this year, we sent down a producer to south padre island to seeha what spring breakers ae really up to in south padre island. his name is randy smith, about some of the dangers that spring breakers are encountering this year. it's always dangerous. take a look. >> i was in jail because i got in a beach brawl. and i got too damn drunk. that's why. ♪ >> how may people have crossed into here? >> sometimes it's been around 9,000-8,000. yesterday for a 24-hour period was 14,482. ♪ >> this week how many arrests have you totaled? >> at a five day texas week period, we've had up to 198. mostly simple, classy municipal issues likela public intoxicatin or simple assault. >> two girls fight in the ocean, one girl got carried away in a stretcher. >> what did you get arrested for? >> p.i., let's say p.i. >> [bleep] >> love you, mom. >> if they are combative or give us some issues, we don't have a safe place for them to go and unfortunately they give us no option. they come here to the jail. ♪ >> they see a judge on the following day, they get released. >> there probably a couple of those instances?

in fact, the mayor of south padre island is just terrified that mexicans will not come over this upcoming weekend. we will lose all kinds of money because of fear of coming over because of the rhetoric coming out of -- from president trump primarily. mcallen, the mayor of he said the same thing. the effect of a trade war with mexico would cascade beyond lost jobs in the u.s. plants. downtown stores would lose businesses, lay off workers and close up shops. mexican investors would sell their u.s. properties, leading to plummeting real estate values. mcallen, texas, all along the valuey because what has happened since 2006, lots of mexican nationals brought property on the u.s. side along the rio grande. and in particular, about one half of south padre island, resort community that depends heavily on tourism from mexico, half of the properties there are owned by mexican nationals. so the idea is if we terrify the mexicans sufficiently, they will -- it could cause a real problem for us along the rio grande border. thank you. senator johnson: senator daines. senator daines: thank you, mr. cha

and in particular, about one-half of south padre island, the resort community that depends heavily on tourism from mexico, half of the properties there are owned by mexican nationals. so the idea is, if we terrify the mexicans sufficiently, they will -- it could cause a real problem for us along the rio grande border. thank you. >> senator daines. >> thank you, r. chairman. i was struck by this press release that came out from u.s. customs and border protection, march 8th, that mentioned that we saw 40% rop in illegal southwest border crossings from january to february. my understanding is that was far outside normal seasonal trends. so there's something -- it's not just within the statistical variation, something has changed in the process, the system. typically the jan to feb changes is actually an increase of 10 to 20%. and yet the numbers reported by cpb says there's a 0% drop. that breaks a 20-year trend. i'm curious, mr. aguilar. why? >> this has ctually happened before, senator. and let me just update that march 8th, i believe. >> yes. >> as of 31st of march, five days ago, wha

the mayor of south padre island is terrified mexicans won't come over this upcoming week for a festival. we'll lose all kinds of money because of the rhetoric coming from president trump primarily. >> also, the mayor of mcallen, he says the affect of a trade war with mexico would cascade beyond jobs in u.s. plants. downtown stores would lay off workers and close up shop, mexican investors would likely sell off u.s. properties leading to plummeting real estate values. mcallen, texas all along the valley because of what's happened since dwix l2006, lots mexican nationals have bought property along the rio grande and about one half of south padre island, a resort community, depends heavily on tourism from mexico. half of the properties are owned by mexican nationals so the idea is if we terrify the mexicans sufficiently, it could cause a real problem for us along the rio grande border. thank you. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i was struck by this press release that came out from u.s. customs and border protection march 8 that mentioned that we saw 40% drop in illegal southwest border crossin

officials in texas are reporting multiple outbreaks including one on south padre island, a popular springnerable because the virus spreads through close personal contact from coughing or sharing cups. >>> finally on this friday, the fastest way to get a crying baby down, maybe play some marvin gaye. check this out. ♪ ♪ i've been really trying baby ♪ trying to hold back this feeling for so long. >> you saw it right there. 1-year-old breland stops everything to, of course, get it on but, guys, on a serious note the surgeon general warning if you listen to too much marvin gaye you tend to have more babies so we want you to know that as well. [ applause ] >> we laugh but it's true. >> it's true. >> her first boyfriend will know what to do. >> yes, indeed. but all that little -- move she had. you're going to make us move too with "pop news." ♪ let's get it on [ applause ] friday morning, happy friday, tgif. time for "pop news" and we begin with some movie news. goldie hawn and amy schumer may look like naturals on screen as mother/daughter in their upcoming jim "snatched" but they are revealin