, two borders. i'm concerned about the potential impact on readiness in my state of michigan as well as other northern border states. so my time is short, but could you give me quickly a brief synopsis of the specific duties that these folks are being asked to do on the southern border, fema, tsa? >> so as in any crisis, we do call on volunteers from across dhs to respond. last year our '17 during the crisis of hurricane harvey, hurricane maria, we had up to 2,000 people deployed across the department at any given time. we have right now 250 volunteers deployed. i have asked our leaders to make a risk assessment and carefully decide who is available to come support this crisis but they're doing all kind of duties, from attorneys to commercial driver's license holders that are helping transport migrants to folks simply helping with food service and care of people in our custody. so it is a variety of missions and we're very fortunate to have volunteers willing to help out in a crisis. >> obviously a

i will say republicans do want border security. open borders means tremendous crime. if you look at where approximately 600 people with serious criminals, i don't want them on the country -- in the country. and know who's coming in you know who knows it better than anyone? hispanics. jobs, theylose their don't want to take a pay cut and most importantly, they don't want to have crime. the people that understand the border the best are the hispanics. they understand it better than anybody and they don't have to want to suffer crime and take a pay cut. that is why my whole numbers went way up with hispanics because they understand the border better than anybody else. are you going to have tanks out for the fourth of july? hope will be special and i a lot of people come. it is a salute to america and i'm going to be here and say a few words. ,e will have planes going over the best fighter jets in the world and we will have some tanks stationed outside. we have a brand-new sherman tanks and brand-new abram tanks incredible some military equipment on display, brand-new and

customs and border protection. in 1991 he joined the customs service as a customs inspector and worked at the new york/new jersey seaport and the land border port of entry at laredo, texas before being assigned to headquarters. you have a fan. serving in his current role since 2014 mr. wagner oversees nearly 30,000 employees including approximately 23,000 cbp officers and over 2,400 cbp agricultural specialists, annual operating budget of $4.8 billion provides for operations at over 330 ports of entry, and many programs that support the national security, the immigration customs and commercial trade related missions of cbp. mr. wagner has been a leader in developing transformative efforts for the organization including the development of global entry program and the automated passport control kiosks for international travelers. overall, mr. wagner is recognized as the driving force behind many of cbp's resource, time saving initiatives. while simultaneous enhancing security operations at the ports of entry. please

side of the border. we needed people like these guys here to go out and make the case to companies that this is the right place to be doing the business. we have a set of factors that makes it attractive to those companies in the region. that's something i want to talk to the panelists about today. i think there is a ton of space to what else is needed we can think about. workforce development is more key than ever. having the qualified well-trained wildfires to operate more sophisticated machines and equipment than ever is one of the things companies are looking for. quality of life like john wagner was just talking about is what everybody needs in the local community to attract talent and fill those positions so companies want do business there. access to amenity and business structure. the list goes on and we want to get prioritization to what the key elements are for those who live and work along the border. i'm happy to have three great panelists with me today. i will do a very brief introduction of

-mexico border. the wilson center in washington, d.c., is the host of this conversation on strengthening economic competitiveness for both countries. >> thanks to the few and the proud who are here. we've got a few more in the hallway who will come in and join us. thanks for sticking with us throughout the whole session today. we do have one more really interesting session. for me this is a really important one. we've spoken for a lot of the day about how it is you can move things back and forth across the border, the most efficiently, effectively, understanding how you do that when you balance with security challenges and migration challenges at the border. of course that's fundamental importance for border communities and united states and mexico and our economies as a whole. but i don't think that's enough. that's not enough for a u.s. border community. that's not enough for mexican border communities to really have the vibrant communities we want, quality of life people in the region aspire to, w

