my district is in the border patrol rio grande valley. one of the higher traffic sectors along the southern border. there the second largest number border patrol agents assigned to it only behind tucson. also have a large contingent of texas department of public safety personnel. assisting border patrol.under the local law enforcement officials are engaged in keeping community secure along the stretch of the border. in addition, the texas national guard has an ongoing border security mission ever since the former governor rick perry deployed 1000 guardsmen to the texas mexico border in 2014. to say the border is lawless is a lie. deploy national guard personnel to the southern border is not new. but the circumstances for this deployment are unusual. facts and context matter despite the demonstrations repeated attempts to frame them in a way that justifies the misguided and inhumane policies. as you can see in this graph, -- no graph? there we go. there were 70 percent fewer apprehensions in march 2018, one month before the president's orde

last year, border patrol agents on the northern border apprehended 3,027 people. by comparison, those on the southern border caught more than 300,000. >> the northern border is much more vast. the terrain is very difficult to work in, and we do not have the resources at our disposal that the southern border has. >> reporter: many official ports of entry like this floating dock near lake champlain are unmanned at night. border patrol agents rely on local residents, patrols, and sensors to alert them to possible crossings. there are thousands of sensors like this one deployed along the northern border that incorporate motion detection and cameras. when they sense someone coming across, the tricky part is getting a border patrol agent there in time enough to catch them. sometimes entering the u.s. is as simple as walking across a 20-foot-wide clearing in the woods or paddling on a lake, and you don't have to check in with anyone. >> i'm not seeing any markers on this lake. >> it's pretty unmarked and apparently you can go wherever you want as long as you don't touch

joining me now president of the national border patrol council, the union for the border patrol. it's great to have you with us. the president now threatens to shut down the government. if as he put it, the dems and rhinos don't deliver the construction of the wall. your reaction? >> i'm a federal employee. i'm not speaking on behalf of federal government but i can tell you as a border patrol agent i would support shutting down the government if in fact it was going to lead to border security. this is a topic that we have been discussing for years. i have been a border patrol agent for 21 years now. this is something that comes up year after year after year. we finally need to get ahold of this. we are not talking about legal immigration. we are talking about illegal immigration and we need to get a handle on it. this president is trying to make that happen. >> lou: he is trying to make it happen. he also is opposed by the business roundtable, the chamber of commerce, wall street, corporate, u.s. multinationals -- not corporate america. u.s. multinationals and the koch brothers w

and border patrol for performing their duties admirably and for defending our country from horrible people and horrible, horrible events and crimes. in major cities across the nation, these open border radicals have blocked access to i.c.e. buildings, defaced public property and threatened public safety, and what you hear in the newspapers and on the news is nothing compared to the way it really is, and we are stopping it very, very strongly, but that you have to go through what you are going through and you have to be having to be demeaned by people that have no idea what strength is is really very sad, and we fight it very hard. i can tell you all of these people right here and all of the people in this room, we will never let you down. i will also say, talking about the vast majority, i don't mean like 51%, i mean like 88%, 93%, i have seen numbers, they are all with you. just a small group that gets a lot of publicity because they have no courage, they have no guts, they just have big, loud mouths and we don't want to put up with that. i just want you to know that you're loved. you're

officers and border patrol agents. [applause] president trump: you want to know who wants the wall more than any of us? i.c.e. and border patrol, because they know that will be a big factor in stopping the drugs that come in, the human traffickers, which is worse than at any time in the history of our world. human traffickers, who would believe? and it is because of the internet. this election is about security, and this election is about jobs. we have produced.

