physicians aren't overprescribing them. it needs to be maintained for those who really need it. we don't want to create the antibiotic resistant bacteria and who need it can have access to it. >> dana: smart and reassuring words from our dr., nicole saphier. have a good weekend. thank you. chaos at the southern border as migrants enter the country in record numbers. it is expected to get worse next week with the end of title 42. i'm dana perino. good morning. >> bill: i'm bill hemmer. good morning at home. merry christmas to you. a couple days together next week, however. >> dana: great. >> bill: keeping score, right? an estimated 50,000 migrants seeking asylum waiting in mexico now planning to cross the border as soon as title 42 ends. the number of illegal crossings could double or even triple in the coming days with no clear plan for the administration to stem the tide. senator john kennedy saying

republicans have lost trust in the willingness of the white house to secure the border amid record illegal crossings. >> the president ought to have his head in a bag. it is clear that he and the members of the administration are perfectly content to have an open border. all president biden needs to do in order to secure the border is go back doing what we were doing. >> dana: bill melugin is live in eagle pass, texas. i'm sure the local community is bracing itself for what's to come, bill. >> they are. good morning. as usual, as soon as the sun came up this morning we started getting mass illegal crossings here. take you live to our fox drone right now. a couple miles away from where i'm standing right now in eagle pass. it is over a group of several hundred who have just crossed illegally standing around waiting for processing and transport by border control. the river where they crossed is

a private pecan orchard. private property and why the state of texas put up a chain link fence. they claim over it or walk through it. you can see the amount of resources that have to respond to a group like this. show you the group as it was walking up. look at this piece of video our team shot just after sunrise, the low sunlight as the group walks past the chain link fence. cubans, nicaraguans and columbians. most not subject to title 42. this del rio sector that includes eagle pass has already seen over 115,000 illegal crossings just since october 1st. the numbers are up 56% over the same time last year. last year set the all-time record for illegal crossings in this sector. we're already on track to blow that record out of the water just 2 1/2 months into the new fiscal year. we'll take you out to yuma, arizona. look at this photo. border patrol agents in the open

desert east of yuma patrolling find two abandoned backpacks on the ground. they are full of meth. 90 pounds of meth worth over $150,000 on the streets. dropped and abandoned by suspected drug smugglers. there are illegal immigrants trying to backpack the stuff into our country. we'll take you out to the tucson sector. these wild photos. agents pulled over a vehicle near willcox, arizona after it tried to get around the checkpoint on the highway. they find nine illegal immigrants piled on top of each other in the little s.u.v. being smuggled. two u.s. citizens driving that vehicle. they were both arrested and charged with human smuggling. lastly we'll take you to the tucson sector again in arizona where agents encountered four separate groups totaling 350 people. what makes these photos interesting is all the people you are seeing here, they were from 12 different countries around the world. yuma sector had five groups from

46 countries around the world. goes to show people are coming in from all over the place. lastly, back out here live border patrol in the rio grande valley announcing late yesterday afternoon their agents arrested two illegal immigrants with murder convictions including one convicted of murdering a peace officer in los angeles and another who was convicted of murder in the state of virginia. guys, that is why it is so important to have agents out on the front lines and why it is so concerning when we had more than 73,000 known gotaways at our border last month alone. we'll send it back to you. >> dana: i have a quick question for you. we've been talking to you every day or if it's griff or alexis or nate, whoever is down reporting every day. often you are the only reporter down there. it looks to be that's perhaps changing a little bit. do you get the sense that they understand, the other media understands this is a huge, historic moment, a big story they need to be on top of?

>> i think they might finally starting to be waking up to it because of what happened in el paso this week. we had that huge migrant caravan come in on sunday night. the city of el paso is completely overwhelmed now and hundreds of migrants homeless living on the streets in the close. they are calling in agents from elsewhere. everyone is overwhelmed. a bad situation in el paso now and where most of the media has gone. the more the merrier when it comes to this coverage. it has been a big issue and fox news has been covering it the whole time. >> dana: grateful for all your work, thank you, bill. >> bill: so as the year 2022 comes to a close, democrats starting to focus on 24. president biden getting encouragement from key allies to seek re-election despite a new fox poll that shows a majority of young voters disapprove of the outgoing the democrat congress. we have more on that today.

