casey stegall is live in eagle pass, texas, where mayorkas will be traveling, i believe, on monday. casey, what's the latest? >> reporter: yeah, griff, he will. we'll get to that in a second, but first, illegal crossings have slowed dramatically at least in this spot. it has been a relatively quiet morning here in eagle pass. with yesterday it was a little busier. we saw a group of about 200 migrants cross the rio grande river and turn themselves over to border patrol agents. you're looking at drone video of that now. as the state of texas continues to assist doing what it can through operation lone star to mitigate the problems. that has led to a busy week in terms of legal maneuvering. the department of justice filed a lawsuit against the state of texas and governor greg abbott trying to stop a newly-signed state law known as senate bill 4 from taking effect in march. it would, in part, give police the authority to arrest those suspected of being in the country illegally and also allow state judges to deport people. the doj suit calls that unconstitutional saying s.b. 4 would infri

casey stegall in dallas, thank you. >> john: former acting dhs secretary, chad wolf.back on the screen again, it really is unbelievable. in one month, december alone, according to sources, 302000. >> one month we had 60,000 apprehensions and how we had to do better and now 300,000 in one 30-day period. and the border patrol agents three years into the crisis and don't seen an end in sight. they see it going the opposite direction with more and more illegal activity hurting americans, american communities, their loved ones and everyone else along the border. >> gillian: earlier last week an emergency summit, president biden sent secretary mayorkas and blinken to meet with the government, and i traveled on the trip. i'm curious what you made out of that and what you hoped to see the same mexican officials will travel here to meet with biden at the white house this month. what do you want to see? >> i would have expected a little more coming out of, i'm not going to say the summit but the meeting and what you got from the communique or the readout was boilerplate languag

casey stegall live for us in eagle pass.licia: california ringing in the new year with free health care for 700,000 migrants in a program expected to cost $2.6 billion annually. jim desmond joins me now to discuss more. thank you for being here. before we begin, a quick bit of background on this. this started 10 years ago when democrats began the pushed to extend medi-cal, your state's medicaid. and 26 to 49 were added. and the thing is, the program started when california had a budget surplus and as now the state is facing a record deficit. your thoughts on this? >> well, you know, this is like a slow boil. it did happen where children and minors were allowed to get m medi-cal and you mentioned california's version of medicaid and then seniors, 55 and older or whatever the number was. the central group and everybody in between the minors are allowed, between the minors and seniors, now will get this free medi-cal. and you know, people in california who can't get insurance because their income might be a little too high or m

>> bret: casey stegall live in uvalde. casey, thanks.he controversial georgia district attorney in charge of prosecuting former president donald trump for alleged election-related offenses is now being forced to answer questions about her relationship with her special prosecutor. correspondent steve harrigan has details on this tonight from atlanta. good evening, steve. >> good evening, bret. the judge has set a date for looking at that relationship of february 15th. so, really, for the time being, at least, things are turned upside down here. you have the district attorney who is prosecuting former president trump and others for election interference here in georgia. now she is the subject of an investigation. that hearing will look at whether there was an improper relationship between the district attorney and one of her prosecutors and, also, whether the two misused funds. now, if that hearing is televised, it could prove to be disastrous for the d.a. >> i think the last thing she wants is for these witnesses to testify on the world s

mike: casey stegall live in eagle pass. casey, thanks very much.risis continues to inundate cities like new york, denver and chicago. some mayors recently tried to set rule on when and where buses could drop off migrants, a problem that suburbs are now facing. chicago alderman raymond lopez joins me now to talk more about the crew sis this his -- crisis in his city. welcome. >> thank you, mike. mike: how are president biden and chicago's mayor, brandon johnson, doing in handling this migrant crisis, in your view? >> i think the open border democrats like my mayor and like our president are completely failing in this moment. regardless of what secretary mayorkas wants to say, we are seeing a border crisis that is now extending to the backyards of the city of chicago and our neighboring suburb you shoulds, and we are -- sub you ares, and we are inundated with 29,000 individuals who up until recently were shipped by bus and now private plane and other sub you ares, and we're importing them into our city. and it's simply not acceptable that my fellow d

