border patrol, enforcing the law, to do something else. you were drawn back by a personal involvement, by a story. tell us briefly what happened. r patrol, i tried to distance myself from that work in every way imaginable. i was working at a coffee shop. i was going to school, to college. i became friends with a man gradually, who worked at the coffee shop, and he was from mexico. he had lived in the united states for 30 years. he had three united states citizen children. he disappeared from work one day. you know, two years after we became friends. and i started to ask what had happened to him, and it turned out he had left because a family member had died in mexico. and we thought he would be back in a couple of weeks. and when he didn't come back, that's when we found out that he was actually undocumented. that he had been arrested at the border. and because of my work, i was familiar with the system that he was stepping into, and so i began to sort of help his family figure out where he would be. so even having worked on the border, you hadn't seen it from that point of view? you were doing your duty, you were doing the best

us. we have been hiring more border patrol agents, and forcing the border in the cities.the most remote, dangerous, rugged parts of the desert. you have this situation now where people will be walking out for as much as a0 miles, 60 miles, to circumvent these roads and checkpoints and patrols. and many people lose their lives. hundreds of people lose their lives. hundreds of people die every year. what are you feel, to come to this contemporary point for a moment, what do you feel about those undocumented people in the united states, who come in illegally, who have no documentation, but who perhaps have been there for one or two generations, their kids have been to school, they have been paying taxes. what do you think should be done, if anything? you know, i don't have a policy solution. that is why i have chosen to be a writer and not a politician. but, you know, whati can say is that i think the way we talk about migrants in the united states and probably globally is very problematic. and i think the language we use to talk about migrants dehumanises them. we quite oft

meet the author, my guest is francisco cantu, a third—generation mexican american who became a us border patrolnt and tells his dory in the book line becomes a river. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the journalist and author yasmin alibhai—brown and kate andrews, director of news at the institute of economic affairs. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. the observer reports that a new political party with up to £50m in funding is secretly in development. the mail on sunday claims the prime minister has been forced into a u—turn over police stop and search powers, following several weeks of violence on the capital's streets. the telegraph also leads with crime levels — the paper claims home secretary amber rudd has written an article claiming that cuts are not to blame for the rise in violence. the sunday times says sergei and yulia skripal could be offered new identities and given the opportunity to resettle in the united states, the sunday express has a story about the number of patients flying overseas for private

us border patrol says they will help block one of the country's busiest smuggling routes. congress has not approved the estimated $73 million for the proposed border wall but last year he signed an executive order to use existing money to jumpstart the project like the one outside of el paso. >>> mark zuckerberg facing a round of questioning from lawmakers on capitol hill.>> the facebook ceo revealed the company actually tracks people even if they don't have a facebook account >> he was asked what data they collected after people logged out and he could not answer but today he was asked again and was able to answer. the truth may surprise you.>> americans don't like to be manipulated.>> that's what this is about.>> reporter: a fellow at an antimonopoly think tank and says there's something unsettling about facebook's data collection.>> there's this element of privacy questions, a creepiness. because facebook is a surveillance machine.>> reporter: we learned it goes beyond what you post on your website. the company collects data on anyone who visits the website even if they

and in meet the author at quarter to nine, jim naughtie speaks to the former us border patrol agent francisco about his first novel — the line becomes a river. that's all ahead on bbc news. now on bbc news it's time for sportsday. welcome to sportsday, the headlines tonight. time to say your prayers around ahmad jarba corner, the 82nd masters under way at augusta, a double battle between england and scotla nd double battle between england and scotland dominates the second day of the commonwealth games as the top of the commonwealth games as the top of the medals table has a familiar look. the attack on the manchester city as from the inside, one member of staff posts pictures of the way liverpool supporters greeted them before the first leg. and a week of european football ends with arsenal whose trophy hopes hang on the europa league. we'll be live at the emirates to look ahead to their quarterfinal first leg. welcome to sportsday. thank you for joining us on what was the first day of the commonwealth games on the gold coast. it brought the 14th gold medal in the glittering career of one of

