it is my pleasure to welcome secretary alejandro mayorkas. thanks so much ribbing with us today -- for being with us today. sec. mayorkas: thank you. it is an honor to speak with everyone and to frankly participate here at ucla. it is my pride to follow in the shadow of the one and only kathy mayorkas. so thank you so much. >> mr. secretary, before we begin, i want to thank you again. it is truly unusual and important that you are willing to come here and have this conversation with me. we greatly appreciate that. we did have a discussion with your staff and shared some of the topics in advance. as adjusted also may be even sharing some of the questions, and you rejected those, saying you wanted the conversation to be free-flowing and organic. let me jumping, if that's ok with you. >> i look forward to it. thank you. >> you tweeted, "the united states provided me and my family refuge. now i'm going to be the dhs secretary to protect americans and those who flee prosecution and search for a better life for them and their loved ones." i was almo

alejandro mayorkas didn't answer our questions.before the committee and i doubt he will do anything substantive with this. jillian: maybe he will come back to the show and give us an update on what you saw down there. that would be wonderful if you could. let's talk about the idea of the vaccine passport and what jen psaki had to say. >> the government is not now nor will we be supporting a system that requires americans to carry credentials which are interest is from the federal government, americans privacy and rights should be protected. jillian: you and a number of other sent a letter to the governor in your state to express your opinion about this. a number of states, florida saying we are not going to do the vaccine passport. what is your stance on this? >> a lot of views and opinions on taking the vaccine. some want it some don't. it is a choice americans could make. for jen psaki to say this is an something to support what does that mean? i heard about it over the last month it has been floated and it is not them floating t

yesterday alejandro mayorkas issued an order that says given the threat landscape and the risks posed by domestic violence terrorism including employees in operations are directed the department to immediately begin a review how to best prevent, protect and respond to domestic violence extremism threats within dhs. alejandro mayorkas is targeting extremists, america first conservatives, letting the border get completely overrun and even wanted terrorists are crossing now and today he issued an order barring ice offices, arresting illegal aliens outside of courthouses. meanwhile the biden doj is bringing the woke crusade to america's police department. the justice department announcing another investigation, slamming the police force in elizabeth city, north carolina. the only enforcement the biden administration wants prioritize is against conservatives because america's police department's that are supposed to be enforcing the laws are looked at almost immediately with suspicion and distrust. yesterday the doj investigated louisville and before that was minneapolis in elizabeth city.

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jillian: alejandro mayorkas will travel to texas. dan patrick says the biden administration is putting these kids at risk and vows to stop it. >> children are allegedly being sexually assaulted on american soil because of their total neglect of protecting the border, protecting this country and protecting these kids whether they are dropped over the fence or sexually assaulted% into the country and sex trafficking, joe biden and kamala harris have this on their hands, letting criminals go in america and putting kids at risk. it must stop now. we are investigating it and if they won't do it texas will. jillian: that's not the only threat, border patrol announced agents caught in ms 13 gang member crossing the border. lawrence: taxes in new york about to go higher than skyscrapers after the state passed a new budget. the plan includes money for the struggling small businesses that build the empire state building twice, money is going to illegal immigrants. we have restaurant owners, gentlemen, thank you for joining the program you guys

. >> para que los migrantes se atrevan a denunciar a los traficantes, alejandro mayorkas dijo que ibans amenazas, el desafío de este coyote en guatemala fue inmediato. >> no vamos a dejar de trabajar. si cierran un lado vamos a abrir otro. sino se puede de una manera, se puede de otra. >> desde honduras cobran 10,000 a $11,000 hasta la frontera. >> un negocio con rostro de migrante y sueño de un futuro mejor que el gobierno promete enfrentar. >> eso por un lado. por el otro los migrantes sin documentos no podrán ser detenidos en las cortes, es una nueva política del departamento de seguridad que previene que agentes de ice hagan arrestos en los juzgados. ayuda a que migrantes sin documentos puedan participar de para hacer el encargado de ice. cientos de migrantes se arriesgan para llegar estados unidos escondidos en vagones de trenes. autoridades fronterizas de estados unidos reportan un aumento de 60% en el número de migrantes detectados en trenes de carga. en los últimos meses han encontrado a casi 300 migrantes en vagones, algunos menores de edad. hay nuevos detalles en el caso del

