." >> it opened this summer in response to an influx of unaccompanied minors from mexico and central america. >> do you think this is an immigration issue or a refugee issue? do you think some of them will be granted political asylum? >> we're not talking about criminals. these are innocent children, fleeing desperate times, whether it's poverty, whether it's violence, whether it's the draw of a better life in the united states. >> the obama administration has made it clear: most of the children will be deported. but they continue to arrive -- twice as many as last year, and 4 times as many as in 2011. >> we've been riding along the border all week and we're seeing some action in this area. we're not far away from the river and from mexico. we see some border patrol vehicles over there and some people on the floor, we're going to go check what's going on. >> border patrol has apprehended another group of undocumented immigrants from central america. one by one, their names are taken, their belongings bagged. in this group of 30, we counted about a dozen children -- some of the tens of thousa

nearly 70,000 unaccompanied children have arrived in the us from mexico and central america this year. but many more don't make it past the border. the children staying at this detention facility were all caught by mexican immigration before they could make it across. one of them is 14-year-old josue jonas ramirez. he's made the grueling 1,500 mile trip from el salvador. that's only half way to his mother, who paid a smuggler $4,000 to bring him to new york. it has been ten years since they last saw each other. >> josue told us that he had to leave el salvador. it had become unsafe for him. >> after his dad was killed by gangs, a gang tried to recruit his older brother, who fled to the states. this year josue, who has been living with his uncle, began to run out of options. >> josue was just one of the thousands of salvadoran children who have made the journey this year. >> violence in el salvador is rooted in structural, historical causes, one of which is poverty, the exclusion and marginalization of great portions of its population. >> hector silva is a salvadoran journalist. he say

someone who's been 23 years trying to create this focus on central america and latin america. great to that passionate voice about it. three questions. speaking of latin america. the situation in venezuela continues to deteriorate. the venezuelan government arrested the caracas mayor on trumped up charges. there are high-profile prisoners who have languished in prison over a year. we had legislation past signed by the president that calls for including mandatory implementations of certain sanctions. can you give us an update of where the administration is at and how they intend to move forward? secretary kerry: we are perplexed by and disturbed by what is going on in venezuela senator. , i reached out when i traveled last year, year before, to panama. and i think it was in guatemala i saw them. we met. it was supposed to be a 15 minute meeting. turned out to be 45. we agreed we were going to follow on and begin a new period. the next thing i knew, couple weeks later we were being attacked for this and that and being accused of this and that. this seems to be the pattern. whene

and that's what we've seen in central america currently. in fact asylum applications have gone up throughout the whole region. so the situation in central america interestingly enough there was a conference call today with the white house where they are asking for more money to help the situation in central america because of the violence there. to detaining mothers and children here in the united states is not getting back to the children in guatemala and those mothers in guatemala to say i'm not going to make that flight because i'm going to die here or i'm going to be detained there. it's just not a question. >> have the numbers of people coming across the border mothers and children or children unaccompanied, have they declined as of late or are they still on the increase. >> they have declined, but i think there's a number of reasons for that. i don't have any studies or concrete research on that but one, i know there's a lot more interdictions in mexico. so that the children and families who travelled from guatemala and honduras have

. >> yes or no 100,000 people came from central america.l watched over last summer. >> right. >> should they be sent home? >> i thought they should have been sent home at the border to be honest with you. because it would have created -- here's the deal. the humanitarian thing to do would have been to consistently say from the beginning don't risk your lives crossing as young people don't pay the gangsters in central america money from your family members in this country to come all the way across and just get into the country and be processed and now with our broken system it may take three or four years to even begin to process them. send a clear signal that this was a dangerous thing to do and a wrong thing to do and it would have stopped the flow. we did that as it relates to in miami and florida, that was exactly what bush 41 did as it related to haitians and it stopped the flow of people. people didn't lose their lives trying to come to this country. >> let me ask you this. >> we're going to break away again, and i want to bring back