casey stegall is there with m more. >> he is here.t mayorkas would not speak to reporters during his visit, but luckily, that changed. we expect to hear from him soon. he is supposed to start at the top of the hour. that has been pushed back a little bit because they are trying to move their press conference inside. we have windows gusting up to 5. u.s. border patrol eagle pass south station. earlier, the head of dhs met with the mayor, in addition to attending this with cbp leadership and boots on the ground. this, all according to a border patrol source who also says he went to the port of entry and did not stop by the main processing center here. it is at least his fourth visit to eagle pass, which was inundated with a record number of migrants in the weeks of december. illegal crossings have drastically slowed or temporarily, but experts say when it comes to actually fixing this broken system, this will be key. >> politicians talking to politicians never works. it makes me sad to say that, but that is a fact. you need the people w

john. >> john: casey stegall kicking us off in eagle pass, texas. thank you. >> sandra: new york city mayor eric adams has filed a lawsuit against more than a dozen texas bus companies involved in transporting migrants from the border to the big apple. the lawsuit seeks hundreds of millions of dollars shelled out to care for those migrants. alexis mcadams is live in new york city on that. >> you don't have to look far across new york city to see migrant crisis here. you see people on all the street corners and new york says they are running out of places to put them, the mayor is fed up. he's suing the bus companies blaming them and also the governor of texas he says is one big scheme. >> governor abbott's continued use of migrants as political pawns is not only chaotic, and inhumane, makes clear he puts politics over people. >> the lawsuit there on the screen, new york city suing for more than $700 million from 17 charter bus companies that are bussing migrants in from texas on a weekly basis. mayor adams blaming the bus companies for the massive c

neil: casey stegall in eagle pass.nd right now in wilmington, delaware, lucas, whenever i can, a good student of history and right now the back and forth, not only with the border, but the january 6th stuff, but more on the border stuff, lucas, what intrigues me is the push by republicans to go after the homeland secretary mayorkas and move to impeach him. that's a tough juggling act for the president. what's going on? >> that's right, neil, cabinet official hasn't been impeached in it country in nearly 150 years. now, president biden spent the bulk of his address outside of valley forge focused on donald trump mentioning the former president 44 times. absent from the address any mention of the president's record and critics say that includes the crisis, what they're calling a crisis on the southern border something that the president biden's dhs chief refused to utter in a recent interview with our own bret baier. >> but you do think it's a crisis now? >> bret, it is a challenge. >> it ebbs and flows at a time of the

casey stegall has been following this as it's unfolded over the last couple of hours. joins us with a report. casey. >> john and sandra, you talk about the amount of time that went by, 77 minutes while hundreds and hundreds of officers gathered outside of robb elementary school back here behind me before any decision was actually made to go in and neutralize the suspect. this doj critical incident review team says they examined more than 14,000 pieces of evidence, that they interviewed more than 260 people, everyone from school administrators to law enforcement to even medical hospital staff. they visited uvalde nine different times and spent some 54 days here over the course of this investigation. it is important to point out this report does not address criminal culpability for the mistakes and failures that have been highlighted that day. that is still up to the county district attorney, but the doj findings are designed to put law enforcement actions under a microscope and create recommendations moving forward like asking police agencies across the country to adopt

>> gillian: casey stegall in eagle pass for us tonight, thank you.n to the release of convicted killer and former olympian oscar pistorius. plus, this: we seek common ground on helping veterans in crisis. first, here's what some of our fox affiliates around the country are covering tonight. fox 31 out of denver, a former colorado cop there will spend 1 month in jail for killing a young black man who was stopped by police while walking home in 2019. jurors convicted the denver area officer of criminally negligent homicide and third degree assault in the death of elijah mcclain. fox 24 in wichita. residents from southern kansas and surrounding states are bracing for inclement weather. >> this is a developing nor'easter moves toward the plains and south. that system is expected to move to the east coast and brings rain and snowfall across the region. plus, this is a live look at chicago from fox 32. one of the big stories there tonight, chicago bears owner virginia celebrates her 101st birthday. she is the oldest and longest tenured owner in the nfl spa

