we have two great guests, we have four-star general david petraeus, fox's bill melugin.have several major topics to discuss, before we do, july 4 was a week ago. but on july 4, maybe a day thereafter, i saw either a correspondent or regular guest, i think on msnbc or cnn, she said to the host, that the constitution does not serve our purposes any more. it was written by a handful ofve white slave owners. this is what you get from the marxist left, the constitution. what is in thear constitution? n?due process. free speech, freedom ofly religion, right to bear arms. all kinds of protections for the individual, what else? limitations on government. limitations on congress. limitations on the presidency, limitations on the o courts. so we don't have a kind of totalitarian regime centralized in one place. which is who the founders fought against, we have all kinds of things in the constitution that promote what we call the civil society. law and order. protecting the individual. these people who wrote the constitution and adopted it were people of faith, and learned, most of

i don't understand bill melugin is the lack of urgency.tion at the top level. you see any of that down there on the border? >> we don't. quite the opposite. we hear dhs secretary insisting they have quote operational control of the border, we hear white house claim that the border is closed. it is not, i can tell you, rewinded clock to last we're border crisis kicked up in spring of 2021, the president said it was a seasonal sort of thing, it was not the case then not case now, last year we had highest record level of crosses in hottest months of july and august, we're in jewel -- julie of julie -- july of 2022. the numbers keep shooting up, this week a group of 500 migrants cross illegally, right in front of us here in eagle pass, the biggest, single group that we've witnessed during our coverage of border crisis, the claims from the administration do not square up with reality of what we've seens on the ground here for over a year now. >> you are on the border, do we have any idea where these people are going? talking about hundreds and

bill melugin live in the southern border in eagle pass, texas, hi, bill. bill: good afternoon, to you, that's right. we continue to set records here month after month after month of the southern border. the last 3 months alone we had more than 200,000 illegal crossings each month. we've had more than a hundred thousand unaccompanied children show up at the border since october and it is just not slowing down. take a look at the video we shot right here in eagle pass yesterday afternoon. this was yet another single massive group. group of 201 that crossed over during summer temperatures. predominantly cubans and venezuelans, a lot of kingle adults crossing at once but this is in a private ranch and in this exact spot every day since we've got here we have seen massive groups crossing, the biggest group being 530 on wednesday. as you can imagine it's a huge drain on resources in del rio. you can see the sweltering temperatures taking a toll. it's about 108 degrees here every day. horrible temperatures out here in terms of the temperatures, but the migrants a

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bill melugin is live for us in eagle pass, texas. trace, good afternoon to you. we frequently hear the white house claim that the border is closed. i can tell you that is not the reality of the situation down here in our southern border. take a look at this video in eagle pass. this was a single enormous group of nearly 500 migrants that crossed illegally in to texas. border patrol saying it was venezuelans and cubans. this is one of the biggest groups we've ever witnessed during our coverage down here at the southern border. and the summer temperatures are not slowing anything down. if anything, these numbers are shooting up even further. they're overwhelming border patrol resources. looking at ground video we shot of the same group. you'll see several migrants were waving to the cameras, flashing us thumbs up. nearly 5,000 illegal crossings over the holiday weekend and including more than 1,800 on the fourth of july alone. we want to show you this video out of the rio grande sector, this is a mass bail-out after a human smuggler pu

bill melugin with the latest from the border in eagle pass, texas. >> reporter: well, jon, good evening the epicenter of the border crisis is no longer the rio grande sali, it is right here in del rio sector, specifically the city of eagle pass. case many point, take a look at the video we just shot late yesterday afternoon, another massive single group of migrants crossing illegally into eagle pass. this is a private ranch where every day we have seen enormous groups crossing here. the largest about 540 on wednesday. and as you can imagine and as you can see from the video, this is a huge drain on border patrol resources. this sucks up agents and makes it so they are not elsewhere patrolling on the front lines. her here having to process these large groups, do the paperwork and the transport. take a look at more video that we shot from the ground of this group. keep in the mind this is summer out here at the border, these temperatures are sweltering. about 108 crees -- degrees when we shot this video. this border crisis is not seasonal, and these migrants really struggle in the heat, m

