European countries TAKE ACTION to mitigate migrant crisis

♪. >> Charlie: ITALIAN AND GREEK. POLICE ARE NOW JOINING FORCES. FOR A CROSS BORDER PUSH TO. STRENGTHENING COOPERATION. BETWEEN ORGANIZED CRIME, DRUG. TRAFFICKING AND TERRORISM IN. TOURIST CITIES LIKE ATHENS AND. ROME. IT COMES AS EUROPE FACES A. MIGRATION CRISIS WITH MORE THAN. 44,000 MIGRANTS CROSSING INTO. THE REGION BY SEA AND ALMOST.

10,000 BY LAND THIS YEAR ALONE. ILLEGAL MIGRATION HAS BACK HUGE. ISSUE FOR NEIGHBORING COUNTRIES. IN EUROPE. 72,000 MIGRANTS ENTERED SPANISH. OWNED PENINSULA CITY OF CEUTA. JUST A WEEK AND A HALF AGO. SPARKING A DEBATE WITHIN THE. EUROPEAN UNION. HERE TO DISCUSS DIRECTOR OF. POLICY STUDIES FOR THE CENTER OF. IMMIGRATION STUDIES JESSICA. VAUGHAN SO, GREAT TO HAVE YOU. THIS MORNING, JESSICA. SO, OBVIOUSLY, THIS IS SOMETHING. THAT AMERICANS HAVE BEEN. WRESTLING WITH FOR ABOUT 10.

YEARS NOW. WE SAW WHAT HAPPENED WHEN JOE. BIDEN, PRESIDENT BIDEN, THE. FORMER PRESIDENT OPENED UP THE. BORDERS, IS EUROPE STARTING TO. SORT OF CATCH ON TO WHAT A. SERIOUS ISSUE THIS IS? >> WELL, YES, THEY ARE. BOTH OF THESE COUNTRIES, ITALY. AND GREECE HAS BEEN ON THE. FRONTLINES IN TERMS OF ILLEGAL. IMMIGRATION AND ALSO THE. INCREASE IN TRANSNATIONAL CRIME. GETTING CRIME, DRUG CRIME, HUMAN.

TRAFFICKING THAT COMES WITH OPEN. BORDERS. AND THEY ARE RECOGNIZING THAT, FIRST OF ALL, MORE LAW. ENFORCEMENT ON THE STREETS IS. GOING TO HELP WITH THAT, BUT, ALSO, WORKING TOGETHER AND. SHARING RESOURCES AND. COOPERATING IN A WAY THAT IS. GOING TO HELP MAKE IT MORE. DIFFICULT FOR THESE. TRANSNATIONAL CRIME GROUPS TO. EXPLOIT DIFFERENCES IN. JURISDICTIONS THAT SOMETIMES ARE. BARRIERS WHO CRACKING DOWN ON. THIS KIND OF CRIME.

SO, YEAH. THIS IS A REALLY POSITIVE. DEVELOPMENT FOR PUBLIC SAFETY. AND GOING TO HELP ADDRESS SOME. OF THESE PROBLEMS TRANSNATIONAL. CRIME IN PARTICULAR. >> Charlie: YEAH, YOU RAISE A. REALLY IMPORTANT POINT. A LOT OF TIMES THESE STORIES GET. TOLD AND COUCH STORY MIGRANTS. POOR IMABOVE RICHED PEOPLE. LOOKING FOR A BETTER LIFE. WHAT THEY FAIL TO POINTED OUT IS. MOST OF THIS IS RUN BY ACTUAL. CRIMINAL GANGS WHO ARE. TRAFFICKING IN NOT JUST DRUGS.

AND OTHER THINGS BUT LIKE. HUMANS. >> YEAH. MOST DEFINITELY. AND THEY ARE SETTING UP. ORGANIZED D THEFT RINGS, FOR. EXAMPLE, IN PUBLIC PLACES. A LOT OF PEOPLE THINK OF THIS AS. PETTY CRIME BUT OFTEN IT IS. BIGGER THAN THAT AND IT'S NOT. SOMETHING THAT ONE JURISDICTION. CAN DEAL WITH ON ITS OWN. AND THIS IS TRUE IN THE UNITED. STATES AS WELL. THAT'S WHY LAW ENFORCEMENT. AGENCIES AT THE LOCAL LEVEL. SHOULD BE SHARING INFORMATION,

EVEN WITH THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. LIKE ICE THAT, YOU KNOW, IS THE. EXPERT AGENCY ON TRANSNATIONAL. CRIME. WHEN THEY ARE SHARING. INFORMATION, THEY CAN BETTER. DEAL WITH IT SOME OF THESE CRIME. GROUPS ARE JUST TOO BIG FOR ONE. LOCALITY TO DEAL WITH ON THEIR. OWN AND THEY MAY NOT REALIZE THE. TRANSNATIONAL CONNECTION. SO THIS IS A HUGE BENEFIT. MORE COOPERATION BETWEEN. AGENCIES IS ALWAYS BETTER THAN. LESS.

THAT'S WHY SANCTUARY. JURISDICTIONS ARE SUCH A. PROBLEM. >> Charlie: YES, INDEED, WITHOUT. A DOUBT. OBVIOUSLY WHEN WE WATCHED ALL OF. THOSE SHOCKING IMAGES OF. MIGRANTS POURING IN FROM MOROCCO. INTO CEUTA YOU COULDN'T HELP BUT. THINK GOOD GRIEF WE HAVE BEEN. THERE THANK GOODNESS PRESIDENT. TRUMP STEPPED IN AND PUT AN END. TO THAT HAPPENING IN OUR COUNTRY. ARE THERE ANY LESSONS THAT. AMERICA CAN LEARN FROM ITALY AND.

GREECE ON HOW THEY ARE HANDLING. THIS RIGHT NOW? >> YES. I THINK. SO I THINK THAT THIS COULD WELL. SPREAD THROUGHOUT EUROPE BUT. ALSO THE UNITED STATES COULD. TAKE A LOOK AT HOW POLICING ON. THE STREET WITH DIFFERENT. OFFICERS FROM DIFFERENT. JURISDICTIONS S IS WORKING. IT KIND OF REMINDS ME OF THE. NATIONAL GUARD DEPLOYMENT IN. CERTAIN CITIES. ALSO THE WAY THAT STATES SENT.

NATIONAL GUARD TO THE BORDER. WHEN THAT WAS SUCH A PROBLEM. HERE WHEN WE HAD, SAY, FLORIDA. AND SOUTH CAROLINA SENDING. OFFICERS TO TEXAS AND THE FLOW. OF INFORMATION THAT CAME BACK. FROM THEIR EXPERIENCE BEING ON. THE BORDER THESE STATES KNEW. WHAT WAS COMING AND WHAT THEY. WERE GOING TO HAVE TO DEAL WITH. AND THEIR ABILITY TO SHARE THAT. INFORMATION TO ADDRESS IT. YOU KNOW, STATES LIKE. CALIFORNIA, NEW YORK AND. ILLINOIS SHOULD ALL PAY. ATTENTION TO THAT. >> Charlie: YES, INDEED.

>> SEE IF THAT CAN.