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first we turn to casey stegall live from the southern border at eagineagle pass, texas hello. >> good a new year has started with new activity out here on the front lines of this escalating crisis. migrants climbed through the border wall this week in lucasville, arizona after cartels cut a hole in the steel structure while in eagle pass at texas hundreds continue to illegally cross and turn themselves in. >> is going to be arrested knowing full well if they are arrested and claimant political asylum they will be processed as a political assembly into the cases heard progress they tell fox more than 302,000 migrant encounters were recorded at the southern border last month. that is roughly the entire population of pittsburgh. >> every state and sit in this country as a border state >> house speaker mike johnson led a delegation of more than 60 republican lawmakers to eagle pass where they put pressure on democrats to reach a deal on immigration restrictions. while on the ground johnson also made this prediction about the 2024 election. >> i do believe in large measure because of this

shannon: we know you have us covered on that comment casey stegall live at the southern border thank. joining is now texas or publican governor greg abbott. governor, welcome back to fox to send a. we got the lead negotiator in the senate coming up saturday james lankford the white house says it needs more money he said they are pressing for policy changes. what is the number one thing you would tell senator lankford you need to get the border under control? >> we need to stop the magnet that is enticing people to cross our border illegally coming for more than one or 50 countries across the entire globe. and the way you do that is to deny asylum to anybody crossing between a port of entry. if you have a valid asylum claim you can go to the ports of entry of which we have 29 just in the state of texas alone. you must make them seek asylum from either the country they are fleeing or from mexico or some other safe country they go into. that would dramatically cut down on the number of people that you see coming across the border every single day. the second thing that must be done is t

first to casey stegall. he's live for us in dallas. casey? >> trace, good afternoon. c.b.p. continue to tell fox that december's tally of migrant encounters is the highest ever recorded in a single month at the southern border. it's also the first time that figure has surpassed the 300,000 mark over a four-week period. officials do continue to stress as you said, those are the ones that we know about. it does not include the got-aways. those that successfully evade law enforcement and make their way in to the country's interior and agents say that pose as major threat to national security. >> we don't know who is getting away. we were seeing maybe about 1,50 got-aways that we knew about. >> we had footprints and saw them on cameras. now we're hearing 700 to 800 a day. it's not lower because we're catching more people. it's lower because we don't have agents to watch the cameras to count who is getting away. >> the national border patrol counsel says the cartels profit from this as large numbers spread sources so thin in turn distracting agentses from full enforcement operati

arthel: absolutely casey stegall thank you very much. before it's the final week before i will republicans cast the first vote of the season. i will coxes on monday a week from tomorrow that is when gop candidates who have been campaigning in the hawkeye states all weekend. mayorkas vivek ramaswamy, nikki haley donald trump all fanning out across the state this week and. built in allusion has caps on what all are doing he is live in des moines fo for us now on thoe activities. >> hey eric we are live in grimes, iowa tonight that is because governor desantis wrapped up a townhome for supporters at the sports bar behind us just a short time ago there he shot down rumors that he is going to drop out of the race if he can't beat donald trump on caucus night if he were to come in first place that is something donald trump himself mentioned at his rally last night. talk of that rumor. take a listen. >> i would not tell you who to vote for i would tell you i would not know they are both not good. there is a rumor that iran is going to leave the

senior correspondent casey stegall is there for us now. >> hi.agle pass where we are is a part of the del rio border patrol sector and the chief here giving updated numbers for the final week of january. leading up to this new year thank they had close to 13000 total migrant apprehensions for that one week. nearly 200 2000 guideways were logged. for criminals were captured as were 30 when large groups. that is 100 or more at a time. also 13 smuggling cases disrupted we are talking a seven day timeframe. secretary mayorkas made several trips here since the crisis began tomorrow it will make at least his fourth visit to meet with leaders on the ground and two were a few locations. last week wellin special report he still would not use the word crisis to describe this issue. despite more and more democratic leaders conceding that's actually this has become. >> this is a crisis. it is a crisis. we need to look at the american public straight in the eye and say it is a crisis we are going to get together both democrats and republicans in the white hou