is that we had about 2200 japanese latinos japanese latinos from these wliet-named countries, central america and south america. president roosevelt requested of all the countries to ascend people of japanese ancestry. brazil had the largest japanese population. but they refused to cooperate with president roosevelt. at e and who kidnapped around 1800 japanese peruvians went through the panama canal regarding to texas. and the central american countries also had about 40006 them. incarcerated here in chisto city, texas. president rose velt wanted prisoners of war. so during the war, sweden in a new tral country sent a ship here to long island, new york. there, they got 5,000 japanese. some japanese latinos and some that wanted to go back to japan from the camp. or so called troublemakers. so they got 5,000 of them bordered the ships and went around africa to india. there, they met a red skrosz ship with 5,000 americans and were stranded in japan and exchanged prisoners of war there. >> aboard are 663 americans. >> in 2 camps, they try to make it as normal as possible. they try to give them a

central america as well. and how long have you been playing with them?ve been playing since 2013. i was lucky enough to go on a tour to central america with them. >> how great for you to be here and work with these kids? >> well it's been very -- a awesome experience to work this different people and we have a different approach of music, which is very interesting, because we have seen all things from a very different perspective. >> fantastic. you have enjoyed it? >> yes. >> we want to hear you play sometime. you have to let us know when they're on and we'll tell everybody when they can see the whole group play together. looking forward to that. thank you so much for coming and sharing your story with us. >> thank you so much. >> music, absolutely beautiful. >> thank you. >>> looking for a date for the weekend? why starbucks may be the place to find one today. and take a look at our setup for valentine's day. look at that. we're going to show you how to make a really easy sweet for your sweetheart. oh, my god. >>> if you're looking for a last-minute val

when you combine them, to be to have much greater impact and have a greater impact by the way on central americand latin america. so we've committed that. and in fact i've had a meeting in the state department within the last month at which we sat with our western hemisphere assistant secretary roberta jacobson and others and talked about how we're going to implement a greater north/south over the years and this administration. and the appointment of the special envoy to colombia came out of my second visit to colombia and my discussions with president santos who asked us to get engaged and to become involved. and president obama agreed to do that. and together we decided that, you know bernie is the fellow to help get the job done. because he was intimately involved in the nicaragua/el salvador peacew%x process. and in fact i worked with him on the committee when i was chairman of the sub committee. so we think we got something cooking. and that together with the central america initiative and efforts to deal with petro carib with the fuel problems in venezuela and so forth we're now putting to

. >> 100,000 people came from central america. should they be sent home? >> i thought they should have been sent home at the border to be honest with you. the humanitarian thing to do would have been to consistently say from the beginning don't risk your lives crossing as young people. don't pay the gangsters in central america money from your family members to come all the way across and get into the country and be processed and now with our broken system it might take three or four years to process them. send a clear signal that this was a dangerous and wrong thing to do and it would have stopped the flow. we did that in miami in florida. that was what bush 41 did as it related to haitians. people did not lose their lives trying to come to this country. >> i mentioned this earlier speelk speaking to this great crowd here. we have nearly 50 million americans in poverty. on food stamps. the lowest labor participation rate since the 1970s. shouldn't americans have the opportunity for those jobs first? if they go to the back of the line they stay here and co

they are fleeing terror in central america. horrible conditions.here is the political unrest there. it is huge. and the current united states policy is that if you are someone who faces a credible fear of death or reprizal or imprisonment upon return to the home country. you have the ability to make a claim to stay here permanently through the process. which is interesting for the people who came from central america. they did not get the benefit of the policy. they were put into the detention camp it is and there have been some civil rights claimed by the aclu and among others. >> that in the camps. >> mothers are being roapped. and sexually terrorized by guards at some of these locations. and the problem is. they are not supposed to be there. >> if you have a credible fear and if you can make this case, you are supposed to get released. and a wait a hearing. because of the politics of situation. >> the optics of the southern border overall. >> you have some of the senator was. and democrat and republican, that are telling them. they have to do so

