we are discussing the latest challenges for u.s. mexicoom the surge of children crossing the board for a much less publicized issue of members of the mexican army going rogue, joining me now is an investigative producer from arizona. in january mexican soling jeffs drew their gun on his u.s. border patrol agents on u.s. soil and a few months later your team investigating the shooting of a young american man javier rodriguez he was shot in his arm and side by the mexican army, what's going on? >> as a u.s. citizen he was in a tiny border town, this is a -- this is a pretty remote outpost about 100 miles from the nearest big border city, he was there with friends, it was the middle of the night. the mexican army said that they tried to run a checkpoint at 3:00 in the morning. our investigation showed that there was no checkpoint. this was a group of rogue soldiers out in the middle of the street in the middle of the night probably trying for elicit bribes from people, maybe take their cars, we don't know. what we do know is the case was neve

america can't decide how to deal with the surge of unaccompanied minors stopped at the u.s. mexicooarder in the last year. who are these 58,000 children sending shock waves through u.s. politics? okay, let's start with one key must be. 117%. that's the increase of unaccompanied children 12 and younger caught at the u.s. mexico border compared to the last fiscal year. now compare that to 12% which is the increase in unaccompanied 13 to 17-year-olds over the same period. so if the younger group seeing rapid growth even though overall teens outnumber the young in here's the numbers broke down in the year. the this data comes from the research sent their analyzed previously unreleased data a from the u.s. government. numbers show a big rise in young girls caught at the border. 77% increase since last year. boys have only seen 8% increase. again, they still greatly outnumber girls. 41% of all unaccompanied girls are apprehended at the u.s. border. it's clearly a tough issue. obama has said he'll take matters into his hands if congress fails to act. most do tend to have more faith in dem

u.s./mexico border. it would allow the u.s. to send the unaccompanied youth back home without hearings. it would shut down a program created by president obama granting work permits to 700,000 immigrants brought here illegally as children. president obama said the house knows the bill won't pass in the senate because they have gone home. >> i'm going to have act alone, we don't have enough resources, we've run out of money. >> members of the house hispanic caucus republicans are using the border crisis what the caucus is calling their extreme agenda. >> employers added 200,000 jobs last month. the unemployment rate went up to 6.2%. that it may sound counter intuitive say it's a good sign because it encowrms also people -- encourages people to look for work. >> musikfest starts tonight in bethlehem, tonight's big act, all american rejects. the rain didn't damper the spirits of those who watched. for 30 years, musikfest provide 30 years of preconcerts. kenneth moten and melissa magee took center stage to welcome everyone. >> you can find a link to by tickets and see reasons why you should

u.s. agribusiness or archer daniels midland to go into mexico to sell the corn under the price of production and a small farmer cannot compete then after that somebody loses their livelihood then they will look for a place if i lose my job i will look at some place else so that has stirred the pot. >> so you say that's there are more immigrants coming up because we brought more men down there so that stimulated the employ it? mower tel leave this. i would really like to know your answer to that. >> was trying to explain that. >> you were not doing that. you were way off the question. i just want the answer. >> let me talk. >> you interrupted him. >> what would you do to stop them from coming? >> i think i was on the track. you asked the way it is looked at now the way it is building up to build up false in to put more agents on the boundary line to stop people who were losing their jobs may not be the most logical. but the question about immigration is not addressed in a holistic manner. >> it is a very dangerous world and i don't thank you understand that. >> thank you. >> on that note. goo

