they're not trying to avoid the border patrol.rien: but the mayor of mcallen, texas, the largest city in hidalgo county, says the federal government needs to provide a humanitarian response instead of a law enforcement one. jim darling: i've always said they ought to send social workers down here to process people because about 80%--a little over 80% of all the illegal entries are really people seeking asylum. o'brien: the mayor admits some of those crossing the border are criminals. according to government stats, less than 5% of immigrants who are apprehended at the border were criminals, but even so, mayor darling says his town isn't impacted. darling: we're the safest city in the state of texas, seventh in the united states. o'brien: is that right? darling: that's what's so hurting to us, yeah. o'brien: tell me a little bit about what is it like living in a border town. how far are we from the border right now? darling: we're 6 miles. so we're a little different. we're not right on the border like laredo or brownsville, and i t

a second child has died in custody of border patrol. what were the circumstances, and what happened? guest: this little boy, philippe felipe -- philippe a -- he had his family crossed and they were moved across the border as holding cells filled up. they were held for six days, double the time the border patrol standards recommend, even for adults. they are austere holding cells with very minimal provisions. they are supposed to be transferred to ice custody. fell very sick. his fever spiked to 106. the hospital released him. we still don't know why. he was taken back into border patrol custody for hours, and then rushed back to the hospital and he died. host: "the washington times" says after he was released, he was given amoxicillin and ibuprofen, but his father refused more medical attention. guest: i don't know what the father's background is, but if he is not a medical professional, i think that raises questions about why the hospital released him, and also why he remained at a highway checkpoint for several hours afterward. there a

they tended not to focus on women because it was a program only open to men but when border patrol agents look for people crossing the border, they would find women and men but when they would apprehend women, particularly in urban areas they were a little self- conscious because women would cry and scream as one would do if you were apprehended and scared with the border patrol agent said women were using their feminine many -- femininity. so they changed it to desert landscapes. >> part of the debate now, the separation of families in the policy that is now in place by the trump administration although they've rescinded some of the actions, did this happen, our family separated? >> one could argue that family separation dates back further than that the border was only open to men assortment and because the policy stipulated specifically that women could not cross the border, families were being separated but, then again as women were getting apprehended, sometimes they had children with them and occasionally i can't speak for how often but i'm certain there were moments where they were

this past year, you look at the stats from the border patrol, the seizures of fentanyl have doubled. . that killed 72,000 americans this year. they doubled the seizure of fentanyl on the border. they have doubled the arrests of ms-13 members, up almost 200%. there is your criminals, your gangs, your drugs, and crime. ms. pelosi, what have you got now? >> jason: in november, there were more thanhe 60,000 people that were apprehended trying to come across the border. it's a simple equation. i look at this and say, doesio a wall make it more or less safe and secure? >> every place it says build the wall. san diego, el paso, every place they built a barrier or a wall, a wall-like barrier, the results have been decreasing illegal immigration, decrease in drug supply. i again, the data is there. democrats say the wall won't work. they are ignoring the data. every place it has been put up, it has worked 100% of the time. so if this works, what price are you putting on the national security and public safety? i talked to theri president tody a couple of hours ago, here is a man i don't thinkt

the border mention patrol. yet the size of the border patrol continues to skyrocket. >> from carter through reagan through bush one and bush two and obama and clinton, the idea was you would get security first and have some kind of one-off amnesty. schumer agreeing that security was the number one issue. nobody has been talking about in amnesty now. now the bipartisan buy into the notion that the border has to be ofled is one of the sources the moral crisis in this country. amy: i want to end with ruben garcia, the director of the shelter in el paso, texas, where jakelin's father is now staying. garcia read from a statement issued by the attorney for jakelin's father. >> the family is seeking an objective and thorough investigation and are asking that investigators will assess this incident with a nationally recognized standards for the arrest and custody of children. jakelin's father took care of sure she had sufficient food and water. she and her father sought asylum as soon as they crossed the border. she d

