the border patrol doesn't feel that they can properly secure the border at the international boundary so their philosophy that is to protect the border in depth in depth they mean a few people at the border to detect what has come across and then a lot more people farther in the border to capture those crossed and then farther up even more to capture those and we go from there. what that does though is that space and time between the international border and their secondary place where they catch up with them after the chase them is the ranches the i work with and those ranches are really a chasing field big playing field for the border patrol to make their captures and they have to make the captures some and lease so that they have metrics so they have statistics to report back to congress. you can see the border from here by the. steel fence goes down this side goes all we down to the san pedro river then stops and starts again on the other side of the river and goes all the way to not go in past that as we. look on the other side going west that's going east going west if you come

too many for just border patrol. like they're trying to do with the mexican the. other viber. rogers. the cartels border area is they pretty much. means they have scout cities and they have a string of them that goes from south to north all the way up to where their drop off points are regardless of it's human or drugs that is coming. they have a guy with them and that guy is called. the coyote has communications with the guys on top of them oh. well. in the five years it's getting worse the violence is escalating because it's no man's land. my name is paid by him and i work with that humanitarian aid organise. you know more intense we go out to different places in the desert where we have mapped migrant trails and so we leave food and water and socks and sometimes blankets in strategic locations where people are likely to just find. that they were indeed tiring but i think it's really important and i think i'm in a pretty unique position where i may speak in spanish and have some medical skills . i can be hard because i think a lot of the time when i just think about what we'r

for the last ten years that border patrol should. hire. veterans because they're trained and. it wouldn't be that hard to convert a soldier to a border but. they won't do it. and you know border patrol is their federal agents but they're civilians that's right there and that's a problem. in order to control the border you have to have a military officer and border patrol doesn't. really. scan for radio traffic. trying to find. where they're talking. and we can listen. i took an oath when i first joined the military. that oath doesn't expire. so when my military service ended you know i did a lot of other public service jobs things like that. but this this is a huge huge problem and. being. our government having things the way they are these guys can't effectively do their job beyond a certain point and. i figure you know what i've got some decent knowledge of guys decent training when i come out here and give them a hand. the right way and. i think the issue of categorizing people into good and bad people can be really problematic because you know somebody who is carrying drugs

border patrol. prior to becoming acting deputy chief, he was the chief of operations divisions for the u.s. border patrol. dennis michelini is acting executive director for u.s. customs and border protection's air and marine operations. he began his career in 1995 where he served as an act and a -- an agent and a pilot. prior to becoming executive of operations, he served as director of the northern region and director of air operations strategy. and ms. rebecca gambler is director in the government accountable office, homeland security and justice team where she leads work on the department of homeland security's management and transformation. the witnesses' full written statement will appear in the record. the chair recognizes mr. owens for five minutes to testify. >> good morning, chairwoman mcsally, esteemed members of the subcommittee, thank you for the opportunity to testify alongside my colleagues from the u.s. border patrol and air and marine operations to discuss the role of cbp's office of

my first bill signed into law was helped the border patrol agents. this is something that is very important to me. it's 2017. i think we as a government should have done a better job of helping the technology along the border to do your job and i guess my first question is and maybe this goes to you first mr. locke and ellen if you have an opinion. currently right now how is commute --dash my computer vision being used in border security. could you help me address that. we have the fixed towers and the sensor in the sensor technology we've all this data that's coming in our we using automated tools in order to determine whether the movement of something as dangerous or as something that requires interdiction by border patrol. we are doing some predictive stuff as you may know that we are using our partners with agents assigned to extend our borders and we are reusing systems with our partners. to help to predict with the traffic flow. those are all collecting information and that. to help us better prepare. and we are using them. they have evolved to

border patrol. dennis jay mussolini serves as director of operations for u.s. customs and border protection during operation division. mr. micheline he began his career in 1985 where he served as an agent and a pilot prior to becoming the acting executive of operations he served as direct your of the northern region in mr. beck a gambler's director of the u.s. government accountability stop his homeland security just to see security just distinguishing these jails work on border security, immigration and securities management transformation. the full written statement will appear in the record. the chair now recognizes mr. owen for five minutes. >> at one. -- good morning. thank you for the opportunity to testify today alongside her colleagues in the u.s. border patrol and aaron bean operations to discuss the role of cbp's opposite field operations in detecting and other dangerous materials at our ports of entry. .. smugglers use a wide variety of tactics for concealing drugs and other contraband through the ports of entry. officers really find drugs concealed o