stealing bill melugin, thank you very much. a huge correction now, going in the other direction, what happened in highland park. our team at fox news made a huge error. in the death toll. it still stands at seven. someone on our assignment desk counted the naming of another person as the death of another person. the good news is that we did not lose another soul today, but of course we have lost seven. i want to get the facts right. we apologize as a network for the error and we will continue to do better. stay tuned for "outnumbered." ♪ ♪ >> kayleigh: this is "outnumbered." hello, everyone, i'm kayleigh mcenany here with my cohost's harris faulkner and emily compagno. also joining us, shannon bream and raymond arroyo. members of the president's own party now seem to be turning on him. any report reviewing some 20 democrats working with both congress and the white house that are privately complaining to members of the mainstream media. blasting how the president is handling the crises that keep piling up under his watch. one un

bill melugin in eagle pass with this. bill.y 10 months now since president biden got up in front of the cameras and falsely accused these agents of whipping haitian migrants strapping them as he said back then and he promised these people will pay, there will be consequences. well, cbp finally announced yesterday their lengthy investigation found no evidence whatsoever that any haitian migrants were whipped or struck by these horseback agents, however, they did announce they will discipline four of those horseback agents for alleged administrative violations in particular they're accusing them of working in an unsafe manner and unprofessional conduct specifically they say one agent was using derogatory language and maneuvered his horse in an unsafe manner near a child. they say several other agents were using the threat of force with their horses to try to turn migrants back into the rio grande. i'm told by multiple federal service that is the notices of discipline have gone out and that these agents are potentially facing up t

bill melugin live at the border, bill, thank you for that.er today. though some democrats say that's not good enough. they are calling on the president to consider more extreme actions such as supreme court justices. jonathan turley george washington law professor, constitutional law attorney and fox news contributor. jonathan, thank you for joining us this afternoon. have you had a chance to review some of these actions, you know promoting where abortion is legal amp support private attorneys to challenge state law? do you think these executive actions, if they are challenged, will stand? is there much more the administration can do? >> first of all, much of what the president said was rather odd. he was making statements about the opinion that were demonstrably false. the president seems to no longer feel any sense of restraint to be accurate or even fair to the justices who he'd announced as extremist. but that justices then talked about the history of abortion including the early law governing abortions in england and the united states. t

bill melugin live in eagle pass, thank you so much.re still continued cases of violent crime in some cities across the country. word of caution is video is disturbing, this was in philadelphia. police released this footage of teens who beat an elderly man to death by using traffic cones. the 72-year-old james died by his injuries the next day. he's picking up, see that, a traffic cone and throwing it at the man while he was lying on the sidewalk. some of them were laughing and smiling. no words. police are offering $20000 more for any information leading to the suspects, people and filled of you and across the country. anita. anita: i hope so. the new york city bodega worker charged with murder for defending himself against the violent attacker is out on bail. for the conditions of wider bail agreement, he must surrender his passport, agree not to leave the city and be monitored electronically. mayor eric adams is calling out the manhattan das office for punishing law abiding citizens. >> now is time for the district attorney's office

if our own bill melugin is in texas tonight with all the details. >> good evening to you.overnor greg abbott issued an executive order which authorizes texas state troopers on the texas national guard to apprehend illegal immigrants and return them to points of entry on the u.s. side of the border. up until this point when texas encountered illegal immigrants, they will arrest them and then hand them off to border patrol and off to the federal government. in this executive order, texas governor greg abbott's invoking article four section four of the u.s. constitution witches guaranteeing states federal protection from an invasion. governor abbott isn't going as far as calling it innovation, just citing it in the constitution and what he's doing is allowing texas law enforcement to apprehend illegal immigrants and then bring them down here to the border where they will be dropped off at ports of entry again on the u.s. side of the border. why does he feel the need to do this? to take a look at the video. a massive groups of migrants continue inundating the state of texas. t

first to bill melugin in eagle pass, texas. good afternoon, bill. >> trace, good afternoon to you. it's been nearly ten months since this incident first took place in del rio last september. timely cbp held a press conference to announce the findings of their investigation. they just threw cold water on the false narrative that started last year accusing these horseback agents of whipping haitian my grantses. cbp says that they found no evidence whatsoever that any haitian migrants were whipped or struck by the horseback border patrol agents. but they're recommending discipline for four agents accusing them of administrative violations, including working in an unsafe manner and unprofessional comment. one agent was using derogatory language and maneuvered his horse in an unsafe way near a child. they say other agents used the threat of force to turn migrants in to the rio grande. again, there was no evidence of any whipping. i'm told by multiple federal sources that these agents received their proposed disciplinary actions yesterday and they include unpaid suspensions of up to 14 d