we know the dhs secretary, alejandro mayorkas is back at the border today.dering finishing the wall there where the gaps are. a trump policy that was a ban donned on the inaugural day, january 20th. alex hogan back on the ground again today. she was in hidalgo, texas. hi, alex. >> hi, martha. as we heard growing calls for the president and vice president to come here to texas to see this immigration challenge for themselves. again, as you mentioned, alejandro mayorkas is here today. this is a live look over mission, texas. you can see part of the border wall there constructed and part of it still not up. the homeland security secretary said the wall could soon get filled. something that jen psaki is on pause except for some specific areas. mayorkas toured today, was not open to the press. by monica escobar called it a listening session to brief the secretary on the state of a fairs from local agencies. >> this is an unsustainable situation. there's no doubt about it. it's unsustainable for the migrants, unsustainable for the agency, but we can do this so muc

[applause] >> this afternoon homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas, on-line c-span, listen livethe c-span free radio app. >> sunday night on q & a, investigative journalist lawrence roberts talks about his book, may day, 1971, the spring offensive when tens of thousands of anti-war vietnam protesters including veterans came to washington d.c. in an effort to shut down the federal government. >> a story that tells a much larger one, a story how we as a nation, as a people, as individuals, dealt with one of those emergencies in american democracy, does the justice system deliver justice to people, to stick by their principles or their sphere to stand at the tide and a crash between an embattled president in this case. richard nixon, who confronts the social movement in the streets in this case, the anti-war movement just as he's about to get reelected and what constitutional lines did the administration cross in an effort to stay in power. >> investigative journalist lawrence roberts sunday night 8 p.m. eastern on c-span's q & a. >> and now we take you live to a discussion with cu

jon: you might have heard our rich edson said that alejandro mayorkas, the homeland security secretaryd to visit the border on thursday. is that sufficient for you? >> no. i think vice president harris needs to come. president biden needs to come. he needs to do what we did which was sit down with republican sheriffs, democrat sheriffs. this is a nonpartisan issue, and i can tell you that our law enforcement is strapped. they're being outspent, they're being outtechnology -- the cartels are using way more technology than what we have, and they're using it to their advantage. the cartels are the ones that are winning this war, and until they hear that and see that firsthand from the people actually experiencing it, i think for them it's truly out of sight, out of mind. jon: what is it that has head to this sudden surge in the number of migrants trying to make it into this country? >> jon, it's pretty simple, it's rhetoric. it's saying that the border was practically open. the border wall construction stopped the day biden took office as president this year. so i think, to me, when i loo

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> para que los inmigrantes pierdan el miedo y se atrevan a denunciar a los traficantes jana alejandro mayorkasste coyote en guatemala fue inmediato. >>> nosotros no vamos a dejar de trabajar, si cierran un lado abrimos otro. y si no se puede de una manera se puede de otra. >>> dicen que muchos migrantes los ven como Ángeles que los llevan al sueÑo americano. >>> desde honduras estÁn cobrando 10 mil, 11 mil dÓlares hasta la frontera >>> un negocio con rostro de migrante y sueÑo de un futuro mejor que el gobierno promete enfrentar, cristina londoÑo noticias telemundo. >>> en nicaragua el padre del pequeÑo milton no quiso reunirse con la abuela materna del niÑo de 10 aÑos la seÑora diera consentimiento para la salida del niÑo en el centro para reencontrarse con su mamÁ pero el padre quieren que milton y su madre regresen >>> quiero que regresen, la repatriaciÓn que dicen ellos, y literalmente no vuelvo atrÁs siempre de que regresen los dos >>> esto ocurriÓ cuando ellos se vieron en el centro de migrantes. las rutas que estÁn tomando los migrantes para llegar a estados unidos son cada vez mÁs peli

homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas will travel to two texas border towns later today.hile president biden is expected to unveil several measures on gun control today, they include creating a model for red flag laws restricting growth of ghost guns which are kit set allowed people to build their own gun. the president expected to nominate gun control advocate david chipman to lead the bureau of alcohol, tobacco, firearmses and explosives. the nra will fight the nomination and ill-conceived executive actions. treasury secretary janet yellen laying out more details of joe biden's tax plan. yellen says the changes will bring more than $2 trillion back to the united states. president biden's spending plan would allow american workers to better compete due to increased infrastructure and technology. president biden tax hike expected to raise 2 and a half trillion dollars over 15 years. china is warning the united states not to boycott the upcoming winter olympics beijing. it will trigger a robust chinese response. the statement comes after president biden says he was talking

homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas releasing a statement late wednesday calling human smugglers' behavior criminal and morally reprehensible. nearly 18,000 migrant children are you now in u.s. custody and more are testing positive for covid-19. officials say border facilities are overcrowded and are not able to conduct their own covid testing. andrew, mona. >> megan, thank you. >>> investigators say they know what caused tiger woods' car crash, but they can't reveal it. the l.a. county sheriff claims there are privacy concerns and that's why it will not be made public. woods has to sign off before it is released. >>> a california company designed a new battery that could last a decade. the power for the so-called forever battery comes from nuclear waste. the company says it can be used for nine straight years in smartphones and other devices without recharging. they hope to develop it by 2023. >>> coming up, paying more for everyday household items, the prices on the rise. >>> should college athletes be made. the arguments at the supreme court. higher stroke risk due to... afib

meanwhile homeland secretary alejandro mayorkas is reportedly considering restart border constructionfill in gaps in the current barriers where migrants are streaming through as we have been telling you this was all paid for but they stopped it anyway. president biden says that georgia needs to, quote, smarten up to avoid businesses leaving the state over new voting law. this comes after the president said he strongly supported moving this year's mlb all-star game out of the state. when asked yesterday if the master's tournament should follow suit, biden said it was up to tournament organizers, a lot of falsities this week from president biden on this issue. amazon ceo jeff bezos says he support a rise in corporate tax rate. bezos also expressed his support for president biden's $2.3 trillion infrastructure spending plan in public memo yesterday according to institute on taxation and economic policy. amazon paid a federal income tax rate of 9.4% in 2020 even though the corporate rate was much higher than that. bezos' support as amazon faces scrutiny over workplace policy. take a look

under title 42, it comes as alejandro mayorkas visited the border. tour, with senator ted cruz, close press. he tried to hide his egregious failures. and and and and for sexual abuse allegations. like kim reynolds of iowa, >> he opened the borders is responsible for this. he needs to stop it. >> and 5500 pounds of fentanyl so far in 2021. >> you wonder how they are getting a hold of it. >> democrats, democrats don't want you to know what but they are running the border right now. >> criminal cartels are in charge of the border. our operations are going to be. we have to look at politicians and ask what is happening when cartels cross any supplies they want, tie border patrol or bills so that we can't go after dangerous drugs. in central california, that is what they are. lawrence: the threat of the cartel and smugglers is real. remember this being released by border patrol dropping two little girls. president biden's executive action in an effort to curb gun violence. jillian: republicans threaten legal action. good morning. >> reporter: the presiden

autismspeaks.org 's has the white house considered leaving the border security after video the 3-year-old alejandro mayorkaser the wall? >> i saw the video and i don't think anyone who saw the video were incredibly alarmed. are you concerned more about the kids safety or kids getting in? carley: fox news pressing the white house after this shocking video showed us how dangerous conditions are right now. >> two dollars being stranded by smugglers. state senator mark mores joins us now. thank you for taking time. that area just west of el paso which is rough terrain. you saw is video. what is your reaction? >> we all just gasped when we saw those little girls dropped, i have seen the fence. it is a steep drop to rough terrain, rocky, desert, it made us gas and for these people to do something like that, these are the same people running drugs into our communities and crime through the roof in mexico and it makes us sick that the federal government hasn't taken care of this issue for years and years and years and on top of that defund the police movement that is scaring so many folks so someone would drop of 3

dhs secretary alejandro mayorkas did go to the border but the press was not allowed to tag along.o much for that vaunted transparency. showing is brandon judd, national border patrol council president. also hears matt schlapp american conservative union chairman. you are right there on the border. give us an update. is this lies and deceit from the biden administration about what is happening? do they know what is happening and don't care? what is happening? >> as a person who puts on a uniform to see what is happening to them and all we are getting is political rhetoric from nancy pelosi instead of talking about what happens we come up with solutions so we can finally once and for all fix what is happening on the border it does disturb the american public, does disservice to border patrol agents and to service to those crossing the borders illegally. she is flat-out not telling the public the truth. pete: don't know if you can see brandon's shot but i look at that shot dark on the border, that kind of job looks like it what it would have looks like for me on patrol wearing a mili