border patrol.y're placed in very difficult conditions when they leave their homes in guatemala, el salvador, and travel through mexico, many times traveling in tractor trailers, buses that are overcrowded, place income bad conditions. what happened with jakelin caal maquin, walking for hours on the mexico side and not the u.s. side. but i think the asset, it's important that she see firsthand and speak to officials out there, but she'll also see our agents are very dedicated to treating these children correctly, giving them the medical attention that they need, and that many of the health issues that they have, they ultimately suffer tremendously along the way. it's important that they know that. >> when it comes to the changes, what needs to be done there, we have a recent "washington post" article, you have the chief of the border patrol saying, our stations are not meant to house children and families, they have not been constructed to deal with the situations that we're facing now. will changes

>> it's either that or he got extremely ill in border patrol custody.s sort of the key element of this we have to talk about when we talk about this young boy, felipe gomez alonso. associated press just put out a picture of this young boy. it makes you sick honestly to think about. that not one but two little children have died in the custody of u.s. customs and border protections. three weeks basically. and they say that no child has died in the custody of border patrol over the course of the last ten years. back to the rule i was saying was violated in holding this young boy. for that amount of time, the 18th of december until christmas eve when he died. nobody, children or otherwise, are supposed to be held in border patrol processing stations that are well known to be unsanitary, dangerous environments for people to stay in for longer than 72 hours. the idea this boy spent nearly a week jumping between multiple border patrol processing stations and ultimately he became sick -- is actually not surprising at all. it should have us talking why he was t

investigation. >> reporter: family members of a seven-year-old guatemalan girl who died in the custody of border patrol is disputing the agency's account of what may have caused her death. jakelin and her father were among the group arrested at the u.s. border near new mexico. hours after being placed on a bus by border patrol agents, jakelin began vomiting and then stopped breathing. she later died at a hospital. u.s. border patrol claims she was malnourished and had not had food or water for days before she died. the family says that is. >> they were detained immediately. she had not suffered from a lack of water or food or she got to the border area >> reporter: protests at the mexican border demanding justice for her and her family. >> we need an independent investigation. that will tell us what happened at the time she was arrested, while in detention and when she was provided care. >> reporter: the white house calling the tragedy a result of an unstable situation at the border. >> it is a painful reminder of the ongoing humanitarian tragedy that is illegal immigration and the misery it spreads. >

border patrol. as jacob soboroff reports, her case raises new questions about border line policy. >> reporter: jakelin caal and her father were among 163 migrants who crossed the border illegally d by the border patrol in new mexico thursday. according to customs and border protection, they were put on a bus to be transported to a border patrol station 95 miles away, but not long after, the father notified agents his daughter was vomiting. jakelin didn't receive medical attention until she arrived at the station 90 minutes later, but by then, she had stopped breathing. she was airlifted to a hospital in el paso where she died the next morning. homeland security says their inspector general is investigating the incident. when cvp's commissioner testified before congress on tuesday, he made no mention of jakelin's death, only saying their system is flawed. >> our border patrol stations and ports of entry were built to handle mostly male single adults in custody, not families or children. >> reporter:

in the last month, but implication is that this is border patrol's fault. ocess to get to the border. former acting i.c.e. director tom homan talked about this earlier on the show. >> right. whenever they could to help protect the life and safety of these people. they are are our responsibility when they come into our custody. a lot of people come from the third world country. a lot of people have not seen a doctor. they come in bad shape. i can't tell you how many people that go immediately to medical trauma center. these people are in bad shape. that is why we have to stop enticing them from making dangerous journey. griff: would it be different if the child had not been in border patrol custody, traveling from the caravan from guatemala to tijuana? it's a very, very dangerous journey. when tom homan, former acting i.c.e. director talking about we should not be giving any enticement to migrants making that journey, that is tragically why. katie: just to answer your question real quickly, probably would have been worse. because when these migrants come into