bill melugin with more from eagle pass. bill? >> neil, good afternoon to you.s really become the epicenter of this border crisis. we just witnessed an enormous single group cross here earlier this morning. take a look at this video. hundreds upon hundreds upon hundreds of these migrants crossing the rio grant in daylight. this is the biggest group we've seen, this is a clear example of a large scale cartel human smuggling operation as there were multiple coyotes in the water guiding them to the u.s. shoreline. take a look at this video we shot with our drone. once this huge group reached the u.s. side of the border, there were not very many border agents to receive them. groups like this, a huge drain on border patrol resources. the sector where we are right now has been overwhelmed in recent days. in a seven-day stretch last week, more than 13,000 illegal crossings here. more than 2,000 illegal crossings here every day in this sector, again, it happens every day. take a look at this video we shot late yesterday afternoon. this is another massive group of 300 m

bill melugin live in eagle pass tonight. bill, thank you very much. >> mike: tonight we continue our series on the poisoning of america with an absolutely appalling story. a florida couple behind bars tonight after their 9-month-old daughter ingested fentanyl. correspondent phil keating is in miami with the story. [siren] >> according to the d.e.a., it only take as tiny amount of fentanyl to kill you, just two milligrams. it's often added to cocaine, adderall and xanax. that's what admittedly happening to alexis burnett and her boyfriend sage freeze who told jacksonville investigators that he crushed and snorted xanax the night before which had been mixed fentanyl. somehow that got into the body of their 9-month-old baby girl who had to be rushed to a children's hospital after she stopped breathing and her lips told blue. a urine test of both parents also revealed fentanyl in their system. the baby survived. >> circumstances that we have to be here. >> florida first lady casey desantis held a round table he wednesday gadd so

bill melugin from eagle pass, texas. bill thank you.t's a rally in the nation's capitol today to protest the supreme court decision to overturn roe v wade. women's march demonstrators gathered at the white house this afternoon urging president biden to take more federal action to guarantee abortion rights. this comes after the president signed an executive order yesterday intending to protect women against penalties for seeking an abortion. good news and bad news for the white house this week. president biden continues to malign the supreme court first decision to overturn roe v wade. but the june jobs report came back better than most economists expected. giving the administration a little forward momentum. capitol hill correspondent chad pergram is live at the white house with more on that, chad. >> democrats east good economic news because there has not been much good economic news lately. unemployment holds steady. 3.6% for four months. >> largest gains are seen a wage growth have been historically lower rage workers. on the inflati

first to bill melugin live at the border in eagle pass, texas. od afternoon to you. that's right. texas governor greg abbott announcing this action in an executive order authorizing texas dps and the national guard to return migrants here to the border. i just got off of the phone with his office to get a better understanding of exactly what that means. they tell me they will not be deporting migrants back to mexico. they will be apprehending them and dropping them off at u.s. ports of entry. we saw this group of illegals arriving. we'll explain what we know. up till this point when texas dps has encountered illegals, they apprehend them and call border patrol and hand them off to the federal government. what tax governor greg abbott has done, he's invoking article 4 of the u.s. constitution which guarantees states federal protection from invasion. governor abbott says president biden is failing in that regard. abbott is now going as far as declaring an invasion at the southern border. he's authorizing texas law enforcement to apprehend illegals a

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bill melugin has more from eagle pass, texas. bill? >> yeah, neal, good afternoon.it's the epicenter of this border crisis. case in point, take a look at this video that we shot earlier this morning here. this was a single massive group of nearly 500 migrants that crossed illegally. all at once. one of the biggest groups we've ever seen during our coverage of this border crisis down here at the southern border. they were predominantly venezuelans and migrants. a mixture of family units as well as single adults. you mentioned it off of the top, the sweltering summer temperatures are not slowing anything down. border patrol resources are getting dramatically used up on these huge groups. take a look at more ground video we shot of this massive group from earlier. the migrants are waving and smiling to our cameras, flashing us a thumbs up. many very happy that they have a reid. you mentioned the busy holiday weekend. over the full of july holiday, nearly 5,000 illegal crossings and more than 1,800 on the fourth of july alone. we want to show you this. this was a mass b

