manuel bojorquez has more. >> reporter: u.s.mmigration officials say they have reached a breaking point of trying to handle the influx of people seeking asylum. >> the challenge that makes this so unique is the fact 70% of them are all family members and unaccompanied children. >> reporter: last week, they were housed in a caged section. officials said detention centers were beyond capacity. dhs was forced to release a thousand asue lum seekers back. president trump slashed the $700 million in u.s. aide to guatemala, el salvadr and honduras. it's a move that could only make the problem worse. the president's threat of shutting down the border has others here concerned. we went to an industrial park in new mexico to see businesses that rely on cross border trade. >> it would cause financial hardship and you put a lot of people out of work. that's americans, not mexicans. >> reporter: the president of the border industrial association says the impacts will have a ripple effect. you hear there's a threat to shut down the border and

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manuel bojorquez is at the border in el paso. >> i'm ready to close it. >> reporter: this afternoon, the president doubled down on his threat to shut the border, but this time blamed congress for the immigration crisis. >> if we don't make a deal with congress, the border is going to be closed. >> reporter: according to government statistics, the u.s. does some $600 billion in trade with mexico a year, much of it crossing by land. the president says stopping the surge of illegal immigration is his top priority. >> let me just give you a little secret: security is more important to me than trade. >> reporter: republican senate leader mitch mcconnell urged the president to go slow. >> closing down the border would have potentially catastrophic economic impact on our country and i would hope we would not be doing that sort of thing. >> reporter: while the administration is looking at easing the worst of the economic effects, for example, keeping truck lanes open, critics of a shutdown say any disruption at the border could hit consumers quickly. take food, for example. approximately hal

manuel bojorquez is in el paso, texas, tonight. manny?reporter: well, jeff, the border patrol says it is likely to have surpassed 100,000 apprehensions of migrants on the southern border last month, including here along the sprawling el paso sector. that would be the highest one- month total in more than a decade. u.s. immigration officials say they have reached a breaking point trying to handle the influx of people seeking asylum. >> the challenge that this demographic presents for us, what makes it so unique, is the fact that nearly 70% of them are all family units and unaccompanied children. >> reporter: last week, some migrants were housed in a caged section below a bridge in el paso. officials said detention centers were beyond capacity. d.h.s. has been forced to release thousands of asylum seekers into the u.s., while others have been sent to mexico to await their asylum hearing. president trump slashed the $700 million in u.s. aid to guatemala, el salvador, and honduras, blaming them for not doing enough to stop the flow of migrant

in tonight's "eye on america," manuel bojorquez has the story of a father and a son who were apart for nearly 11 months. >> repoter: jose alvizures arrived in california friday, 324 days after being separated from his son. he is on a journey to reunite with 10-year-old ervin. you miss him a lot. who is more than a thousand miles away in arkansas. what did you think? that you wouldn't see him ain.a says they received death threats from gangs that control their town. have you been counting down the days? >> si. >> reporter: we spoke with jose in san diego before the next part of his trip. you wanted to both go back together if you were deported, but what happened? once in custody he says an officer approached me. they gave me five pages and told me to sign. i explained i couldn't speak or read english. >> reporter: no one was explaining to you what you were signing? "no, i didn't know because everything was in english," he says. it was his own deportation order sending jose back to guatemala, but keeping hi son in i.c.e. custody. what was it like to have to say goodbye to him? "i just hu

manuel bojorquez reports. >> reporter: the border patrol says it is likely to have surpassed 100,000pprehensions of migrants on the southern border last month, including here along the sprawling el paso sector. that would be the highest one-month total in more than a decade. u.s. immigration officials say they have reached a breaking point trying to handle the influx of people seeking asylum. >> the challenge that this demographic presents for us, what makes it so unique is the fact that nearly 70% of them are all family units and unaccompanied children. >> reporter: last week some migrants were housed in a caged section below a bridge in el paso. officials said the detention centers were beyond capacity. dhs has been forced to release thousands of asylum seekers into the u.s., while others have been sent to mexico to await their asylum hearing. president trump slashed the $700 million in u.s. aid to guatemala, el salvador and honduras, blaming them for not doing enough to stop the flow of migrants, a move critics say of shutting down the board border that has others here concerned.