. >> the house of representatives passed a bill tonight address the crisis at the u.s. mexicor, 694 million measure would allow the u.s. to end unaccompanied my grant youth back home without hearings. accompanied by legislation that would shut down a program created by president obama granting work permits to 700,000 immigrants grouingt illegally as children. president obama knows the bill won't pass in the senate which already has gone home. >> i'm going to have to because we don't have enough resources weaver about clear. we've run out of money. >>> members of the house say the republicans are using border crisis to push what the caucus is calling the republicans extreme agenda. >> the u.s. job market expanded again. employers added 209,000 jobs last month. however the unemployment rate edged up 6.2%. it would seem counter intuitive and an lights say it's a good sign because more people are encourage todz start looking for work again. pickup and hiring has yet to transtlits races for most people. >> "healthcheck" at 11 a cancer risk for young women taking daily birth control

u.s.-mexico border. the bill was put on the table yesterday but conservatives blocked it claiming it did not address core issues. >>> beginning today colorado will start issuing driver's licenses and id cards to immigrants even if they are in the u.s. illegally. 9500 people are already signed up for appointments over the next 90 days. >>> now we go south to check out a look at traffic. good morning, sal. >> good morning, to you. we have a crash on southbound 580. this is an overturned accident. i don't think it's the actual big rig that was overturned but one week was overturned in this crash. the traffic continues to move along a little bit slowly in this area. again westbound 580 at vasco road. going to the bay bridge toll plaza, you can see traffic is light. with no overproblems into the city. san mateo bridge also looking good as you drive across to the high-rise and over to the peninsula. now let's go to steve. >>> thank you, sir. it will be hot today inland. this looks to be the last really hot day

u.s. mexican border where it cuts the average but was north of phoenix but those hundreds of miles into mexico. we went to the boundary line in it is where you can practically hear that snapping. so we look at that beautiful mountains in the distance with a beautiful landscaping and right at the borderline and it has been demarcated by the barriers. it is not the actual border wall but side by side by side that mitt to stop vehicles from crossing the border but that 70 miles this is the wall or the barrier. so there are two places along call where there is the gate and this is where garcia wanted to show me. we stepped out of the car and garcia walks to the gate and opens it up. not because he wanted to go to mexico he just opened it up in this did not belong but for me looking at a sense of bewilderment and then the day of dread because i knew by opening that gate it would attract to the u.s. border patrol so they must have seen it somehow. 12,000 notions' centers implanted under the ground the predator would be a drone over head with the powerful cameras? i don't know. maybe with the radar s

u.s.-mexico border and its symbolic of the many migrants who have died in their attempts to cross the border into the united states doing so without papers, without authorization and as we know, as you may know and the media has told us the numbers of fatalities are increasing and i think this year there were 400 deaths including two central central americans and mexicans crossing into the united states. so that cross symbolizes their crossing experience and the title of the book "migration miracle" is basically taken from the words of migrants who often described their success as america. >> host: how did those 400 i? what were the causes? >> guest: of the causes ranged from being killed by a smuggler to suffocating in the back of a car, to asphyxiation to drowning in the all-american canal or the gulf of mexico. many died in the desert you know not being able to reach food or water and left behind. many of the migrants who traveled here without papers are uncertain about their journey and so it's organizing increasingly by multiple coyotes and it has become much more organized and it's muc

u.s.-mexico border and beyond in both directions and the direction of deeper into mexico and deeper into the united states. the border and many of you live on the border or in this border region but i just kind of step back and i think this book captures it. the border is made up of multiple borders. it's a mosaic of sections that have different ecologies, politics, economics and the border has two sides. it has the mexico side and it has the u.s. side and collaboration with their mexican allies is so important. you get a grasp of the dynamic of the region. to often we have books written by people who have copied them from new york and said i have to have this in a few days or someone who doesn't read spanish and doesn't want to go over to the other side because they heard or was too dangerous. then coming back and writing long articles. our challenge has really been to approach this book and the topics in this book by giving multiple voices, primarily the voices of people who have gone through the migration service but also those who have built this enormous superstructure in many ways

they have a mexico site and u.s. side on the collaboration with mexican colleagues in terms of trying to get a grasp of the dynamics of the region. too often we have books written by people either putting down from new york saying i got it after three days, or someone that doesn't read spanish and doesn't want to go over to the other side because they heard that it was too dangerous and then coming back and writing a long article. and so our challenge has really been to approach this book and the topics in this book by getting multiple voices and primarily the voices of people that have gone through the migration service but also those that have built this enormous infrastructure in many ways the militarization of the border's. they wanted to capture these voices and it raises issues about how we know what we know. it relates to public policy and we took our findings brought to the press and to try to get them disseminated to the broad audience in the broad cases or to alter or create a dialog for changing. the autho

