their southern border. over 70% of migrants that come and ask for asylum on our southern border are mostly coming from three central american countries and venezuela. i've been advocating that we have places in guatemala, panama and colombia where we can process migrants at a distance, where it takes the pressure off the southern border and eliminates the cartels from bringing people to our southern border. and if we're going to send people back, we do it from that juncture. if you're going to allow them in, you can send them with a document where they can fly them to their final destination. clearly what's happening on the border is disgraceful. it's troublesome. i've been sounding the alarm for six years. what we need is policy changes that ultimately stop the mass migration. it's very easy to come in and talk to an asylum officer and give a laundry list of reasons why you're running from your country. it's very easy to get in line here in the united states. we need to change that. those are some hard dec

, the priority for me is the southern border, our own border before we discussed the ukrainian you, let's stay with what's happening overseas. there has not been 106 attacks against u.s. forces in iraq and syria since october 17 as u.s. forces have now shot down 17 houthis missiles and drones of the red sea. this is attacks on our troops and iran and hamas are arguing he's given take credit for october 7 attack on israel. i want to pick up on the second question, i think what is key is ibm publicly taking responsibility for october 7, doesn't that change the whole conversation about how the united states should be dealing with iran. >> it really doesn't we knew iran was behind hamas and behind the houthis' and behind the attacks of the red sea and the gulf of aden. this is a dangerous time in this is because of the weakness of the budget of initiation overseas starting with the withdrawal from afghanistan. we continue to see it and our allies, not even many of our allies are joining operation prosperity guardian which is the operation they are trying to do in the goals to prote

southern border. for example, moving migrants out, at the mexico northern border to decongestant area as well as controlling roadways which are often used to more quickly get to the u.s. southern border. providing incentives like visas so that migrants remain in the country, and not travel up to the u.s. southern border. clearly it's an urgent issue not only because of the numbers but also because of who the president is sending to have these talks. this is an extension of the president biden call with mexican president andres manuel lopez obrador. last week both agreed that additional enforcement was urgently needed. eric kay of state antony blinken, homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas and homeland security advisor liz sherwood-randall in the talks that will happen in the next hour. again, as mentioned earlier, the numbers have dropped slightly since a few days ago. yesterday there being 6000 encounters at the u.s. southern border. officials say it could be because of the holidays and they

it's unlikely, nicole, that all 8,000 people will arrive at our southern border. ith them at one time, the caravan practically disappeared before reaching the border, and the only successful attempt to reach our southern border was in 2000. interesting, the message does not quite correspond will not go over the christmas holidays, but as for the actions of the department of the interior, there are several messages that the agency has distributed through social networks in english and spanish, which say that the border patrol is trying to contain the number of people. humanely. these people are being flown to southern mexico as part of a repatriation plan. many of those attempting to cross the border are fleeing violence, poverty and other hardships in their home countries. but with the biden administration and mexico seeking to limit the number of people crossing the border, their lives are likely to become even more difficult. the apprehension of migrants crossing the southern border of the united states is once again reaching record levels. official representativ

the biggest threat to our national security right now, it's the wide open southern border. for three years the border has been in a state of crisis. we've grown familiar with these numbers, sadly. but they remain historic and staggering. under president biden, over eight million illegal immigrants have crossed the border. under president biden, 279 -- i just heard my colleague speak. she gave an even higher number, an accurate number perhaps, an even higher number than 279 of folks on the terrorist watch list that have illegally entered our nation. under president biden, nearly five -- excuse me -- 50,000 founds of fentanyl have been seized at the southern border. that's nearly enough to kill every man, woman, and child in the united states. given the fact that we're only able to interdict 5% to 10% of the illegal drugs that cross, our country is being overwhelmed with drugs that can kill with just a 2 milligram dose. under president biden there have been 1.^ 8 million known, known got-aways. and that's not count -- that's not counting all fof the -- thi crisis has got to be

these agencies work with organized transportation networks that advertise travel to the southern border and connect those migrants to smugglers. border officials have been processing more than 10,000 migrants that crossed into the united states. these groups across the texas state line. the biden administration had to send those resources elsewhere. immigration is a key issue in the election. donald trump doubles down on his rhetoric. >> they are ruining our country. it's true. they are destroying the blood of our country. they are destroying our country. they said that hitler said that, in a much different way. >> joining us is the texas democratic congressman. he also cosigned a letter urging the doj to challenge the new taxes law. thank you for being with us. i want to get your response to those comments from former president donald trump. the former president front runner said that immigrants came to the blood of the united states. >> those are racist and hateful comments coming from the former president of the united states. that is something that we can expect from donald. his met