if they were men who were not supposed to be crossing the border during the program, sometimes border patrol agents would shave their heads so they would be able to tell if they had recently been apprehended and sent back across the border. that was one way to keep track of who they were catching multiple times because the people were sent back, they would try again. people were caught many times before they were successful and that is still the case today. for women, they were not shave their heads but they would certainly deport them or detain them. >> let me underscore the point you made because a century later, we're dealing with the same issues. technology has changed and the flow has changed but the problems remain, correct? prof. mendoza: that is right. fences have not solved them yet. they have created environmental problems. we have lots of animal suffering at the border. habitat fragmentation is happening. habitats get split and that could sometimes result in local extension where an animal that drives in an ecosystem dies off. of course, people are dying as well as they go through

bus that was taking them from the border patrol entry to a border patrol station 95 miles away thatal personnel did everything they could to save his daughter's life. this is the first details we have heard from this young girl's father. the family says they are devastated. he is being housed in a shelter here that helps migrants and migra migrant refuges in he will pass tow. here is how the father is dealing with this ordeal. >> he is grateful with what he saw, the response and the attempts that were made to save his doubt's life. at the hospital, hi daughter arrested several different times and they were able to revive her. >> reporter: the mother of the young girl said they are rather frustrated by the speculation of exactly how the young girl died. the father in the statement also confirms the time line put out by the department of homeland security that the first signs that this young girl was in some sort of distress came at 5:00 in the morning on the morning of december 7th in the middle of that bus ride from the border to the border patrol station 95 miles away. the family s

i.c.e., border patrol and the military have done a fantastic job of secureing the southern border, writes the president. he says a great wall would be an easier and less expensive solution. we have built large new sections and fullly renovated others. the democrats, however, for strictly political reasons, because they have been pulled so far left, do not want border security. they want open borders for anyone to come in. this brings large scale crime and disease. our southern border is now secure and will remain that way. the president writes i look forward to my meeting with chuck schumer and nancy pelosi. in 2006, democrats voted for a wall and they were right to do so. today, they no longer want border security. they will fight it at all cost and nancy must get votes for speaker. but the wall will get built. the president goes on to say people do not yet realize how much of the wall including really effective renovation has already been built. if the democrats do not give us the votes to secure our country, the military will bring the remaining sections of the wall. they know how impo

border patrol at the u.s. customs and border protection. before her current position, chief provost has served and a number of capacities within border patrol including as field operations supervisor in the tucson sector, chief patrol agent for the el centro sector, deputy chief patrol agent of the el paso sector and assistant chief patrol agent for the jew sector -- schumer sector. mr. paul knierim, office of global enforcement of the drug enforcement agency. he for his current position, equity chief served as special agent in the denver field of vision is also assigned to the ecuador country office. he also served as the country at that share a in the costa rican country office and his assistant regional director for the north and central american region based in mexico city. thank you all for being here today. i would like each of you to provide us with your opening statement we know we have a written document for each of you so don't feel necessary to return that or repeat that. that would make part of the record. so mr. chester, we wil

border patrol, we now know he tested positive for the flu. the second immigrant child to die in the agency's care this month. homeland security secretary kirstjen nielsen travels to the u.s./mexico border today and tomorrow to inspect conditions there. >>> general motors is planning to close several factories in 2019. the looming layoffs are bringing back bitter memories in jamesville, wisconsin. where a gm plant shut down ten years ago. dean reynolds went back there. >> reporter: slowly, painfully, the one thing that put jamesville, wisconsin, on the map is being torn down and carried away. there are nine decades of general motors history here, buicks and chevys and confidence. >> and we're on the shop floor here. >> reporter: you're on the shop floor, what was the plant. gayle price is jamesville's economic development. >> we're kind of in a tomb. >> reporter: yeah, we're standing where thousands of people were employed at one time. but ten years ago gm hit the brakes. the factory never opened again. suppliers went broke, downtown businesse