mark, nice to see you. >> a lot can happen between now and the 2024 primaries. the president has said he plans to run and make a normal decision with a few weeks. you have the latest fox news polling, a majority of voters prefer a fresh face. only 33% want the president to run again. the fatigue voters have with the status quo. among registered democratic voters, the president has improved his standing with 63% of democrats telling fox they want him to run again. among those counting on a biden 2024 ticket the long-time democratic establishment. >> i think president biden has done an excellent job as president of the united states. i hope that he does seek re-election. he has been a great president. >> he has done an excellent, excellent job and if he runs i'll support him all the way. >> an associated press report out this week shows younger voters appear to be less

enthused with the democratic party compared to previous mid-term cycles. the trend line for younger voters may be an early indicator of the democrats' challenge to maintain coalition of black people, women, college educated voters, city dwellers and suburbanites. republicans have struggled to win over younger voters in recent elections. in 2024 the gop may try to put forth a younger candidate to contrast a president in his 80s. nearly 60% of registered voters not enthused with a trump 2024 campaign. a lot can happen between now and next year. >> bill: nice to see you, mark meredith in d.c. >> dana: the national archives warning the white house it could soon release hundreds of emails related to hunter biden and burisma. they paid hunter millions of dollars. it dates wack to 2014 when president biden was serving as vice president. the biden administration will not say if it will use executive

privilege to block it. it comes as new fox polls say voters say it is important for the justice department to investigate hunter and his foreign business dealings including majorities from all parties. kim strassel is a member of the "wall street journal" editorial board. reaching back in my memory bank. i don't know if you can claim executive privilege to someone who is not an official advisor to you. i don't think it works that way. what do you recall? >> yeah, i don't think you can, either. now apparently the provisions under the national archives do give them some sort of say in this. i'm not exactly how they get away with it. aside from the legality, dana, this is a really tricky political situation for the white house because why would they exert executive privilege having claimed all along there is nothing to see here, that hunter didn't do anything wrong and the president never knew anything about hunter's business dealings. it would set off alarm bells if

suddenly they didn't want anyone in the country to see these documents. >> bill: my guess is they are and we'll be the only ones covering it. a prediction for the new year. >> i won't take you on that bet, bill. >> bill: about the crypto collapse. your headline for sam bankman-fried. his dirty political donations, ftx chief spent big on contributions, recipients have some explaining to do. why don't you explain the point you were making knowing that his group by one way or another gave up to $40 million to the democratic party or candidates over the last cycle of mid-terms. >> this is another one the press isn't really covering. when we look at those sec complaints and the doj prosecution this week essentially what they say is sam bankman-fried moved customer's money out of ftx into almeida using that as a piggy bank for things like political donation. another way of saying he was using money that wasn't his to

engage in politics, which is a huge no no. now normally in situations like this, the recipients of such dollars rush to give the money back or rush to donate it to charity. we have had a few individuals politicians who have done that but some of the dollar figures here are huge. he wrote $6 million to the house group that supports electing democrats. no word from them on whether or not they will give the money back. one reason might be is because they spent everything they had in the last mid-term. they don't necessarily have those dollars to give back. >> dana: kim, you have covered congress for a long time and it is very interesting to see how -- you and i first met back in the late 90s. she was working at the "wall street journal." that was when the telecommunications act of 1996 passed and that was kind of felt like revolutionary at the time. it is a dinosaur now and i was remarking about how congress is so far behind where technology

is. now they are trying to play catch up. in the meantime so many people lost money. there was illegality allowed to p happen because you don't have paper. >> it is much more this is the old-fashioned fraud. a tale as old as time if the allegations are true, it is embezzlement. the thing that is crazy to me is that nobody seemed to blink an eye this guy suddenly showed up on the scene sloshing around millions of dollars and everyone thought it must be on the up and up. that's a separate question from crypto. you are right, congress is years behind the mark. and it has a separate obligation. one of the reasons crypto is such a hot product. government has made a mess of things and helped fuel and inflationary situation and when people have more money sloshing

around than they know what to do it they get into speculative areas. >> bill: you can conclude time to explain how they plan to make it right. that time may last a considerable amount of time before we get that answer. kim strassel. check out the piece in the "wall street journal." thanks for coming on. another government shutdown might be coming. congress facing a final deadline in a week passing a $1.6 trillion spending bill in order to avoid lights going out. chad pergram will have a busy week. >> good morning. congress averted a weekend government shutdown late last night. they okayed a bill to fund the government through december 23rd. that means there is another deadline to avoid the shutdown just before christmas eve. >> we've always talked about it being a tactic. you do a cr now and you are forced to be an omnibus.