, our border. we need real solutions to act swiftly to address the root causes of this issue. mr. mcaleenan, i have a lot of questions, so try to keep your answers short enough that i can get to them all. nobody wants children to be separated from their parents, and we all want to ensure that children are treated with dignity and housed comfortably. what are the factors a border patrol agent uses, what he goes through in order to assess these illegal family units when they arrive? kevin mcaleenan: so, by and large, the vast, vast majority, well over 99% -- 98% of children that arrive with parents are kept together in the process. the border patrol agent or cpd officer will undertake the -- encountering that family will undertake the analysis under the criteria of the executive order order018, and a court consistent with prior policy that is in the interest and safety of the welfare of the child. and cases are, again, prosecution for criminal offense or serious criminal history, abuse or neglect, ex

border." >> wrote the book to expose our militarization at the u.s.-mexico border. the stealth war at u.s.-mexico border includes casualties as well as all of the pieces of rule. war right inscale our backyard. amy: all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace repoport. i'i'm amy goodman. a report by nbc shares new accounts of mistreatment and sexual violence experienced by locked up migrant children at a yuma, arizona, detention facility. in nearly 30 accounts collected by health and human services case managers, children complained of hunger, having to sleep on concrete floors or outside, and lack of access to basic sanitation. a 15-year-old girl said an officer groped her underneath her clothing during what was supposed to be a routine pat-down and joked around with other agents during the ordeal. the trump administration has dismissed reports of abuse against detained migrants despite recent congressional visits to migrant jails and multiple

border. that is followed by our sit-down interview with president trump at the white house from earlier today, where he talked about his administration and the 2020 presidential campaign. later, a look at was a blower protections with stephen cohen from the national whistleblower center. at a senate homeland security hearing, u.s. customs and border protection acting commissioner mark morgan was asked about conditions at migrant detention facilities, and allegations of misconduct by border patrol officials. there was also testimony from the homeland security department's acting inspector general. this is just under two hours. >> this hearing will come to order. i would like to welcome our witnesses. the title of this hearing, "the unprecedented migration at the u.s. southern border," subtitle, "what is required to improve conditions?" i think that is incredibly important that we concentrate on what can we do to improve conditions, continuous improvement? i have a manufacturing background. tha

border patrol agent. i'm going to quote here. it says, quote, ok, i'm going to go ahead and ask. have you all ever seen floaters this clean? a -- but ying to be a i've never seen floaters like this. could this be another edited photo? we've all seen the dems and liberal parties do some pretty sick things. now, that was his post. there were a few responses to that post. some of them were memes. one of the memes had a sesame street character and the language below the sesame street character says, oh, well, about these deaths. another meme from another agent or former agent has a picture, there's a famous scene in a movie, "rocky vi" of the russian fighter and he uses a famous line for anybody that's ever seen it. the meme says, if he dies, he dies. they're talking about the little girl and the man who are hugging face-down in the river. u know, i reached out to secretary mcleanen, i think still the acting secretary of d.h.s., i think he's still acting, i think i'm right about that. and i said over the week

border patrol. to the average american did, you were a chief, what do they need to understand about what this job is all about. >> it is a difficult job. it requires dedicated men and women that work hard every day to protect and serve this country. >> what are you hearing from your former colleagues, i suspect morale is low. >> they're overwhelmed and in a situation that they didn't choose to be in. it is a situation they can't get out of it. there is one tool here put into place and that is new legislation that addresses the settlement and looks at the way -- treats unaccompanied children. we have to dissuade people from sending children to the border and other wise it will continue in those countries and at mexico and the border. >> how many blame do you put on the president to detain individuals that previous administrations weren't detaining. >> that has nothing to do with what is happening at the border now. what is happening now is there is no consequence if you bring or send your child. in m

it is the republicans who want border security. democrats want open borders. approximately 600 people in the last caravan were serious criminals. i don't want them in the country. the poor patrol are great people and they love our country. hispanics know it better than anybody. they love what i'm doing. want to lose their job or take a pay cut. -- the peoplely that understand the border the best are hispanics. they understand it better than anyone. they don't want to have to suffer crime or take a pay cut and lose their job. numbers went up with hispanics because they understand the border the best. are you planning on having tanks out on the fourth of july? >> we are going to have a great fourth of july. it will be like no other and i hope a lot of people come. i'm going to say a few words and we will have planes going over. the best fighter jets in the world and other planes. we will have some tanks stationed. be careful with them because the roads do not like to carry heavy tanks. tanks and someew incredible military equipment on display. we are making a lo