and border patrol agents?> jason, there are currently over 500 children who are separated from their parents because of the policies of this administration -- let me finish -- >> jason: no, jose, i want you to answer the question that i asked, not what you want to go off and talk about. the question is, it's a simple one. the president -- >> i got a simple answer but you gotta let me answer the question. if you interrupt me, i can't speak. let me finish. i will interrupt you. did the president do the right thing? >> he did not do the right thing, jason. >> jason: by honoring i.c.e. and border patrol agents? >> absolutely he did not do the right thing. we should be looking for things to reunite these children. we know that i.c.e. agents right now are not using its resources the way it's supposed to by enacting this senseless and anti-immigrant zero-tolerance policy. >> jason: wait, wait, wait. timeout. jose, this is an important point. don't say that we are anti-immigrant. we are anti-illegal immigrant. don't l

able to elude the border patrol, you're just not going to have border security.order security is an issue that the vast majority of the public wants. until we address this issue and we stop using rhetoric like abolish i.c.e., a law enforcement agency keeping our citizens safe, you know, it is frankly it is crazy. connell: show you a couple things before i let you go on the screen. i mention there is negative coverage of the president's immigration policies. in the network news according to recent study, 92% of the coverage was negative. that is part of it. the other thing that has come up, why is that happening? obviously some could be plain old media bias. other people say, well, what about the border separation issue, the separation of children from their parents? still 565 children in custody, not eligible for reunification were not reunited with their parents, although most were before that. what do you make of that issue, @, hurt morale or hurt the overall coverage of people who are otherwise doing such good things you described them before? >> well, i don't

something. >> the cries of immigrant children just had been separated from their parents in a border patrol detention facility. an audio i obtained a month and a half ago or so with the help of a civil rights attorney on the border. she'd obtained this tape and asked what i thought about it. i thought we ought to try to publish it. it wasn't an easy decision for the source of the tape that felt that the tape could put them at risk for being identified and fired but allowed us to publish the audio. >> where was it made? >> i can't say exactly but a border patrol detention facility and we're able to verify it was authentic by there is a little girl on the tape, a salvadoran girl named jimena and she's six. you can hear her on this tape asking a border patrol official to let her make a phone call. she's saying please let me call my aunt. very her number memorized and she rattles off the number. i call that had number and found a woman in houston who is jimena's aunt and talked to me about her niece about their tension and she'd gotten a call from her niece from a border patrol detention facili

border patrol, thank you as well. thell started that day, vehicle was referred to secondary and once a vehicle is referred to sacred cash to secondary -- once a vehicle is referred to secondary, it moves to a checkpoint. the 30 mile marker is a mile north of the checkpoint. subsequently i went out there and [indiscernible] and the canine alerted. subsequently i opened the latch on the back of the tractor-trailer and revealed a lot of subjects. i quickly asked for backup and backup got there in the subjects were transported back to the checkpoint and all of them were in good health. [applause] fantastic job. what a good job he did. what a good job. now you know tomorrow he's going that so much.ked tomorrow he will be announcing that he is running for office. [laughter] pres. trump: good job. 78 people say thank you very much, adrian. arrested 132ficers illegal aliens including those convicted of rape, battery, and strange elation. among those arrested was a high-ranking ms 13 gang member who has four prior convictions

they're surrendering their asylum claim and there is a security risk around the border and the border patrol been better, quipped. you cannot conflate with the security crisis and they are different problems and when you have a security solution to a humanitarian crisis you weaken the border security. >> that's very interesting because you're saying that the country is being made less safe than more safe with this kind of policy. to that end, yes, am i right? >> you're absolutely right. border patrol agents are not trained and not supposed to be standing guard over little children who have been separated from their parents. border patrol agents should be between the ports of entry getting bad guys and trying to smuggle drugs into the united states and individuals trying to commit crimes. we are draining and diverting the resources and we're giving the agency a black eye which hinders their ability to cooperate with law enforcement to be effective on the public safety mission. >> those are real, real, real-life consequences that you're articulating to the detriment of the united states, but i