>> house republican leaders cancelled a vote on a $659 million bill to improve security at the u.s., mexico boarder and have not adjourned as they had planned. they did so because of divisions within the party and a lack of support from democrats. it's unclear what congress is going to do now, if anything to deal with the tens of thousands of central american immigrants, mostly children who are coming into this country illegally. speaker john boehner does say that the house will continue to seek solutions to the crisis. >>> congressman paul ryan's bold budget cutting propels impressed republicans but haven't passed congre congress. john harwood asked why and whether congress will get anything done in the next two years. >> i didn't want to get into a debate about proper funding levels of the status quo because we would spend all this time about budget numbers. i wanted a debate how to reform the status quo. these reforms could occur at any spending level, you can decide later on. >> two objections, one, i talked to hillary clinton last week. she said this is not a good idea because if gover

u.s./mexico border because it lacked enough votes to pass. meantime a similar bill backed by senate democrats also failed to move forward. the president is, however, set to sign off on the key pieces of legislation they were able to get through. they include a $16.3 billion measure to help veterans avoid long waits and fix other problems at the va. and a transportation bill that cuts 28% during the busy summer construction season. >>> well, just last night, outgoing republican house majority leader eric cantor told his hometown paper he's leaving congress altogether. he gave a heartfelt farewell speech yesterday. in a statement, david brat, the republican who beat him, thanked cantor for his service. it could make way for a november special election that could allow the winner to start immediately instead of the new congressional term in january. >>> caught on tape. republican congressman don young is apologizing this morning after a video captures a not-so-friendly encounter with a staffer in the capitol building yesterday. nbc's own capitol

u.s./mexico border. the bill only got 50 votes and needed 60. it came hours before the senate adjourns for a five-week recess. republicans are still working to pass a border bill in the house. >>> congress passed a landmark bill to help veterans this evening. that landmark bill to help veterans avoid long waits for healthcare and fix problems at the department of veterans affairs moved forward. it's already passed the house. the $16.3 billion measure is now headed to the president's desk. >>> if you are enjoying a late night snack, you've got about two minutes to finish it. >> when we get back, russ ptacek has tonight's restaurant alert and let's just say there's a repeat violator at a chain you've almost certainly visited. >> plus want to bring a smile to a child's face? grab your laptop and after the break we'll show you how to take part in operation backpack, quick and easy. you don't even have to leave your couch. >> tropical storm bertha just formed, the latest on the tropical storm and take you out with wakeup weather, a couple possible sh

u.s./mexico border. >> since october 58,000 unaccompanied minors have made the treacherous 1,000-mile journey from central america across mexico and through >> over in the senate republicans blocked a vote on a larger border bill. that means the house is voting on a bill that has practically nowhere to go and in order to win conservative support house leaders agreed to vote on a second bill preventing the president from taking action on his own to deal with the border crisis, but that bill won't get made into law either and president obama says he is going to take action. >> while they're out on vacation i'm going to have to make some tough choices to meet the challenge with or without congress. >> conservatives say a 2012 presidential order is what created this border problem. that order delayed deportation and granted work permits for some immigrants who came to the united states as children. >>> within the last hour congress also approved a $225 million package to replenish israel's missile defense system. it was approved by the senate earlier today and is now headed to president obama's d

u.s. -mexico border. inrie tweets and let's go to our independent line. nancy waiting in iowa.caller: good morning. all, i don't think there is ever going to be enough troops on the border. to satisfy the republicans. is a humanitarian crisis. these are children coming from other countries in the central area, beyond mexico. haveat least deserve to their day in court. department of human services means to get involved. -- needs to get involved. obama's first year of congress, he used something along the line of $700 million to deport immigrants. he has done his job. he has gone beyond making his own party angry, to say the least. a lot of these children have been trafficked by coyotes. i don't see any bill who dressed that situation. -- to address that situation. in today's show, the executive director of the american immigration lawyers association is going to be joining us live here on set to talk about these issues. some other interesting notes from that debate last night. eric cantor skips the final immigration boats. he announced early friday that he would be resigning his

