mexican border thank all of reynolds in calexico. south korea and japan they're welcoming the news of donald trump's second summit with north korea's leader he announced that during the state of the union they however want this meeting at the end of the month in vietnam to be in this is their words more meaningful specific and practical iran however is pushing back against criticism that trump made during his speech iran's foreign minister says u.s. aggression has led it to support butches and extremists who verney brought ruin to the middle east here's a little more of what the president had to say. my administration has acted decisively to confront the world's leading state sponsor of terror the radical regime in iran and it is a radical regime they do bad bad things to ensure this corrupt dictatorship never acquires nuclear weapons i withdrew the united states from the disasters iran nuclear deal. thank you all we put in place the toughest sanctions ever imposed by us on a country we will not overt our eyes from a regime that chan

well many people here in calexico would disagree with the president lauren calexico is a small town of about forty thousand people it's not very much different from the other towns here in imperial county california with a stubbornly high unemployment rate of about sixteen percent what makes calexico different is this running parallel to the town's main street a four point five metre tall steel fence on the other side is mexico the one million plus population city of mexico. a few months ago just before the midterm election president trump ordered troops to go down to the border and they installed these loops of razor sharp barbed wire that you see on top of the fence and now people here in calexico will tell you that they they're really entirely dependent economically on the people who come across the border illegally from mexico early to shop to avail themselves of services here to work in the fields and farms of imperial county about twenty thousand mexican residents every day so when president trump talks about declaring a state of emergency on the border or even worse as he has in

where walls go up illegal crossings go away way down let's take you live out of the city of calexico something california on the border with mexico and as soon as rob reynolds is that simply put the president said rob rules work and bulls save lives. a bit of sniggering here in the studio when he said that he wanted to build a see through steel beriah how can a steel barrier be b.c. through but it's very similar of the one the that you're standing in front of right now isn't it. that's right that's exactly right adrian this is a wall that has been here for a number of years now it is a series of steel slats and fencing. and it is topped with razor wire which is a new feature that is been added over the past couple of months people here in calexico take issue with president trump's depiction of the border as a sort of savage crime wasteland confrontational place and they say in fact here in calexico they have deep and strong economic and family and social ties with their sister city across the the fence mexicali it's interesting the president in his speech many people were listening c

this is calexico it's a small town of about forty thousand people it's not very much different from the other towns in imperial county which has a stubbornly high unemployment rate of sixteen percent but what sets this town apart is this a four point five meter tall metal wall that runs parallel to the main shopping street right on the other side that is mexico kelly a city of one million people now people in calexico civic leaders and merchants will tell you that they're almost entirely dependent upon the visitors from mexico for their economy people come here to shop to work to go to school and to work in the farms and fields of imperial county so when president trump talks about declaring a state of emergency shutting down the order entirely that really strikes fear into the hearts of many people in this community now what will the president do next it's really unknown he called for compromise in his state of the union speech he seems determined to build the wall but the democratic party seems equally determined to prevent him from doing so by not allocating any money could he declar

reynolds is live for us now in calexico in california on the us mexico border rob president trying to paint a dire picture of a border crisis what's the reality for people in the town where you are. well lauren you know we hear a lot about the border the from the president and the whole debate in washington across the country let's take a look right now at the reality at least right here on the border in calexico i'll just step out of the way and you can see there there is a fence topped with razor wire it's four point five meters tall this is a bus stop. and the people here are less concerned and less. exercised about the president's dire depiction of the border than they are about the economic activity that goes on here this is not a very wealthy town but what little wealth it does have comes from of visitors from across that fence who enter legally about twenty thousand every day to go shopping here and to do other activities american citizens cross the border for cheap health care and for entertainment and for other purposes so for all intents and purposes this description of the

and national crisis robonaut sent us this update from the us mexico border in california this is calexico it's a small town of about forty thousand people it's not very much different from the other towns in imperial county which has a stubbornly high unemployment rate of sixteen percent but what sets this town apart is this a four point five meter tall metal wall that runs parallel to the main shopping street right on the other side that is mexico cali a city of one million people now people in calexico civic leaders and merchants will tell you that they're almost entirely dependent upon the visitors from mexico for their economy people come here to shop to work to go to school and to work in the farms and fields of imperial county so when president trump talks about declaring a state of emergency shutting down the order entirely that really strikes fear into the hearts of many people in this community now what will the president do next it's really unknown he called for compromise in his state of the union speech he seems determined to build the wall but the democratic party seems equal

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robert all supports from calexico city and california. many people here at the border take issue with president trump's depiction of this region is rife with crime and instability and tension they say that doesn't represent the reality that they know and many people who are listening to president trump tonight to see whether he would lay down some sort of ultimatum would he say that he might declare a state of emergency in order to get wall funding or even threaten to shut down the government again in order to do that he did neither instead he rehashed much of the rhetoric he's deployed in the past about a flood of drugs criminals sex traffickers and gang members flooding over though the mexican border into the united states because he did not speak in terms of the wall is something that he demanded that he must get the money for or else instead merely as something that he wanted now in the past of course during the presidential campaign president trump said that mexico would pay for the wall he's retreated on that he no longer speaks abo