a panel discussion on the life-saveing and law enforcement mission of the nations customs and border patroland ice officers. after this panel discussion, happened in the last hour and a half or so, the president will deliver remarks honoring individuals who are doing work there on the border. vice president pence introducing the president and the president we're told to speak about 20 to 25 minutes, many questions about whether he will bring up other matters that are close at hand at the white house and this customs and border patrol speech and honoring of this bunch comes as 565 immigrant children are still separated from their parents because the president signed an executive order to stop splitting the families at the border, but the feds are still trying to reunite families and kids they already separated. again, the separation happened not due to law, but a policy which this administration instituted and in a sense rolled back to some degree, be that as it may, the celebration of those who toll the border and work in customs and border protection, will begin in just a moment. while we

and they got it from us and so we call border patrol and border patrol get on the other side of the. kitchen when they come on the ill side . so if you look up there that's one of the towers that. that's our cost us ninety million dollars and that towers what is supposed to be watching the border right now and then when that tower sees something they call the border patrol. and they try to get gays in the air but it's so far away from anything that by the time they get here they're already fast. charlie bass. world former military and law enforcement we know how to go about doing this in the slow in the time we run into somebody. who is a ok we'll sit him down and then we ask them if they need any food or water or medical aid. regardless if you're bringing in the jordans or killing people in there then you know or if you're just sneaking into the country we don't want to see you die out there i mean dying of those. horrible ways i can. give you food water medical aid we call border patrol we'll put them up. listen to this from wide open there's people from seventy eight different cou

. >> reporter: border patrol agent norm lague is in charge of about 300 miles of it in vermont and newyork. during our drive-along with him, he showed us vast areas where the border was unmarked -- and largely unprotected. >> it's impossible for us to cover 100 percent of the border. >> reporter: but as an american, is that the threat that concerns you most? >> that is a huge concern of mine. >> reporter: sometimes entering the u.s. is as simple as crossing a 20-foot- wide clearing in the woods or paddling across a lake. on this side of these flower planters is vermont. on that side is quebec. and these are more marking than you see on much of the northern border. the border patrol says despite their dedicated personnel and all their technology, people are coming across illegally. last year, border patrol agents along the northern border caught untry illegally. nearly half -- 1,489 -- were from mexico, which is on the southern border. mexican citizens don't need a visa to enter canada. and one-way flights to toronto and montreal only cost about $300. the border patrol uses high tech mo

it stems from a case of a border patrol agent. in 2012 he shot and killed a mexican teenager through the arizona-mexico border fence. the agent claims self-defense saying a group of mexican teens were attacking him, trying to force him from his position and clear the way for drug smugglers. they were throwing rocks and other stuff. but now the teen's mother is now according to this decision allowed to sue the agent in federal court for it looks like civil damages. joining me now to discuss, a border patrol agent who grew up on the arizona-mexico border, and a resident fellow in law and policy, the center of immigration studies. art, the majority opinion, which i painstakingly went through. in total it's 71 pages long in the ninth circuit. the judge, judge and her clients build. i think we might have a picture of him, he wrote the majority opinion. a george hw appointee to the court. he said the decision to allow noncitizens to sue, there's the judge, will not deter border agents in their duty because you don't have a right or a dut

border patrol. for are responsible protecting the borders, southwest is where the bulk of the agents are. we also patrolled the north. two is field operations. these are cbp officers, at the ports of entry. you fly back from europe, cross the border from tijuana to and diego, that is where officers operate. they are responsible for carrying the flow through the and third isism, marine operations. we have the third largest civilian air force in the world. in the maritime approaches and in the source and transit for narcotics trafficking. 1000 people strong monitoring the movement of free trade across our borders, applying the policies appropriately across a full manner of commodities, ensuring that people cannot evade our trade laws and duties and tariffs, ensuring intellectual properties are respected and keeping forced labor out. it is border focused. are focusedefforts on apprehending anyone crossing tradingy and lawful travel. 98% are fully compliant with our laws and are processed accordingly. >>