he got a firsthand look at border patrol. other security measures and a few ways agents have caught drugs being smuggled over the border. the trump administration hoping this visit will help make the case to congress to fund the border wall he has been calling for since for office. >>> five days after president trump took the oath of office he promised the quick hiring of 5,000 new border patrol agents. the process hasn't been as fast as he might have hoped. now custom and border patrol agents are turning to music festivals, country fares, even spartan races trying to recruit advocates. according to the agency it's the lie detector test. 75% of their applicants failed. so the agency is out looking for fresh faces. oh they've shortened the polygraph test and offered waivers for members of the military. >> president trump is still pushing for the wall at the border. tonight there are reports some of his senior advisors want him to strike a deal. here's their proposal. if congress funds the wall and some extra immigration enforce

what the border patrol has told us, and when senator tillis and i were down in the rio grande porous one of the most portions of our border the chief , down there said "i don't care where you are. border security is really about three things. it is about infrastructures, -- walls, fences, and the like -- and it is about technology." i think we have a picture of drones and the types of technology that have force multipliers. then, it is about personnel. because we need to have an adequate number of border patrol in order to detain people who are coming across illegally and then return them to their country of origin. so what we do is we take this proving concept of tactical fences,ucture, walls, and the like, and we build on that to do something that is a multilayered approach, which i think has a good chance of succeeding. >> my question about this being americans paying for it and not mexico. sen. cornyn: we are members of congress, and we are used to congress appropriating the money. we will leave it to the president and his plan for how we recoup that at some point. yes, ma'am? >>

what the border patrol has told us and senator tillis and i were down in the rio grande valley in one of the southernmost portions of our border. the chief down there said i don't care where you are, border security is really about three thins. it is about infrastructures, -- walls, fences, and the like -- and it is about technology. i think we have a picture of drones and the types of technology that have force multipliers. then it is about personnel. what we do is we take this proven concept of tactical infrastructure. we build on that. i think it has a good chance of succeeding. >> my question about americans paying for it and not mexico. >> we are members of congress. we are used to congress appropriating the money. we'll leave it to the county and his plan for how we recoup that at some point. well, i trust the department of homeland security to come up with their best estimate. i make the same point. we don't know how the $1.6 billion fits into the overall plan for the entire southern border doing this on a piecemeal basis is not the most efficient and most practical and effecti

border patrol agents practice how to deal with drowning migrants. with people trying to enter the country. 45% of all the apprehensions on the border take place in this sector. but patrols of the river are just one part of the strategy. we have centres, cameras, agents on patrol, different types of infrastructure — bridges, roads — that give us easier access to, like i said, those points that are breached on the border. we have different vehicles — cruisers, horses, bicycles and the bikes — so we have a multilayered approach to border security. agent castro believes fencing deters some, but the key is more people on the ground, something president trump has promised to deliver. the main needs are personnel, technology and infrastructure. the technology so we can have situational awareness of what's coming in. the infrastructure to get to that detection or that breach in the border. and of course, you need the personnel. you can have all the technology and infrastructure, but if you don't have the personnel to respond efficiently and effectively, the

but something the border patrol did has privacy advocates up in arms.ized and searched the suspect's cell phone without a warrant at the airport. cause of action institute says the warrantless search has dire implications for all of us. the group's erica marshall recently told me why they're challenging the practice in court. erica: this case is united states vs. hamza kolsuz and the case involves a turkish citizen named mr. kolsuz who was arrested at dulles international airport in virginia where he was set to fly back to istanbul. customs and border patrol agents found handgun parts in his checked luggage. during that arrest, the customs and border patrol agents actually seized his cell phone and, at that point, they initiated a month-long forensic search of all the data on his cell phone and it ultimately generated a nearly 900-page report detailing all of his text messages, his phone call logs, and his gps coordinates for the past couple years. sharyl: so, what is your objection if he was trying to move gun parts in his luggage unlawfully, isn't it

border patrol and customs and border protection agents.state police force of over 75 -- 75 thousand individuals who secure the border and the seaports, and those are the people be interface when we come into airports from an international flight. and he is in concert with the trump administration's anti-immigrant policies. he was the head of this organization that wanted to institute the muslim ban. he also is in favor of deporting , thearents of dreamers undocumented parents of u.s. citizen children here and he would like to deport them. he is also trying to get, or was, at least trying to be tough on enforcement, going after people who have committed crimes even though they may not be violent crimes, trying to deport. it seems like we have ramped up deprecation in the united states. the numbers are a little murky, but it seems like ice is a little bit more freewheeling than they were during the obama administration. and he was the head of these organizations that participated in that kind of law enforcement. so he is donald trump's right