the progress includes 9,000 new border patrol field agents in the last four years. nstruction of a 630-mile border fence, or 630 miles of border fence that create a significant barrier to illegal immigration on a southern land border. >> there you go, i could play that all day long. he voted to authorize it, but now, he won't vote in favor of actually funding it. now, the we only have a minute left but nancy pelosi is in hawaii. maxine waters is off vacationing in the bahamas. you are in your district, kevin mccarthy who is from the bakersfield area is at home in his district. how does the president come to a resolution when nancy pelosi is working on her hula as opposed to actually negotiating something that's reasonable? where does this go? >> i'm right here in tulare tulare county, and it doesn't get better than this, right here in the agriculture museum. if i was in hawaii right now, i would be getting killed if kevin mccarthy, the new republican leader, was in hawaii right now. he would be getting crushed. you have the president and washington, d.c., each waitin

the president will continue to advocate for the men and women of what border patrol say they needed this is what it is, a physical infrastructure along with the technology to go to it. the important thing to understand is there are 2000 miles of border. what we need in one location is not the same as what we need another location. in some places we have a levee wall, the wall is going to meet the operational requirements as described and articulated by border patrol agent said that is what the president continues to advocate for. >> much more to discuss, stick around, thank you, we are going to have a lot more with the secretary, we will be right back. whoooo. planning a vacation... shouldn't be hard work! tripadvisor searches over 200 booking sites to find the lowest price on the hotel you want! we make it easy... for you to take it easy! tripadvisor. this is moving day with the best in-home wifi experience and millions of wifi hotspots to help you stay connected. and this is moving day with reliable service appointments in a two-hour window so you're up and running in no time. show me

>> reporter: members of the hispanic caucus will be traveling down to new mexico to visit the border patroltation where jacklin was taken. also u.s. customs and border patrol commissioner will be there on tuesday to join them. >> thank you. >>> turning overseas to the war in yemen. despite a cease-fire set to begin on tuesday, there was more fighting in and around the port city of hodaida today. pro-government forces backed by saudi arabia unleashed air strikes on houthi rebels backed by iran. elizabeth palmer continues her reporting from the scene of the world's worst humanitarian crisis. >> reporter: here are the tiniest victims of yemen's war. in the malnutrition ward of the sanaa hospital. it's a haven for the babies and their mothers where they'll get food and support. which is more than you can say for millions of other families left destitute by the fighting and yemen's economic collapse. last week, peace talks in sweden showed the warring factions, the houthis and yemeni government shaking hands. we asked the houthi foreign minister about the cease-fire both parties had agreed to. w

here to respond is hector garza vice president at large for the national border patrol council. hector, take us through what are the normal procedures and what do border agents need to do when families cross into the united states. we've had record numbers of family units crossing across our southern border in different sectors because people know they are going to be able to come in and be released after a certain number of days, what is the procedure? >> as agents, we are sick and tired of being blamed for these tragedies. the people who should be blamed are drug cartels orchestrating these events. also politicians who are encouraging illegal immigration are to blame, not our agents, not president trump. our agents are doing an amazing job to care for these people. we have specialized policies with regards to how we treat juveniles in our custody. every time these people come into our custody we have professional medical staff that will conduct an evaluation continuing through the process. we give them water and give them blankets, they will stay together to maintain family uni

the point he's making is that our dhs and cpb, customs and border patrol statistics show that unlike in the past where the vast, vast majority of those coming over the border illegally were single males and coming from mexico, they're coming from the northern triangle countries now. they're coming as families or unaccompanied minors, unaccompanied children. we simply cannot absorb all that. unfortunately and very tragically, it does result in some deaths. now in felipe's case, he and his father came into el paso, one of the busiest ports of entry. they were being held while their claims were being processed. he took ill, was taken to the hospital twice. unfortunately he is now deceased. in the case of jakelin, they were very, very far from a port of entry. 163 people needed to be put on a bus that -- bus ride that -- it is important that -- i went and got a briefing because i'm concerned about this. >> and that's important. it's also important to note that the president tweeted not just that democrats are responsible but that they were ill before they were coming over and his own gove

