i am upset with mexico. i think mexico is doing a lot of talking, they have the strongest immigration laws anywhere in the world, they probably have the strongest, and we have the weakest most pathetic most left , themmigration laws democrats laws that i got stuck with. i hope congress will change them. they have a lot opposition from democrats, not because they do not think it would be right, it is because they do not want no victories, they do not care if the country suffers. we have new caravans coming up, big ones, and mexico could stop it easily. mexico has a trade surplus with the united states, a hundred billion a year at least for many years they have taken a portion of our car business. mexico is doing well because of the united states and they have to stop the illegal immigration. we have run out of room. catch andridiculous release program where you catch them and you are supposed to release them. you release them into our country. the border patrol has been a credible, the job they do is unbeliev

/mexico war. ulysses s grant is a person that called it a wicked war. robert e lee. most of the generals in the civil war fought in the u.s./mexico war. it mattered to them, but it also matter to all of the men who went to mexico and thought. -- fought and it mattered to the family members who fought. and it mattered to abraham lincoln, who gave his first national speech about how the u.s./mexico war was immoral. i wanted to place the war in the context of the time period and somehow how it affect the the -- affected the united states and affected the people. brian: the years of the war? prof. greenberg: 1846 to 1848. brian: did james poke -- polk lie us into that war? prof. greenberg: yes. brian: how many people died in that war? prof. greenberg: between 13000 and 15,000 americans. brian: what did america think of that war back then? prof. greenberg: the war started off with a burst of enthusiasm. there was a whole generation of young men who had grown up hearing stories about the texas revolutio

mexico. we are working hard to stop it. we are building the wall but until the well is completed as it is moving along well. we are going to have a news conference shortly after wall as it is being completed. it is moving along rapidly but still we have a current crisis. you can go back 40 years but i can about -- cannot imagine it being worse. custodye died in u.s. in december. do you believe your administration is equipped to handle that in a way to ensure children are not dying? it has been well stated we have done a fantastic job. one father admitted lame. the other was being brought to the hospital on an emergency basis. it is a tough situation and that trek is a long track -- a long trek. mexico could stop it at their southern border. they have a southern border. they have a border that could be structured. it is easy for them to stop people coming up. we are not going to give them billions of dollars and tell them they are not going to use their strong immigration laws to help united s

massive car advance walking right through mexico. mexico is stuff. they can stop them but they chose not too. to if they don't stop them, we're closing the bored. we'll keep it closed for a long time. i'm not playing games. mexico has to stop it. they have people coming right through mexico. it's a long, very dangerous journey. mexico sends buses, they send trucks. they start at one point a little bit. stopping, they don't do anything to stop it right now so the car advance form. i've ended payments to guatemala, to honduras and el salvador. no money goes there anymore. we were giving them $500 million. we were giving them tremendous aid. we stopped payment to honduras, to guatemala and to el salvador. we were paying them tremendous amounts of money and we're not paying them anymore because they haven't done a thing for us. they set up these car advance. in many cases they put their worst people in the car advance. they're not going to put their best in they get rid of their problems and they march up here and come into our country. we're not letting

we could return them quickly to mexico. today 70% of all those we're arresting are from the northern triangle, guatemala, el salvador, and honduras. october, 2018, marked the first time in our history that family units exceeded single adult apprehensions. and in february of 2019, family units and unaccompanied children accounted for 65% of all border patrol apprehensions. for the fiscal year it's 60% family units apprehensions, family unit and unaccompanied juveniles. so without a consequence, without being able to deliver a consequence to these individuals for illegally crossing our borders, the border patrol has no reason to expect it will decrease, we believe it will increase. it's well-known at this time that adults with children will not be detained during the immigration proceedings for illegal entry. the word of mouth and social media quickly gets back to those in the northern triangle countries. if you bring a child, you'll be successful. from april of 2018 to february of 2019 we had almost 2,400 fraudulent claims o

they had people coming to mexico , it is a long and dangerous journey, mexico sends buses and at one they started point a little bit stopping it but they do not do anything to stop it now. i have stopped payments to guatemala, and/or us, el salvador -- honduras, el salvador, $500 million, we are giving them tremendous aid, we stop payment to honduras, guatemala, and el salvador. we were paying them tremendous amounts of money and we are not paying them anymore because they have not done a thing for us. they set up these caravans and in many cases they put their worst people in their caravan, they will not put the best people, they get rid of their problems and they come into the country, we are not letting them in our country. our border patrol, the job they have done is incredible and the job ice is doing is incredible and we have run out of space, we cannot hold people and mexico can stop it so easily. land, welcome to the united states. it is ridiculous. congress has to fix our broken immigration laws. people pull into this country, we stop that because border patrol is so incredi