as for the crisis over illegal pathways bill melugin is live in eagle pass today again. stunning numbers from border patrol. here in the sector where we are over the last week alone there have been more than 13,000 illegal crossings. that's almost 2,000 people every single day and their holding capacity is currently 200% over what their normal capacity is supposed to be. migrants keep coming. look at the video we shot late yesterday afternoon here in eagle pass. a large group of migrants who crossed over illegally into a private orchard. troopers and national guard soldiers were there immediately to take custody of them. as part of governor's new executive order those texas troopers immediately put all of those illegal immigrants onto texas-owned buses and shipped them right over to the port of entry and released them to return them back to the border, back to the port of entry. they are not being deported back to mexico but released at ports of entry on the u.s. side. one of the first times we got to see the governor's new executive action being implemented. look at this

bill melugin has the latest tonight. >> the sweltering summer heat is slowing nothing down here at thethern border. this morning fox news cameras witnessed this massive group of up to 500 migrants crossing illegally into eagle pass, texas. it was one of the biggest single groups we have ever seen during this border crisis. the migrants predominantly cubans and venezuelans, mixture of single adults and family units, some weaving and flashing the thumbs up as they arrive. for the overwhelmed border patrol agents, it's a scene that plays out daily. over the holiday weekend, border patrol sector saw nearly 5,000 illegal crossings. including more than 1800 on the fourth of july alone. tuesday evening more of the same in eagle pass. fox news on seen as another group of 70 crossed illegally including one migrant who brought her pet dog. in the rio grande valley, texas dps chased a human smuggler driving a cloned work truck full of illegal immigrants. this mugger stops the truck and a mass bailout takes place. more than 20 illegal immigrants bill out of the vehicle running in all directions. a

will told our bill melugin last night, gascon continually puts forth services as if he is protectings abandoning victims constitutional rights and think as bandaid of some type of service like counseling will make up for his refusal to protect those rights. the d.a.'s office says department of corrections will contact the victims. part of this is about safety. people want to know when a stalker is getting out. one deputy d.a. called this callous. that gascon ever tried a homicide case he would know prosecutors feel a moral duty to attend these hearings. liz? elizabeth: great reporting. william la jeunesse, thank you so much. welcome to the show security expert and former nypd officer, bill stanton. bill, your reaction to this? don't victims families need to know this? those criminals can attack them especially if they testified in court against them. crime is up while arrests are down in l.a. what is going on here? >> this is to me, to me this is the l.a. d.a. being an actual advocate for the criminal, for the perpetrator and it is revictimmizing the families and victims that these c

bill melugin picks up the story in la joya, texas today. hello, bill. >> good morning to you. we're once again back in the rio grande valley where as usual we're seeing large numbers of migrants crossing illegally this morning. i'll give you a look. here this is predominantly family units here crossing, 100 or so here now. a lot of young children with them. unaccompanied children at this border patrol vehicle now. you go here to the left you'll see unaccompanied migrant teenagers and little children and in the back we have groups of single adults. so you can see how they are being separated by border patrol now. the rgb has been the busy sector. that's no longer the case. as you just mentioned, take a look at this video we shot yesterday in del rio sector, specifically eagle pass, the new epicenter of the border crisis. one of the most enormous single crossings we've ever seen during our coverage of the southern border crisis. hundreds upon hundreds of illegal immigrants crossing in broad daylight. you will see in the water several smugglers escorting those migrants across the

bill melugin pointing out.e records that are broken, the fact -- he and griff and others like him are basically the only ones covering it but they cover it daily to see an all-time record with that type of visual underscores the type of invasion, brian we are talking about. on this story and you said it, i will repeat the words you said the left thought they had one story, a story of a 10-year-old girl who had to cross state lines to get an abortion because of roe v. wade. it turns out there is a whole nother dynamic to it. >> brian: the president said it. >> pete: he said it people trying to fact check it people trying to find out if it was true or not. unfortunately it is true. would reality illegal let in through our border who raped a 10-year-old. >> ainsley: the attorney general says they do make exceptions in the state of ohio to allow people to have an abortion -- they do have exceptions this was a 10-year-old who was raped. but, regardless of where she went to get the abortion. this is a guatemala will

we have two great guests, we have four-star general david petraeus, fox's bill melugin.eral major topics to discuss, before we do, july 4 was a week ago. but on july 4, maybe a

bill melugin live in eagle pass, texas with more today. bill, good morning. >> good morning to you. right. what the state of texas is not going to be doing is deporting these migrants back to mexico. what they are doing is they are going to be apprehending these illegal immigrants and dropping them off at u.s. ports of entry. again on the u.s. side of the border. as you take a look at video here we have shot as embedded with texas dps what changes now is up until this point, when texas dps apprehends migrants they take them into custody and hand them off to border patrol. the federal government. what governor abbott wants to do now is allow texas national guard and texas state troopers to take them into custody themselves and take them right on down to the port of entry on the u.s. side where they will then drop them off. texas governor greg abbott invoking article 4, section 4 of the u.s. constitution which essentially says that the federal government has to protect states against the threat of invasion. now governor abbott isn't going as far as declaring an invasion at the souther