u.s.-mexico border. it's giving money to deal with illegal immigrants and stopping the president's plan to give jobs to the kids. president obama, not a fan of the bill. he will veto it if it makes it to his desk. >>. >>> and more in the death of an inmate, witnesses say it took nearly two hours. after the initial drug didn't work, they give him 15 doses of the cocktail. he was pronounced dead after laying on the table gasping. . >>> and a texas gran ma held off a swat team with a shotgun. and she threatened road construction workers with a gun. and when confronted, she refused to drop the gun or stop. and she is angry to sell her property. the last hold out. no charges are expect today be filed. >>> plumes of fire into the sky. a series of gas explosions ripped through parts of the city in taiwan. caused explosions that injured hundreds of people and killed dozens. looking at how the events unfolded there. fire engulfs the night sky in taiwan. as explosion a f explosion, concrete and bodies in the air.

u.s./mexico border. the 690 million-dollar measure would allow to send uncompanied youth that arrive back home. it would shut down a program created by president obama granting work permits to 700,000 immigrants brought here illegally as children. president obama said the house knows the bill won't pass in the senate which has already gone home. >> i'm going to have to act alone because we don't have enough resources, we've been clear we've run out of money. >> members of the house hispanic caucus say republicans are cruising the border crisis to push what the caucus is calling their extreme agenda. >> senator bob casey has released a letter to veteran's affair secretary pushing for strong whistle blower and management reforms. the move comes after audit revealed workers across the va system were told by their superiors to cover up scheduling delays and keep secret wait lists. >>> if you're driving in king of prussia tonight, a portion of the 202 will be closed in in the area of 422 interchange. penndot

it responds to the immigration crisis along the u.s., mexico border. was without putt on the table yesterday but they blocked it. beginning today colorado will start issuing id cards and criminals to immigrants even if they are in the u.s. illegally. california will begin issuing licenses to immigrants this january. >>> suspended state senator leland yee is due back in court next week after pleading not guilty to a new round of criminal charges. ktvu news crew was there when yee arrived at a federal courthouse yesterday morning. prosecutors have added charges of racketeering to the federal case against yee accusing him of accepting thousands of dollars in bribes and offering to set up international arms deals. meantime the scandal is died to bay area groups. they are suing the state senate over its refusal. that lawsuit is an attempt to find out more about yee's meetings on specific dates outlined in the fbi arrest avid. now this case also involves another recently united states lawmaker from southern california. >>> starting today google and other cor

u.s./mexico border. new trouble protesters are taking on the police.zona sheriff is here to tell you next. we're the names you know, in the places you want to be. where you can explore super destinations and do everything under the sun. twelve brands. more hotels than anyone else in the world. for a chance to win one million dollars, visit wyndhamrewards.com class one misdemeanor for trespassing. what it did keep was the requirement for all arizona law enforcement to, if we have a reasonable suspicion to believe somebody is in the the united states illegally we are required by the law, we are compelled to ask that question and then we are required to call ice and say hey, this is what we have here and then they determine what's to be done. so, i wish that just like happened in tucson, what happened all across the country but it's not. >> all right. so what makes this up reasonable suspicion to think someone is annual alien unlawfully present. i know if you have a valid arizona, valid enrollment card that's sufficient to prove that you are here lawfully