author this week, my guest is francisco cantu, a third—generation mexican—american who became a us border patrol and tells, in his book, the line becomes a river a lyrical story of life in a dangerous no man's land that is also a political battle ground. good evening and welcome to bbc news. yulia skripal, one of the victims of the salisbury poisoning, has made herfirst public statement, a month after the attack on her and her father. she said she's been conscious for over a week and that her strength is growing every day. she thanked medical staff and the people of salisbury for their help, and described her ordeal as "somewhat disorientating." the attack with a nerve agent on yulia and sergei skripal has sparked an international diplomatic crisis, and the recrimination between russia and the west intensified again today. here's our diplomatic correspondent, james landale. it's just over four weeks since sergei and yulia skripal were poisoned by a nerve agent on this bench in salisbury, four weeks during which the former russian intelligence officer and his 33—year—old daughter have lain critic

border security. us vice president mike pence is currently visiting the border. he's been meeting with us border patrol the border, the administration of course has much bigger plans to build a wall, although congress has so far refused to allocate funding for that. the group of migrants which has arrived at the border has become known as the caravan. most of those in it are from honduras. about a month ago, they started travelling together across mexico, starting from the city of tapachula, which is near the border with guatemala. initially, there were around 1,000 people — and they caught president trump's attention. on 1st april, he tweeted: the next day, he said. these people continue to travel. they are now numbering a few hundred. those seeking asylum claim they're at risk of violence if they return home. one of them spoke to the bbc. translation: we had to bury some of our relatives before we left. my father was one of them. he was tortured. many people think we left because we are criminals. we are not criminals, we are people living in fear in our countries. or we want is a place where our chi

police, quÉbec police force, ontario provincial police, the federal bureau of investigation, us border patrolustoms and the national guard. drive carefully, have a nice day. that is controlling 13,000 people in 26,000 acres. >> i hope you helped me convince -- this book is also in audio but not with her voice. you got to be kidding me. you have a beautiful voice. because she obviously wrote that she feels it. reconsider your next book. audiobook with your voice, nobody else. second question to the right. >> thank you very much. my name is - my name is sylvester. i grew up in the rio grande valley, very familiar and i'm old enough to remember the dragnet's of operation went back. i am familiar with it but your book was very heart wrenching. many difficult passages, had to put it down for a while because of how difficult it was. one of the most difficult things and maybe i got it wrong in the midst of the emotion and everything was the policy of emptying the water bottles so people already going to die for their attempt to cross and find a road where they can get picked up and rescued by the bo

border. b, to use the border patrol, the national guard if he wants, to go down there and control the border. the president has every right to do that. the question is, do you make it into a crisis? i want to put up their own message about border crossings. you see february ''1february '1 '16. >> this is an issue that he thinks plays well with his base and his supporters. and in the last six weeks he's been making changes in his cabinet, bringing in new people. we see a president that feels more emboldened than ever to put his thoughts out there, frame them the way he wants to and do it his way. >> to that point, immigration is a default. he goes there when he thinks he needs to control the narrative. the other one is china. trade was the big issue in the campaign. other people are asking, what took you so long, mr. president? china has now retaliated. the market is down in the ballpark of 500 points. alison, why? what's happened? what's taking over the market today? >> you've seen china take the latest salvo in the tradework between the u.s. and china. they say, that's it, we're going to go

border is manpower. we are currently 2,000 agents below our floor of 3,270 agents. retention, recruitment and the use of agents is what we lack. the national border patrol agency also use the -- one that will improve our urgent retention criminal case crisis. it will we address these issues we will not be able to secure the border. along with the catch and release policy securing our border -- the washington times accomplished an order highlighting gross mismanagement in the border patrol station. 700 agents are signed to the station and when annual leaves, sick leaves and days off duty are calculated there are 400 agents that show up to work on any given day. of those on duty, only around 50 are deployed to the border. that's unacceptable. this is well below par for a station that controls approximately 60 miles of the border and is the busiest station in the country. the federal government's decision to devote only 12% of the work force to perform the duties they were hired to perform is- on me but for the sake of border security is highly unjuvl. if you are angry about this you should be. it is my hope that the members of this committee recognize tha