media vilify border patrol.not true. >> really? how about michael hayden tweeting out a picture of auschwitz and comparing our border patrol and i.c.e. agents to the nazi ss. >> what the context of it? what was the context of it? >> the context of it was illegal border crossings of people with children. >> that were the families being put in cages and separated at the border. no one has said that or talked about the ethnicity of the border patrol agents or said they were hispanic or white. >> yes they have, don. >> you're talking about one person. i've not seen the main stream media writ large do that. >> almost every night you call the president a racist. don't tell me this doesn't happen. everyone knows it does. and speaking of i.c.e. -- >> i'm not going to let you get away with that because what you said is just not true. >> don, you call him a racist every night. >> well, would you like me to go through the evidence of his racism that you can't see because you have the trump derangement blinders on? you can'

the border patrol uses high-tech motion detectors, sensors, and cameras to monitor some areas, but theyit there are hundreds of miles of unguarded border, and they simply don't know how many people are coming across illegally. don dahler, cbs news, derby line, vermont. >> glor: up next here tonight, avndreds may have lost their homes because of a bank's mistake. kept spelling my name with an 'i' it's bryan with a 'y.' since birth. well, i happen to know some people. do they listen? what? they're amazing listeners. guidance from professionals who take their time to get to know you. digestive advantage probiotics have a strong natural protein shell. so while other brands may have billions of probiotics many can struggle in stomach acid. ours survive 100 times better. let our strength help you stay strong. is mealtime a struggle?ta where-ida goldenrink criy cury ...with this. when kids won't eat dinner, potato pay them to. ore-ida. win at mealtime. potato pay them to. at&t provides edge-to-edge intelligence, covering virtually every part of your retail business. so that if your customer ne

rob: not just the wall but a general sense over the last couple months border patrol, ice, have been hey have been unable to fully protect the border from drug dealers going back and forth. >> you would think democrats would support, all-americans would support law enforcement including ice, including border patrol. when we are being attacked by our own lawmakers it makes a lot more difficult to do our job. it becomes nearly impossible to secure the border if we do not get the support we need from the democrats and frankly in some cases the republicans as well. heather: you heard the conversation of a possible government shutdown. this is what donald trump had to say, border security, national security, national security is long-term viability of our country, a government shutdown is a small price to pay for a safe and prosperous america. do you think there should be a government shutdown in order to attempt to get this done? >> it is a small price to pay. if we had the political will, this is going to go on the shoulders of the republicans. if we had the political will to do what nee

(radio chatter) since 9/11, security is up. er the numbf border patrol agents has doubled to some 20,000hese two are probably the guides for a larger group. minors come up north buthen went south. >> smith: in mid-june, a young woman and her son from el salvador took a raft across the rio grande into southern texas. >> that one looks pretty ung... >> yeah, but they've been trying all day to... >> smith: after several hours of wandering in the hot sun looking for help, ey found some border patrol agents and asked for asylum. after 24 hours in a hoing cell, they were released. (people talking in background) i met them at this shelter in mcallen, texas, maritza amaya and her nine-month-old son wilfredo. de donde viene? >> de el salvador. >> smith: de el salvador. they crossed the border at a time when many families were being separated. so tell us youstory about why you came at this time? (speaking spanish): smith: were you aware of the risks of being separated from your child when you came? >> no. s smith: the day i met maritza happened to be te day president trump issued his executive ord

it is true, don, people vilify border patrol and -- >> you said mainstream media vilifies border patrolw about michael hayden tweeting out a picture of auschwitz and comparing our border patrol and i.c.e. agents -- >> what was the context of that? what was the context of that? >> it was illegal border crossings by people with children. >> families -- >> families that were being put in cages or separated at the border. no one said that -- no one talked about the ethnicity of the border patrol agents. no one said they were awful because they're hispanic or white. >> really? yes, they have, don. >> you talk about one person -- >> yes, they have. i can tell you about it. >> you talk about one person in the media -- i have not seen the mainstream media writ large do that. you made that up. >> i did not make it up. you do it on your show almost every night you call the president a racist. every viewer knows it does. speaking of i.c.e. specifically, i wrote an article -- >> i'm not going to let you get away with that. because what you said is just not true. >> you call him a racist every night