arizona governor doozy spoke about the talk he had with homeland security alejandro mayorkas. >> he tried to sign off by saying to me, the border is secure and i pushed back and i said, mr. secretary, that type of communication will ring with complete unauthenticity in the state of arizona. the border is not secure. alex: by law, children are not supposed to stay in these federal facilities for more than 72 hours but we know that only about 200 or 300 children are leaving at least this center every day. the white house is trying to open up new facilities and from we can see here, there's more construction under way. this is a mile-long stretch on the property in the donna facility. we can see bulldozers and tractors that are setting up new tent facilities. we did try to go in. journalists are not allowed to go in and they didn't tell us specifically where the children are on this facility, however, again as we have heard from the administration, they are trying to find new ways and more space for them as we move forward. eric. eric: all right, alex, thanks so much in donna, texas even tho

meanwhile president biden, open the border, dhs secretary alejandro mayorkas telling ice agents he is an immigration hardliner, during a virtual townhall he reportedly said this, quote, i'm 100% opposed to the evolution of ice, we need to strengthen policies and practices with what we do and why we do it and took on sanctuary cities. joining us is tom homan, former acting ice director. is your head spinning? >> yes but i don't believe a word he says, same person who says the border is closed on the border secure. actions speak louder than words. sanctuary cities, 3 weeks ago the administration dropped the lawsuit that we had to give sanctuary cities so to drop the lawsuit to hold sanctuary cities accountable to drop that lawsuit, speaking out of both sides of your mouth, actions speak louder than words. >> they say there are gaps in the wall, the roads that were made and being used by smugglers, you made the wall to help move in and out quickly and now the deputy is saying now we will fill those gaps in the wall in the washington times i kind of the leave him because he's responsible,

quickly enough, doug ducey explained in a conversation he had with home insecurity secretary alejandro mayorkas>> he tried to sign off by saying to me the border is secure and i pushed back and said mr. secretary that type of communication will ring with complete inauthenticity in the state of arizona the border is not secure. >> here is a live look where hundreds of migrants arrived today seeking refuge in the u.s., april and june are the busiest months of the year across because of the moderate weather and medics were needed for one woman who collapsed from dehydration when she surrendered to border agents. that woman had given birth one month ago, we know the baby is all right but this is an example of the risks that families are willing to take to flee their home country. jon: very sad, alex hogan and donna, texas. thank you. the fallout is growing over major league baseball to move the all-star game out of atlanta in protest over the state new election reform law christina coleman is live in los angeles and with more on that. >> georgia state senator says the league's actions are hypocriti

dhs secretary alejandro mayorkas is considering restarting wall construction to fill gaps in the currenty aware migrants are coming through but when asked about it jen psaki acknowledged they are evaluating that but the wall is still paused. >> federal agencies are continuing to review claims to submit to the president soon. some limited construction has been funded and allocated for but it is otherwise stopped. >> reporter: jen psaki downplayed cvp's announcement that a second yemeni man identified on the terror watch list was apprehended crossing the border in california's sector after cvp leader the press release altogether yesterday, issuing a statement, quote, the news release in question was not properly reviewed and contained certain disclosure and policy information related to national security requiring them to remove it from our website. doug mccarthy has this to say about that. >> talking to the border agents they told me they can't people on the terrorist watchlist. when they brought that up my democratic colleagues called me a liar. policies that created this catastrophe. >>

alejandro mayorkas. we have alex there in hidalgo, texas with more. alex?nica escobar sat down with mayorkas to talk about the challenges at the border. they caused it a listening session and positive. activists thank the congress woman to share their experiences of what they're seeing here every day. more than 20,000 children are currently in u.s. facilities. >> this is an unsustainable situation. there's no doubt about it. it's unsustainable for the my grants and unsustainable for the agency. we can do this so much better. i think that's going to take and entire visioning of how we address vulnerable souls that arrive at our front door. >> new numbers show that border agents stopped around 19,000 kids in march alone. that is the largest tally ever. they also stopped 53,000 family units, the most since june of 2019. altogether, cbp stopped 172,000 people. confirming their projections about that from last week. texas governor greg abbott is calling for the closure of a migrant facility in san antonio after reports of sexual abuse and neglect. congress woman

this has homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas claims the ho dhs! start construction on the border wall to fill in gaps in the current barriers." former president donald trump celebrating the possible pipit by the biden administration telling newsmax "i think it is great they reversed themselves, but a lot of damage was done." by the way alejandra meyer chris said no more deep and to build the wall something the trump administration did. but do keep this in mind illegal migrants are being housed at the o.d. facilities all over the country at taxpayer expense. shannon. >> shannon: kevin, we will see you in a few minutes. >> indeed. >> shannon: thank you very much. ♪ ♪ first step in tonight's news ramped up ended on ceo jeff bezos jeff bezos voicing support for a hike in the corporate tax rate. well, not explicitly beckon president to raise the rate from 28% to the current 21%. the corporate tax rate/tundra former president trump in 2021 from 35% as part of the 2017 tax code. in pennsylvania, the commentator and veteran kathy barnett is joining 2022 r

