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Tune in now for All In America: Live at the Border with @chrislhayes

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Watch reports from across the border from @CalNBC, @marianaatencio, @jacobsoboroff, @trymainelee, @MorganRadford, and @GadiNBC.

"There is no state of emergency for people who live in south Texas. What is an emergency are humanitarian situations in individual places."

— @CalNBC live from San Benito, TX

Now on All In America: Fmr. Texas congressman Beto O'Rourke speaks with @chrislhayes

"For the people who live and work on both sides of this border, and traverse it every single day, it's a completely foreign idea to them. One that isn't based on the realities on the ground here."

— @jacobsoboroff on declaration of national emergency at the border

Beto O'Rourke: "We project our fears and anxieties to places like El Paso...and punish the people who live here."

"You make communities, you make the state of Texas, you make, by extension, the country a safer place by treating people with dignity and respect."

— Beto O'Rourke

"Close to 70% of our kids do cross every day, but once they're here, it's a level playing field... We want our children to go to college. We want our children to have those opportunities."

— Armando Chavez, principal of Columbus Elementary, on migrant students

.@MorganRadford says Iveth Lopez, whose family was split by a wall along the US-Mexico border, questions the message and symbolism that razor wire, found only on the US side of the border, sends.

"The issues is what this country as a whole looks like and who gets to call it theirs. Which is why the wall will never be built and always be needed. Why the border will never actually be secure, but always need to be secured."

— @chrislhayes