interest is the fact that -- and some of this has been mentioned, and we have been focusing on the southern border, and the astronomical numbers of people that are coming into our country . and the border patrol have recently seen a major change in the crossing, not so much venezuelans, under inns or guatemalans. but the chinese. a recent article reported that more than 24,000 chinese citizens have been apprehended in the past year making that more than in the past 10 years alone. so, mr. isacson, in your experience with regional security, what are the regional policy changes the u.s. faces with latin america when it comes to mass migration and their relationship to china? and has a been a new agreement between latin american countries and china that have caused this increase in the chinese immigration at our southern border? >> i think the increase in chinese immigration owes to a worsening of repression under the regime. for about 15 years now some chinese have been coming, generally to ecuador, ecuador changed its constitution 15 years ago to say migration is a right and they don't require visa

you have people from over 120 countries coming through the southern border. we only have two countries bordering the united states, yet we have people from 120 different countries, which means the process is not being followed. i'll tell you something else, this is very unfair to immigrants. all right. i don't know if the other side understands what this president is doing. he has a last in first approach which means people coming over the border, they're having their cases heard first, so the people who have been waiting in line for years and there's a 10-year backlog right now because of this crisis the president created, those people are not being heard and they're having their cases pushed back even further. how is that right? maybe you're the party that's anti-immigrant, that you're letting people who applied the right way that came to this country the right way to be stuck and pushed to the back of the line. did i run out of time? ok. i yield back and will come back later, hopefully. mr. westerman: i reserve. the chair: the gentleman reserves. the chair

southern border. even those who are for very helping ukraine right now willing to let it go in chiange for that. manu, does this really mean, and this is a really crucial thing. almost two years into a war where putin has lost hundreds of thousands. you've got casualties. that the united states could be about to walk away from. this would be a very important moment in history. does this mean aid could be over? >> absolutely. in fact, that is the real fear in the capitol now that there is no path to getting ukraine aid approve and with it, israel aid stuck as well amid this partisan battle over immigration. an issue not tied to ukraine and israel but one in which republicans are using as leverage to try to get changes to the border policies, to tighten restrictions on how migrants can come across the southern border amid the surge on the southern border and demanding these tighter border policies. democrats say those provisions are just a step too far. far more than they are willing to accept. republic

the republicans need something on the southern border.nwilling to go that direction and they have in bringing out all of these people to lobby congress on their behalf to pass the ukraine funding without anything about the southern border. you have a ukrainian chief of staff in the present, a scheduled meeting with volodymyr zelenskyy by video, the ukrainian defence minister, david cameron, we're all here to congress in behalf of the administration to raise the stakes. that being said, when you get to next week, congress plans to go into recess on december 15, they will come up against the deadline and cut a deal. you have the domestic policy but also at a time a very high geopolitical crises and the nato secretary general said several some months ago when he was talking about ukraine that the world should be prepared for a long war here. that was several months ago. it was before the war we are now seeing in the middle east. do you think the us and western allies realistically can deal with both of those wars? absolutely. let me start ag

the southern border is not the only border -- i am curious.s it because those people vote conservative? we have people overstaying their visa. nobody complaining about that. if you will do something about border control and all of that, it should be all around. overstaying your visa, florida waterways coming from cuba, all of the borders, not just the southern border. that seems like a political thing. host: built in hendersonville, tennessee, republican. we are in open forum. caller: i will be kind. i've been so angry listening to all of the lies. i heard you allow a democrat from maryland who promoted genocide of the jewish people on this network. i heard a black man say slaves built the country. i used to call and talk to brian lamb. i have a journalism degree. i used to be angry but now i am not. the democrats are lying so much that it just exposes who they are. they hate israel, they hate america. the hispanic caucus, it is amazing you have a woman saying all of the things she said, all of the lies. they are attacking trump. there is neve