>> whose tack take is it? this is something we would like to have done before. whose tactic is this? we would like to have done it much sooner. >> also last night the senate rejected a plan by west virginia democrat joe manchin. it would have expedited energy permits and approved a pipeline important to manchin. kansas republican roger marshall blasted the amendment which manchin wanted tied to the defense bill. >> the final text of this amendment only saw the light of day just a week ago. the amendment has not been the subject of any debate in committee. we have had no hearings, no witnesses and no mark-ups. this is no way to make major changes to complex laws. finally, senator manchin's amendment does nothing to address the problem of never-ending environmental litigation. >> manchin was discouraged that the amendment failed even as the senate approved the defense bill. >> i need to respond to that.

i wasn't intending to do so. i want to clarify it and i hope my friend would listen to my clarification. it is in the bill. either someone maybe had not informed you, sir, but basically that can't be done, what you said. >> manchin was promised a vote on his plan in exchange for supporting the inflation reduction act last summer. manchin originally wanted the amendment attached to a spending bill in september but a coalition of environmentally-concerned democrats teamed up with the gop to reject the amendment. republicans were mad at manchin for supporting the ira. >> thank you, chad. we'll be in contact. >> dana: tiktok. >> china's bio weapons program. mike gallagher will answer what is the link next.

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researchers with the center for countering digital hate set up new tiktok accounts and set the age to 13 years old. researchers paused briefly on videos about body image, mental health and liked them. what the algorithm is shocking. tiktok recommended suicide content, within eight minutes they served content related to eating disorders. every 39 seconds they recommended videos about body image and mental health to teens. not just parents that are concerned about the safety of the app. government officials have concerns, too. some states have already started banning the app on government devices due to national security concerns. >> it's a very larger step that would take to say you are going to ban it on private platforms and i don't think we're there right now it's a government based upon clear intelligence information. let's see where you need to go from there based upon the

specific intelligence and the risk that are associated with it. >> senate passed a bill banning tiktok on government devices. the white house is not taking sides on if the president wants to sign that ban into law. >> more broadly, there are a range of tech applications and products that are not allowed to be used on the white house and other federal government work equipment for security reasons, including tiktok and i'll let congress move forward with their process on that. >> the white house has engaged with tiktok influencers and created content some of them like the video skit with jen psaki. we asked the white house if they continue to create this content with tiktok influencers reach out and engage with them and have not received a deaf intive yes or no answer. >> bill: congressman mike gallagher is here.

a bill passed in the senate and moving to the house. maybe it comes up in the new congress. it appears that government employees will be banned from using this app. i would say sometime in the year 2023. do you see the government abolishing this app for all users? if so, what do you think the reaction would be when you consider americans age 25 and under close to 2/3 of them are on it. >> i do think we need a broader tiktok ban. i have introduced a bill that would do that and it is a bipartisan bill. i am joined by my democratic colleague in supporting that. and i think the more our colleagues learn about the lack of transparency surrounding tiktok as well as understand the basic ownership structure. tiktok is owned by bytedance and it is controlled by the chinese

communist party. an increasing number of co-sponsors. not just republicans. but also democrats. as for the reaction, no doubt teenagers may be upset if we institute a broader ban. but in many cases they aren't aware at the way in which they are being targeted. given that so many young americans now get their news from tiktok. we have to ask ourselves do weigh want to allow the chinese communist party the ability to basically determine what news we get? basically determine what propaganda we consume? i would submit that's very, very dangerous, which is why we need a broader tiktok ban before it's too late. before they become the most powerful media company in america. >> bill: if you are going to do that then you have to explain your position. and maybe the best place to do it is on tiktok. >> i won't be engaging on tiktok

any time soon. a lot of the politicians that try to look cool on tiktok embarras themselves. we can explain the role that tiktok is playing, the national security threat it poses, i mentioned censorship of news, the ability to manipulate the news and ability to track your location, track your key strokes. track what websites you're visiting even when you aren't on the app. the reason fcc commissioner called it digital fentanyl because it is highly addictive and destructive and traced back to china. that's the fundamental issue. when you have a company at the whim of the ccp that's the issue. >> bill: they get access to your contacts and everything else you've got there. that's what you need to explain to young people who have grown up with the digital device. quickly on covid, house intel committee report on the origins of covid. we aren't there yet but maybe get there eventually. the committee believes the i.c.