u.s.-mexico border and are operating inside the u.s. eric? >> there are reports that about a dozen americans may have u.s. passports that are involved in isis. molly henneberg with the latest. >>> the pentagon blaming china for a dangerous midair encounter above the south china sea. officials say a chinese fighter jet made several passes by a u.s. poseidon patrol aircraft, coming within 20 feet of the american plane and performing a barrel roll at close range. it's just the latest in a series of near misses between chinese and american ships and planes in that area. the administration has filed a formal complaint with china. >>> vice president joe biden today praising ukraine's restraint as hundreds of those russian trucks headed out of ukraine and back to russia. you may have seen that convoy across the ukrainian border yesterday. russia claimed it carried food, water and other supplies. the ukrainian government and its western allies denounce the move as a violation of the country's sovereignty. they accuse moscow of smuggling supplies to t

u.s.-mexico border. the company plans to launch about 12 rocket as year from the new site.s ceo elon musk says it will create hundreds of high- tech jobs in texas. >>> apple enthusiasts mark your calendar. according to tech news, apple will unveil its next generation iphone on september 9. there's already a lot of speculation there about the new device. apple is also widely expected to unveil a new smartwatch at the event. >>> the olympian coming out of retirement may be swimmer michael phelps and he's trading in his speedo. the winningest athlete in olympic history has signed a deal with an athletic company aqua sphere. he will design a racing suit. >>> despite rumors of marital problems between jay-z and beyonce, the couple's concerts appear to be a success. the tour wraps up tonight. the show's promoter tells billboard magazine some 850,000 fans will have seen the shows which raked in $100 million in ticket sales. unfortunately i did not get to go. >> i didn't go either. >> missed t. weather wise thunderstorms this afternoon with patchy fog this morning. so a yellow aler

u.s./mexico border right down there near in the rio grande valley. he was off-duty fishing with his family when two armed men tried to rob them, steal their vehicle. agent vega fought back and was shot to death. his dad also taking a bullet but he is doing okay. >> while they were there, a vehicle drove by. they noticed it. they turned around and came back and two individuals got out. it appeared they were going to rob them. >> a tip came into the local sheriff's office that led them to their suspects. they are now in custody. authorities do confirm to fox that both men are mexican nationals and were in fact in the united states illegally when this crime was committed but there are reports circulating that both men had been busted and deported from the united states in the past but customs and border protection not being specific with that information. they will not confirm that to us on the phone. they are still trying to track down all of the leads that they've got going here. >> we know you are as well. thank you for the update. the u.s. governmen

u.s. and mexico border but guatemala. and finally the money, it costs $20.ted states, it's a couple thousand dollars. sometimes, your whole life savings. i don't know. i'm weary about this expedition. victoria, always good to have you on. appreciate it. >>> and we've got some breaking news that story that we broke with nbc news today on the american kid fighting with isis continues to develop. we've got a response right now from a senior administration official in the united states tells nbc news, quote, the threat we are most concerned about to the homeland fighters like this returning to the u.s. and committing acts of terrorism. officials say they're aware mccain was killed in syria. adding that they believe dozens of americans have gone to syria and fight with extremist groups with isis. a lot of players on the ground there and a flood of these foreign fighters. >>> up next, we've got our big tech story of the day. you're not going to want to miss it. stick around. she's still the one for you. and cialis for daily use helps you be ready anytime the momen

provide temporary homes for some of the thousands of children stranded alone and far from home at the u.s. mexico border. most are now being housed in detention centers. >>> today the family of cal football player will file a wrongful death lawsuit against the regents of the university of california. agu died back in february after he collapsed during a conditioning drill. his family claims the coaches could have done more to help him when he was showing signs he was in trouble. >>> lawyers for the san francisco man accused of running an online marketplace for illegal drugs wants the feds to toss out most of the evidence against their client. they say the government conducting an illegal search. prosecutors say 30-year-old multimillionaire ross all brick was the man behind the silk road website. investigators searched his entire digital history on computers and websites and his lawyers say that violates the fourth amendment ban against quote indiscriminate rummaging. >>> and new this morning, a warning about nectarines, peaches, plums and even the organic kind now. the packing company in cutler e