border. yet, we have your party specifically outraged for us trying to deport people. >> okay, so the question is, the raids, the ice raid that we been hearing about, there specifically, we are told aimed at those people whose been given court orders to leave the country. and yet your party is opposing it. why is that. >> let's be clear, if you look at the past presidents and their tenure over the past ten years, we've seen deportations be much higher under obama, higher than that under bush and higher than that under clinton. i think all of those, most of us agree that if there are individuals who have been in our country who have committed crimes that are serious crimes that are greater than simply coming into our country, yes they should be deported. but what's more important than that is making sure we have strong borders and strong security to make sure they can't come back. [applause] one of the concerns i've got about what's going on is we have a humanitarian crisis on the southern bor

our border? mr. pesoske: yes, sir. mr. roy: when colleagues of mine ask what tsa would be doing at the border, what their role would be at the border, might i ask you if cbp's mission is to house, even temporarily, people in facilities especially when those facilities are not designed for housing people. is that their mission? mr. pesoske: yes, sir. that's the critical issue. mr. bumgardner: -- the facilities are not designed for what they're being used. mr. roy: would it be safe to say cbp's primary mission is to secure the border. mr. pesoske: our goal is to free up those officers to do their job. mr. roy: is cbp overwhelmed? mr. pesoske: completely. mr. roy: when did the supplemental come to congress? mr. pesoske: about six weeks ago. mr. roy: has it been acted upon yet? mr. pesoske: it has not. mr. roy: did you hear of an adult and three children found dead at the border two days ago? mr. pesoske: yes, on friday. mr. roy: in whose custody were they? mr. pesoske: they were in border patrol cus

but their southern border. to try and bring more care and control to this whole situation. because once that happens, people won't be held in facilities that are 400, 600, 800% overcrowded. they will be held in facilities designed for that purpose. we have to get back to that point. and it's going to take us a while or slowdown in the flow before it's achieved. >> the inspector general of dhs just released new pictures of overcrowding at border facilities in texas. i think we have these pictures a ticking time bomb. that is worries me. >> look, any overcrowding, it hasovercrowding, the reason we give a design number, this facility is designed for 800 people -- >> because above that -- >> because above that you start to have additional challenges. it takes, for instance, manpower to cover for what structure was intended to cover for. it starts to eat up more manpower. you do have more volatile situation. we're seeing, particularly from cuban migrants, more agitation among the migrant population, and by that i me

so what can be done about this continuing crisis at the border? well, here to discuss all this and more is former acting immigration and customs enforcement director thomas health care oman who joins me from -- homan from joins me from washington, d.c.. >> thank you very having me. gerry: ms. alexandria ocasio-cortez has described these places as concentration camps. what's the real situation? >> well, let's just cut to chase real quick. alexandria ocasio-cortez is lying to the american people. no one's drinking out of a toilet. if you look at the detention facilities including the i.c.e. facilities and the detention cell there's a stainless steel apparatus where there's a commode about 4 foot tall, and on top there's a sink with running water. is so no one's drinking out of the toilet. it's ridiculous to think a border patrol agent is making a lady get on her hands and knees and drinking out of the commode. she lost all credibility. she's called them concentration camps, she has no idea what she's talking about. she doesn't know the difference be

the issue at the border today is about how we're treating these kids, the issue at the border today is how we're treating human beings, and we're treating them like they're inhuman. like they're not human, and that's the main issue we need to address, we can have strong border security and be compassionate with these families that are coming over, fleeing violence. we all need to ask ourselves, where are these folks coming from, and why are they coming here. they're coming here, because they're fleeing violence. we should be a strong enough country to be able to accept them into our society and provide them asylum, so the kids don't get killed and the girls don't get put in the sex trade. >> the kind of conversation you're talking about, though, potentially decriminalizing some, and maybe a significant number of border crossings. talking about beating trump in those places, wisconsin, the mahoning valley, is that going to go over well there? >> i think our position should be very clear that people who are trying to do wrong in the united states. if they're trying to come here for nefar