intel community down played important information related to possible links between covid-19 and china's bio weapons research based in part on input from outside experts. what that means is that you believe there is a possibility that a bio weapons program in china, that may have been the point, not with intent, but the point of creation of covid-19. is that where we're headed? >> i think it's becoming increasingly clear that at the wuhan institute of virology they were playing with coronavirus and altering the substance of it doing gain-of-function research and u.s. taxpayers dollars were funding part of this research. the i.c. review we found serious deficiencies with it. they presented the idea there was broad consensus there was no relation to a bio weapons program. however, they didn't disclose their confidence levels in that assessment and didn't disclose

the work of something called the fifth institute, a division of the pla that specifically focuses on bio weapons research. we're also learning more in our review about certain key individuals like a pla major general who happened to kill himself a year after the virus was released. so we don't believe the i.c. has done its job thoroughly and we need more transparency and will continue exploring this and demanding answers when we're in the majority in a few weeks here and use our subpoena powers if necessary. the american people demand answers for where this pandemic started. >> bill: thank you for your time and we'll talk again soon as we've said in this program for the world to move on without an answer would be foolish. mike gallagher, thanks in wisconsin today. here is dana. >> dana: severe winter storm blasting the northeast unleashing blizzard conditions for millions. we're live in one of the hardest hit areas next. the immigration crisis.

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>> bill: technically the calendar still says it is fall. old man winter is coming in with a vengeance. major storm hitting the northeast hard. we've been feeling it here. a giant mess for williams. we're live in wilmington, vermont. what is it doing, katie? good morning. >> good morning, bill and dana. parts of new england and new york are really getting hit hard with this this morning. here in this little ski town of wilmington, vermont more than a foot of snow. let's check it out and see how exactly we're doing. getting there. getting to 13 inches. this is not over yet.

we expect the snow to keep coming down through the afternoon pretty consistently, pretty heavily at least in this area. it has some people here in new england getting excited for the ski resorts this weekend. we heard the hotel phones ringing off the hook at the see the hotels. some people are waiting to get on the roads until they clear out more. it's been a big concern this morning. in new hampshire state police responding to dozens of crashes and cars sliding off the roads there. same scenes in parts of vermont and maine. concerns about outages as we deal with this as well. people in this town have told me the lights have already been flickering a little bit. not something you want to deal with. cold temperatures. we're expecting forecasters saying we might get another round of snow in the northeast late next week. if you are worried having a white christmas and this snow melting you might have it all over again next week. >> bill: nice to see you this morning. >> dana: president biden's

immigration crisis is ex tepiding beyond the border. the mayor of denver calling for a state of emergency. new york's mayor said no one is helping the city with the growing number of arrivals. lawrence jones, great to have you here. why doesn't the mayor of denver call the white house and say we have to have some help here? >> no, no, they told the american people that all of these places were sanctuary cities. they said come. we will take care of you. you don't get to cry foul when the people come. they didn't just come. the conservatives sent them there but the people chose to say they wanted to go. so we see this with the left so often. they have these grand plans. actually no plan at all. and when they are faced with reality, they cry for help. so no, the federal government shouldn't send them any help. what they should be doing is

sending help to texas, other border states, arizona. >> bill: they are suing arizona. >> of course they are. i just think it is so hypocritical. >> bill: the mayor in denver, michael hancock. this influx of migrants, unanticipated nature of arrival and current space and challenges. we're on the level of reaching a breaking point. denver is not alone. new york city expect people to come from all over. title 42 will be up. where is the help? and so far in new york not coming, either. >> can we contrast this for a second? they've only been dealing with a small number of illegal migrants for months. texas and arizona have been dealing with it for years. they try to make it a partisan issue. as you would note, bill and dana, on the border, all of those are liberal cities and they are tired of it. the food supply has been overrun.