-- a bus ling to a border patrol station -- heading to a border patrol station the father reported she was sick and vomiting. medics revived the girl twice. she was airlifted to an el paso hospital but later died. >> what happened here was they were about 90 miles away from where we could process them. they came in such a large crowd it took our border patrol folks a couple times to get them all. >> president trump has been trying to stop a caravan of central american migrants from reaching the united states. he has threatened a government shutdown if congress refuses to fund that border wall. california senator dianne feinstein released a statement calling the girl's death heart breaking and unacceptable. >>> thieves pull a switch blade, actually a butcher knife on a jewelry store clerk, what happened next that sent them running. >> and a clerk keeps his cool as a woman pushes a knife toward him, the split second decision he had to make when this robber let her guard down. >> and the joke the kings pulled on the warriors during tonight's team introduction. >>> a robbery attempt fo

border patrol says his agency needs a complete overhaul to adequately handle families coming across theborder, and that includes more funding for medical care and health care for children. this comes after an 8-year-old boy from guatemala died on christmas eve. that's the second death of a migrant child in u.s. custody this month. kirstjen nielsen said she's going to travel to the border to personally review the conditions at the border patrol facilities. dan simon is joining me from el paso, texas, with much more on this. what is being done to make sure migrants are getting the medical attention they need? what is happening down there right now? >> well, kate, first of all, obviously, with two children dying in less than a month, there is obvious ly a major concern about whether or not border patrol is equipped to handle the surge of central american migrants coming into the country and whether or not these children are being cared for properly. obviously, homeland security secretary kirstjen nielsen is facing this fresh crisis. she said she's going do order her agency to do enhanced m

it spreads. >> members of the hispanic caucus will be traveling down to new mexico to visit the border patrol station where jakelin was taken. we confirmed u.s. us tomorrows and border commissioner will be there on tuesday to join them. >> quijano: mireya, thank you. the search continues for a mother from colorado who vanished on thanksgiving day. after dropping off her yung daughter with her fiance. investigator this weekend brought heavy digging equipment to the home of kelsey bar rhett fiance, patrick frazee. about 75 officers searched the property. there is a 25,000 dollar reward for information that leads to the location or safe return of kelsey berreth. evacuations ordered from pienlly lifted in paradise, california. more than five weaks after the down was wiped out in the state's worst wildfire. residents were allowed to return to their homes to see what was left. the fire killed 86 people and destroyed nearly 14,000 homes. i paid a visit to the community struggling to rise from the ashes. >> well, this would have been my front porch area right here. >> it's been a month since high sch

but increasingly the department of homeland security, the border patrol agents, are saying we want to be able to get situational awareness on both sides of the border so we don't want a concrete barrier. we want something where we can see through and do a better job of monitoring. some will be all concrete but the idea of all 700 miles of the wall along 1954 mile of the border being all concrete, that's not going to be the case. the president talked about it earlier when he talked about steel slats and beautiful steel slats. some of these are obstacles to the movement of vehicles. some are really fences. there's a variety of obstacles that are used along the southern border. it's not all going to be concrete. concrete walls will be part of it. >> julie: i think what he's trying to say, the president is, obviously they do need to see what is coming on the other side. if somebody is trying to obstruct or climb that wall or damage the wall, whatever, they need to see what is coming to be prepared. border patrol said they need a wall. that's coming from the boots on the ground. where else

and there's real questions about how long they're being held in border patrol custody, which is supposed to be a very short time for anyone, adults or children. just for historical context, i mean, people have been dying crossing the border for years under democratic and republican administrations alike and that includes children. what's different here is these two children died within the same month in border patrol custody. that's extraordinary. and we still don't know the causes of their deaths. >> maria and david, thanks so much to the both of you. howard dean, you'll be back with us in a bit, a little later. coming up, information in a mystery supreme court case linked to robert mueller. we're back in a moment on msnbc. . ♪ the new capital one savor card. earn 4% cash back on dining and 4% on entertainment. now when you go out, you cash in. what's in your wallet? allow you to take advantage of growth opportunities with a level of protection in down markets. so you can be less concerned about your retirement savings. talk with your advisor about shield℠ annuities from brighthouse fin