as the mexico side and u.s. side and it's what is so important in terms of trying to get a grasp of the dynamics of the region. some say i've got it after three days or someone that doesn't read spanish and doesn't want to go over to the other side because they heard it was too dangerous and coming back and breaking long articles so our challenge has been to approach this book and the topics in this book by getting multiple voices but also those that have felt this enormous infrastructure in many ways the militarization of the border so we wanted to capture these places and it raises issues about how we know what we know because it is always in the process of being challenged in a changing but this also brings in kind of the challenge for the social sciences as they relate to public policy and as we take our findings to the press to get them disseminated to a broad audience in many cases to change or to offer it create a new dialogue for changing certain aspects. they've gone about helping and exploring people t

u.s./mexico border and are operating inside the u.s. >> molly, thank you. the united nations also calling for action, warning about potential massacre in northern syria. the u.n. said it, quote, seriously alarmed by the conditions in amili. according to new report, the city is under an isis siege. they don are running out of food and supplies. >> the latest chapter in the tensions breaking out again between the two enemies, the sunnis and the shiites. this coming after dozens of sunni worshippers were killed in a bombing attack in a mosque in central iraq, that after an assassination attempt on a shiite leader. connor is here with us. >> reporter: eric, we are seeing a rash of attacks across iraq today. in baghdad at least 11 people were killed when a suicide bomber drove a vehicle into the intelligence headquarters, just another sign of how violent and chaotic the entire country has become since isis moved in from syria into iraq. meanwhile, a series of attacks rocked the northern city of kirkuk. at least 19 people were killed when three explosions went of

. >>> now the flow of immigrants crossing the u.s. mexicoorder has been making headlines for months. children coming to the u.s., fleeing extreme poverty and violence in central america, but this week cnn hero is juan pablo romero fuentes helping children find hope and create a future for themselves at home. ♪ >> my country is violent history has created very bad aggression. gangs are everywhere. kids are exposed to drugs, to violence, and to lack of opportunities for them to improve their lives. i was a teacher in the same community i grew up. they were dealing with the same problems i was dealing 20 years ago. i wanted to change that. the best thing for me to do is open my house doors and bring them here. eight years later, i am still running the program in my family house. we provide classes so they find their own passions. we give them a decent plate of food. children are powerful, just they don't know that yet. so i created a safe place for them to realize that they are able to change aspects in their lives and their community. [ speaki

u.s. and mexico border. armando trull reports tonight, some new voices are now joining the chorus of those demanding actions by our elected leaders. >> there are black immigrants everywhere and president obama needs to know. >> that was the message from african immigrant activist who joined nearly 1,000 others in a march to the white house to demand an end to deportations and a change in the nation's immigration laws. >> not one more deportation, right? not one more family being separated. not one more death at the border. >> there are 160,000 african and black caribbean immigrants in the metro d.c. region. that's 15% of the area's total immigrant population. these women say it is high time black voices are part of the immigration debate. >> i hear immigration, talk about latinos, europeans. nobody is talking about jamaicans. we get deported, too. >> we need to know, what are you going to do to make sure the africans have the papers. that way we can send money back home because the fact is, all the foreign a

u.s. through the gulf of mexico. energy information administration of the u.s. department of energy for is forecasting production from that area to decline over the next several years so if if the us sector is not doing that well i don't see any reason to suppose that the mexican center is going to suddenly blossom now it's clear that natural resources are becoming a big issue as china and some other emerging markets they increase their oil consumption and in fact argentina for example have back to that if they expropriated their oil resources so how do you see the resource nationalism playing out in south america. well it's that's been the trend recently and i think those will see more of that as as time goes on of course resource nationalism because of those ways over the short term it increases. revenues to governments but it also tends to shut out international investment and access to expertise from. mostly u.s. based companies so. it's you know it makes the situation even even more complicated this is the situation we're seeing in in iraq right now is sort