and make the border a lot more efficient. but the overwhelming message, the border is openfor business . it's vital to both countries that have remained so and it remains secure and our border patrol agents, our officers, we recognize that delicate balancing act. that defines their duty, protect the border and enforce the laws while facilitating trade and travel and it's a dual mission, they work in conjunction with each other. to that end, we're determined to manage this border security crisis which is a humanitarian crisis. as best we can while ensuring the border remains open and all of the other work we do around the country and around the world continues to operate. the importance of this is leveraging a lot of technology and a lot of cooperation. you may have heard about our unified cargo process. this is something we don't with the government of mexico and one-stop business environment for processing inbound and outbound cargo and truck rental and eventually air modes. innovative concepts, we work with sap and mexico a

to the border patrol agents. hector garza of the border patrol council to the congresswoman was rude, abusive and insulting to the agents and they have a video record to prove it. >> there is footage where ocasio-cortez is also going up on our agents and being very threatening and being very abusive with the border patrol agents. that video is in the hands of cbp right now, headquarters. we hope they release the footage. lou: our first guest tonight also calling for the customs and border protection videotapes to be released. joining us tonight is the president of the national border patrol council, brandon judd. good to have you here. i almost feel that it is important to note that ocasio-cortez is an activist. and the hispanic caucus is an activist caucus.the question becomes, who is telling the truth? the agents? what hispanic caucus member, ocasio-cortez? >> very rarely do i get is fired up as i am right now. i cannot tell you how upset i am. and i will call it what it is. she flat out lied. there is no borde

that democrats support open borders. as i sit next to my friend chairwoman loughran, we are reminded about visits to the border in 2014 under pres. obama and both of us were standing at night as children came off a bus. and the administration handled it completely differently. it was not perfect. but they understood that they would not get the reputation that the united nations has declared abominable. in the eyes of the world, the actions of this administration, the trump administration are abominable. without mercy, without care. and it is imperative that this committee that holds the highest ideals of investigation of this congress, the you judiciary committee over the decade of its incorporation, 1789 as i recall, that this committee has set to do, and i believe it is curious if i might say so. curious that first of all the president of the united states is pushing law enforcement to do raids. to conspicuously announce national raids to create a massive hysteria and danger for officers and to create more unaccompanie

this was the border patrol road in the former east. only 50 meters across the border a u.s. army watch tower it was part of observation post alpha 40 u.s. soldiers were stationed here they all belong to the reno in black horse regiment a demanding task at the frontline of a conflict that had the whole world holding its breath news that quickly given the black horse regiment was a very strong unit of its own combat helicopters armored infantry and artillery the best luck in the assumption was that if war broke out the soviets would advance and this would be one of the 1st sights of a 3rd world war helped with and could invade peace and go to. every accidental movement could have had devastating consequences tens were only allowed to drive up to this red line a rule established by the americans and meant to avoid provocation that could have cost the soviet leadership to snap. nowadays point out tells the tale of germany seemingly distant but very recent history groups of schoolchildren come to learn but also veterans who served here and many people from around the world intere

also face dangers including cramped and unhygienic conditions in holding camps along the southern border with mexico trapped refugees rescued forbidden that's our title this week on quadriga and here are our guests ana maria alvarez from costa rica is a refugee activist and founder of the migration hub she says we don't combat irregular migrants by letting them die while crossing borders we do it by offering safe and regulated top ways and figure migratory policies both for the country and for those migrating. works at the university and she's an expert on migration issues she says humanitarian rhetoric go alone doesn't make humanitarian policy. u.s. and e.u. migration policies are more similar than we may think. and it's a pleasure to welcome other laming back to the program he works for the daily newspaper their target should be go and he says we will only achieve a humane european refugee policy if you citizens that europe has had to tighten its borders in order to prevent right wing populists from gaining the upper hand so let me start out by asking you about the numbers that we're s

great job by border patrol, above and beyond. many of these illegal aliens are living far better now than where they came from and in far safer conditions. then he add, if they're unhappy with the conditions and the quickly built or refitted centers, just tell them not to come. this comes from a report after the president's own government detailed what these conditions that these migrants are living in. overcrowded, dirty, and a widespread problem they're facing on the border with people in standing room only places, where they haven't taken showers, some of them the entire time they've been there. and some of the children not having hot meals. the president is sending these tweets after you've seen several democrats go and visit these facilities, come out on the other side, being incredibly critical of the administration and saying they were told there were people drinking water out of toilets. tonight he is down playing those concerns and trying to put the blame on democrats. even as his own dhs acting secretary has said he is