one of the border patrol chiefs told me the drug smuggle create the humanitarian crisis out there. it's not their policy. >> if it wasn't for ce our border enfnt policies, the cartels would not even be involved in the human smuggling business maybe to bin with. >> reporter: for jakelin caal, a dangerous journey and deadly consequences and tonight, questions unanswered. jacob soboroff, nbc le news, los an >>> let's turn to recolorado now, w new developments in the case we've been folling of a young mother who has now been missing for more than three weeks and authorities searching her fiance's property. joe fryer has late details for us. >> reporter: in a remote part of colorado today, investigators are executing a search warrant on patrick frazee's 35-acre ranch, the fiance of kelsey berreth, the missing mother who vanished 22 days ago. >> our investigators believe kelsey's disappearance is more suspicious, she is nnt ionally avoiding efforts to find her. >> repter: a pickup truck was towed away by authorities and search dogs combed the property. police would not reveal what informa

i know border patrol doesn't have a lot to do with it but how many children have been separated from their parents at the border since june 20th? >> us border patrol? approximately 81. less than one per day. >> have any children been separated solely because their parents entered the united states without a visa? >> no. >> are you aware of any discussions or efforts to develop a new family separation policy? >> no i'm not. just to clarify these separations are consistent with the guidance of the executive order on june 20th and the court order for the child welfare. what we talk about if the parent was wanted for murder or had a stroke and needed to be taken to the emergency room those of the situations where children are separated at the border for child welfare. >> there are more situations. >> since june 20th. >> my understanding they are building more separate places to house children alone in california so something is going on that says children are taken from their parents. >> we are unable to confirm that we are reaching out to hhs but we are not aware of any additional child

the border patrol has endorsed the president's proposal. they tell -- the men and women we tambing to defend our -- task to defend our borders tell us this is something they need. they said they would support a government shutdown. i've never been for government shutdown. but this is not an extraordinary amount of money in a bill, frankly, that totals well over $250 billion when you add up all the spending. and being able to put additional security there is important. so my friend's point about puerto rico. i think that's a good point. i think that's a fair point to make, and probably we should go back and take a look at that. i do know that americans, you know, desperately need assistance in a variety of various, puerto rico included, that help is necessary, agriculture help, help for rebuilding military installations that's been destroyed, help for rebuilding schools that have been destroyed. why can't we get that done? it's a very substantial package. there's actually more money in this bill for disaster relief for american citizens than

border patrol on december 6th, and she died less than 48 hours later at a hospital in el paso, texas. an investigation into her death, and several democratic lawmakers have signed a letter calling for an investigation into how border patrol handled this case. i want to bring in congresswoman, one of the lawmakers and she joins us right now. thank you for coming on. >> thank you. good to be with you. >> you have asked inspector general for homeland security to conduct an investigation. that has begun. dhs secretary kirstjen nielsen is coming before your committee on thursday. what are some of the questions you want her to answer? >> well, i think the big questions, pamela, number one, is there is supposed to be immediate reporting to congress to appropriators if there is a death. and i believe that's supposed to happen within 24 hours. in this case, most of us did not find out until a week later through a "washington post" story. that's a significant breakdown in the kind of transparency and accountability we need. but the second question is a bigger one in some ways which is what kind

they came in such a large crowd it took our border patrol folks, a couple times to get them all.te care -- >> congressional says they raise question how children are treated at border patrol facilities they sent a letter to act aing inspector general asking or for answers whether she was given food or water and why congress was first made aware of the death for media reports not from border patrol. and girl's mother is still in guatemala jacqueline body will be returned to her home country. john. >> sad story. jackie thanks very much. six days that's how long president trump and congress have to fund the government and prevent a partial shutdown funding for president trump border wall is key bone of contention in negotiations, president wants or $5 billion for the wall, congressional democrats are saying no way to that. >> democrats have always a rt spued border security we added 1.2 billion last time. that money hasn't even been spent yet so the idea of -- a shutting down the government for a costly ineffective wall makes no sense. i hope the president comes to his senses. >> bu