all the hotels are booked because there is either migrants there or the texas department of public safety that have to be housed there to keep the border safe. and they experience a portion -- a minute portion and they are crying and they asked for this. i just think it is -- >> dana: you've been to chicago a lot. check out the woman being robbed in chicago. she was just walking her dog and here comes a guy with a gun and takes her purse. this happens across the country but in chicago you've been there many times and look at the woman's face. i guess there goes my purse. >> points the gun at the dog, too. these are cowards in this city. the mayor should do more. the mayor should say something to the d.a. they have completely abandoned law enforcement. by the way, we did a package last week on lj cross-country, investigation into the new orleans police department. the murder capital and why

they're leaving in doors. the exit interviews from the cops. they have been demonized. every opportunity leadership gets they throw them under the bus. no one wants to do the job anymore because they aren't supporting them. >> bill: the woman in chicago is talking quickly. this is trois she is saying about her town. >> vote to change the leadership in chicago. this is only going to continue to get worse. in the middle of the day in chicago in lincoln park, a beautiful neighborhood, beautiful homes. this is what is happening in the middle of the day. it is just not acceptable. >> if people don't show up and vote for change for leadership in chicago it is not going to change. we just had an election and they didn't change. >> there is a model. lee zeldin. i know he didn't win but he came so close.

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>> bill: remember the baby formula crisis? it hasn't gone away nearly a year after all the supply chain issues. prices are hitting record highs. lydia hu has it from fox business. good morning to you. >> good morning. the prices of baby food across the board have really gone up. they are up almost 11%, outpacing inflation. when we drilled down into formula products in particular you can see that some types of formula are up 20% over a year ago. ready to drink up more than 6%. supplies for particularly

specialty formula remain hard to find. meanwhile abbott labs is now announcing plans to build a new manufacturing facility in ohio. it will focus on specialty formulas but that completion of the project which will cost more than $5 hundred million is still three years in the offing. it won't do anything to help parents that need formula right now. we've been asking health and human services for days what is the administration going to do to help parents? so far, bill, no response from them. so we're not sure what the plans are to help parents that need formula right now. >> bill: more to come. thanks, nice to see you from fox business. >> dana: an issue i really want you to pay attention to. important to me and important to you. an estimated 407,000 children in foster care in america right now. one nonprofit is working to help current and former foster youth giving them the tools and resources they need to set them up for a lifetime of success.

our next guests are with the selfless love foundation. ashley brown and madison kemp a youth advocate. tell me why you started selfless love and what you hope to accomplish with it? >> absolutely. i'm actually a byproduct of adoption. when my husband and i were getting married we started the foundation for me to pay back my blessing. we help the children that age out of foster care like madison who is with us today as well as try to help children get adopted. >> i aged out of foster care at 19 and i had gone through several homes before and i was always just looking for a place to belong. selfless love foundation is giving me sort of that network of people that help me belong. >> dana: at this time of the holiday that christmastime, do you have specific memories that you would like to share and

trying to help with youth who are either still in foster care or as you say aging out? >> holidays have always been hard for me because i've been alone a lot. when i wasn't alone i was with my grandmother and i would read the night before christmas to her as a tradition. once i aged out it was harder and she sadly passed away. so things have been rough being alone for the holidays. i just want to give people that sense of community especially during the holidays when they don't have that and they see everybody else having it. i want them to be able to relish in family memories. >> dana: ashley, how is madison fulfilling your mission at selfless love? >> one of my favorite initiatives in selfless love we have the thing called the dream tank competition. i think it is like shark tank an opportunity for foster youth to be able to present their dreams in front of a panel of judges but really the process of the

competition we put them through public speaking training, dale carnegie training and pair them with somebody from their dream of choice and something that will stay with them for a lifetime. >> dana: madison, how important is it for people to understand the needs of people who are in our foster care system? >> so, so important. so many needs you wouldn't realize. just being able to fit in and be normal. when i was in high school i couldn't do a lot of extra c curr curriculars, it wasn't safe or something my foster parents could get me to. to be able to participate in things like that and have that normalized childhood experience is so, so, so important. >> dana: you took place in this dream tank competition. what was that like? >> i'm currently taking place in dream tank and it is a blast. so far i have learned so much

about etiquette and speaking and it has been a whirlwind. >> dana: ashley, i understand not only were you blessed to be adopted and now devoting your time to giving back you grew up on the rodeo circuit. i need to hear more about that. >> i was a cowgirl. i used to rodeo all across the nation. i'm from a small town, fort pierce, florida, something that i just cherish that i had the opportunity to do. >> dana: it's an important initiative. a great foundation. madison, i know you are well on your way to success and ashley, thank you for helping her and so many others get their. stay in touch. >> thank you. >> thank you so much for having us. >> bill: sweet ladies there. known in the military as holiday block leave. what it means for the men and women in uniform who are coming home for christmas. ♪ there is no place like home for the holidays ♪