manuel bojorquez reports. >> i'm ready to close it. >> reporter: this afternoon, the president doubledon his threat to shut the border, but this time blamed congress for the immigration crisis. >> if we don't make a deal with congress, the border is going to be closed. >> reporter: according to government statistics, the u.s. does some $600 billion in trade with mexico a year, much of it crossing by land. the president says stopping the surge of illegal immigration is his top priority. >> let me just give you a little secret. security is more important to me than trade. >> reporter: republican senate leader mitch mcconnell urged the president to go slow. >> closing down the border would have potentially catastrophic economic impact on our country and i would hope we would not be doing that sort of thing. >> reporter: while the administration is looking at easing the worst of the economic effects, for example, keeping truck lanes open, critics of a shutdown say any disruption at the border could hit consumers quickly. take food, for example. approximately half of vegetables and 40% of f

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manuel bojorquez is in el paso, texas. manuel, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. the el paso sector saw such a spike in migrants officials say last week they were forced to house some of them under this border bridge. they have since been moved to another facility. but if you take a look from above, you can see the problem here and that's that shutting down the border could threaten billions of dollars in trade. >> the president will do everything he can. if closing the ports mean that that's exactly what he intends to do. >> reporter: the president's aides argued sunday the move may be necessary as border patrol officials deal with an influx of migrants. many coming as families before the hot summer months. last month more than 75,000 people were apprehended. the highest in over a decade. in a letter to congress, homeland security secretary kirstjen nielsen called the surge of migrant arrivals a dire situation and said the agency is facing a systemwide meltdown. >> it is a very good likelihood i will close the border next week. >> reporter: president trump blamed

manuel bojorquez is at the border with more. >> reporter: good morning. can see how early people start to cross here. thousands in either direction every day, going to school or work. a border shutdown would clearly have an immediate impact on the economy here. but the ripple effect could be felt across the country. >> you get a watermelon, oranges, cilantro, kancantaloup avocados. >> reporter: at junior's farmers market in houston, the newly opened family owned business gets more than half its produce from mexico. >> i feel like it could be a big impact on us. >> reporter: nearly half of all u.s. imported vegetables and 40% of the nation's imported fruit are grown in mexico. a border shutdown could threaten more than $611 billion in yearly cross-border trade and impact nearly 5 million jobs nationwide. >> hundreds of millions of dollars of exports to mexico are leaving this plant. >> reporter: jerry pacheco, the president of the border industrial association, took us to an industrial park in santa theresa, new mexico, near el paso to see businesses that

this morning manuel bojorquez brings us another emotional reunion. they're originally from honduras, two brothers brought back to newark. listen to this. >> reporter: he stepped off the plane from houston sex months to the day after being separated from his 8-year-old brother andy. >> junior has been raising andy on his own for the past two years. they arrived at a border crossing on october 17th. after a trip by bus. the next day andy was taken from his brother. he was not a minority. >> you're an adult, he was a child and you could not be in the same place. >> andy had been placed in a foster care center nearly 2,000 miles away in new york city with other kids his age. >> you could barely get through that call. he was crying. >> since he was 3, he was the only person he had known. >> last friday was the day the brothers had waited 183 days for. >> so he doesn't know it's happening right now? so this might be a surprise to him. >> paperwork in hand he walked into the center alone and minutes later walked out with his arm tightly around his shoulder.

. >> manuel bojorquez. one question i had one of your suggestions would be to find a way to have a congress review mandatory spending and programs, entitlement programs. isn't the underlying cause of that separation of mandatory spending versus discretionary that people don't want those programs touched and there is huge political pressure involved such that there is this underlying structured system. people get these benefits and once these benefits are well-established people think it's a right and the self-care benefits are starting to be that way. there's a movement toward a national system and therefore in a democracy when you have this kind of function is there really any kind of reform he can do that can overcome that once it has seven? >> i think that's an excellent question to which i would say yes they think there's a kind of consensus. but in a certain way we didn't elect these people to be convened and we elected them to make laws and run the country. it's an uphill struggle and in this way but