government and border patrol? family crosses the border, once you take that child into custody does the the government have a responsibility to care for that child and make sure that child is okay and is alive? >> you hit the nail on the head, katie. you are about to have a baby and i have a little son, and what would you do if your child was vomiting and had a fever on a bus driving 95 miles, and what would you want for your child? i would want my child to get care, and in this case it was an hour and a half before that child got medical attention and then she stopped breathing and then she was seizing. >> was it because they were not close to a medical facility? >> that's what dhs says to me. >> a helicopter couldn't have got there? >> i have been out there and there's a border team that specializes in rescuing people, and i know there's a capability for border patrol to quickly rescue people and give them medical attention and we know it didn't happen in this instance. >> jacob, thank you for being here for tha

she was detained by border patrol.the 7-year-old guatemalan migrant says she -- that he, her father, says he has no problem with how border patrol agents treated his daughter. >> makes all the difference in the world to see her face there. he does say, he does take issue with department of homeland security claims about the state of her health before she was taken in. was she properly fed, hydrated, et cetera. ed lavendera has more on this story. >> department of homeland security officials initially reported the 7-year-old spent days crossing desert terrain without food or water. when she showed up with her father and a large group of migrant refugees at a desolate new mexico checkpoint. the father disputes that account. he said she was in good health when they surrendered to border agents. >> what is very important to us is to make it very clear that the father told us that my daughter was eating. my daughter was receiving water and liquids. and that she was fine. >> according to dhs officials and the father, the you

of border patrol rules to ensure adequate protection for children.patrol officials have not disclosed the results of recent health checks. we will talk about that coming up. great to have you with us and see you back. some other news we are following 6 days into the partial government shutdown, still no apparent progress on that funding bill but are in see chairs a woman rhonda mcdaniels says the president has a solution, democrats are rejecting it and the american people see that. >> the president is coming to the table with solutions, very reasonable common sense solutions and democrats refuse to fix the problem. this is owned by the democrats and the american people the more they learn about this are going to recognize that the democrats are not doing right by our country. ice agents, the cvp, they are coming and saying we need help, we have a crisis, drugs, go across the border, and influx of these caravans coming, we cannot maintain at the current state and democrats have never listened to ice and cvp. they voted against sanctuary cities, voted

and that the border patrol agents and medical personnel did everything, he believes, that they could to try to save his daughter's life. that man is still in el paso. the director of the shelter spoke with reporters just a few hours ago and addressed the whole issue of how the father felt they were treated while they were in custody. >> he's very grateful with what he saw, the response and the attempts that were made to save his daughter's life. at the hospital his daughter arrested a couple of times and they were able to revive her. >> reporter: the trump administration officials have been very critical of the father for putting his daughter through that journey. the people who have been speaking with this father say they actually came through mexico from guatemala on a bus, and they say the young girl had been fed and given the proper hydration and water throughout the journey, that there were no problems like that before crossing the border into the united states. so at this point they're hard-pressed to believe that that played a factor in the girl's death. there is still a choru

he tells me the father told him that he has, quote, no complaints about the way border patrol agents treated him and his daughter shortly after they were picked up or turned into the border patrol agents on the night of december 6th and he says that he believes those bm agen border patrol agents who were with them that, those agents and the medical personnel did everything they could to save his daughter's life. so this is the first details that we've heard from this young girl's father. the family says they are devastated. he is being housed in a shelter here that helps migrants and migrant refugees here in el paso. the director of that shelter spoke a little bit about the conditions that the father is in and how he's dealing with this ordeal. >> he's very grateful with what he saw, the response, and the attempts that were made to save his daughter's life. at the hospital his daughter arrested a couple of times and they were able to revive her. >> reporter: the family of the young girl also says that they're rather frustrated by the speculation of exactly how the young girl died. th

border patrol, approximately 81. so, less than 1 a day. >> have any children been separated solely because their parents entered the united states without a visa? >> no. >> are you aware of any discussions or efforts to develop a new family separation policy? >> no, i'm not, and just to clarify, these separations are done consistent with the guidance in the executive order of june 20th, consistent with the court order in the case. they are for child welfare. we're talking about examples of a parent wanted for murder, a parent who's had a stroke and needs to be taken to the emergency room. those are the kind of situations where children are being separated at the border. it's for child welfare or a parent who's unable to -- >> well, those aren't the only situations where they've been separated. >> since june 20th. >> as i mentioned to you, my understanding is they're building four separate places to house children in california alone now. so, something's going on that says that children are being taken from their pare