so, it starts with measure rick g merrick garland, michael carvajal, alejandro mayorkas, susan rice,g the obama administration. christopher wray, the fbi director and avril haines, director of national intelligence for the biden administration. this a tremendous list. these are some of the highest ranking officials in the biden administration who are going to be doing things such as looking at u.s./russia relations. avril haines will be collecting everything the u.s. government knows about russia. she was integral to the process that led up to what we saw the biden administration do yesterday with those sanctions, with expelling diplomats. we should also note, brooke, the russians are also saying they are going to be expelling u.s. diplomats from russia and they are also suggesting that the u.s. ambassador there, ambassador sullivan, he is a holdover from the trump administration, they're suggesting that he returns to washington for consultation. so, we're waiting to see if he's actually going to do that. we're waiting for a response from the biden administration. brooke? >> let us k

. ♪ ♪ first up into nights of real news homeland security alejandro mayorkas travel to el paso and mcallen today to meet with those on the front lines of the growing border crisis. the trip was his third to the area since he took office, neither president biden north vice president harris has visited the border yet or announced any plans to do so. the customs and border protection show a historically high number of border crossings in march. at the 170,000 migrants taken into custody by highest monthly figure in 15 years. an attorney general facing some serious blowback from gun aficionados tonight proclaiming during the president's gun-control news conference that ari pistols are concealable. he said because they have a brace instead of a stock. in fact-checkers of not going to be kind to garlands on that one. lawmakers in new york for a $2 billion coronavirus release button for people in the u.s. illegally. that includes one-time payments of up to $15,600 to undocumented workers who lost their jobs during the pandemic. if the money would also go to unemployed workers who are ineligible f

okay, the homeland security secretary, alejandro mayorkas, traveling to the border in texas, but therder. she was california. she didn't go to the border. she still hasn't visited the border at all. what's going on here? >> i don't know. i think you need to refer that question to her office, but i would tell you that i hope she will come down to the border. i hope that, you know, i thank the secretary for being down here in mcallen and el paso. and certainly, the men and women in green, because i hope that when he was down here, he had a very frank conversation with the men and women in green, because they've been throwing out red flags, red flares. they have. they need help. i just spoke to the graduating class, 1153, in new mexico, and my advice to to those young men and women that are going to be border patrol, i told 'em, get ready, because you're going to be facing a challenging situation at the border. elizabeth: yeah, that's good advice. democrat congressman henry cuellar, thanks so much for your insights. thank you so much for joining us, it's good to see you. i'm elizabeth m

we do expect to get a vet from the department of homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas expectedcome to two different location on border on thursday that's according to local reports. jon back to you opinion jon: rich edson from la jolla, texas, rich, thanks. well president biden is asking congress to authorize a massive 1.5 trillion dollar spending plan covering everything from education and health research to climate change. lucas tomlinson takes closer look at what's inside. reporter: jon, president biden thinks that expanding not shrinking the federal government is the answer to fixing the country's problems. white house press secretary jen psaki says parties have changed than previous administration in this first budget. >> our country is confronting historic crises pandemic, climate change and reckoning on racial injustice at the same time we have a legacy of chronic underinvestment in our view and priorities vital to long-term success so president is focused on reversing this trend. >> is.5 trillion defense budget represents 16% increase in domestic spending. and include i

. >>> today, secretary phil nonsecurity alejandro mayorkas will head to the u.s./mexico border in texas. he will be in el paso to meet with organizations and local law enforcement working along the border. he will meet with front-line dhs employees in mcallen. this is his third trip to the border since taking office and it comes as the biden administration works on plans to handle the surge at the border. it will increase humanitarian assistance to central american countries and passed the citizenship. >>> covid testing could be key in getting kids back to school but now a new research just revealed what could be the most effective. >>> where were you in the last fire? >> here. had to be evacuated. >> freebies for fire season. the new tools ♪ tex-mex. tex-mex. ♪ termites. go back up! hang on! i am hanging on. don't mess up your deck with tex-mex. terminix. hi. the only way to nix it is to terminix it. >>> there are still unanswered questions this morning after an officer shot and killed a man in daly city. yesterday afternoon, the officer approached people in a ca