border patrol january 8, 95. 2013 she became chief patrol agent and sheila 1200 employees. in 2015 she she became deputy assistant commissioner, the office of professional responsibility. mr. matthew albence was appointed executive associate director for enforcement and removale operations for i.c.e. february 2017. he began his career as a special agent with the former u.s. immigration and naturalization service. mr. albans leads er oh to remove aliens who present a danger to national security or at risk to public safety, as well as those who enter the united states without documentation or otherwise determined, otherwise undermining the integrity of our immigration laws and our border control efforts. jonathan white, commander is his title, was appointed deputy director of children's programs, office of refugees resettlement january 2017. january 2017. in that capacityin he manages te unaccompanied alien children program, which provides care and custody to over 100,000 young people annually who are apprehended by the department od homeland security without an accompanying

and customs border patrol, what do you think needs to be done? ller: i sat through the hearings on c-span and they are talking about two walls and neither one is on the border. one is 40 to 50 miles north of the border and in other ones out. there will be a gap of 100 miles to 80 miles in between the two fences and nobody is talking about it. host: let's hear from bob in pennsylvania, republican line. caller: good morning. host: morning. caller: it amazes me, i just can't get over all the people who are against what donald trump is doing. he hasn't done everything wrong -- anything wrong. he has done everything to help our nation. all these people to come up with these ideas about what should be done and what should not be done, i cannot get over it. nobody has yet to explain to me on the democratic side -- democrat side, what is so wrong with donald trump? what has he done wrong? host: when it comes to what he said yesterday about the agencies, explain your thinking on that. caller: i think they are doing a fantastic. i was a police officer for 1

filling job openings with border patrol isn't easy either.us now and she had a chance to get to the heart of what's motivating these people and what they have to go through to do the jobs. >> we went to the middle of the desert to the border patrol academy where they train new recruits going into the field. we spoke to one individual, a mexican american, 52% of the border patrol is now hispanic. he told us exactly why he is joining. it's to honor his uncle. it's 7:00 a.m. and is the idro is in the first class of the day. firearms. >> was was training. >> not an everyday shooter. i'm trying to pick up everything they are training here. >> he is one of 4 oh oh rekrouts training to be a border patrol agent at the academy in artsia new mexico. it's considered one of the toughest and got harder. this year the curriculum is expanded to six months. there is nearly double the a training for everything. more firearms, immigration law. and new this year, scenario training with real actors to simulate what agents may face on the border. and spanish lang

the border patrol uses high-tech motion detectors, sens cameras to monitor some areas but they admit there are hundreds of miles of unguarded border and they simply don't know how many people are coming across illegally. don dahler, cbs news, derbyline, vermont. >>> coming up next,ew the inves children found at a new mexico compound. well, here's to first dates! you look amazing. and you look amazingly comfortable. when your v-neck looks more like a u-neck... that's when you know, it's half-washed. add downy to keep your collars from stretching. unlike detergent alone, downy conditions to smooth and strengthen fibers. so, next time don't half-wash it. downy and it's done. but i am a simple farmer.bas! my life is here... [telephone ring] ahoy-hoy. alexander graham bell here... no, no, my number is one, you must want two! two, i say!! like my father before... [telephone ring] like my father before... ahoy-hoy! as long as people talk too loudly on the phone, you can count on geico saving folks money. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. a women's natur