mexico and texas have already committed 1600 national guard member to support the border patrol as did new mexico. joining usonight, a 20-year rhett van of the border patrol, current president of the national border patrol council, the union for the border patrol agents, brandon good to have you with us. brandon judd. >> you've been out in front of this debate longer than anybody i know of and you know the situations that we're facing. when you look at the governor finally caving in, that's simply because the people of orange, the other cities, they've spoken and now he's feeling the heat. but thank goodness for those people, thank goodness they have spoken because we're going to get the support that we need in california. >> it is truly a border that is now, as we've discussed, so much of all of the most dangerous drugs, most popular drugs unfortunately are crossing from mexico into the united states. it's marijuana, it is cocaine, heroin, it is -- it's stunning. and fein fentanyl, this new drut is a killer. we're talking about we people of this country cannot simply leave ourselves wide open to the drug ca

border patrol enhanced border security. is that a better way to address the challenge ha that we have? or should we try to make it up as we go along using our national guards folks to do a job they necessarily werendidn'n up? >> the investment in border patrol has to be there. but right now you have attrition rate that exceeds hiring rate. so not retaining our border patrol akts. so we do have to have a stop gap. but as far as our national guard, they are being put in situations that is like combat situations. they are in lpop situations sitting in observation posts which they would be required to do in the military in the event that a war was to take place. as a unified officer i work right next to my uniformed national guard counterparts. and i can tell you they feel that the operations that they are doing -- >> i know my time is running short. all i'm saying is that secretary mattis had other stuff about those folks to be doing rather than being sitting on the border. and i'm just worried about those other priorities that are being ignored. but thank you i appreciate it. i yield back. >> chair now recognizes the gentleman from tennes

us. india is increasing its patrols along the border with china, after a tense stand—off between the twoountries last year over a strategic

i asked border patrol out here patrolling watching us, you hear that? is about every night. >> border patrol needs a lot more help. any word on california? >> no word on california. they are holding out, 1600 guardsmen coming down from arizona, new mexico and texas. >> great reporting the past couple days. the countdown to strike is on. bombers on standby as the world braces for the west to respond to syria's terrific chemical attack. what is next? first hand knowledge of when to make the move. >> the person who is not working and have no intention of working at all is making more money and doing better than the person working. >> one free food get a job. the giant step donald trump took towards welfare reform. celebrating national pet day with a few viewers for a friend, jordan early with her goldendoodle charlie and this is mike's golden retriever smiling and here is my dog, passed away a couple years ago, mattie, 18 years. send us your pictures. my name is jeff sheldon, and i'm the founder of ugmonk. before shipstation it was crazy. it's great when

immigration is another caravan that of asylum seekers nears our southern border joining us brandon judd the president of the national border patrol counsel. brandon good to have you with us and jessica van director director of policy studies at the center for immigration studies. jessica let's start with you. first of all the president is in the position, forced into the position where he has to correlate the mexican government to actually be a partner in border security because we don't have the resources or the policies necessary to stop these illegal immigrants and asylum-seekers crossing our border at will. >> part of the reason is because congress has failed to act on proposals to reform our asylum system on requests for money for the homeland security to deal with the situation at the border the asylum system has been out of control since about 2010 or 2011 when obama policies essentially imposed a catch and release system for asylum-seekers and the number of asylum applications has gone up 18 times since then and combined with the slow walking of cases through the immigration courts that is justin described has cause basic

brandon judd is with us, border patrol union president. old they will be met at the border by a whole bunch of lawyers, get them across, take their application for asylum that is it, they stay. is that what is going to happen? >> depends what they do it. if they come to the points of entry, that is it legal means of claiming asylum. if they cross the border illegally between border entry i have to take them into custody. the problem your viewers need to understand, when they get here, claim asylum, we allow them into the united states, give them temporary work permit, give them temporary permission to be here. we expect them to show up to the court date a few years down the road which they never do. that is how we know they're gaming the system. stuart: so you have an idea, i believe, for a massive detention center, right on the border which would take people in, process them. either allow them to stay when a decision is made or send them back to where they came from? you want a massive detention center, right? >> well it would work. i mean