literally eyes in the sky that can allow the border patrol to do their job better. here's another example of some of the radar, the ground-base radar that's available. you can imagine with a 1,200-mile border between texas and mexico alone, it's a huge job and very complex environment. and of course the third thing in addition to physical infrastructure and personnel -- excuse me -- technology, things like personnel literally, we need to make sure we have an adequate number of border patrol available to deal with people who are coming across the border in violation of our immigration laws. i believe until we do this, until we secure the border and enforce the law, we will never be able to regain the public's confidence that allow us to do other things that we need to do to fix our broken immigration system. so that's why we call this bill building america's trust act that does these things, secures our borders with expanded resources, enhances ports of entry to increase trade because it's important to separate the criminal activity from legitimate trade and commerce

the "help wanted" sign is up for border patrol agents but finding take sairs challenge so the government is getting creative. here's don dahler. >> reporter: tens of thousands of fans came to the lak detroit lakes, minnesota. customs and border agent tony thornson came to the weed fest for the tens of thousands of fans. >> you will visit c.b.p..gov. >> crystal bridgers was intrigued. >> i never really thought i would get a job here-- >> reporter: at a music festival. >> yeah. >> reporter: the agency has struggled to hire the 5,000 agents president trump requested to help secure the mexican border. so the cardiopulmonary got creative. county fairs, and country music festivals. >> that's your base pay. >> that's pretty good. >> reporter: former army infrant raman shane flodeen said it makes sense. >> a lot of people here love this country. >> reporter: but the agency is also having a hard time finding applicants who can pass a polygraph test. by its own admission, 75% of them failed. the agency now offers a shorter polygraph test, and allows waivers from the test for law enforcement and th

. >> are you interested in the border patrol? >> mason: colin kaepernick took a knee.ow he can't get a job. >> reporter: would you hire kaepernick? >> i wouldn't want him on my team. i wouldn't. >> mason: and no end to the honeymoon. america still basks in the afterglow of the eclipse of 2017. >> i'm speechless. i'm literally speechless. this is the "cbs eve n >> mason: and this is our western edition. good evening. i'm anthony mason. we begin tonight with a threat to america's security from hackers sponsored by foreign governments. in an exclusive interview today, cyber-security czar rob joyce told us the u.s. is lacking 300,000 cyber-security experts needed to defend the country. and he had a warning for the public about using software from kaspersky labs. u.s. officials believe the company has ties to the kremlin, and the federal government has vowed not to use its products. more now from homeland security correspondent jeff pegues. >> reporter: cbs news has confirmed that f.b.i. officials have met with private industry representatives to relay concerns about kasper

again, the border patrol today, how important is the wall to some of the folks?lls -- i don't know if you know, we are already starting to fix a lot of the walls we already have. so we don't have to rebuild them. we want walls you can see through. you want to see what is on the other side. we are starting to fix a lot of walls. how are we doing and how important are the walls? they said "mr. president, you have no idea. it is desperately needed." we are going to get that wall. and that wall is also going to help us, very importantly, with the drug problem and the massive amounts of drugs that are pouring across the southern border. my administration will never back down with demanding immigration control. the american people voted for immigration control. that's one of the reasons i'm here. that's why the american people deserve it and they are going to get it. you put pressure but believe me, one way or the other, we are going to get that wall. immigration security is also a matter -- remember this, of national security. that's why we are implementing tough new

i met with border patrol and ice. it's incredible the job they do. where people coming in down 78 and almost 80%. he did so good i made him my chief of staff. that made sense. where's john? we respect our police officers and firemen and all of our uniformed services. during the visit i heard firsthand about the concerns they have every day and a pledged my continued resolve to them and all of you to keep our country safe. all around the nation i have spent time with the americans whose children were killed because our government failed to enforce our immigration laws -- already existing laws. i promised these families the death of their loved ones will not have been in vain. i promised them. i know so many of them. one by one we're finding the gang members who prey on our people. we're throwing them out of the country or putting them fast in jail. we are cracking down on sanctuary cities that shield criminal aliens, finally. we're building a wall on the southern border which is absolutely necessary. now the obstructionist democrats don't want us to d