according to doctors without borders, nearly one third of young women traveling to our southern border from central america are sexually assaulted on the journey. and this week the heart, of our nation broke when we saw the oscar photograph of alberto martinez and his 23 month old daughter. drowned in the rio grande. shocked the conscience of the nation. but the truth is, what we saw then, on the front page of every newspaper in america, is what has been happening for months. violence, sexual abuse, and worse, being brought up by people who have no regard for human life, enticing them for their profit to make the dangerous journey north. i saw it first hand when i was visiting the border. i went to the detention facility. families, these literally in numbers that have been overwhelming our system, was heartbreaking to me. to think of how these vulnerable families have been taken advantage of by these cartels and human traffickers was heartbreaking to see. but the american people are realizing we have a crisis on our southern border. that is why president trump declared a national emerg

border. i will start telling you an anecdote. my grandmother was born in -- the daughter of french grandfather, american grandmother. and she was taken to mexico at the beginning of the mexican revolution. with no papers. she lived her life undocumented in mexico until she passed away. so my great grandfather was lincoln's during the civil war. i have a call for the border. today is a special day to be here. just one day after the mexican senate ratified usmca by 114 votes in favor, and four against it, three abstentions. it was ratified by wide margin, ratified as the president said to send the right signals to our partners in north america. we are a responsible government. everybody agrees that usmca will give certainty and predict ability for relations in the future. and we have the right legal framework to go ahead. that's why in spite of different conversations about timing of ratification, mexican senate decided to ratify it. we want to cement the message that we are responsible and loo

this was the border patrol road in the former east . only 50 meters across the border a u.s. army watch tower it was part of observation post alpha 40 u.s. soldiers were stationed here they all belong to the reno and black horse regiment a demanding task at the frontline of a conflict that had the whole world holding its breath is that quickly given the black horse regiment was a very strong unit on its own combat helicopters armored infantry and artillery and assumption was that if war broke out the soviets would advance and this would be one of the 1st sites about 3rd world war helpless and couldn't it be flambeaux to. every accidental movement could have had devastating consequences tens were only allowed to drive up to this red line a rule established by the americans and meant to avoid provocation that could have cost the soviet leadership to see. nowadays point tells the tale of germany seemingly distant but there you've recent history groups of schoolchildren come to learn but also veterans who served here and many people from around the world interested in germany's p

of the border. so that went from october to, in april, instead of less than 17,000 family units that were apprehended, we were now up to 58,000 a month that were apprehended. by the next month it was peaking at 84,000. why that graph is so important is that it shows you how the crisis escalated and the surge of these family units that require such special care and attention. and you can see currently in june, it's actually dropped for the june numbers. even at the june numbers that is at the same time that same level as when this panel filed our report in april and we deemed it an emergency then. this is not our final report. we did not plan to file an interim report. we were so alarmed at what we saw at the border, the conditions at the border, that we -- we determined an emergency report was required. during this fiscal year -- again, these are children between the ports of entry in these remote areas -- 266,657 children have illegally crossed the border in between the ports of entry. that's a sta

the border, in that one small sector of that 2,000-mile border. in that one small sector, they had 63 different countries, individuals from those countries cross the border illegally. 63 different countries. i hear a lot of folks say it is all folks from central america crossing to be able to flee. that's not true. 63 different countries just around mcallen, texas. you see the cartels sort them by country and background check. they send indians in one direction, they send pakistanis in another direction and they send folks from honduras and guam in -- guatemala in another direction. when i walked into one of the stations to do a quick pop in to see who was there, at that moment half the adults that there were there -- this is single adults, half were from venezuela, half were from cuba. that's how the cartels sort the individuals. we had individuals from that one station in mcallen from pakistan, yemen, china, venezuela, bangladesh, syria, in addition to many countries from africa and asia and obviously much of central america as well. those indiv