. >> casey stegall, live bresson eagle pass, texas. thank you.on a border product crisis much more and how washington is trying to help with spring and new york congressman claudia tenney. good to have you on the show tonight. nice to see you again. i want to talk about all of the things you guys are going to have to get to as soon as you get back to washington this week. it is a lot to write first and foremost you've you got to funde government somehow. and then you have got this a big package that is looming large. a worldwide defense package . not only for ukraine, taiwan, israel. but also trying to address the border. so far we have not seen a deal come out in the senate. we know speaker johnson has made it very clear its hr two to be the basis of any deal per the thing is you have democrat-controlled senate and a democrat-controlled white house. that is not going to fly. would you accept something that does a border while the package that maybe reforms the policies like the asylum laws? >> first of all we need to fight for hr to pass by ever

casey stegall in eagle pass, texas, with more. casey. >> reporter: cheryl, good to see you.aid his primary reason for visiting the southern border yesterday was to meet with, to commend and recognize all of the hard-working agents and officers who are out here working on the front lines. of what he repeatedly called a challenging and unprecedented time but would still never use the word crisis. he says the nation's immigration system has been broken for three decades and it is up to congress to take legislative action as well as to approve more funding, throw more money at it, to help tackle the historic immigrant crossings. meantime the dhs chief stated the majority of migrant illegally crossing or returned or expelled as you said if they don't meet criteria to stay in the u.s., however, a closed-door meetings with other members of agents earlier in the day he admitted the release rate is over 85% according to fox sources. dhs later clarified to us the figure ebbs and flows. >> some have accused dhs of not enforcing our nation's laws. this could not be further from the trut

casey stegall is live in eagle pass, texas. many asking is it too little too late with this visit. atrol sources say in addition to meeting with federal agents while here on a the grounds, mayorkas is catching up with the mayor of eagle pass who has been a vocal critic of the federal government saying his community has felt ignored during this crisis. last week one of the international bridges was reopened. in december, it was closed to redirect agents to help process the migrants that crossed in record numbers. some days 5,000 at a time in this spot. leaders say that week's long closure took a big toll on the local economy. two crossings in arizona and one in california were impacted but have since been reopened. we're about two hours away now from a press conference that will be held by secretary mayorkas. initially we were told he would not be addressing reporters. there were no events opened to the press. that changed. to be continued here from the lone star state. >> sandra: thanks, casey. thank you. and that does it for us. jam packed two hours as we begin a new week, john. se

senior correspondent casey stegall is there now and it will pass with more. >> hey arthel, nice to bes morning we have seen another group of migrants crossing here in eagle pass. although it has been relatively small in size. about 50 or so people, nothing at all like the hundreds or even thousands that we have seen come across in the past. they waited to the chilly water of the rio grande and were taken into custody but we should also note that as we are out here our teams do see people entering the u.s. at the authorized port of entry using cbp one app like they are supposed to. today on fox news at a texas governor greg abbott said that is one simple way to control the surge. just enforcing existing laws to incentivize migrants to use the proper channels. instead of allowing everyone to stay in the u.s. as they await their immigration proceedings. ito give a valid asylum claim yu can go to on the ports of entry of which we have 29 and just in the state of texas alone. you must make them seek asylum from either the country they are fleeing or from mexico or some other safe country t

first, senior correspondent casey stegall and story number one, live at the border eagle pass, texas, for us today, hi, casey. >> hi, martha, good to see you as we prepare to close out the first week of a brand-new calendar year here this afternoon we have seen activity picking up here in eagle pass. we want to show you drone video shot just in the last hour or so. a group of 200 migrants illegally cross the rio grande river and came over on the west side for processing. numbers like we did not see before christmas, however, we have seen more than activity as the sun has come out and warmed up this afternoon. now, let's also get you to the arizona video, the tucson sector specifically, lukeville arizona, the city where you see the exclusive video shot by fowlkes' dream of migrants yesterday evening coming through a hole that had been cut in the still border wall by smugglers. in fact, the long line of migrants illegally made their way through, you can actually see one of the cartel members briefly popped through, clapping at the migrants to hurry up and also shooting video on the cell

christ city -- casey stegall at the border. what are you seeing where you are today?: stu, good morning. as we prepare to close out the first full week of a brand new calendar year, right here in the del rio sector, eagle pass, texas, where we've been positioned for some time now, things are relatively quiet for the time being. but just as you alluded to, a very, very different story over in arizona. let's get you now to this new exclusive video. the tucson sector specifically. lukeville, arizona, the city where you see video shot by fox, a stream of migrants yesterday evening coming right through a hole that had been cut in the steel border wall by smugglers. in fact as the long line of migrants illegally made its way through, you can see one of the cartel members briefly popping through the opening, clapping, basically telling them to keep going can, and shooting video on his cell phone with the flashlight turned on most likely to gather proof his delivery had been made. meantime, back here in texas this week, dps releasing new video of a high-speed chase. this happ

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