-mexico border. this was a day after customs officials announced more than 76,000 migrants were cut trying to cross the southern border in february, a record number of arrests. this hearing by the senate judiciary committee is two hours and 40 minutes. >> the hearing will come to order and i want to thank the witnesses. i will introduce you in a bit. i'm going to give a brief opening statement followed by senator feinstein, senator cornyn and senator burr been the chairman of the immigration subcommittee. so, today we are here to have a hearing surrounding the death of seven-year-old jacqueline mcquinn. i hope i said the name right, eight-year-old felipe alonso gomez, and we want to hear about their passing and custody and we will be hearing from mclean, mr. bauer, mr. fisher for vital introduce in a bit. but, to my democratic colleagues, all of us share the desire to find out how to make sure children that we have custody of our well taken care of and that we avoid injury and death to the fullest ex

i'm very upset with mexico. i think mexico is doing a lot of talking. they have the strongest immigration laws anywhere. anywhere in the world they probably have the strongest and we have the worst. we have the weakest, the most pathetic, the most laughed-at immigration laws anywhere in the world. they're the democrats' laws and i got stuck with them and i hope congress is going to change them rapidly. i have a lot of opposition from democrats. not because the democrats think they'd be right in changing them. just because they don't want to make anybody look good into. they don't want any victories. they don't care if the country suffers. we have two big very -- caravans coming up and mexico could stop them easily. mexico has a trade surplus with the united states for $100 billion a year at least. this is for many years. mexico has taken a big portion of our car business. mexico is doing very well because of the united states and frankly they have to stop the illegal immigration. we've run out of room. we have this ridiculous catch and release program w

and with mexico being a big emerging-market. instead, you have trump alienating everyone at the same time. thank you. usmca or naftae 2, or the village people's trade treaty, it is similar to the original nafta document, but there have been some changes made dealing and automotive so laboris -- so the larger of the vehicle needs to be paid at $16 an hour. the market is already doing this. i was in a meeting with supply chain managers. they are doing what was already started, which is global companies are tired of dealing with currency fluctuations, and a number of people in the room believe that while these tariffs may be rolled back, we are in an era of higher tariffs and they are regionalized in her production, meaning they look at -- regionalized in their production, and most of the on shoring his labor-intensive work. firms finding chinese taking advantage of lower wage labor in central and southern mexico. as we are seeing by how supply chains were, mexico is a central supplier, and when we look at market 35at is a million

and if you don't, you will probably die before you leave mexico. we have no earthly idea of the thousands of people, men, women, and children who die trying to cross the border or get caught up in a conflict between the cartels along the plazas at the southern border. but i know thousands of people have died. over the last 20 years, more than 10,000 bodies have been recovered on american soil, men, women, and children, because this has become one of the most profitable enterprises for the human smugglers, the human traffickers, and the drug traffickers in mexico. that's a crisis, ladies and gentlemen, and it's a crisis that we need to recognize. gang members, thousands of ms-13 gang members have crossed the border illegally. and here's the sad reality when they successfully cross the border. they go into hispanic communities. they go into communities, many of them communities where the majority are legally present and make them more dangerous. they hide there. they co-opt them. they actually recruit kids into their gang activities and use minors to

three of the four came from mexico and one from spain. host: what was a lesson you learned from your parents that you still carry with you today that you apply to what you're doing today? ms. garcia: it's something simple. always working hard and doing your part. it was always about getting an education. and it was always about making sure you remembered where you came from and that somebody else was probably in a more serious situation so for me, i always had hand me downs. i was the baby girl. i waited my turn until i fit the dress that the other sister had. but even after i wore it, you know, it got passed down to one of my cousins. we learned recycling a long time ago. so for me it was always about making sure that we all, you know, were together as a family. and the thing that they also always emphasized, the third thing was, faith. i'm catholic, i'm a practicing catholic. they made sure we went to church, we went through all the sacraments and we remember that we just didn't get it that we had to believe in god. that was what they w

what are you doing in mexico? mr. stephenson: we invested alongside carlos in the telecommunications company in mexico. we invested along with him and i went down to be the cfo. it was like one of the greatest experiences of my life. mr. rubenstein: did you speak spanish before you got there? mr. stephenson: no, but i started learning really quick. after six months, i was frustrated, and i came in to my office and said in spanish, the next person who speaks to me in english is fired. no english. within three or four months, it was taking off. mr. rubenstein: you still speak spanish film? -- spanish still? mr. stephenson: [speaking spanish] mr. stephenson: ok. mr. rubenstein: in the business world, the dominant partner that buys the other, the non-dominant partner name survives comes up sbc buys at&t. if at&t was so good, it would have bought sbc. so why did you not use the sbc name? mr. stephenson: the first thing i would like to correct is when you use that legos, don't use the name dominant. mr. rubenstein: ok. mr.