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bill melugin with more. hi, bill. >> good afternoon to you.rting the last two days in a row, they had more than 2,200 illegal crossings each day. case in point, take a look at this video in eagle pass yesterday in the middle of that sector. the epicenter of this border crisis. a absolutely enormous single group of migrants crossing illegally in broad daylight in front of our cameras. we're talking hundreds of hundreds of people. this crossing went on for nearly ten minutes. there was no border patrol immediately there once they crossed. you take a look at the second piece of video from the fox news drone. you can see the camera pans. it's a seemingly endless massive line of these migrants that have crossed illegally. there's a couple of border patrol agents and texas national guard soldiers. these groups pull a clout of border patrol resources off of the line and that opens up parts of the border to drugs and criminals to sneak through elsewhere. take a look at this video. governor abbott was in houston talking about the record amount of fenta

bill melugin is live at the border in eagle pass, texas. bill, what's the plan here?eep them and then what happens from that point? where do they go? >> good morning to you. what we're told by the governor's office is he is authorizing texas troopers and texas national guard soldiers to not only just apprehend illegal immigrants but bring them down here to the border and drop them off at u.s. ports of entry. they won't be deported to mexico. they'll drop them off at u.s. ports of entry. as we pull up some video here of prior embeds we'll explain what changes here. up until this point when texas troopers have encountered illegal immigrants they take them to custody and call border patrol and hand them to the federal government. what happens now texas governor greg abbott has authorized them to round up the migrants and bring them back down to the border and drop them off at a port of entry on the u.s. side of the border. what happens after that remains to be seen. that's the governor's plan. why is he doing this? look at this video. massive numbers of migrants spill in

bill melugin is live at the border for us at this hour.anyl is pouring into the u.s. through the southern border. there was a delegation of republican senators out here in the rio grande valley last night here to get a look at what is happening down here. look at the video we shot as we tagged along last night. it was texas senator ted cruz, wisconsin's ron johnson. wyoming and others who met with the border patrol union in the la jolla area and not long for them to start seeing small groups of migrants crossing illegally including several unaccompanied children. two little girls traveling completely alone from honduras and el salvador. they had paperwork on them for family members already living in the united states and the border patrol union showed the senators all those human smuggling cartel wrist bands littering the grass in the area. i had a chance to ask senator joni ernst how does she respond to the administration's claims that the border is closed? >> i don't see how you can be here and say the border is closed and that they have

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fox news correspondent bill melugin is here with the latest. >> jesse, good evening to you. now has quickly turned into the epicenter of this border crisis and we witnessed an absolutely enormous single group cross illegally here earlier this morning. take a look at this video. hundreds upon hundreds upon hundreds of migrants crossing in broad daylight. one of the biggest if not the biggest single groups we have ever seen crossing illegally. this was a clear example of a cartel smuggling operation. all these people in a long single line by multiple cartel guides or scouts, again, in the middle of the day in these blistering summer temperatures. most of these folks from venezuela, cuba, and columbia. and take a look at this video from our fox news drone showing this group once they officially arrived on the u.s. side of the border, it is a huge drain on border patrol resources. there weren't very many agents here to receive them at first. but the del rio sector here where we are has been getting hammered in recent days during a seven day stretch last week, there were more tha

bill melugin is taking a closer look at what else is happening honors southern border tonight. >> shannon, good evening to you. some of the hottest weeks at the southern border, 109 degrees here in eagle pass today. you'd think that would slow down some of the illegal crossings, but it's not. case in point, take a look at this video chat over the week and your eagle pass. this was a single, massive group of approximately 300 migrants crossing over to the other in the blistering heat, 108 degrees when we shot this video. it's not in the migrants, totem the border agents have to respond with limited resources. there are also coming at a time. take a look at this video we shot as we embedded with texas dps site. troopers should now make certain for illegal immigrants, sneaking through branches in kandy county. the follow footsteps to the sand, they find backpacks under trees. we are on a group of six illegal immigrants were hiding in the brush, trying to evade law enforcement. this is 15 miles inland from the board repair with texas troopers, the last line of defense in this area. we caught