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>> harris: the white house has it has a plan for the end of title 42. critics are skeptical. democratic party is staring down a brutal 2024 senate map. the states where republicans are perched to pounce. and the gen z generation. if inflation has you down, just move home. live rent free and you know what they are doing with the extra cash? buying luxury goods. it is happening a lot. senator tom cotton and sean duffy, "the faulkner focus" top of the hour. >> bill: democrats in california are making a new push for reparations to be paid for slavery. madison all worth has the story

in new york. have they made progress, madison? hello. >> hello, bill. they have made some progress. we're seeing some movement in that area. the state of california, like you said, are now advancing reparations to black americans inside their state. governor gavin newsom created a first in the nation task force to look into reparations, how much should be given out and how and that task force is now beginning deliberations to decide how much should go to individuals. take a listen. >> we built this country, we served this country honorably. we need rep prigss. >> at the end of the day any amount is too little and every amount is never enough. >> the correct platform needs to be on a national level. you have to get it to that point. >> one activist telling the task force that every eligible person should get $350,000 in compensation and that black-owned businesses should

get an additional quarter of a million dollars. california is just the first to consider reparations but not the only one. eric adams also publicly supporting the california initiative calling it long overdue. now it is worth noting in november california announced despite a nearly $1 hundred billion surplus last year, state was currently looking at a $25 million deficit next year. the california task force looking into reparations has a july 21, 2023, deadline to deliver a final report to the state legislature. >> bill: nice to see you in new york. >> dana: check this out. a beautiful sight. thousands of soldiers heading home for the holidays. they welcome the break as their families welcome them. jonathan serrie is live at the atlanta airport. this must be fun to see. >> it is a great story to cover. more than 12,000 soldiers in

training have been granted 18 days of holiday block leave from fort benning. about half of them are traveling out of the airport here in atlanta. army leaders say during this intense phase of their training, it is important these young men and women get a chance to rest and to show their families and friends how military life has transformed them. >> we make a handshake with america every time moms and dads drop their young people off to join the army. that's very important to us. >> we asked some of the trainees what they are looking forward to doing once they get home. >> probably shopping with my mom and buying her some clothes and some jewelry, too. >> being able to sleep where i want to. good food and my family. >> the thing i miss and want to do again. it would be sleep. >> i live on the west coast of california, i will go to in and out, sir.

>> it is a great hamburger they make at in and out burger. holiday block leave ruins through january 23rd. >> dana: have you ever had in and out. it is not just a burger but the frys. my friend minnie tucker had in & out fries at her wedding. >> bill: we move quickly to christmas holiday. i will tell you, it has been a long week. >> dana: a good week, but a long week. >> bill: are you happy it's friday and grateful it's friday? >> dana: yes, i have a little left in me to get to the end of the year. >> bill: new york in december is like going to war. keeps coming at you. >> dana: there is a lot of work and a lot of opportunity to meet with friends, meet with colleagues. we had some great opportunity to meet with our team yesterday at "america's newsroom" to have a lunch. >> bill: we had a news quiz, that's okay.

>> dana: i won. my team won. >> bill: what was the name of your team? >> dana: the terrible typos. >> bill: you had a great white elephant. >> dana: we did gift exchange. fun. a great week and more to come. take care of yourselves. stay healthy, stay hydrated as dr. nicole said and take your vitamins and eat nutritiously. >> harris: we begin with breaking news and video exclusive to fox. the reef owe grand in south texas. people crossing by the thousands doing nothing short of crushing our nation's border. they set up camps on the streets of el paso once they get in. who will stop them? all we can do at this point is guess how many illegal immigrants from 150 countries will crush our nation'