president biden was vice president during one surge and alejandro mayorkas was the deputy secretary.know how to stop the surges. they're doing the opposite. their end game -- here is the goal. the goal is to get really good releasing people as quick as possible so there's no overcrowding so tv cameras come on in. there's no crisis. they're not going to talk about the thousands coming every day. it's all about overcrowding. get really good at releasing people, that's the end game. todd: the white house clarifies her role as addressing the root causes of immigration. unclear to see how she does that in places like brentwood. and i think this poll is sort of hinting at sort of a consternation with what's going on right now. a new fox news poll shows 46 of voters find u.s. border security worse under joe biden, 38% completely blame the president's policies. you sort of alluded to this in your previous answer, you called this the administration's plan disguised in plain sight. you don't think they want to change it at this point, right? >> no. this is by design. joe biden made promises du

he's delegating to vice president kamala harris, and dhs secretary alejandro mayorkas the situation at the border while he focuses on the response to the pandemic. the white house very much considers this package a piece of that big response to. but still, as you mentioned, boris, this is an up hill climb for him heading to the midterms. as history notes, the first midterm in a president's first term tends to favor the opposition party, and so republicans definitely have the advantage in terms of trying to win back the house as well as the senate heading into 2022. >> and that's some of the urgency that we've heard from some democrats like senator bernie sanders and others. laura, i have dozens of questions for you. unfortunately we're out of time, and we have to long beach it there. thank you so much for the time. >> thank you. >>> a quick programming note, you'll hear about biden's infrastructure plan from pete buttigieg, on today's state of the union, with dana bash and jake tapper at 9 eastern. >>> two police officers and an army lieutenant, the lieutenant was in uniform and pepper

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meanwhile, dhs secretary alejandro mayorkas launched a probe to address the threat of domestic violent extremism within his department. in other immigration news, the group la resistencia is reporting an ice flight earlier this week transferred 64 asylum seekers from the u.s.-mexico border to washington state's northwest detention center -- a for-profit immigrant prison run by geo group. in medical news, oxford university researchers say their new anti-malaria vaccine proved highly effective at preventing disease among children in a small clinical trial in west africa. the vaccine showed up to 77% efficacy in a study involving 450 toddlers in burkina faso, where malaria is endemic. oxford researcher adrian hill said it's the first time a malaria vaccine has reached a goal set by the world health organization. >> they want a malaria vcine with 75% or more efficacy by 2030. we think we could do that. 77% is the highest yet and could really add to the existing tools that we use to control malaria. amy: malaria, which is caused by a mosquito-borne parasite, kills 400,000 people around the

. >> homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas made a visit to the border when closed off to the press. texas democratic congresswoman diana escobar called it a listening session. >> the biden administration has to very quickly ramp up. i have been in close communication with hhs officials. >> the northern triangle after his triple is a have a door snubbing the delegate refusing to meet with him to discuss migrants in the future. in marcus toms and border protection stopped 71% more people than in february, 172,000. that's larger than the entire population of mcallen, texas. a common point of entry in the rio grande valley. lance new house is a farmer mcallen whose house is south of the border wall. every day he sees about 100 migrants cut through his fields. at times groups have pretended to blend in his workers or hide in crops. >> you can't harvest it. sugar king is huge if a person is hiding in there the machinery doesn't forgive. >> 19,000 children have traveled alone across the mexican border last month. a record high. border agents in california rescued a 5-year-old girl a

there at the border, a third trip for the homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas, local reportswill visit two texas border town thursday. chris. >> chris: rich edson reporting from the border in mcallen, texas. thank you. joining us now, texas governor greg abbott. governor, let's start with the surge of illegal immigration across the border. in march, more than 172,000 border stops across the state, that's the highest in 20 years, more than 20,000 unaccompanied minors now in federal custody and there is a report of "the new york times," governor, that the government now projects more than 35,000 unaccompanied minors in federal custody by june. one, could it get that bad, and two, what's the biggest single thing that president biden could do to stop the search? >> governor abbott: first, chris, i will tell you that candidly i expect that number to be far higher. i do want to go back to something you said initially. you talked about a good conservative critics the biden administration. this is a bipartisan response to the biden administration because you have democrat members of