we just saw, yes bill melugin's report on the so-called whipping of migrants.t we all know, everybody knows it, right up to the president himself, that even the complaints about these agents that they settled on were completely cooked up to cover president biden's statement that you all just showed where he promised they would pay, they would be punished. there's too much politics on the federal side, but we are getting some enforcement on the stateside. it's not enough yet, but it is a step in the right direction. they want to that point, here is what the white house press secretary, karine jean-pierre said today about the state trying to take this up into their own hands. here's what he said. >> secretary jean-pierre: immigration enforcement is a federal authority. states should not be mandating it. meddling in it. that is just -- especially governor of texas, abbott, who has a track record of causing chaos and confusion at the border. >> shannon: and i got to tell you, this made me think back to work is covered at the super ten years ago when i was on a stat

bill melugin is live at the border in eagle pass, texas, with the latest on the situation there. hey, bill. >> hey, eric, good afternoon to you. those numbers certainly add up. just in the month of may, there were more than 14,000 unaccompanied children. here where we are in del rio sector, this is now the epicenter of the border crisis. it is no longer the rio grande valley. it is eagle pass where we are. take a look at this video we shot here yesterday in eagle pass. this was one of many massive groups we have seen crossing all at once. this group in particular was about 200 people in total crossing over during these blistering hot temperatures. in this exact same spot, this is a private ranch, every day since we got here last week, we've seen enormous groups like this crossing like this. the biggest one we saw was on wednesday, about 540 people in total. as you can imagine, this is a huge drain on border patrol resources. the del rio sector has limited infrastructure, smaller infrastructure, compared the other sectors. when these big groups cross, it is a huge drain on their re

first to bill melugin who has been on the border throughout. the senators reporting from hidalgo, texas. hi, bill. >> hi, martha. good afternoon to you. that's right. there's seven republican senators here in the rio grande valley visiting the border. we were with six of them last night. this was texas senator ted cruz, ron johnson, wyoming's john barrasso, james langford and john hoeven. they met in la jolla. didn't take long to see small groups crossing illegally and several ununaccompanieded minors. they saw two 7-year-old girls. no parents or guardians with them. they had paperwork with contact info of family in the united states already. the union showed some of these senators all the human smuggling cartel wrist bands littering the grounds. i had a chance to take to joni ernst. i asked her how she responds to the claims that the border is closed. here's what she had to say. >> i don't see how you can be here and say that the border is closed. they have control of the border. our border patrol agents are overtaxed. they are overworked. they

bill melugin has nor. >> good afternoon to you.peratures, large groups of migrants continue to cross illegally every day here in eagle pass. we just had some a few moments ago. this is less than ten miles away from where we're standing next to the riverbank. this is a group of what appears to be 100 migrants that just crossed illegally on to a private ranch and/or chart there. this is the sort of thing that we're seeing every day here in eagle pass. yesterday we had a group of approximately 500. a few hours after that, a group of 150. this appearing to be a group of at least 100 that just crossed over. the del rio sector has been getting the group multiple times a day almost every day spanning several months now. this isn't the up group. if we can pull up this video. this is part of the group of 500 yesterday. you talk about the scorching temperatures. here we are in early july. every day it's pushing over 100 degrees. it's humid and miserable out here in terms of coming into this open, brushy environment. the migrants make the jou

we have new pictures from bill melugin who's doing an incredible job there at the border.rogram to the border four times already, and i'll be going again. we see what's happening there, and the democrat party seems to to just with ig -- be ignoring what feels like an invasion. is this an invasion? and give us your sense of what's going on now, what needs to be done? >> our border patrol agents are truly our heroes. they don't have the resources and the manpower to handle this crisis. it is really a humanitarian crisis, and the biden administration doesn't care about children being abused and going through rape just to get here to the united states illegally. and then sold into child sex trafficking. the biden administration is at fault. they continue to encourage people to come here illegally knowing that they're going to have to go through such dangerous journey to come here to the united states. why not focus on legal immigration and improve the legal process so good people that want to come here to work hard for the american dream can do it but not have to go through th