u.s.-mexico border tomorrow at 6:00 eastern on c-span.his week's q&a. >> she was so beautiful and smart and also so witty, she was just always irresistible to men. , her 80thd age birthday party, and richard: is that this party. is that thishen party. they were sitting together and she starts to stroke his beer. he said, heavens. i have never before met an 80-year-old and i wanted to leap into bed with. she had a vampish quality all her life. sunday night at 8:00 eastern and pacific on c-span's "q and a." debate, analysis of the in congress over immigration reform from today "washington journal turco. host: crystal williams joins us now. after a busy week after dealing with the situation on the border in congress, i want to start with this plan that was passed last night by house republicans and get your reaction. guest: yeah. well, the house passed it and that's the beginning and end of it. the funding is, first of all, inadequate and second of all in the wrong place. it's basically military and law enforcement funding in response to a h

u.s.-mexico border. he is joining us to talk about that process, but also, of course, the larger issue.ss those two bills on friday. of whether the president is going to go ahead with executive action on immigration. withof issues on the table mayor rahm emanuel. at the same time, we will talk tech. we love to talk about the valuations in the tech industry. what is going on with alibaba and yahoo!. michael wolff is joining us. he was on the yahoo! board during the whole time that dan loeb was actively recruiting marissa mayer. he knows quite a bit about it. he just sat down in july. he will tell us his experience on the yahoo! board. >> a morning must-read. this is an interesting one. particularly after having charles calomiris with us from columbia university. from bloomberg view. if you are on global wall street, this is a must read this morning from bloomberg view. , he talks outris information moves when people are dealing with fact or creating a fiction or falsehoods being corrected. is is -- is it harder to be smarter about wall street today because of the new media? >> i think it

u.s./mexico border. and it's symbolic of the many migrants who have died in their attempts to cross the border into the united states, doing so without papers, without authorization. and as we though from, as you may know and the media's told us, the numbers of fatalities, of migrant fatalities are increasing, and i think this year there are 400 depths incurred to central americans and mexicans crossing into the united states. so that cross symbolizes their crossing experience, and the title of the book, "migration miracle," is basically taken from the words of the migrants who often described their successful journey as a miracle. >> host: how did those 400 die? what were the causes? >> guest: the causes range from being killed by a smuggler to suffocating in the back of a car to asphyxiation to drowning in the all american canal or in the gulf of mexico. many die in the deserts. not, you know, not being able to reach food or water, being left behind. not really -- i mean, many of the migrants who trave

u.s.-mexico border if you want to include the border issue and people look to the president of the united states. his approval rating is down to 40% and people feel pessimistic about the recovery at home and nobody can get anything done. as jim noted a second-term president and we covered the white house together, they tend to look around the world for a few places to plant the flag. yes, the american people do not want military intervention in the united states and they do want success. they do want to think that their country, whether it's a primal lie like israel and a prime adversary like russia that the president of the united states can be the one to pick up the phone or call the meeting and get results. i'm not blaming the president for this. it's a complicated world and it's not all his fault, but when people look around the world and look at home, there's not much to cheer about right now and we have one president at a time and he's paying the price. >> the criticism, and the article that ryan wrote in "the new yorker" with the headline, leading from behind. a lot of people don't

mexico has funneled them into the u.s.. mexico could closes border. should the secretary of state be talking to mexico about the fact that they're throwing open their southern border? there is a lot that can be done, not in an inhumane way. host: kristen powers article in "usa today," as a quote from kevin appleby, director of immigration policy of the u.s. conference of catholic bishops, who says -- guest: the causes violence, they can go to mexico. some of them are preyed upon by gangs that have difficult situations, but our immigration policy is to let people being that are genuinely persecuted. the republican bill does have hearings and some percentage will get asylum, the current system allows them to disappear into the u.s.. the liberals -- i like kristen powers, she is well-intentioned, but i have to say these arguments are playing into the hands of really bad people were given $6,000, -- who are getting $6,000, $7,000 apiece from parents who believe that their children are going to have a brighter future. host: atlanta, georgia. steve. democrat