weapons that were then used against u.s. border patrol agents and innocent mexican citizens.at least 200 of them murdered by the way with those weapons. >> absolutely. can you imagine what fox would be saying about donald trump if donald trump had given weapons to the cartels to use against nth mexican citizens and also our u.s. border patrol. eric holder is a corrupt person. i think if he ran for president he would be an easy target for the republicans. lou: what do you think, charlie? disbli would lov?i would love tl of those scandals. when some first surfaced, you would hear bits and pieces of it and normal people would be like no, this there's in way that happened. our government couldn't have possibly done something that stupid and reckless. lou: and then lie about it. >> and we would have people get killed. and then by the time you figured out no, they did do that. we were off to a whole other stunning set of allegations that would later turn out to be true. the only thing better than eric holder running for president, i agree with rachel, the only thing that would be b

happening on the ground so let's examine where we go from here on border security and immigration reform. we have with us tonight border patrol agent hector garza, the vice president of the national border patrol council and francisco hernandez who is an immigration attorney. um, hector, i've been with you down on the border. i appreciate the great work the men and women do. it's an amazing, hard and difficult job. but tell us, what is happening right now on the border? are people able to get across? what if all of a sudden 1,100 people showed up in your sector? >> well, what is happening at the border is that catch and release is alive and well and unfortunatelyha the obama holdovers within our agency are still implementing those same policies which were in effect under the obama administration. unfortunately, if this caravan makes it to the southern boredder and crosses illegally into thef country, they'll be processed but then they'll be released t on a notice to appea. those will disappear into the american communities. they'll never return to court. >> francisco, what is the case? why not build this wall? the video we we

let's examine where we go from here on border security and immigration reform. we have with us tonight border patrol agent hector garza, he is the vice president of the national border patrol council. and francisco hernandez, who is an immigration attorney. hector, i have been with you down on the border. i appreciate the great work the men and women do. it's amazing, hard, and difficult. but tell us what is happening right now on the border. are people able to get across? what if all of a set an 1100 people showed up in your sector? speaker was happening at the border is that catch and releas. a lot of the obama holdovers within our agency are still implementing dosing policies that were under the obama administration. unfortunately if this caravan makes it to the southern border and make lots of legally into our country, they will be processed but that may well be released on the notice to appear, which means they will disappear into the american communities and they will never return to court. >> jason: francisco, what is the case, why not build this wall? the video we were just showing was video

duty in freeing more border patrol agents to be on the front line right at the border to catch anyone coming through. >> so is it your sense that this will be -- bear fruit and be useful>> i do believe any time we put that many troops, the number they are talking about, reinforcing the border patrol, if there is any spike in peoplin tilt rati-- people infiltrating across the border, they will, based on jump start, to assist in stopping anything that is being illegally brought or people illegally crossing the border and that increase the capacity of the border patrol to be able to stop them. will it be 100%, i don't think it is ever 100%. nor will we want to ever see it 100%. because that would make a very tense, contested border and we don't want a contested border with our friends and allies to the south, the country of mexico. we want this to protect people from coming illegally as well as smugglers that may bring contraband through that border. the numbers would show that and in march that is an up number but overall the number of people coming has been reduced. i don't know what the president knows. he has intelligence and capacity to talk with people in mexico an

if it frees up border patrol and toughens up enforcement, it's a good thing for us. obviously, we are dealing with the issues that other states may be don't have to deal with. >> harris: your state has seen so much. other states too but you had a hurricane season that was really punishing last year. we've seen the national guard come to the help of your state. how is this any different? >> i don't see a difference. we are in need. we do have security issues. we have crime issues. drug issues galore. i don't see why this isn't a crisis the national guard can't help us with. we certainly appreciate it in texas. >> harris: talk to me about the wall. the huge omnibus spending bill. $1.3 trillion. kicked $1.6 billion of what it will actually cost, not just to build a wall but to fix part of it. one thing no one is talking about is there parts of the law that exists now that are subpar. >> that's true. but we do know that it works. i'm glad we are at least making some progress. obviously not enough. we have a pretty good sense along the el paso border with mexico. it turne