no one would say that the situation on the southern border is not serious. so we've been seeing border crossings hit all time high. after all time high. people are talking about a humanitarian crisis unfolding at the border. and you can, you can imagine just how much worse things get at the cold or it gets the deeper we get into winter. now, of course, you're right to mention the election. this of course, is a very important, a republican voting a priority. now there are even polls that say that, especially in republican voters minds that the border has moved to the 2nd position in order of importance. so right after the economy, but up what is going on. but the fact that remote, the fact remains that there is a lot of daylight between everybody understanding that there is a problem at the southern border and the solutions that the republicans want to see implemented. many democrats see the solutions as a draconian and mac symbolist and this is going to be, this is going to be a key sticking point. and you know, this is a, a long entrenched problem that, of

border patrol. there are also tens of thousands of migrants arrested at our southern and northern borders who have criminal convictions or who are wanted by law enforcement, such absence the two romanians recently encountered in maine. mr. president, not only has the failure to control our border led to unchecked migration, but it has also contributed to the very serious illegal drug crisis that is affecting communities throughout our country. mexican drug cartels are using the chaos at the southern border to facilitate their trafficking operations. they are sending record amounts of fentanyl into this country, enough to kill every american many times over. maine, like so many states, have seen record increases in recent years in the number of overdose deaths, nearly 80% of which are fentanyl related. we lost 513 mainers in the first ten months of 2023 to fatal overdoses, 373 of these deaths were fentanyl related. in addition, the mexican cartels use the chaos and the uncontrolled southern border for human trafficking. this is a crisis. it is a humanitarian crisis and it is a national security crisis. and

southern border.wo former trump administers and officials, including former homeland security officer chad wolf, testifies before the house foreign affairs committee, and they discussed exploitation and trafficking of migrants, and the transporting of migrants to sanctuary cities. the hearing is about three hours. >> committee on foreign affairs will come to order. purpose of this hearing is to examine prior successful policies aimed at addressing the international migration crisis. at the southern border and the effect of the biden administration's decision to terminate those policies. i recognize myself an opening statement. in my 20 years in congress, including when i was chairman of the homeland security committee, and as a former federal prosecutor in texas, the task was securing our border. i have never seen our border this chaotic. simply put, the border is broken. what we are witnessing today is unprecedented. in total, since president biden took office, we have had more than 7.5 million encou

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from october 1 until today at 760,000 people have crossed our southern border. people are threats to our national security. and again the administration is just turning their head. and now they want to have conversations and some people in mexico to think that's how to solve the problem. we know how to solve a problem. if it is their priority and if it is something they want to do than that is what we should be doing. you should not be having these conversations over and over again. the house republicans have done what they needed to do but we sent that bill over to the senate has been collecting dust on chuck schumer's desk since. rich: one of the cities, new york, seeing the migrants end up there. chicago is another one they're asking for should money the same as denver. do you think the city should be getting federal assistance? and if they do, should there be any strings attached? >> the issues we are facing at the southern border are fairly policies of joe biden. they are the failed policies of secretary mayorkas. these chose to be sanctuary cities or do i

california that is so close to the southern border and is reeling from the fact that fentanyl is having on my amenity. the fentanyl crisis is taking over my state and especially in southern california that is so close to the orange county riverside county that i represent. i just want you to give -- take this into consideration. one and five youth deaths is related to fentanyl and the fiscal year 2022, nearly two thirds of fentanyl that came across the southern border came through the ports of san diego, imperial counties, fentanyl and other synthetic opioids are flooding through our southern border and have killed more than 100,000 americans per year since 2021. i want to talk about germans to my stay in san francisco and they talked about fentanyl precursor and they talked about maybe forming or establishing some sort of a working group, but as we know, the devil is in the details. so, i have still yet to see what is in that detail? what is that working group is going to do? what you think this administration should be doing to stop the precursor

and meeting with the president of mexico as 8000 migrants zero in on our southern border. there are demands for the president. >> we go to the united states for four, five, six, seven years and return to our country, we demand joe biden help us. >> carley: former ice director jonathan fahey will react next. >> todd: and kamala harris taking this photo on christmas, remind you of thanksgiving? we'll explain mere, keep it here on "fox and friends first." liberty mutual customized my car insurance and i saved hundreds. with the money i saved, i started a dog walking business. i was a bit nervous at first but then i figured it's just walking, right? [dog barks] oh. no it's just a bunny! calm down taco. sit duchess. stop! sesame no no. archie! walter don't, no, ahhhh. ahhhhh! you're lucky you're so cute. only pay for what you need. ♪liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty.♪ >> todd: san antonio police searching for answers after finding what they believe are the bodies of a missing pregnant teen and her boyfriend. >> we are looking at a very perplexing crime scene and detectives are