>> the senate judiciary subcommittee heard from homeland security officials including the border patrol. this is two and a half hours. >> the transnational cartels and border security today's hearing will provide an opportunity to look beyond the borders and examine the larger problems contributing to the crisis along the borders. if you watch the news recently and can see how serious the crisis has become back in the is timely and thousands of unaccompanied minors in the rio grande valley sector president obama called a humanitarian crisis and i think i would also describe what is happening today in and around tijuana and we will hear more about that but as we noted thousands of central american migrants playing at the southern border trying to enter the united states. this is not a new phenomena. regardless of which party's control republican or democrat we've dealt with sudden influx us for decades to. in the 1980s it was the qb and the left and in th of the 1990se cuban and haitian influx and in 2014 we saw unaccompanied minors from central america. improving border security doesn't

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she was vomiting and by the time she got to the border patrol station at 6:30 a.m., and talking aboutern new mexico and near the arizona border, she was not breathing. she was airlifted after arriving at the border patrol station at 7:45 and made it to a hospital, and reportedly was breathing again around 11:00, but later died from the illness that she had suffered. she was part of a much larger group of 163 guatemalan migrants who were apprehended near the antelope trail there. and it is a terrible situation, andrea, but it is not one that is all that surprising give n te conditions that the migrants are crossing in these days. because of the enforcement strategy by the trump administrati administration, and critics would say harnlgly forcing the people to cross in the desert, and having a hard time presenting at the ports of entry, and this port of entry in particular was closed and they are crossing in more dangerous situation situations, and the larger contest we should all remember is that despite the over 10-year decade-long period of apprehensi apprehensions and the crossings g

the border patrol says another child has died in its custody.ill there be any changes as a result of that? >> border patrol said they have made some changes and they are now going to do secondary checks on all children in the care and custody of customs and border patrol. secondary medical checks is what they are saying they are going to conduct and they are also saying they are considering options for a surge of medical assistance from the coast guard and they might ask for help from other federal agencies. this is something that democrats are focused on, this is the second child to die in custody of border patrol agents this month. there were lots of questions about the last incident and how the administration was carrying out practices of the border and we've already heard some democrats at the hill talk about this and they are already asking for more information. >> dana: all right, thank you. more on this with chris stirewalt. i tell you what, you have a good cohost, too. >> chris: she's all right, i don't know whether you've heard of her.

the border patrol has been in position since early morning. trying to discourage asylum seekers from taking the leap. instead in a matter of minutes to him and five teenagers and three children had to touch u.s. soil and quietly surrendered to the guards who seemed preoccupied with the presence of journalists operating on the mexico side at times using a threatening tone that's what some people say their reporters are helping them from the sounds of the just wrong it's against the law. but also coming under pressure from american citizens you know separate children from their hair was one of my girls last week border patrol pair. with each day that passes more silent seekers are crossing illegally into the u.s. it's a scene that happens in many spots along mexico's northern border just a few days ago we witnessed several people crossing from this exact point in the meantime a second layer was added to the wall and it's nearly doubled the height making it more difficult to scale and riskier to jump off on the u.s. side. but a few kilometers awa

border patrol at the u.s. customs and border protection before her current position, the chief provost served in a number of capacities within the border patrol including a field operations supervisor a to the tucson sector and chief patrol at the sector and the deputy chief patrol agent of the el paso sector and assistant chief patrol agent for the yuma sector. mr. paul knierim is the director for the office of global enforcement of the dru drug in person agency. before his current position, the deputy chief knierim served as a special agent in the denver job division and was also assigned to the country office. he also served as the country attachÉ in the costa rican country office and assistant regional director for the north and central american region based in mexico city. thank you all for being here today. we likeih each of you to provide us with her opening statement. we know we have a written document for each of you so don't feel necessary to read from that were repeat that. it will be made part of th