what are you doing in mexico? mr. stephenson: we invested thegside carlos slim, telecommunications company in mexico. it was being privatized. we invested along with him and i went down to be the cfo. it was like one of the greatest experiences of my life. david did you speak spanish : before you got there? mr. stephenson: no, but i started learning really quick. literally, i got down there, and after six months, i was frustrated, and i came in to my office and said in spanish, the next person who speaks to me in english is fired. i do not care if the building is on fire, there is an earthquake no english. , within three or four months, it takes off. now, you make some mistakes in the interim. david: do you speak spanish still? mr. stephenson: [speaking spanish] david: ok. that is more than i speak. [laughter] david: very often in the , business world, somebody buys something, and the dominant partner that buys the other, the non-dominant partner name survives, so sbc buys at&t. if at&t was so good, it would have boug

president trump boldly expanded the mexico city policy in 2017. it now protects every human life impacted by the nearly $9 billion of foreign aid we spend on global health programs each year and in turn protects more unborn babies around the world than ever before. this is decent. this is right. and i'm proud to serve an administration that protects the least amongst us. now, two years into our administration, the vast majority of our implementing partners have agreed to comply with the policy, and they continue to work with us. this administration has shown we can continue to meet our critical global health goals, including providing health care for women, while refusing to subsidize the killings of unborn babies. as secretary of state, i've directed our team to take all appropriate action to implement this policy to the broadest extent possible. today i am announcing further refinements to advance our efforts to protect the least amongst us. as before, we will continue to refuse to provide assistance to foreign ngo's who perform or actively prom

>> we've gone aggressively after mexico. we went down there. we bought a couple of companies that were floundering. and we've been investing. we've got a nationwide network in mexico now. 100 million people pass with in network. we've been the fastest grower in the mexico for the last three years. >> you used to work with carlos slim. now you're competing with him. is ate problem? >> it's not pleasant -- demo, it's not a problem. carlos is a fierce competitor. when we had to sell our interest in his company, i immediately turned around and bought these because i'm a huge believer in mexico. the demographics, everything about mexico just fits with our business perfectly. and so he knew i was going to turn around and come right back in. so we've been competing very aggressively for the last four years. >> to conclude if you were to summarize what would you like the people to know about at&t what is it that most people should know about your company? >> technology, media, telecommunication, that's kind of a sector that people in the financial anal

my husband is a state representative in new mexico. he represents a part of the area i also represent. he represents what of the best green chilies. he understands the agriculture. he works hard to make sure we are investing in things like health. my dad is the president of our local unions for teachers and other school employees. and he's a school bus driver now. he's always working hard to educators, to protect children, and to make sure we have a great community. deeply about our future and children in the community. >> did you have any political mentors and what you remember about the messages they told you throughout the years? >> two mentors i learned a great deal from our senator udall, who really taught me that services everyone,ing with about making sure everyone is at the table, making sure you are listening more than you are talking and you're always focused on finding solutions. i got a chance to clerk for the federal district court judge. he had one of the busiest dockets of the country. every single case he presided over

the list is in mexico. >> you don't control the list? sec. nielsen: what i mean by the list is -- >> you don't have answers. sec. nielsen: you're not giving me the opportunity. >> these are simple yes or no questions. the very last thing i want to say because my time is up is you said the way to give direction on how to implement the zero-tolerance policy, because you want to do it with compassion. do you know how outrageous that sounds? you wanted to separate children and families and he wanted to do it with -- and you wanted to do it with compassion? you let kids be separated without tracking them. do you know how outrageous that is? you have no feeling, no compassion, no empathy here. i yield back. i yield back. >> the chair recognizes the gentleman from texas. >> thank you. thank you for being here and helping us answer the fundamental question on whether or not we care about our sovereignty and the rule of law in our country. unfortunately, i have a cynical view that i'm not so sure we all agree on that. that we all value the ability to