but first to bill melugin live at the border and eagle pass texas where he has been for the past couple of days, builder. >> and nina good afternoon. it has been nearly ten months in the white house, that media, politicians, all falsely click horseback border patrol of whipping patient migrants in del rio last summer. and finally, announced yesterday the results of their investigation which they say show no evidence whatsoever that any migrants were ever whipped or struck by these horseback agents. however they did an answer going to discipline four of those horseback agents for alleged administrative violations including working in an unsafe manner and alleged unprofessional conduct for it in particular this a one agent use derogatory language toward migrants and maneuvered his horse in a near safe weight near a child with a several other agencies the threat of force to try to drive migrants back into the water into the rio grande. i am told by multiple federal sources these agents are now facing unpaid suspension of up to 14 days. but keep in mind, present by himself last summer false

campaign spokesman confirming to our own bill melugin. they are submitting that petition to the registrar today. the effort needed 567,000 verified signatures by today's deadline. speaking of california, california governor gavin newsom is depending off criticism of hypocrisy tonight for vacationing in montana. one of the 22 states that california bans state travel to due to its gay rights policies. newsom spokesman defended the governor saying the travel ban only applies to spending state funds and that governor newsom did not use those funds for the trip. president biden is on his way back to the white house tonight after promoting his economic agenda in battleground ohio. but new polling shows a wide majority of americans do not like where this country is heading. it's a harsh reality for president biden as we march toward the november midterm elections. white house correspondent peter doocy shows us tonight. >> we got a long way to go because of inflation, because of the i call it the putin tax increase. >> but the president told unio

. >> the department of homeland security additionals telling fox news as bill melugin, that startlinge, 500,000 got-aways in the u.s. these are migrants that entered illegally, detected by cameras or by censors but not captured. the actual number is likely to be even higher than that half a million. here in eagle pass, we saw nine republican lawmakers to come down and get a first hand look at the border. when you heard them speak, what you heard is anger. anger is a crisis situation that could soon affect national security. >> it's led to crime and much more crime to come. hundreds of thousands of get-aways. we don't know who these people or where they are. i personally will be shocked if in the next two to five years we don't have a significant 9-11 style attack if we don't turn this around and turn this around immediately. >> you can just see the chaos standing here day after day. bodies fished out of the rio grande or people rescued. there was a group of children that crossed, families trapped in the currents streaming for help. customs and border patrol responded immediately with

now, fox news correspondent bill melugin reports tonight on the details from eagle pass, texas. >> earlier today, texas governor greg abbott issued an executive order would authorize a strike the state troopers in the texas national guard to apprehend illegal immigrants and return them to ports of entry on the u.s. side of the water. now, the way typically has worked up until today is one texas state troopers and counter illegal immigrants, they taken into custody on an equal border patrol and hand them off to the federal government. but governor abbott is doing with this executive order is he's invoking article for section four of the u.s. constitution, which essentially guarantees state's federal protection from an invasion. governor abbott is not declaring an invasion with this order. what he's doing is giving the green green light a texas law enforcement to apprehend and a drop of illegal immigrants at u.s. ports of entry. now, why is he doing this? because the numbers continue to explode here in texas. as you can see from the video when shooting of an eagle pass in the last 48 hours,

that's according to bill melugin recording from the fox news channel. on, that's why my first comment we will see an explosion because they haven't run the program properly anyways. they only return 40% of what they could return. here is the danger of this decision, more people will cross the border to historic encounters on the border, what's that is going the mean, more border patrol agents pulled off the line to add to 70% that are already off the line, more pulled off the line to handle groups and process and taken to the hospital and take care of the babies and take to airports and get free tickets to wherever. more than 70% are pulled offline now. what that means more fentanyl will come across the border and get away and we will have a lot more got aways, we don't know who they are which is a national security threat if they are known suspected terrorists. this is going to be devastating to not just illegal immigration but to our national security and to those who come into the country do to the do us harm, criminals and gang members, they more ag

bill melugin our correspondent tweeted out a couple pictures over the weekend of two significant ment,000 pills were found inside body shaping garments worn by a woman. that's the battery and then the other. so a total of 50,000 pills. do you know what the administration needs to do? what about the death penalty for fentanyl traffickers? because we know when you look at that battery right there? how many people is that battery full of fentanyl going to kill? why aren't the, you know, the penalties for drug trafficking of a killer substance more substantial here is bill melugin. >> we hear they quote they have operational alcohol of the border. we repeatedly hear what the white house claim the border is closed. which it is not. i can tell you that's not the reality of the situation down here on the ground. you rewind the clock back to last year when this border crisis first cocked off in spring of 2021, even the president himself was saying this is a season sort of thing. it hans every year it will slow down once the hot summer temperatures arrive that wasn't the case back then. certai

