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cnn ed lavandera is near the u.s./mexico border and ed, can you lay out the factor for me. >> reporter: when president trump talks about him stopping the family separation act, that might have been -- he might have stopped it for a time being but that is after his administration started it. this all dates back to a year ago, the zero-tolerance policy that in effect criminalized the misdemeanor act of crossing the border illegally and that forced those mass separations. it had happened in some cases in previous administrations, but by no means did it happen on the scale that it happened under the trump administration. and this renewed rhetoric and this increased rhetoric and hardline approach the trump administration is taking has people on edge down here in places like mcgowan, texas, the epicenter of the family separation issue since last summer. we're at the bus terminal and this is an area where you see migrants that have been picked up by border patrol agents and spent several days in custody and they come here af

ed lavandera, cnn, el paso, texas. >> thanks for that, ed. president trump is expected to travel to southern california this week near the mexican border. here's what some of his political opponents were saying about the border on sunday talk shows. >> when the president says he's going to close the border, that is a totally unrealistic boast on his part. what we need to do is focus on what's happening in central america, where three countries are deassembling before our eyes and people are desperately coming to the united states. the president's cutting off aid to these countries will not solve that problem. >> you have a terrible humanitarian crisis. you have women and children traveling 1,000 miles or more, often by foot, in order to escape the violence and poverty in their countries. so what we need to do, of course, is, "a," comprehensive immigration reform, but, "b," we need to make sure that our borders are secure, but also we need a humane policy at the border in which we are not yanking tiny children from their -- >> so would you kee

let's go to our colleague, ed lavandera in texas this morning.'s family has spoken out against capital punishment for king. >> they've spoken of forgiveness for the three men who were convicted of his murder. jim and poppy, it is impossible to overstate how shocking and how gruesome this crime was in the summer of 1998. james bird jr.'s body was dragged, as you mentioned, for nearly three miles after he had been beaten by these three men and parts of his body were found stretched over the last mile and a half down that drive down a small east texas road. it was a stunning crime. his family, his sisters have come out offering forgiveness to the men who were responsible d and, as you mentioned, speaking out against capital punishment. this was a crime that was simply stunning in its time. >> i remember it at the time. it was supposed to be a turning point. it led to major hate crime legislation. >> yeah. >> public conversation about this kind of hate crime. what have the statistics shown since then? has it come down? where do we stand today? >> if

. >> cnn's ed lavandera is in el paso, texas, where this weekend we saw those startling images of crowds of migrants, families and children herded under a bridge. that bridge behind you, in fact. and there was a chain-link fence around them. they're not there anymore. where are those people today, and what is the plan to deal with the shelter overcrowding? >> well, that is that area. that's one of the bridges that takes you from el paso to juarez. and those migrants were being housed in that area behind that barbed wire and chain linked fence. hundreds of them over the course of the last two weeks. this morning we showed up, and they were gone. they have been moved to other facilities in the area to be processed and that that will continue. the agencies also say here they have been reassigning agents to be able to handle the mass amounts of numbers of people that are coming across the border here in the el paso sector specifically. but the customs and border protection says 100,000 apprehensions expected for the month of march. if those numbers hold, it will be the highest numbers in mor

cnn's ed lavandera is joining us from alto, texas. what are you seeing there?: this is the deep piney woods of east texas. this is where the initial tornadoes where the storm system started spawning off tornadoes. we've seen four people killed over the weekend. there were also deaths in louisiana, mississippi, alabama. three children killed in all, two children near where we are here in texas, they were killed in the back seat of their car that they were riding in with their parents when a tree collapsed on the car. we're in the town of alto, texas, where the police chief says some 75 homes have been destroyed, that this is an area where some 200 people have been displaced because of the storms. this kind of gives you a sense of what we're dealing with. trees, and i mentioned, this is the piney woods of east texas, trees splintered by this storm, this is one of the 75 homes here in this disseminated. the front porch there completely separated from the rest of the foundation and the rest of the home. ana, the tornado came back from west to east over here this wa

ed lavandera is outfront on the ground. >> reporter: border residents heard the repeated threats foreeks. and trying to figure out if president trump is just flirting with disaster or serious about closing the border. >> we got to stop the crime. close up -- got to close up the border. >> i'm telling you right now, we will close the damn border. >> the ports of entry and border crossings are a life line between the tightly integrated communities where mexico and the united states blend together. there are 24 ports of entry that dot the southern border from brownsville, texas, to southern california. and beyond that there are dozens of border crossings where a steady stream of people cross bridges and zms checkpoints daily. sifrlt reyes spent nearly 30 years as a border patrol agent. he was a democratic congressman' describes the shutting down of the border as lunacy. >> i wonder how much longer they get away with it. because you can't -- it can't be good, now, for the president of the united states to be threatening or even just talking about shutting down the border. it's nuts. >> t