he's done this work for 40 years, and met recently with homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkason his visit to el paso. garcia says he welcomes biden's unwinding of m.p.p., which he calls so far very orderly. every day, he receives about 120 people with m.p.p. cases at his shelter. >> when they first arrived there, they're desperate to get to their families and to say this part is now over. and for many of them, it's been a nightmare because they've had to learn to survive in a foreign environment, in an environment where there is a certain level of risk and danger. >> nawaz: but he warns there is a long, uncertain road ahead. >> none of these families have actually won their asylum claim. all of them are in immigration proceedings and a good nber of them are not going to win their asylum claim and are going to face deportation at some date in the future. >> nawaz: the biden administration is now moving people with m.p.p. cases through multiple ports of entry-- brownsville, el paso, laredo, hidalgo, and san diego. eagle pass, texas last week became the sixth port of entry proces

in hismend setyretary alejandro mayorkas calls domestic attacks, quote, the most lethal and persistent terrorist-related threat to our country today. this comes from questions over why more wasn't down to prevent the pro-trump attack at the capitol january 6th. so leaders could address the threat of extremism th >>> russia's government has ordered alexei navalny's political organization to shut down for now. the leading opponent of russian president vladimir putin just ended a nearly three-week hunger strike in prison. as elizabeth palmer reports navalny's supporters had used his actions as a springboard for new anti-government protests. >> reporter: here's what the prosecutors want to shut down. alexei navalny's powerful movement which is focused opposition to vladimir putin is especially among the young. navalny himself was the victim of an assassination attempt last summer with a nerve agent. he blames the kremlin. the kremlin denys it. but as soon as navalny recovered from treatment in germany and returned to russia, he was sent to jail. now, a court wants to silence his anti-corru

as a secretory alejandro mayorkas heading to the border, joe biden not joining him, nor kamala harrishe vice president being defended. >> working to address some of the migration issues we are seeing, but it is not an assignment to "handle the border" or to be a crisis -- to be point on a crisis. what she is doing is high-level diplomatic work. >> john: she did use the word crisis. but the high-level diplomatic work, according to kim cuccinelli could take decades to bear fruit. >> sandra: it's tough to say as we cover this every hour as we do what the involvement is at this point. we really have not seen a clear definition of her role in this. hopefully soon. meanwhile, now more stunning the new numbers from the fed, customs and border protection came across more than 172,000 people trying to cross the border last month. more than the entire population in springfield, missouri, and we have seen the heartbreaking images of young children crying alone in the desert after being thrown over the border wall. they are just some of the nearly 19,000 unaccompanied children who enter the unite

. >>> well, homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas reportedly considering filling the gaps inwall that you could see in alex's report. reaction from florida republican congresswoman who joins us from mcallen, texas, right near the border there. congresswoman, let me ask you about these personal tragedies. i mean, how can you look at 4 and 5-year-olds being dropped over the border fence, left to their own defenses in hostile country, kids wandering in the desert who have been left behind, another child whose father was drowned to death and now is alone in this country, how can you not call that a humanitarian crisis? >> well, you just can't. and it's unconscionable, what i have seen here in the last 48 hours here on our southwest border. you know, the fact that this administration if refuses to call what is happening here a humanitarian crisis, a national security crisis, i just simply are don't have the words. i visited the donna facility yesterday, and i saw young children 3, 5, 6 and older, and they have been abandoned, essentially. it is unconscionabling. i spoke with a gir

this new effort will be led by customs and border protection, you according to dhs secretary alejandro mayorkaswhat do you think that's about? >> that doesn't make sense to me either. because they're so occupied dealing with the number of immigrants coming in here, they can't do that job. a high percentage of their people are working at facilities, doing logistics, transportation. they're not on the border. the cartel the know it's open for business. maria: right here is mexico. that park, this park in mexico is controlled by the drug cartels. if you want to get into that park, you have to pay the smugglers. and we've got bulletproof vests on. there are machine guns here. i mean, this is sending a message, right? >> the cartels control this area. and even more so now than they did before trump left office. the biden administration has really empowered them. maria: now that the world understands the biden policies, there were 172,000 migrants at the border in one month alone, most people expect it to get worse. what are you expecting as the weather gets warmer? >> oh, it's going to get much wors

how we can work with these countries reporter: the department of homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkase for them. stuart: that will be closed to the press. no press. he will visit. no press. alex, thanks very much indeed. extraordinary. white house press secretary jen saki snapped at reporters after they asked why vice president harris had a time to visit a bakery but not the border. watch this. >> address the perception she is quietly backing off? >> the vice president was visiting chicago to talk about covid and the importance of communities getting the vaccine when it is asable panned accessible to them. and so while she was there like many americans she got a snack. i think she is allowed to do that. stuart: gentleman on the right-hand side of the screen, congressman dan crenshaw, republican from texas, former navy seal by the way. welcome to the show. i'm sure you've been to the border, you've seen the crisis first-hand. what do you make of the dhs secretary mayorkas visiting, no press today? what do you make of that? >> of course not. imagine if the trump administration had done