bill melugin said this about those comments. d.c.rizona border towns have had to deal with every single day with far less capacity. but your reaction to what the mayor is saying, being tricked, tricked by whom? tricked into trying to cross our border in the first place? >> look, no one's being tricked. these people are coming in the united states illegally and being released by the administration. washington, d.c. is a sanctuary city. what the mayor should be concerned with is the crime rate in washington, d.c. and she says she's doing everything she can. wrong. you're a sanctuary city. every illegal alien that commits a crime in washington, d.c. instead of being turned over to i.c.e., they're being released back on the streets to reoffend in the very communities in which they live, the immigrant community. if she's really concerned about anything washington, d.c., be concerned about the crime rate. people are dying at record numbers in washington, d.c. criminal aliens take are in your jail should be turned over to i.c.e. they're in

bill melugin knows the reality of this says d.c.ns are had to deal with every single day with far less capacity. yet, they got to throw up infrastructure that doesn't exist and disrupt towns that didn't want to be bothered by this but because we refuse to crack down on the border they are overwhelmed. their life is destroyed. >> steve: for the mayor of d.c., the district of columbia to say those people were tricked. they weren't being tricked. when we showed that first bus unloading. >> all the people who got off the bus remember at the end they came over and hugged the people who were driving and are were chaperoning. we know for a fact that if you are in this country illegally, a lot of these ngos will arrange transportation anywhere for whatever reason. there is hugging right there. does that look like those people feel like they were tricked? d.c. simply is finally feeling if this story is true, that the shelters are overloaded, feeling what other towns throughout america are feeling. but, you know, they could get a free ride fr

bill melugin along the southern border tracking down the story and more as he does in eagle pass, texas good morning to you. this massive meth bust took place in san diego county and it is now one of the biggest meth busts in that county's history. right to the photo now. look. as you mentioned more than 5,000 pounds of meth. that's 2 1/2 tons that were found and seized after it was smuggled in two trucks through a port of entry. law enforcement and feds had eyes on it as it came through. four mexican men were arrested and charged each facing between 10 years to life in prison. take a look at this photo out of arizona. cbp officers port of entry making a major fentanyl bust finding more than 40,000 fentanyl pills hidden in a vehicle's modified battery. 23 packages hidden in the area modified to create room to smuggle the drugs. look at the second photo here. same port of entry in arizona, 10,000 fentanyl pills found stuffed in a body shaping garment worn by a woman in a separate incident. two separate incidents back-to-back 50,000 fentanyl pills found in arizona at the port of entry. ea

neil: bill melugin, thank you.t over here, as bill was touching on, that the they didn't have far enough in the investigation, reach far enough and some individual members even though, as a group they've been exonerated could be targeted for further punishment. what do you think? >> this is a colossal reach from the get-go, i've worked on the border and worked with the people side by side every day and following orders. they were placed into the situation because of the administration having an open border policy. they weren't trained in crowd control on horseback and they were told to go there. they were exonerated and from the beginning they've been convicted by the court of public opinion and leadership and homeland security. they had to do something to justify the fact that they were found innocent of the charges of strapping, whipping people. they weren't and now they've concocted a 500-page report to trash these people and at this point, i'm not sure any border patrol agent would try to do anything to stop th

in each and every one of those months at bill melugin talks about all the time there have been tens ofds, sometimes north of 50,000 known gotaways. people who escape into the country we didn't have the resources or personnel to catch. under this president we're approaching getting closer and closer to a million known gotaways, much larger than the entire population of delaware. the president's home state. it is a massive problem. the crisis is raging. to see this type of political sniping out of ignorance does nothing to solve the problem. >> dana: also pick up the phone or put out a press release. just use the phone. president obama had a pen and phone. i want to ask you about this olympian who ditched america to compete to china, you might remember her eileen gu. that's her decision. a new decision is coming forward and that is she just won a big award, an espy award. what do you make of that? >> espn decided to bestow upon her a break-out athlete of the year award. do they mean break out of her american citizenship status? she renounced this country. she grew up here and trained her