to help with their southern border. to help with the mexico visas and to help with the central america and the devastation that is impacting and causing so many migrants to leave from that area. my action would be that you have to get to the table and craft the response that we have started recrafting in november and december. the speaker at that time, the republican speaker did not finish the job. we have to finish the job and provide the resources necessary to take care of migrants so they do not feel the urgency across the border. assist with our southern neighbors, and then freeway resources to take care of the migrants that are already in places like chicago and new york. but congress has to authorize and we have to appropriate. when we authorize and appropriate, and then provide solutions. what would be our solutions? what kind of responses will we give to the asylum? we can't completely shut down the asylum process. that's part of legal immigration. republicans keep talking about illegal immigration. they want to

bombs at our southern border first on fox business u.s.ustoms and border protection sharing an internal memo with us warning that border patrol agents to be on the lookout for explosive devices after the mexican military seized ten ied that our southern border tied to the cartel turf war person was arrested on the u.s. side armed with a loaded ak-47 to magazines in a handgun as thousands of migrants are set to overwhelm eagle pass texas in the coming days drove the people are hitching rides on freight trains we so migrant encounters top 11000 and the single day this wednesday, 12000 in a single day the week before pressure is mounting for the president to take action fighting is signaling he is open to a new border expulsion law and increase deportation and move the congressional hispanic democrats are actually slamming is shameful. >> republicans are continuing to hold funding for america's allies hostage at the expense of migrants. >> the table is to further create chaos on the border. >> title 42 on steroids. maria: meanwhile senator bo

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lucas is in san croix. >> a record number of migrants are appearing on the southern border in recent months and the republicans are outraged. >> there's a problem at the border and the reality is, the house republicans passed three pieces of legislation to address this issue and not only secure the border and go back to the policies of the previous administration, but to give cvp the tools and technologies that they say they need to do the job. >> biden's justice department has threatened to sue texas after governor greg abbott signed a new bill into law, giving texas the ability to arrest and deport migrants. and part of the doj's letter to governor abbott. the united states will use all that make sure that texas doesn't interfere with the federal government. responding saying, texas is prepared to fight this all the way to the u.s. supreme court to protect texans and americans from president biden's open border policies. president biden's deliberate and dangerous inaction at our southern border has left texas to fend for itself. recently white house secretary ca karine jean-pierre f

large stretches of the southern border are also reportedly left unattended as border agents are stretched thin. and according to bill melugin, one colombian woman who crossed illegally into el paso was released into the united states and given a follow-up appointment with ice. in 2031, eight years from now. our own film allusion has a full report. bill? >> reporter: kelly and, we are currently averaging 10,000 migrant encounters every single day during the month of september so far. the numbers are startling and they are not slowing down. take a look at what we saw in lukeville, arizona this morning. another mass illegal crossing through a breach in the border wall. we saw hundreds of adults from all around the world crossing illegally and walking up this dirt path looking for border patrol to turn themselves in. some with cell phones taking selfies and sending pictures back home showing they made it to the united states. we had two guys from afghanistan amongst this group which crossed here illegally. also caught up with a group of men from india who crossed illegally. i had a chance to

they will get a compromise on everything around the perimeter, they can get a compromise on the southern borderdy for a compromise, there is a question about how to solve it. the border, because the president wants there to be more officials, border guards, judges, and the republicans propose to build a higher wall, a deeper moat, crocodile teeth, but this is also, so to speak, possible to negotiate, the question is whether they want to negotiate , and this, unfortunately, we do not have a positive one yet the answer is that all we see is what they are delaying, they are trying to come up with some unsolvable problems for the democrats, such as, for example, immigration. reform or borders , or, you know, go there, i don’t know where, bring that , i don’t know what, that’s where the big questions are, that’s why it’s so important that even republican voters put pressure on their legislators, say: yes, you’re right, the southern border, this it is important, so let's vote and do something, instead of just saying that the president does not agree with us, the president i agree, let's just negotiat

southern border without the chance to seek asylum? knew going into 2024, and the campaign knows this, that the border security is a political liability for them. the polls show there is a dissatisfaction among voters over the president's handling of the u.s./mexico border, and the reality for the president over the last three years is is unprecedented migration in the western hemisphere but has landed at the u.s. southern border and strained federal resources and created challenges for his officials, but this leaning toward stricter measures is not sitting well with his progressive base, and you just have to look at some of what they are saying to get a key into what that is representative ramirez, who delivered the progressive response to the president's state of the union said the following. quote, i cannot campaign persona in which i can explain tangibly that they are looking for relief , that they are strengthening the asylum status, improving legal pathways. now, talking to the white house, the response to that is the president is