problem, which everybody is talking about legals, we always think we have to be latino or from central america or mexico and i'm like, well, there's us, too, like we kind of don't look the same. but we have the same issues. guest: ok. host: we'll get a response. thanks for the call. guest: thanks for the call. i'm sorry to hear about your individual story. ari is right, daca recipients come from every country in the world. in fact, the last time i checked, 192 countries were represented in the applicant pool. and with respect to the sort of your particular circumstances in coming in one month after turning 16 i think it highlights that these programs are pretty narrow in their scope, there are stringent criteria, for the daca program you need to have entered before you turned 16 and meet an education requirement and have a clean criminal record. everybody undergoes a background check and for the dapa program, there are also similar requirements and you had to have resided here for several years, at least in january of 2010 and need to have a u.s. citizen or lawful permanent resident child and

we are continuing aggressive public awareness messaging and central america and elsewhere. this campaign was launched on january 5. on january 21, i wrote another open letter in spanish-language press to repeat the message. finally, we have launched a department of homeland security wide southern border campaign plan. we're doing away with the stove pipe approach to border security. instead, we are putting to use in a combined and coordinated way the assets and personnel of various agencies towards the goal of border security. we have established three new department task forces, each headed by a senior official of the department to direct the resources of the various departments and three discrete areas. the first is joint task force ease, responsible for our maritime ports and approaches across the southeast. the second, joint task force west will be responsible for our southwest land border and the west coast of california. the third will be a standing joint task force for investigations to support the work of the other two task forces. a key part of our mission is to fa

obviously we have this challenge with regional stability in central america. but this is a $750 billion enterprise. i have a $10 billion slingshot in my budget. but if we use intel appropriately, again where organized crime is the most vulnerable and where i have the upper hand is at sea complemented with the authorities that we have -- and the thors are -- the authorities are one thing. but it is the competency of the people and i'm honored to lead what is by far the best coast guard in the world today so much so many countries are trying to replicate the united states coast guard. they have the color scheme right and the stripe right and they want our ships but what they can't replicate is our people and they can't replicate our authorities and our governance and so any maritime needs to look to our united states coast guard. and that is where we are having a difference. and as i try wake others up to this challenge, this gorilla, if you will there is another troubling number and that number is 450,000 and those are the number of american citizens since 9/11

." >> it opened this summer in response to an influx of unaccompanied minors from mexico and central america. >> do you think this is an immigration issue or a refugee issue? do you think some of them will be granted political asylum? >> we're not talking about criminals.

proposes a new agency to regulate food safety, and seeks $1 billion to curb immigration from central americait also calls for a 4.5 percent increase in military spending, including a $534 billion base budget for the pentagon, plus $51 billion to fund u.s. involvement in syria, iraq and afghanistan. speaking at the department of homeland security, obama said across-the-board cuts known as sequestration would hurt the military. >> just last week, top military officials told congress that if congress does nothing to stop sequestration, there could be serious consequences for our national security, at a time when our military is stretched on a whole range of issues. that is why i want to work with congress to replace mindless austerity with smart investments that strengthen america, and we can do so in a way that is fiscally responsible. >> well for more, we're joined from washington, d.c., by dean baker, economist, co-director of the center for economic and policy research and author of "getting back to full employment -- a better bargain for working people.” first, your overall assessment of t

>> sebastian santamaria is singing about his homeland, trifinio, nestled in the mountains of central americait's a region covering 7500 square kilometers in the border regions of guatemala, honduras, and el salvador. nearly 30 years ago the three countries began cooperating in an effort to preserve the area's nature and improve the quality of life of the people living there. together they adopted a treaty known as the "plan trifinio". balmore montoya works for the state-run trifinio commission in his country, el salvador >> the agreement states that the countries must work together in the trifinio region. this piece of land has much to offer. a diversity of species and it's a water catchment area. several rivers have their source here. that makes the area so valuable. >> cabbage is a typical product of the region. but the farmers earn little from their harvests. the infrastructure is poor and transporting the produce to the nearest market is expensive. a big problem in the region is deforestation. because there is so little space at the foot of the mountains, the farming fields stretch up to