brendan judd is with us, border patrol union president. g to take to get the troops to the border and ready for action so to speak? >> they are going there right now. how long it will take to get ready will not take long at all. it will be a seamless integration in the positions, it will allow us, to put a dent in the bottom line. >> the national guard will be armed on the border. we are told that by the governor. you approve of that? >> i do. these are our troops, they are not taking anybody into custody but they have to be protected and should be able to protect themselves, border patrol, people taking illegal immigrants into custody, we are still going to be the ones enforcing the laws but the national guard with arms will protect themselves in the event it is needed. stuart: arizona new mexico sending national guard people to the border but we have not yet heard from california. give us a status report on whether or not california national guard will be at the border. >> that shouldn't surprise anybody. company will push back on anythin

border. the national guard has been used several times to assist the border patrol and in the early 90s, the military joint task force was on the border, the plan is yet to be formulated, just the idea drew a sharp response from the former mexican president who tweeted it is to provoke more hate and distance and further our nation, someone has to talk sense into them. he is elevating the hate against mexico and causing a bigger conflict. >> the president had gone so far to threaten nafta if mexico didn't do something about this. >> i told my sicko strongly that you will have to do something about these caravans and you have to do it or i will not do the nafta deal. nafta has been fantastic for mexico and terrible for us. >> reporter: they criticize the president and they say it is a humanitarian mission. migrants should not be abandoned because of tweet and political hate. >> reporter: at the white house, john roberts, fox news. >> he says he doesn't consider the president as a criminal target at this point. moeller described him as a subject of the investigation into russia's interference w

the border patrol has been used by the last two presidents of the united states. george w. sh and barack obama sent in the national guard to support the border patrol. charles: it's a sad commentary that we don't have the wall with all the crime coming through. the economic obligations of americans for those coming through is mind boggling. maybe the greater message would be promoting national security. >> if you are the governor of oregon and your state spends $1 billion a year supporting illegal immigrants and your citizens are dying from opioid abuse. charles: do you give him political credit? >> just communications credit. sticking with the script no matter what the expense. this is something barack obama did. this is something the democratic party once stood for. janet napolitano when she was governor she supported the national guard on the bored. gabby giffords said in a letter we urge you to deploy the national guard and they should be armed to defend themselves. charles: now they are all pushing back in unity. this is completely personal against president trump. >> t

told us you can cross they made us turn around the police who previously given us access to their fence and border patrols gave us a statement denying that they turn any refugees around and claim their priority is human dignity. but human rights advocates say they know pushbacks happen all the time and accuse the greek government of breaking international law. france proposes a new deal to build on the existing iran nuclear agreement and prevent the u.s. from leaving the accord. hello i'm down jordan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up the u.n. calls for an investigation into the deaths of anti-government protesters in nicaragua. five years after the bangladesh factory collapse which killed more than a thousand people traded in say workers still face danger. and ahead of a rare meeting between the leaders of north and south korea we report from both sides of the demilitarized. françoise proposed negotiating a new deal with iran that builds on the twenty fifteen agreement to curb its nuclear program president emanuel mccraw made the pitch to u.s. president donald trump who is threatening to pu

unclear whether governor brown will go along with president trump's new plan to use national guard troops to patrol the u.s. border with mexico. jessica castro is here with the very latest. >> hi, kristen. homeland security secretary is pressing governor jerry brown to comply with president trump's order to use national guard troops to protect our state's border with mexico. she says show has talked to him once already but plans to talk to him again today. nielsen didn't say what would happen if governor brown outright refuses to ut national guard troops for that purpose. president trump yesterday asked california along with arizona, new mexico and texas to use their guard troops to support border operations alongside border patrol. governor brown is the only democrat among those states, and so he's the wild card. >> he has seen this happen before and he has seen it happy. the whole concept is border control. you know, i'm hopeful. i'll continue to talk to him and see what we can work out. >> national guard troops are under control of the states. democrats in california have been pressing governor brown to ignore