mexico could stop them, so easy. and you know what, if they don't, it will cost them a whole lot of money, honestly. because they could do it so easy. [applause] and if they don't, and i am telling you right now, we will close the damn border. [cheers and applause] [chanting u.s.a.] i don't know if you know it or not, michigan, but mexico took about 30% of your car business. not when i was here. when i am here, they are not. it is going the other way. 30%. and if we close the border, that means we are not taking those cars to our country. that means you will make more cars here in the good old usa. that is what that means. very simple. it is all very simple. people try and make it too complicated. one of the gravest threats to the survival of the u.s. auto industry was the job killing, sovereignty-wrecking trans-pacific partnership. that was going to decimate your industry. that is what one of my very first acts in office was to withdraw our country from the horrible, potentially disastrous trade deal and stop the of

we are exercising statutory authority enabling us to, in conjunction with mexico, to return to mexico migrants who have arrived from that country to await processing. this is to ensure safe and orderly flow and that there are humanitarian rights, protected. >> your testimony is that, to your knowledge, no one present themselves for asylum, and is not prevented their rights, as to what they have to do? >> our policy and process when ien's wenter an alle provide them information, ability to access counsel. if you do not pass that initial screening, you can appeal. generally speaking, you do not go on to meet before an immigration judge. >> is that so we thought something you do in writing, or you do it orally? both.ielsen: can you present this committee with the written direction that your receive? kers sec. nielsen: yes. the otherson: situation is the president made a comment that he really didn't need to do the emergency declaration. he just wanted to do it faster. do you have any information for the committee as to what he was talking about? sec. nielsen: my conversations, of course,

-mexico border. this article from roll call says a house controlled by democrats will not easily swallow trump's proposed into/programs by 9%. trump's $750 request for the pentagon and other defense accounts makes one of the biggest piece time defense budgets since world war ii, even adjusting for inflation. budgetumvent the defense cap five requesting $97.9 billion for assorted defense in thes unrelated to war warfare account, which is part of the defense department budget exempt from statuary spending limits. that debate likely to be happening over the coming weeks on capitol hill, something all of you can talk about today. let's go to derek in virginia. caller: good morning. host: morning. asler: i would like to cite a country of immigrants, there is nobody here in this century except the native population who did not arrive either willingly, escaping persecution somewhere, or unwillingly, as a shameful mark of how our southern states .mbraced slavery now there is this feeling of i am already here

and also discussed immigration, mexico and health care. this is about 5 minutes. president trump we had a tremendous success right here. come on over here. we had a tremendous construction success in florida. this is lake okeechobee which i have known for a long time. lake owing oak. it is an incredible lake and a lot of problems and wasn't properly funded. the governor desantis. thank you for being here and ron took over from a couple of you know, rick scott who has been bugging me. and rick go to the senate. and we got it done and we dwot the funding. and i think said let's go. we need a wall on the border. looking at all these borders. and we are building a lot of wall. i thank senator rubio who has been involved. thank you very much. very is involved and very important. congressman mario diaz-balart, where are you? thank you very much. brian mast. thank you. francis rooney. what a job you do. you know so much about it. ap young new congressman who has done well. where are you? so i just want to thank everybody for being here. great project for florida. and flo

we had a huge surplus of mexico. we lost over the last 27 years with mexico, over $100 billion. before n.a.f.t.a., we made $40 billion to $50 billion. that doesn't sound like a very good deal. now it is a hard thing for the democrats to give us a victory. let us see if they will raise their hands. if we don't go to n.a.f.t.a., we will go to pre n.a.f.t.a.. that is ok with me. tohort time later i travel detroit to cancel burdensome regulations that harm the motor city. we renegotiated the u.s.-korea trade agreement to double american auto exports to korea. we doubled them. they weren't happy about it. [applause] president trump: and to stop the cheap, foreign pickup trucks from coming into the market. chicken tax, a a tariff of 25%, our cheapest market. because they can't come in here and take away your businesses and take away your jobs. they were thrilled, but that is ok. under my administration we live by two simple rules, by american and hire american -- buy american and hire american. [cheers and applause] president trump: and we are already seeing the results. since the ele

-mexico border. there is a humanitarian crisis at the border, but there isn't anvation and there's not an emergency -- an invasion and there's not anmental of the sort that the president speaks of. what we have here is an act of constitutional vandalism. the president trying to take the power away from the house of representatives and the u.s. senate, the executive trying to steal the power of the purse from the congress. and if congress allows this to stand, 15, 20 years, 30 years from now we will look back upon this as a time that gave both democratic and republican presidents incredible power to ignore congress and completely go around this body to do the things that they will, in terms of domestic politics. there are landowners in texas that are going to lose their land. this is the largest federal land taking of texas land, i believe, in history. many people in texas will lose their land. many people will have their land values devalued. some of them very significantly. because of this. military