in my 26 years in law enforcement, both as a local police officer and as a border patrol agent, i havek. but when you violate the law, and it is a violation of law to cross the border illegally between the ports of entry, then there needs to be a consequence. our core values are vigilance, service to country, and integrity. i want to ensure that we continue down that path. griff: so she steps in to this challenge with unbelievable pressure on her. but, when i talked to. so other border agents i have met along the way. calling around what do you think of her she is great. we really look forward to her leadership. abby: griff, how important is it to have someone like her leading the charge? >> it's really important. you know, you heard there, she's a mother. she understands this. but she also says look, we don't make the laws. we enforce them. and at the top of her priorities is rule of law. and that's exactly what the administration wants right now. >> griff jenkins getting the scoop. glad to have you on this morning. god speed to her. abby: coming up on the show, gregg jarrett, tammy b

border patrol, could not be prouder to represent the men and women who dedicate their lives in support of the mission. i am honored to work alongside them. ultimately, border security is national security. enforcement of immigration law is the foundation of a secure border and a secure nation and i look forward to continuing to work with the committee towards this goal. thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today and i look forward to your questions. >> chairman grassley, ranking member feinstein and distinguished members of the committee. thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today to discuss the critical mission of i.c.e. to protect the homeland and ensure the integrity of our nations immigration system to enforcement of the countries immigration laws and in particular, its role in family reunification efforts. our nations immigration laws are extremely complex. in many cases, outdated and full of loopholes. this also makes it difficult for people to understand all i.c.e. does to protect people of this great country. nowhere is this more evident than the rec

border patrol, the national guard facilitated more than 1200 arrests and the seizure of more than 1300uana along the arizona border alone. >> we're looking at arizona and texas. >> reporter: sit ago long side the agent looking out from her lonely perch at the border, there is not a single soldier in site. people may have thought they would be patrolled and rifle officials the shoeld eastern riding along with you. that's not happening. that's not the way it was meant to happen. >> not at all. they're helping out the overall mission. and they're putting more of us out here on the border to secure the border. >> reporter: border agent dixon may not see the soldiers, but she's glad they're here. somewhere. >> that was our martin savage reporting. >>> a year later, a hopeful sign -- >> unbelievable that a fire could destroy a whole subdivision. >> the quiet scenes of wreckage replaced by the sounds of power tools. why the recovery of those who lost everything in last year's tubs fire is giving hopes to victims of another deadly california fire. this school year, get a new iphone from t-mobi

and about how she had gotten a call from her niece from the border patrol detention facility and we wereble to corroborate the tape was real. brian lamb: what were the circumstances that the mother and daughter came across the border? ginger thompson: the mother is a salvadoran woman who says she was walking with her daughter ,nd her boyfriend in salvador she lives in a small community outside of the capital. she says she was walking with her boyfriend and he was shot by a gang member who is well known in the community and told her if she said anything about who had committed the crime, she would be next. brian lamb: was he killed? ginger thompson: the boyfriend was killed. so she stayed quiet. he continued to threaten her and her daughter. so she felt she cannot take it anymore and she was really afraid that something would happen to her little girl. to the united states. brian lamb: where do they access the u.s.? ginger thompson: they came across the rio grande. we have a picture of them on a raft crossing the river with a smuggler he was there guide. they were picked up very quickly a

thatns a local militia looks for people coming across his land and notifying border patrol. he also has these large laminated posters of dead migrants. there's been about 7000 dead migrants found along the stretch of the southern border since 2000. people who have died of hypothermia or dehydration. he seemed to take some pleasure in showing off these pictures. he put an electric fence. you can see all of this in the documentary tonight. mike vickers is his name. host: that is 10:00 on pbs. separated children at the border. george, you're on with our guest martin smith. ourer: i would like to know children and parents separated from only the ones that come in and cross illegally or also the ones that come in at the regular ports of entry or just illegal crossings? guest: the policy and practice, as i understand it, is to separate those who come in illegally between ports of entry. some of them come up not knowing where they should enter. they've hired a coyote or smuggler to get them up and they bring them to the river or the border. they are sent across, not fully aware of w

our border patrol folks, they have no fear.

they monitor every meter of the border for the americans they are the border patrols for hispanics they are simply. there are about nine thousand in texas and president donald trump expects many more in the coming months. and will never. admit he.