my last question for you, do you agree we have a crisis at the southern border? >> congressman, i've been asked this question many times. let me assure you we do not minimize the significance of the challenge of the border. >> i'd like to now ask director brave. i agree with your stance on china, i firmly believe china is a grave threat to our nation on all different fronts. i appreciate your stance on that. the question is, how substantial are the chinese state ties to entities sending fentanyl ingredients to the mexican cartels. >> well, i'm not sure what i can share in the setting on that, but let me try it this way. when it comes to questions about state ties and china i think it is important for americans to understand the distinctions that we draw in this country between the government and, say, the private sector. the sanctions that in the chinese country, in chinese government and chinese state are distinctions that are blurry at best, if not nonexistent. so we have certainly seen that entities in china, unscrupulous actors and china are the primary source

all the dots that are connected back to our own southern border. we have other things that you can see right here. a live picture of the white house with the ukrainian flag, the american flag on that vehicle. the ties are close. the ties are rightly tight. as our nation slips into a economic slow down, possibly a recession where more and more americans have to goo to food pantries, the stakes are high. people want more answers. it's not enough to funnel unlimited amounts of money to fight a proxy war. that's what we're doing. it's been phenomenal to see the fight that ukraine has put up. ironic, too, that those that are saying let's give a blank check were the ones at the very beginning that told zelensky get out of there as soon as you can. this will last 24 to 72 hours. obviously it has not but we're at a critical moment right know. want to get more with the south carolina republican, john thune. thanks so much for coming on the show. trying to set the stage here for what is an extraordinary moment. maybe a moment that republicans have hoped for

so, different demographics along the southern border. one thing common across the southern border, cartels control the mexican side everywhere. they decide who crosses, when, where, and how. and how much they have to pay and you'll notice through all of our coverage the last couple years, the mexican government has done literally nothing to stop any of this. there are people cutting through the border wall in lukeville every day on the mexican side of the border. mexican police have done nothing to stop it. mexican military is not up here. they issue humanitarian visas for the people, it's a fast pass to move freely through the country and come through the northern border in mexico knowing they are going to cross into the united states. mexico could do more to help the united states or slow it down and they have not been doing it the last couple of years. >> sandra: bill melugin live in lukeville, arizona, the crowd seems to build behind you. now this. [gunshots] >> hanukkah is the miracle we are jews and did not get killed, and this yea

we'll see what they do if even more come across the southern border to move into their cities. vid: grady, thank you very much for that. joining me now new york congresswoman nicole malliotakis, member of house border security caucus and member of the house ways and means committee. i was going to start in a slightly different place, i just heard from grady no talk at all in the meeting down in mexico about fentanyl? no talk? the same thing that happens when biden and his people go to china, no talk about fentanyl. that is harming americans more than anything else coming from the border right now. 100,000 americans died as a result of the fentanyl crisis and they're not talking about it at all. how do you respond to that? >> it is absolutely outrageous, thousands of people died here alone in new york city because of this open border allowing for the fentanyl to stream over. it is making the drug cartels billions of dollars a year. the fact that our president and this administration, not only refuses to secure the border but even refuses to bring up the issue of fentanyl that we

people coming for economic reasons shouldn't be coming through the southern border.s about congress acting to create other legal pathways that actually function. >> but they can seek asylum in one of the countries they're passing through before they get to the u.s., correct? >> no. >> not in the u.s., but they can seek asylum somewhere else. >> yeah, so that's where the biden administration talks about other processes. our goal is we can alie for people to apply in country or in third countries so they don't have to come to the u.s. in order to start the legal process. all the clients we work with have always said, rather than undertake a thousand-mile treacherous journey, they'd much rather apply from their home country, if that's ooh a possibility. >> thanks so much. happy new year. >> happy new year. >>> stay with new hampshire governor chris sununu, jamie raskin and chris murphy join dana basash at the p of thehe hour righght here on n. >>> starting the year with more than $800 million. doesn't that sound nice? it really does. took a second to daydream. it is pos