." >> it opened this summer in response to an influx of unaccompanied minors from mexico and central americayou think this is an immigration issue or a refugee issue? do you think some of them will be granted political asylum? >> we're not talking about criminals. these are innocent children, fleeing desperate times, whether it's poverty, whet

correct theory so anyway people realize this is realized this is what was killing the frogs in central america and in this particular case they could watch them moving in and easterly direction so there is some scientists in 2006 but decided to try to get out of this disease and try to save a population so just before it got to this area they scooped some of them out of the rain forest to preserve the remnant population and at that point they had nowhere to put the frogs so they literally ended up living in a hotel. [laughter] but then they rushed to build the center and now this is one of the few places that you can see the golden frog. they are now classified as extinct in the wild. so this is where i begin this book with the story i've worked my way through the end of the book to the beginning. i begin with this story of the golden fraud and the wonderful story of the frog hotel and in some ways you could say this is a heartening story. it shows that people are concerned about other species to use the phrase about sharing the earth with other creatures and in the course of the book i spend

war and the vietnam war, and during the period of time when we were putting military force into central america, the government has sought authorisation for limited use of military power. and i think one of the reasons that presidents have been loathe to go forward with a declaration of war is because it is so unlimited and uninhibited and you'll encompassing. when the nation comes together behind a declaration of war there's no limitation on what you do. you may not have the political capacity to do it. harry truman may not have been able to get the declaration offar. >> i'm a child of the bay of tongan resolution, which served according to dean risk served as a functional declaration of war at the time. and on the basis of a resolution authorising the president to defend naval vessels in the bay of tonkin off vietnam, we sent hundreds of soldiers 55,000 died. declaration of war, but not a declaration of war. on the delicate dance, and article one powers and the president and article two powers does the president not want to be seen to be asking for something from the congress that he thinks i

it says smoke from fires in central america worsened a tornado outbreak in the u.s. in 2011. while some meteorologists are skeptical of this, this study at least says the tornadoes that year, that would include the tuscaloosa f-4 outbreak, were made more severe by smoke particles from agricultural land clearing fires to our south, which they say increased storm rotation and intensification. >>> charlie sifford has died. he was often called the jackie robinson of golf. he was the first black player on the pga tour, and his challenge to the only-caucasians rule back in 1961 led to the desegregation of pro golf. he later won the hartford open and l.a. open. he was awarded the presidential medal of freedom. dr. charles l. sifford was 92. >>> on this broadcast last week in an effort to honor and thank a veteran who protected me and so many others after a ground fire incident in the desert during the iraq war invasion, i made a mistake in recalling the events of 12 years ago. it did not take long to hear from some brave men and women and the air crews who were also in that desert.

myself when i first came to the san francisco budget & finance committee in the 87 after living in central america agency we're studying in the ground floor we won in the church since then i've been doing work with the homeless population i see myself being you know a treat to be homeless again, the issue here is that we the workers, you know who do our job you know everyday it has been increased all the expenses in the city the rent is going higher every year the landlords send us a letter and the rent is increased every year we're paying for 90 for public transportation and 0 sour basis in the food and binging food it more expensive every year we ask you to increase 4.5 percent in the budget so our lives and people serving so we can be proud of the community services not only to homeless population but to the workers you know they recognize you know where we coming from what we do and thank you so much. >> i'm going to call a few more names. >> i'm - >> thank you (calling names) >> next speaker. >> thank you. good morning supervisors thank you supervisor mar and supervisor avalos for the support

." >> it opened this summer in response to an influx of unaccompanied minors from mexico and central america. >> do you think this is an immigration issue or a refugee issue? do you think some of them will be granted political asylum? >> we're not talking about criminals.

. >> yes or no 100,000 people came from central america, we all watched over last summer.e sent home? >> i thought they should have been sent home at the border to be honest with you because it would have created -- here's the deal. the humanitarian thing to do would have been to consistently say from the beginning, don'trisk your lives crossing as yungsoung people, don't pay the gangsters in central america money from your family members in this country to come all the way across and just ghent into the country and be processed. knew with our broken system it may take three or four years to even begin to process them. send a clear signal that this was a dangerous and wrong thing to do. it would have stopped the flow. we did that as it relates to in miami and florida, that was exactly what bush 41 did as it related to haitians, and it stopped the flow of people. and people didn't lose their lives trying to come to this country. >> let me ask you this. i mentioned this earlier when i had an opportunity to speak to this great crowd here, and that,right now at this point in t