contener los pasÓ migratorios por la paz de las mÁs y lo anuncia el secretario del departamento, alejandro mayorkasa sufrido lo indecible para llegar al paÍs, lo verdaderamente difÍcil para los inmigrantes es quedarse en Él, el gobierno se ampara bajo el tÍtulo 22, el mismo implementado por donald trump en el marco de la pandemia para deportar inmediatamente a familias indocumentadas, tratando de contener la crisis, pero esa realidad nos parece mermar el gran flujo de personas entrando por distintos puntos de la fronteras. quienes se libran de los devuelvan son liberados por esta condiciÓn. >> aquÍ traigo los papeles donde me dan un permiso de 60 dÍas para que yo busque un abogado, y en esos dÍas yo pueda estar aquÍ legalmente en este paÍs, y esa es una alegrÍa para mÍ. elyangÉlica: damaris estÁ en el albergue de caridades catÓlicas en mcallen, tiene horas en el paÍs mÁs suficiente para saber, segÚn dice, que tomÓ la decisiÓn correcta. >> estaban acostados en el suelo, no tenÍan buena alimentaciÓn, yo me sentÍa mal, pero yo decÍa "todo serÁ para un bien". elyangÉlica: su hijo mayor se quedÓ en hond

griff: today alejandro mayorkas will travel to mcallen to see it firsthand.rk congressman from new york lee zeldin. i have been hearing with the crisis given the fact that there are so many people coming across the border, every state is now a border state. it was just last week we showed people other heart breaking images that were hard to watch of the two little children, the 3 and 5-year-old from ecuador who were dropped by smugglers on the ground off that 14-foot wall. as it turns out, their mother was in new york, your state. so those kids are heading to this state. this is a problem to try to figure out how to handle all these people coming in. >> big time and i hate to say it but it's going to continue to get worse. why? because the biden administration is trying to two different narratives. one is they want to say there is no crisis. or, two, they want to say there is a crisis and it's all trump's fault. and the fact is that this started in a way with the way that joe biden ran his campaign but from day one, stopping border wall construction halting d

thrown open the border but somehow dhs secretary alejandro may request now telling ic agencies and immn hard-liner. during a virtual town hall last week mayorkas reportedly said "i am 100% opposed to the abolition of ic. we need to strengthen our policies and practices and communicate more effectively with what we do and why we do it. coastal he took on sanctuary cities that won't work with ic. joining us is tom homan, former acting price director. is your head spinning? >> [laughs] yeah, my head is spinning but i don't believe a word he says. he's the same person who says the borders close, the border secure there's not a crisis and we know differently. actions speak louder than words. the sanctuary cities issue, three weeks ago the administration dropped the lawsuit that we had against sanctuary cities. to drop the lawsuit and try to hold sanctuary cities accountable, to drop the lawsuit, saying. they are speaking out of both sides of their mouth. actions speak louder than words. >> brian: they say there's gaps in the wall and the roads they made are being used by smugglers but you made the wall to help move in and out quickly along with tec

recibiendo crÍticas por no visitar la frontera, pero ella dice que es es el trabajo del secretario alejandro mayorkasfronteriza fue creada en parte por el mensaje de la casa blanca al inicio de la administraciÓn de biden, no por lo que dijeron, sino por lo que se interpretÓ en centroamÉrica. satcha: gracias por informarnos esta maÑana. karla: estallan las protestas en mineÁpolis por cuarta noche consecutiva, a muerte de un hombre a manos de la policÍa. la amenaza obliga a proteger la casa, esto mientras la exoficial comparece en corte por homicidio de segundo grado. califican el incidente como un acto de guerra, gases lacrimÓgenas y realizan al menos 24 arrestos. ♪ satcha:mÁs tiempo es lo que necesitan los cdc para analizar la posible reactivaciÓn de la distribuciÓn de la vacuna de johnson and johnson. esta pausa, lejos de crear dudas por la efectividad de las vacunas, le enviarÍan un mensaje a la poblaciÓn del manejo transparente que se estÁ aplicando. karla: y el secretario de estado realiza una visita no anunciada a afganistÁn para presentarle lÍderes y a la poblaciÓn la reciente decisiÓn del pres