our southern border is now the most dangerous border crossing in the world -- in the world. under president biden, our border has become a magnet for criminals, for drug dealers, for terror suspects. the department of homeland security and the fbi are warning all of us -- democrats may want to cover their ears and not want to the hear any of these warnings, but we are being warned by the department of homeland security and the fbi and the fbi director said it yesterday in the senate, cartels are smuggling fentanyl in from mexico, it's killing hundreds of americans every dame the number coming on the terrorist watch list continues to increase. i think it was the secretary -- the head of the fbi yesterday said since october 7, all lights are flashing red for a terrorist attack in america. joe biden's border policies are the deadliest, the most destructive, and the most disastrous in american history. the cost of this crisis is too large to bear for families, for communities, and even for law enforcement. that's why republicans are so focused. when there was a bill on the floor

our job to make sure that we're keeping our country safe and secure and certainly securing our southern border is part of that. >> absolutely. we live in such unsettled times and you talk about the border, which there's a battle over right now in the senate and you know, who is coming across the border, who is here illegally, who is here illegally, and we heard reports that the classified briefing today with the commander-in-chief cq brown devolved into a shouting match that involved senator lindsey graham and others. were you in there? what can you tell us about that? >> i think it is an example of the sort of the blind eye a and the deaf hear that a lot of the administration and leadership are turning towards in the southern border. 12,000 yesterday, 12,000 people that we know of were apprehended and another thousand gotaways. who knows how many people in that number are on the, you know, terrorist watch list or, you know, a lot of criminality and cartels and drug trafficking and human trafficking and weapons trafficking across the southern border. this has got to stop, martha. the security

, they are encouraging by their open southern border by turning it over to the hands of humanickers we have an open southern border, i don't see why the biden administration and their crazy thinking is going to say don't come here or were going to back them, you cannot bet them hamas controls whatever record when you try to bet and you see other administrations you try to bet is committed to the united states, unless you have a reliable source back home that is saying this is john he lived at this address and uses background it is livelihood and easily connections, unless you have the ability you don't know who you're taking on that is taking them and legally how many people will come in illegally. stuart: good question, kt mcfarland, good stuff, thank you for joining us. see you again soon. as cnn host confronted democrat congresswoman pramila jayapal, why do progressives refused to condemn hamas when it was a fiery exchange, you will see it, very interesting stuff, "saturday night live" attacked elon musk after he was accused of being anti-semitic, watch this. >> it look lik

of representatives wanted to tie aid to ukraine to strengthening the security of the american southern border, now republicans in the senate, in particular mitch mccone, the leader of the republicans, say that such by their blocking of this bill, they want to show how important it is to them that the administration pay attention to america's own border before helping other countries, joe biden must say in his speech today, which was quite unexpected, today he held the first virtual meeting with the countries of the group of seven, which was also attended by the president of ukraine, volodymyr zelenskyi, and after that he addressed the congress and once again emphasized that he was actually surprised that that the republicans have even reached this point, the legislators have reached, he says that if the republicans, if the congress does not approve aid for ukraine, it will only strengthen putin's strategic position. we heard from the white house earlier that. if it stops american funding, this will actually weaken ukrainian positions, and this cannot be allowed, and today president biden actu

package, but should be talked about in the same context and has to include the southern border.triona: will you vote in favor of this bill? sen. cramer: if we get the type of language and enforcement mechanisms in the bill for our southern border, i would be enthusiastic about voting for it. i am not willing to give up the leveraged to get national security for america and put our interest secondary to another country's. caitriona: do you think members should sit through christmas to get that done? the biden administration is saying time is running out on the ukraine element. sen. cramer: it is possible, but i think we need better negotiators on the democratic side. the president himself has to weigh in, tell his base -- by the way, i think half the democrats in the senate would gladly vote for border security. to this point they are captive to a radical base and the white house. if joe biden would say, i am taking over negotiations, let's secure our border, we will change asylum laws -- by the way, does not cost more money, it is just a change in enforcement and policy. caitrio

d0 without that southern border security peace.— security peace.curity peace. do you think members should _ security peace. do you think members should sit - security peace. do you thinkj members should sit through christmas to get that done, abide in administration saying time is running out on the crane element regardless of the other element. —— ukraine. it other element. -- ukraine. it is otherelement. —— ukraine. it is possible but we do need better negotiators on the democratic side, the president has to weigh in, he has to tell his base and i do think half of the democrats in the united states would gladly vote for border security, states would gladly vote for bordersecurity, it states would gladly vote for border security, it is at this point they are kept up to a radical base and the white house. ifjoe biden would say i'm taking over the negotiations now, let's secure the border, here is how we will do it, we will change asylum laws, it does not cost any more money, it isjust laws, it does not cost any more money, it is just a laws, it doe