. >> yes or no. 100,000 people came from central america. we all watched over the last summer. should they be sent home? >> i thought they should have been sent home at the border to be honest with you. here is the deal. the hughmanitarian thing to do would have been to consistently say from the from the beginning don't risk your lives crossing as young people don't pay the gangsters in central america money from your family members in this country to come all the way across and just get in to the country and be processed and now, with our broken system it may take three or four years to even begin to process them. send a clear signal that this was a dangerous thing to do and a wrong thing to do and it would stopped the floor. we did that in miami and florida. that was exactly what bush 41 did as it related to haitians. it stopped the flow of people. people didn't lose their lives trying to come to this country. >> let me ask you this. okay. i mentioned this early when i had an opportunity to speak to this great crowd here that is: right now at this point in the country, at thi

as the president rolls out his new budget monday full of more handouts from billion bucks to central america to free preschool and free community college here. vp joe biden is talking about free four-year degrees. can we afford more freebies? >> no we cannot afford any more years of this kind of spending. this kind of government for a variety of reasons. one, i take issue with the freebie part. there is nothing free in government. this doesn't magically create two extra years of community college if we want to do something like that, the money's got to come from the taxpayers. that's my number one issue. number two issue, i love how all these things are like obama is willie wonka passing out golden tickets. there are no facts or studies saying an extra two years or free two years of community college is going to help anyone and benefit society. pay for four years of college? oh my gosh, we can't afford that. four years of college is not right for everyone. all these ideas are dumb and don't make economic sense. if you can spread the goodwill around with freebies, it's great. >> emily what ab

our goal is to partner with our neighbors in central america mitigate these factors. for afghanistan, our request includes 1.5 kpweul dollars this assistance which will support the afghan unity government as it strives to implement key reform and economy and work with us. our budget request includes $963 million to secure embassy operations and one $25 million. our request continues the secure economic and civilian programs necessary to do so. as part of the administration's collaboration to degraded and destroy isil, our request includes three .$5 billion to strengthen regional partners and provide humane tearian assistance and opposition to advance the conditions for negotiated political transition. request also includes an additional $1.1 billion to support diplomatic engage toplt sustain our strategic partnership. last year at west point president obama announced the creation of a partnership fund that enable us to train build capacity and help facilitate partner companies on the front lines against terrorism. it includes $390 million to support the stableization

south america, central america moving on to 4g networks. that's one big area and i think the internet itself provides, you know a lot of opportunity. i think there's only about 2.5 billion, maybe less than half the world's population has internet access so i think there's still opportunity there as well. i think for years to come. >> i don't know whether to call apple old tech or new tech and i would just call it good tech. as we look at the classic old tech companies, the intels the ibms, the microsofts the ciscos which of those would you call the ones that are the oracles even which would you call the most vulnerable or unprepared for today's new world and which would you call the ones that are best positioned? >> i think intel actually represents one that's very vulnerable and i think one that represents in many ways old tech. you know if you think about a lot of the most important trends in technology a lot of them related to mobile to smartphones, to tablets, to wearables, a new and emerging space, you don't see intel. you really don't

. >>> now honduras and central america is a major hub for trafficking of all sorts of illegal drugs across america and they are fighting to stop the flow and we report. >> reporter: every week honduras soldiers destroy landing strips used by drug traffickers here the most active drug route in honduras. the military showed us dozens of landing strips they say planes left behind were transporting cocaine mainly from columbia and venezuela. but it's a seemingly never ending task. this is the fifth time the army tried to destroy the landing strip and look at the damage the traffickers get local people and in less than 24 hours they repair them. man groves lakes and rivers intertwine with patches of land and use this complex territory to load drugs on trucks to take in land or speed boats to head north to mexico and the u.s. the military told us many of the community is involved in the trade. >> translator: they drop bundles and tide brings them on shore and people wait for them to tryout their luck. >> reporter: local fishermen here say they never seen any drugs on the beach. the military says