mexico would stop them at their northern border. i wish mexico would stop them. they have a border. they call it their southern border. 2000 miles down from our southern border. i wish mexico would stop them. but they have their own difficulties. i understand that. we are working with them. they are doing a lot of things and other with asylum elements of what we are doing. but mothers who love their daughters, give them massive amounts of birth control pills, because they know their daughters are going to be raped on the way up to our southern border. think of that. true story. told to me by the border patrol. so true. so sad. think of how bad it is. those caravans. if you look at those caravans. and some of them are phenomenal people. but in those, you have stone cold killers. you had the interview done by an innocent person who i think is actually back there now. what is it you want asylum for? why are you coming to america? murder. what? murder. on is incredible. and when those caravans are formed, do you think those countries th

i think when the numbers come in, mexico will be our largest trading partner. we want to see that ratified as quickly as possible. this should not be a partisan issue. the usmca is a better agreement than nafta. this should be a priority and get past right away, that will improve trade relationships with canada and mexico. we have good news with the chinese working with the administration to get the deal done. also, i believe the japanese are sitting down with the administration as well. that is a priority to get that done so we do not have prohibitive trade barriers and tariffs on u.s. beef going over there. we have to get congress to approve usmca, we have to get the deals with china and japan down, we have to deal with south korea. these are important markets in nebraska, 30% of what we grow gets exported overseas. it is a big part of our economy. we work with the trump administration to get these wrapped up. when we see that, we will see commodity prices come back up again. >> speaker pelosi is not signing off on usmca, what happens if the house does not pa

we can try and solve the problems of central america here at our front door at the texas-mexico border. we can invest in the opportunity to help people in central america where they are at home. it is our choice. [cheers] but to do any of this, we have got to understand that our country's success depends on the success of this democracy. it is the single greatest mechanism that humankind has ever devised to call forth the power, the potential and the genius of a people around their challenges and opportunities. and so, every single citizen must be able to vote, and every vote must count. [cheers] as president, i will sign into law a new voting rights act. together, we will end gerrymandering. money out of our politics. and, all across this country, we will have automatic and same-day voter registration. that is how we will do it. [cheers] a full political democracy is only possible if we vigorously pursue a true economic democracy. every child, man, woman in this country must be able to see a future for themselves in this country, otherwise this country will have no future as a democra

-mexico border, is one of if not the safest city in the united states of america. [applause] secure,urke: safe, strong, successful, not in spite of the fact that we are a city of immigrants, but i would argue because of the fact we are a city of immigrants. it, those elabout quarter of those with whom we live, were born somewhere else. they chose us, left the comfort of their home, their families, their nations, because they were called to work. they wanted to get ahead, wanted their kids to get ahead, but they also wanted to contribute to shared success. that makes us that much stronger, safer, and that much more likely to be successful. in the sight of that fact that we are comprised of asylum-seekers and refugees for as long as we have been a country. we lose sight of that at our own peril. when we do, this is what happens. we greet our fellow human beings who are leaving the deadliest places in the western hemisphere , some of the deadliest places on planet earth, whose own governments can no longer protect them. and most importantly, the lives of their kids. t

what the mexico city policy is. guest: it is a term we hear a lot. it goes back to 1984. ronald reagan, his administration in a conference on family planning with yo the u.n. announced a policy that we any organization that funded abortion or promoted abortion. that was in place during the reagan administration. put back in place by the bush administration in 2001 -- host: what was announced this week? guest: closing some loopholes. there was an expansion of the mexico city policy initially under the trump administration. $9 billion that goes into ngo's. this closes some loopholes. you essentially have to certify that as an ngo that you are not promoting or funding a portion. if you subcontracted with an entity, they were not covered. is as anrequirement ngo contracting directly with the federal government, you have to certify that your subcontractors will adhere to the same policy. [video clip] >> as before, we will continue to refuse assistance to ngo's who actively promote abortion as a method of family planning. wille also making clear we refuse to provide assistance

mexico braces for a new caravan of central migrants. mexico is bracing for the possible arrival of the mother of all caravans, even as doubts arise whether a group of central american migrants will be all that big. the interior secretary has said a caravan of migrants from el salvador, honduras and guatemala could be forming. there is information that a new caravan is forming in honduras that they are calling the mother of all caravans. it could have more than 20,000 people. that is from the associated press. (202) 748-8000 is the number to call for democrats, (202) 748-8001 is the number to call for republicans, and (202) 748-8002 is the number four independents and everyone else. for independents and everyone else. ron in defiance, ohio. democrat line. caller: i just have one question. the real reason why all of the caravans are coming up and all that is because of the groups down there that want to control the panama canal. we own the panama canal anymore, now it is up to -- that is why the caravans are coming up. the active groups t