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fall was1921, albert new mexico's first u.s. senator.e had had a career in the southwest as an oil developer, as more or -- miner, less a land mineral prospector. lauren g harding was elected president in november -- laurent hardingg -- warren g 1920.ected in november of he announced that albert fall would be in his cabinet. property of the navy. it was a preserve set aside for the navy for their purposes. the naval secretary, also a poker-plane buddy of warren somehow coaxed or theinced to transfer authority over the naval petroleum reserves to the interior department, where it very handily -- albert fall had a plan. he was later convicted of accepting bribes from a couple of oilmen for allowing them exclusive access to these naval petroleum reserve. it was done under the table. the evidence that albert fall's seizedhowed that he had -- received substantial amount of cash from harry sinclair to allow them an exclusive right to drill an area that was set aside for drilling. it was not to be drilled on. he was, in essence, doing what the

steer clear, because this was federal land we are talking about. 1921, albert fall was new mexico's first u.s. senator. he had had a career in the southwest as an oil developer and minor, more or less as a land minerals respecter. when war and g harding was elected president in november of 1920, he announced that albert fall, one of his poker playing buddies from the u.s. senate, would become his secretary of the interior. what is interesting about the albert fall did not have authority over the teapot dome naval petroleum reserve. of course, that was the property of the u.s. navy. that reserve was, like two in california, set aside by the purposes. the naval secretary, also a poker playing buddy of warren harding, a fellow by the name of edwin denby, was somehow coax theconvinced to transfer authority over the naval petroleum reserves, the three reserves, to the interior department. very handily, albert fall had a plan. he was later convicted of accepting bribes from a couple of oilmen for allowing them exclusive access to these naval petroleum reserves. andas done under the table the eviden

u.s.-mexico border. we need to play defense on the 20-yard line and this is why working with the central american countries, working with mexico to address the core issues and to fix and fight the smugglers is vital. i want to thank the men and women on the border that have defended our homeland, and i want to thank the border communities and churches and nonprofits that have done so much to help this -- folks at the border. in fact, i want to thank the chairman for allowing a provision for the border communities to seek reimbursement for the allowable expenses under this bill. we cannot leave washington today without putting the resources and the policy changes to address the border crisis. we are sent here to address not the easy problems but to address the hard problems. john f. kennedy -- mr. rogers: i yield another minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is yielded another minute. mr. cuellar: thank you, mr. chairman. we are sent here to washington not to address the easy problems but to addr

u.s./mexico border. the program comes at the cost $18 million a month. other states have helped to share the costs. >>> a big meeting tonight on martha's vineyard. hillary clinton the former secretary of state and president obama getting together at a home of a mutual friend. mrs. clinton called him on tuesday. the former secretary of state opened a lot of eyes in an interview with the "atlantic" when she called the president's policy a failure, specifically not intervening in syria when she recommended. an aide said when they get together at this shin ding in martha's vineyard, they plan to hug it out over lobster rolls. >>> time an early start on "your money." european stocks higher. asian stocks ended higher. japan's economy collapse, the worst since 2011. but results weren't quite as bad as predicted. so they managed to shrug that off. positive news for job seekers. here's that positive news. job openings at the highest level since february 2001. that means the number of unemployed people for every job opening, that ratio is two. two job seekers for

u.s. and mexico announced last summer that they're going to be having the first set of joint border patrolity on the northern border of mexico. >> has that happened? nobody has seen it. >> no. there have been now many joint pa will twos that have taken place since last summer. the second thing is let's be clear about the flow. under bill clinton it was 600,000 a year. under george bush it was 400,000 a year under barack obama it's down to zero. the flow of undocumented immigrants into the united states has gone to zero way down from when mr. sweed was in office. >> what do you mean bush? there are millions of people coming in here. >> that's simply wrong. the net flow of undocumented immigrants into the united states is zero. happy to show you all the date that. >> your d go up against other people like the border patrol that contradict it. >> no. that's not true. >> yes, it is. >> the crime is down on the u.s. side of the border dramatically from when mr. sweet was in office a few years ago. >> i will give you the last word, mr. sweet. >> i will say one point. number one his point about j