for the biden team is getting mexico to crack down on cartels that smuggle migrants across the southern borderident observe were door has made clear many times he views the border crisis as a u.s. problem. saying recently is he willing to try and, quote, help, but only if the u.s. lifts sanctions and sends more aid money to cuba and venezuela. we will boost as much as we can to help maintain a orderly flow of migrants. recently abnormal surge of migrants border protection tells us between last friday and monday 35,000 migrants along the border and nearly a quarter million for the month of december so far. negotiations in congress over border policy virtually today part of a perspective pang to send aid to israel and ukraine. lawmakers though are still far from a deal with many republicans remaining unimpressed by today's overtures. >> blinken's visit to mexico is all about paying lip service to this issue. we are seeing independents, republicans, and democrats getting very angry about what they are seeing at the border. >> gillian: the stakes for the visit are high. president biden facing moun

crossings at the southern border or higher than ever. we are talking record setting numbers. henry cuellar says in the del rio border sector alone more than 8000 migrants are either in cbp custody or waiting to be transported for processing. more broadly though across the southern border, over 23,000 migrants were in custody overnight, and the issue is not just at the border. remember, the strain put on cities targeted by republican governors who sent scores of migrants to democrat led cities like chicago, d.c., new york. in new york, mayor eric adams says more than 154,000 migrants arrived there in the last 20 months alone. those bus programs are only one step taken by governors like greg abbott of texas. he has now been locked into a slew of legal battles with the federal government over what he can control at the state level, like the installation of those floating border barriers at the rio grande. last night he took an even bigger step by signing espy for into law. we will dig into the details of what that entails. it adds more than a pavilion dollars for funding for a ne

because this is a way to— southern border because this is a way to keep... southern border because already doing that through finland - way to keep... they are already doing that through finland and l doing that through finland and belarus. , ., ., ., belarus. they are doing it on the eastern frontier _ belarus. they are doing it on the eastern frontier of _ belarus. they are doing it on the eastern frontier of the _ belarus. they are doing it on the eastern frontier of the eu - belarus. they are doing it on the eastern frontier of the eu and i l eastern frontier of the eu and i wouldn't — eastern frontier of the eu and i wouldn't be surprised if they started — wouldn't be surprised if they started working with the cubans, venezuelans in nicaragua and is to find ways— venezuelans in nicaragua and is to find ways to get more people to the southern _ find ways to get more people to the southern border of the us. interesting, that relates to what rishi sunak was saying at the weekend. can we touch on the politics? we are four weeks from the first caucus. new polls out today, cbs and y

joining me is rafael romo on the southern border in eagle pass, texas. what are you seeing there today? >> reporter: omar, the arrival of immigrants here at the eagle pass border is constant, over the last few hours we have seen how group after group of migrants get here, and that doesn't stop at night, either, after the immigrants surrender to u.s. border patrol agents at the border, they are brought here to this holding area behind me, where they have to wait to be processed. just yesterday customs and border protection released the numbers of what they call encounters with immigrants with border patrol agents. for the month of november, there were 191,113 apprehensions along the border, and that number rises to more than 242,000, nearly a quarter of a million people, if we add those who seek asylum at ports of entry. as high as those numbers seem, officials say they're lower as compared to the same period last year. congressman tony gonzalez, a republican who represents two-thirds of the texas border with mexico says, help from the federal government h

what is the administration doing to help the situation at the southern border? >> reporter: they are urgently looking for solutions here. and the phrase that you hear from officials is breaking point, as they're describing what's happening on the southern border, and the numbers really do reflect that. in recent days more than 10,000 migrants unlawfully crossed the border, and that does reflect a significant increase from previous months. this is a major logistical challenge for the biden administration, but it's also a political challenge for president biden as we enter this election season. one of the things that you're seeing him do is apply pressure on the mexican president, lopez obrador. they did speak by phone last week, and really the hope among american officials is that mexico will do more to try and curb the flow of migrants, and president biden did dispatch senior members of his cabinet to go to mexico next week, including secretary of state blinken and the homeland security secretary mayorkas, to try and talk about ways that mexico can help stem the