alan gomez, welcome back to the newshour. we heard the president there in texas last night, but i want to ask you about something he said earlier today in the ovalfi . he was asked about a couple allegations he made about the caravan. he has said the are members of the gang ms-1d as he put it, middle easterners traveling in the caravan. here's what the president said earlr today. >> certainly we have people coming up through the southern border from the middle east and other places that are not appropriate for our country, and i'm not letting them inch they're not coming in. we're going to do whatever we nove to. they'rcoming in. >> nawaz: alan gomez, what do you make a president is alleging there? ts there any validity to tha claim in. >> not that his administration can point to as of yet. we've been asng the department of homeland security ever since he started making those claims in a series of tweets where the proof was that there were members of gangs, criminals, as he refers to them generally as middle easterners in the

alan gomez and latin america for "usa today."ns he je now from san diego. latest on the migrant caravan? >> well, they're still in very south mexiclowly making their way up. the estimate of the numbers is starting to vary quite a bit, anywhere from 7,000 o 10,000. so, basically, the suz preparing all sorts of measures to prepare for them. and, meanwhile, the mexican government is trying to do tits pakeep as many of them there as possible. >> sreenivasan: and, now,il they're about 1,000 miles away, or maybe even more. it's going to take them weeks, if not longer, to get here. but what is that reception lik what does t border patrol plan to do? tour of, we just took a the border yesterday, with the head of the border customsan protectionthey laid out a very robust plan that's heavy on the enforcement side, on the stopping them from crossing over the border. the president has already announced they're going to send an additional 1,000 u.s. troops to the border to help that. there's already 2100 national guardsmen patrolling the border to help out with border p

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writesite -- alan gomez overall increases is tempered by the fact hispanics have underperformed on election day compared with white and black voters according to analysis. we have calls waiting for jim lately. on our line for those who sometimes vote, alexandria virginia we hear from charles. welcome. caller: good morning. i vote every chance i can. i did 10 years in iraq and afghanistan as a civilian and i was not always able to get my absentee ballot back and forth across the atlantic in time, but other than that i am most always vote. one thing i would like to say is people do not realize the reason we vote tuesday in november is so the farmers can get their crops and at the end of the summer and voting on the weekends is a sin. i would like to see election they moved to april 15 to help focus the mind on the election. grandfather was born in 1900 and he thought franklin roosevelt -- the moon and i -- voting was important. host: his idea of changing the election day makes interesting history on why it is the first state in november. guest: your historical details are excellent on that po

writesite -- alan gomez overall increases is tempered by the fact hispanics have underperformed on election day compared with white and black voters according to analysis. we have calls waiting for jim lately. on our line for those who sometimes vote, alexandria virginia we hear from charles. welcome. caller: good morning. i vote every chance i can. i did 10 years in iraq and afghanistan as a civilian and i was not always able to get my absentee ballot back and forth across the atlantic in time, but other than that i am most always vote. one thing i would like to say is people do not realize the reason we vote tuesday in november is so the farmers can get their crops and at the end of the summer and voting on the weekends is a sin. i would like to see election they moved to april 15 to help focus the mind on the election. grandfather was born in 1900 and he thought franklin roosevelt -- the moon and i -- voting was important. host: his idea of changing the election day makes interesting history on why it is the first state in november. guest: your historical details are excellent on that po

writesite -- alan gomez overall increases is tempered by the fact hispanics have underperformed on electionay compared with white and black voters according to analysis. we have calls waiting for jim lately. on our line for those who sometimes vote, alexandria virginia we hear from charles. welcome. caller: good morning. i vote every chance i can. i did 10 years in iraq and afghanistan as a civilian and i was not always able to get my absentee ballot back and forth across the atlantic in time, but other than that i am most always vote. one thing i would like to say is people do not realize the reason we vote tuesday in november is so the farmers can get their crops and at the end of the summer and voting on the weekends is a sin. i would like to see election they moved to april 15 to help focus the mind on the election. grandfather was born in 1900 and he thought franklin roosevelt -- the moon and i -- voting was important. host: his idea of changing the election day makes interesting history on why it is the first state in november. guest: your historical details are excellent on that poin

alan gomez did the question and answer that appears on page three.itizenship was granted to 275,000 babies born to undocumented immigrant parents and 2014, representing seven up -- 7% of all births in the u.s. that year. those numbers represent a drop from the peak years of illegal immigration, which topped in 2006 when 370,000 children were born to -- 9% of all births. those numbers do not include pregnant number -- pregnant numbers -- pregnant mothers who obtained visas. -deal with immigration authorities said they can- and to u.s. with the sole purpose of giving birth to citizens. 21% of births in arizona in 2014 were to undocumented immigrant and 25% of births in texas were to undocumented immigrants according to an analysis by the center for immigration studies. forin florida on the line first-generation americans. good morning. caller: good morning, john. thank you for taking my call. i want to let you know i am a first generation american and i countryin laws of this and that is part of the problem with people today, including americans. they