i met with border patrol and ice. it's incredible the job they do. where people coming in down 78 and almost 80%. he did so good i made him my chief of staff. that made sense. where's john? we respect our police officers and firemen and all of our uniformed services. during the visit i heard firsthand about the concerns they have every day and a pledged my continued resolve to them and all of you to keep our country safe. all around the nation i have spent time with the americans whose children were killed because our government failed to enforce our immigration laws -- already existing laws. i promised these families the death of their loved ones will not have been in vain. i promised them. i know so many of them. one by one we're finding the gang members who prey on our people. we're throwing them out of the country or putting them fast in jail. we are cracking down on sanctuary cities that shield criminal aliens, finally. we're building a wall on the southern border which is absolutely necessary. now the obstructionist democrats don't want us to d

border patrol leads to a deadly crash. but the big story on "action news" at noon is president trump's latest warning to north korea. it came in the form of a tweet at 7:59 this morning. trump says that military solutions are in place locked and loaded should north korea act unwisely. emily is live in washington now more on the war of words that has the world on edge. >> reporter: rick so many nations on edge as president trump continues to ratchet up the top talk but his national security team is advising that war with north korea would be catastrophic. >> a fresh warning via president trump's twitter feed. military solutions are now fully in place, locked and loaded should north korea act unwisely. following thursday's fiery rhetoric. >> lets see what he does with guam if he does something in guam it will be an event the likes of which nobody has seen before. what will happen in north korea. >> the president doubling down after north korea called his comments about fire and fury nonsense. threatening to fire four missile

he toured a customs and border patrol facility there. shining a spotlight on one of the administration's policy's achievement that illegal border crossings have plummeted during his time since the inauguration. we have got team fox coverage for you tonight on the ground in phoenix. jonathan hunt outside the convention center. mike emanuel is inside the arena where the president is set to speak. good evening, mike. >> martha, good evening, the folks filing in to this convention center right now are pretty loyal and diehard group. it is 107 degrees in phoenix right now. and they have been standing outside for hours. and i am not joking. they seem to be in good spirits at this hour. the folks that i have talked to no short fuses due to the heat outside. they seem excited to hear from the president about some key items on his agenda after more than seven months in office. there has been some buzz about whether the president would offer a pardon for former sheriff joe arpaio who is from the phoenix area. the white house is ruling that out toni

arizona tonight for a campaign-style recall yivment before he heads to phoenix, he he toured the us border patrol operations center in hmm a. during that visit he he was expected to renew his push for a southern border wall fox5's political reporter ronica cleary is live tonight at the white house with the president's visit to the border center. ronica. >>reporter: hi, shawn. you know the president, he's using h this trip for of course a hand ful of reasons. he wants to look ahead to the future of his immigration policy, but he also wants to' this as an opportunity to highlight what he feels are accomplishments since he started in the white house. now, take a look at these numbers. these are statistics from the white house that they want to highlight in light of this trip they say that there's been a 47 percent decrease in illegal border cross attempts over the same period last year. the president has called for ten now new ice officers border patrol agents and ice has removed over 2700 criminal gang members during 2017. that's more than they removed in all of 2016. now, in light of this there's

again, the border patrol today -- i said, how important is the wall to some of the folks? with a lot of them. they looked at me, they said -- it is vital. it is vital. it is so vital. and, you know, we have walls. i do not know if you know -- we are already starting to fix a lot of the walls we already have. because we don't have to rebuild them. can see walls that you through, in a sense. we want to see what is on the other side we are fixing a lot of them. i said to them, what are we doing and how important his walls? and they said, mr. president you have no idea. it is desperately needed. we're going to have our wall. we're going to get our wall. and, that wall is also going to help us -- very importantly -- with the drug problem and the massive amount of drugs that are pouring across the southern border. my administration will never back down in demanding immigration control. the american people voted for immigration control. that is one of the reasons i'm here. and that is what the american people deserve, and they are going to get it. [applause] [cheers] pres. trump:

. >> the help wanted sign is up for border patrol agents. but finding takers is a challenge. so the government is getting creative. here is don dahler. tens of thousands of fans came to the fest in minnesota. for the country music. >> interested in a career. >> customs border agent, came to the festival for the tens of thousands of fans. >> crystal was intrigued. never thought i would get a job. >> reporter: at a music festival. the agency struggled to hire 5,000 agents, president trump requested to help secure the mexican border. so the cbp got creative and is venturing to spartan races, county fairs, and country music festivals. >> what's your base pay? >> pretty good. >> former army infantryman, says it makes sense. >> there is a lot of people here just love this country. you will see, american flags scattered throughout every one that you go to. >> reporter: the agency is having a hard time finding applicants who can pass a polygraph test. by its own admission, 75% of them failed. the agency now offers a shorter policy graph test and allows waivers from the test for law e

border patrol apprehension in first half of this year. 17 year low.eland security officials say that there are about a half million illegal criminals still out there. i.c.e. cannot get them or find them or arrest them. why? partly because of sanctuary city protecttion. we bring in paxton. >> good afternoon from texas. liz: you heard the stats, president trump's crackdown on illegal immigration, sounds like it working, your thoughts. >> i agree. for a long time years and years we have asked for help from federal government, it is their job to deal with immigration. finally a president that stood up and did it, we're great up if in texas to see some of those numbers come down. i have talked to border agents they are grateful for an opportunity to do their job, they did not feel they could do before. liz: big numbers here according to homeland security 500 thousand criminal illegals protect by u.s. sanctuary cities does that sound right? >> this would not surprise me that a problem we're addressing in texas. we're trying to deal with that, we know in tex

back to tucson and we got pulled over by a border patrol and he immediately asked me. to state my citizenship whether i was a u.s. citizen a mexican citizen and i said i'm going on. among all of them you know my land. where you from. so he merely unclipped this this pistol on this side and he put it in my head he said you will say. i'm mexican citizen. and he did that in front of my daughter and my grandson was little and both of them started crying and. but he continued to say that he would deport me he would throw me on the pavement. in the park. and i said. are you going to deport me. if you going to deploy me to mexico that's my men to my community on that side. and at that point another border patrol came and saw what was happening and it you know it stopped and went away. thank you.

border patrol is working with mexican authorities to investigation an illegal tunnel used to smuggle people across the border. border patrol agents discovered the tunnel saturday near the otay mesa crossing east of san diego. they detained 23 chinese nationals and 7 mexican nationals. investigators believe the tunnel may be an extension of another passageway that was found and seized by mexican authorities. >> this weekend, mike and i had the honor of taking part in the taylor family foundation's annual day in the park fund-raiser. ♪ >> i like the little girl in the corner there. enjoy michael franty entertaining the crowd. and there's mike nicco. you can see a bunch of us here from abc 7 family, including cheryl jennings and dan ashley, sue hall was also there. people opened their hearts and wallets to bid on auction items. mike, you were telling me they got over a million bucks yesterday? >> yeah, at least. that was before they factored in the silent auction items. that was just from the fund-a-need in the live auction. >> my favorite part was the eati eating, as you can see. plenty

and border patrol during a visit to yuma sector. it was hot. like 115 degrees.ng autographs for an hour. i was there. that was a hot day. you learn if you're in shape. if you can do that, believe me. and they actually told me, sir, it's relatively cool today. can you believe it? and i met with border patrol and i met with i.c.e. and these are incredible people the job they do. in fact, general kelly who was in charge of homeland security where people coming in down 78 and almost 80%. he did so good. i made him my chief of staff, right? that made sense. where's john? where is he? where is general kelly? get him out here. he's great. he's doing a great job. before anything happened, we did a lot. we respect and cherish our i.c.e. officers and we respect and cherish our police officers and our fireman, but during that visit i heard first hand about the security threats they confront each and every day and i pledged my continued resolve to them and all of you to keep our country safe. all around the nation i have spent time with the wonderful americans whose childre

again, the border patrol today -- i said, how important is the wall to some of the folks?et with a lot of them. they looked at me, they said -- it is vital. it is vital. it is so vital. and, you know, we have walls. i don't know if you know but we are already starting to fix a lot of the walls we already have. we don't have to rebuild them. and we want to be able to see through them in a sense. we want to be a busy what is on the other side. is said to them, what are we doing and how important his walls? and they said, mr. president you have no idea. it is desperately needed. we're going to have our wall. we're going to get our wall. and, that wall is also going to help us -- very importantly -- with the drug problem and the massive amount of drugs that are pouring across the southern border. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: my administration will never back down from demanding immigration control. the american people voted for immigration control. that is one of the reasons i'm here. and that is what the american people deserve and they are going to get it. [cheers and