border. at a luncheon and joint news conference with baltic leaders, the president surprised nearly everyone including the pentagon with his call to use the military to patrol the border until his long-promised border wall is built. more now from cnn's boris sanchez from the white house. >> reporter: president trump hitting a broad away of topics on tuesday, talking about everything from syria in which he said that he wanted to bring american troops home from that country in part, in his words, so they could help rebuild the united states. the president also talked about mexico, making news with the idea that he would be sending the military to protect the border in lieu of his long-promised border wall. here's more of president trump talking about that. listen. >> we are preparing for the military to secure our border between mexico and the united states. we have a meeting on it in a while with general mattis and everybody. and i think that it's something we have to do. >> reporter: now late tuesday night, the white house confirmed that the president had taken part in a briefing where having national guard troops sent to help bolster protection at the bord

of catching illegal immigrants as they come across the border undocumented migrants is another phrase that people use there held by border patrol or immigration officials their names are taken and then they're released until they get a date for their immigration hearing now donald trump has criticized this law in fact in a tweet just a couple of days ago he called it a dangerous liberal democratic war that he wanted to change and actually dates back to when george w. bush was in the white house but no donald trump has issued a memorandum to say there must be norm or catch and release now add that to the fact that the department of justice has sent out a memo on friday to see that they want a zero tolerance approach to illegal immigration law longer will people because of phone back across the border but they will face the full might of the american legal system for essentially breaking the law by crossing the border illegally and the fact that we know that the white house is sending a number of national guard troops to the border particularly because of this caravan that is heading through central america through mexico towards

us access. the border patrol is a mobile force.a high state of readiness so our men and women can go out there and do that job. that's one of the elements of support the national guard can bring to bear. griff: another element the guardsmen will bring here is horizontal engineering to clear roads, clear brush. that will let more green shirts as they are known, border patrol hit this border and try and secure it they told me of a gun battle that happened in recent weeks with the mexican marines, less than a mile deep over my shoulder back here. less than about 45 minutes going on here. so the threat is very real, the zeta cartel getting more dangerous and desperate as the guardsmen arrive here, guys. brian: is there a sense they are undermanned? >> absolutely. you spend any time with the border, whether i was out near san diego or all the way over here near laredo from, end to end of this u.s. border, manpower is the common theme. they need more manpower and certainly getting it with the now 1600 guardsmen being deployed in mexico,

us access. the border patrol is a mobile force, 24/7 job keeping those vehicles at a high state of readiness.the elements of support we bring to bear. >> reporter: as the guard arrive here, besides surveillance, eyes in the sky, some horizontal engineering helping clear roads in areas along the river banks, the larger picture. and >> great job down there. >> facebook's chief on the hot seat in washington. >> your user agreement sucks, the purpose is to cover facebook's rear end. it is not to inform your users about their rights. >> what every facebook user needs to know and what is in store for today. >> she is not going down without a fight. why a candidate running for governor in a state unfamiliar, a temper tantrum on stage. wait until you hear this. >> we are celebrating national pet day by sharing your furry friends. let's not forget about kim haggerty's husband. >> i have to show you my number one true love in this world, one true love in this world, tyler, my 14-year-old, miss you. with humira. humira works by targeting and helping to block a specific source of inflammation that contri

as president trump seeks to reflect us on our border because border patrol agents are swamped, they channel in unison that he's a racist, a flash flood watchist. they dither as to whether they want their border protected. in case of oregon's kate brown, she refused bored protection and refused to assist other states three days after she accepted a large donation from george soros. hey, kate, you weren't even in the picture. take a look at this map. your state isn't on the southern border where the operation is being conducted. democrats are comfortable doing what they do because they learned how to wield power like the fbi and the department of justice when they desired one of their own would not be prosecuted. they proudly declaring themselves to be sanctuary for illegals. covering for their own like allowing a corrupt charitable foundation which in reality is a pay-for-play international racketeering syndicate. unlike republicans, they learned to circle their wagons. they are in lock step on the russia collusion narrative when we know the on collusion was the cash flow of hundreds of mill