party as well because sulfate even supported for billions of money to secure the borders the. socan have to cut you off right there thank you all for being with us thanks to all of you out there for turning and say sent. to a. closer . look over our way after all. and why are some so few kokanee test harness the power to mature. and why do we find the sound of waste so much the same monstrosity no assistance from. someone to blame. transit and 30 minutes on d w. in good shape rare diseases are rarely diagnosed correctly at 1st many patients run a medical gauntlet from the 1st symptoms to the final diagnosis of the flu not the sentence if you have the feeling that something isn't right then you should continue to fight the 1st couple diagnosis and symptoms of skin we visit the center for rare diseases a berlin shot to take a hospital in good shape he didn't want to double. up he takes good personally i do it with a little wonderful people and stories that make the game so special. that all true fans. place on the. lego more than football online. streaming early the google touri

jeffrey said there is no crisis at the border. our chairman said there is no crisis at the border. i could go on. i see the time's expired. mr. roby: i yield back. chairman nadler: for what purpose does the gentleman from georgia seek recognition? >> move to strike the last word. chairman nadler: the gentleman is recognized. mr. johnson: thank you. i rise in support of the amendment in the nature of a substitute so that we can issue subpoenas and get at this zero tolerance policy and other separation, family separation policies of this administration. and i have been listening to all of the crocodile tears being shed about the inability to question mueller. i have sat through the reverse psychology and the psychological operations that some folks are trying to play. but it does not detract the american people away from this administration's shamed action in implementing inhumane practices at our border -- president trump publicly announced this time last year that this family separation policy was over. and that was after his administration had stated repeatedly that there was no f

border. he and representatives from the migration policy institute talked about the ongoing policy and diplomatic disputes between the u.s. and mexico over border security. hosted by the american enterprise institute, this is 90 minutes. >> good morning, everythibody. thank you for coming. please silence your phones if you haven't already, or turn them off. one or the other. we welcome you to this panel discussion co-sponsored by the american enterprise institute where i'm from, you can tell because the name rolls off my tongue. and the migration policy institute on u.s. border crisis where we hope to generate more light than heat. a serious discussion by serious people about a complicated issue. six weeks ago in his style, president trump reacting to a flood of central americans trying to enter the united states illegally on our southern border threatened to impose sanctions on goods from mexico until our southern neighbor did more to interdict would-be migrants. many complained that he was

mexico border. c-span3 at 9:30 a.m., the has -- the house energy subcommittee examines cyber threats to the u.s. electric grid. and at 12:30 p.m., the federal society hosts a review of the supreme court's term. >> there has been a discussion before congress, any testimony from this office would not go beyond our report. it contains our findings and analysis and reasons for the decision we made. we chose those words carefully and the word speaks for itself. the report is my testimony. i would not provide information beyond that which is already public and any appearance before congress. >> robert mueller is set to appear before two committees of congress on wednesday, july 17 at 9:00 a.m. eastern. he gives testimony. later in the day he will take questions from the house intelligence committee. both open sessions. our coverage of the testimony will be live on c-span3, c-span.org or listen with the free c-span radio app. if you like to hear the complete reading lesson on the free c-span radio app. vol

are people on both sides of the border they're connected by kinship. which often sunni muslims and vendors demond on pakistani side and plenty of supply on the reunion side it will happen if you look at the pictures that there is a lot of traffic on these roads or a lot of vehicles underway here is it really just diesel that's being transported. well it's diesel and oil primarily because remember on the pakistani side of the border it's about 1000 or more that a 1000 kilometers of it from the provincial capital so for these people on the contrary lie on the provincial capital to provincial government to come to their help did rely heavily on goods and services from across the border not just oil but electricity and other smuggling goods and this part of the border is known. for human smuggling as well as drug smuggling but this trade is obviously quiet on the pakistani side the smuggling is the experience because as i said there is plenty of supply from the indian side and huge demand and shortage on the pakistan side if we talk specifically about the

and comes as no surprise giving the record number of individuals crossing border illegally border patrol facilities are overwhelmed and overcapacity. i employed or applied the assistant inspector general for offices work on exposing the conditions the crisis is crossing and i hope her office will continue their investigation especially as the crisis affects the most vulnerable among us children. after months of the president and dhs officials sounding the alarm about the security and military crisis on the southern border well before the inspector general's report were first published i'm now encouraged that her colleagues finally agree there is a crisis and i'm hopeful that we can now engage in the difficult work of solving this crisis head-on. inspector general's office issued two reports in the el paso and rio grande valley sectors. these reports provide an objective perspective on the factors outside cbp's control that a feeling this crisis prolonging migrants stay in cbp custody and causing the overcrowded conditions identified in the inspector general's reports. as of july 2, 2019

there's a crisis at the border. do you agree? >> i believe that there's a crisis of leadership, sure. >> do you believe that there's a crisis, though, at the border? >> if there is, it's because this president has helped create that. i'll give you a great example of that. they've enacted a policy called meterg, which basically means that they're playing games with people who come to our pos of entry, who want to claim asylum. >> yeah. >> about a month ago now, there was a father and a daughter who died ying to cross the rio grande river, oscar martinez and his daughter, valeria. they tried to make that trek across the river because they h been waiting for weeks at one of those ports of entry and had been denied the ability to make their asylum c so this president has made this situation at the border so much worse than it has to be. >> however, tering did begin under the obama administration. >> well, not in the numbers that you have today, right? i don't believe that we should belaying games with people who want to make their as

and they go across the border at a place where they weren't checked because it was an unofficial border crossing that's a concern there's no. yes it is there also a concern that people are using unofficial border crossings especially people that may be may be concerned that they have a fever and would therefore not be permitted to get across and might end up in a book or treatment center where well the course of the fever was but isolating the border the official border crossings and cutting them off would just make it more likely that people would use unofficial crossings and then we would have very little control a toll over over who is crossing these border saw and that's that something which is it's probably a disadvantage just one strategy that has been used is that medical centers course to border us have had all of their stuff vaccinated so many medical staff in in uganda and in other neighboring countries that have been vaccinated in preparation for the likelihood that the bullet case will arrive at their medical center and there's a great deal of work being done in preparing me

southern border. we are actually on track this year to see nearly one million people come across our southern border. to take advantage of well advertised loopholes in america's asylum laws. and for the first time in history, i've seen it firsthand. the majority of those coming across our southern border are families with vulnerable children. who are being enticed by human traffickers and drug cartels to pay cash to make the long and dangerous journey north. and it's a dangerous journey. fraught often with unspeakable violence and abuse. 70% of illegal immigrants once they present at the border report being victims of violence along the way. according to doctors without borders, nearly one third of young women traveling to our southern border from central america are sexually assaulted on the journey. our customs and border protection and health and human services personnel do compassionate work to care for those who have made a dangerous -- the dangerous journey and suffered for it, and they provide

people on both sides of the border they're connected by kinship. often sunni muslims and vendors demand on pakistani side and plenty of supply on the reunion side it will happen if you look at the pictures that there is a lot of traffic on these roads or a lot of vehicles underway here is it really just diesel that's being transported. well it's diesel and oil primarily because remember on the pakistani side of the border it's about tolson or more than a 1000 kilometers of it from the provincial capital so for these people. on the provincial capital to branch of government to come to do to help the heavily on goods and services from across the border not just oil but electricity and other smuggling goods and disport of the border is known it's notorious for human smuggling as well as drug smuggling but this trade is obviously required on the pakistani side to smuggling is. because as i said there is plenty of supply from the indian side and huge demand and shortage on the pakistani side if we talk specifically about the oil here what is a ron's int

now in border patrol stations. i will say none of the border patrol stations are run by private companies. that happens later in the process. also, these people are coming in in such an influx that if you did release them into cities at large, you could create a lot of problems, both for them if they don't have anything. they could become homeless, and if they -- they don't have someone looking after their case. and then, of course, for the people in the communities themselves with their community rapidly changes in population overnight. so it is posed to be a process. it is not supposed to be a punishment. these should not look like jails, even though they do right now. there are other purposes that immigration detention, both at border patrol level and i.c.e., do serve. >> that's an interesting point, elliott. it is meant to be a process, not a punishment. but on the other side of the spectrum some people believe we let them in and hopefully they will show up for their court case. it is worth notice 80% of asylum