representative henry cuellar is in "focus" now and he represents the people of district 28. congressman, how does a democrat like yourself in a political party that seems to relish an open border watch his citizens under siege like this? what are you telling them? >> we tell them we believe in the border and law and order. we believe in immigration reform. but what people want to see is a legal way for people coming in. what your story, thank you for being down there at the border, harris. what we're seeing is two profiles of individuals. the people that turn themselves in, the family units, unaccompanied kids. then you have the ones that want to evade and this is what your story was covering, the people who want to evade and where we need to coordinate federal, state and local government. i want to thank dps. i used to the budget there. my brother is a sheriff on the border and i appreciate the men and women from dps. >> harris: some people want to come legally. if we're 800,000 or up from that of people who are getting away, that is the problem. so right now -- i want you

cassie, we have had henry cuellar on our program a lot.e is the lone house democrat who is pro-life. you are pro-life as well. he is also big on border security as well. on those two main issues it seems like you are both riding the same commonality. do you agree on both those issues. what would a voter in your district select you over him or vice versa because of that. >> talking to voters every day in the district they tell me he has been there too long but nothing to secure the southern border and lost the endorsement of the national border patrol council. top issues in the district are gas, groceries and securing our southern voters. i get democrats every day saying i voted democrat my entire life and i'm voting republican come this november. we're talking about the values of pro-life, pro god, pro family. we're hard working. democrats are left the hispanic community. we're excited and running a fantastic race and so many supporters on the ground now and running on real issues that impacting everyday americans. we want a strong and sec

we turn now to democratic congressman henry cuellar.presents a border district in south texas and he joins us this morning from laredo. congressman, i know you feel strongly about what's happening in your backyard. i wonder if both you and your constituents support bussing these migrants up and down the east coast? >> first of all, we need solutions and not theater. by sending folks off to new york and chicago, it does bring attention, but we want to focus more on solutions on the border. we got to get border patrol, homeland skurs, i.c.e., equipment, making sure they have everything to enforce the law. if we don't have repercussions at the border, we're going to continue getting 8,000 people a day. they might get two buses a day in some of those cities. just from my hometown in la red, we're sending out 26 to 28 buses a day out of laredo to give you an understanding of what's happening here. >> in some places like martha's vineyard there aren't even migration centers and there was no coordination. is that the part you're objecting to?

good to be on with my ged friend, henry cuellar.er. we've secured $90 million for operation stone garden funds. these are federal grants that go down to the sheriffs and the local law enforcement in order to help them. in many cases, the local sheriffs carry the weight load because the border patrol agents are not in the field. they're in the processing centers. i was in rock springs, about 70 miles from the border. i met with the county clerk, olga reyes. she said when is this going to end? she broke down in tears. she said we had about 15 criminal cases on the docket. we have over 115 waiting to be prosecuted. she said in the last few days, a mexican national murdered a u.s. citizen. it's not just those walking over the border but those fleeing. many of them don't want them in our neighborhoods. >> neil: congressman cuellar, you've heard from a lot of cities and towns where they're being bussed. they're claiming that this is making their situation a lot harder and this is not necessary. this is really governor abbott's way of gett

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host: texas democrat henry cuellar. 28th district of texas served on the appropriations committee. what happens today, tomorrow, and friday how worried are you about a government shutdown? guest: first of all, inc. you so much it is a pleasure to be here with you. we are not going to have a government shutdown. we will probably put in the senate. i sit on the appropriations on the appropriations on defense, on homeland, on ag and i know how important it is to get this done. i will also say the house appropriations committee we pose all of the appropriations bills. half of them passed over to the senate. so we have done our work. i wish we would do this on time every september 30. host: you are saying this process is broken, don't blame the house appropriations committee? guest: i'm saying we did our job, that is all i can say. we post all 12 bills from the committees about a half of them passed from the house to the senate. we do need to look at this because every year, you know, we get thousands of bills that are final and i would feel that the appropriations bill, those that shou

host: texas democrat henry cuellar. 28th district of texas served on the appropriations committee. what happens today, tomorrow, and friday how worried are you about a government shutdown? guest: first of all, inc. you so much it is a pleasure to be

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griff: and you're seeing some on your side of the aisle, henry cuellar saying that vice-president and others are not being honest about whether the border is closed. and i talk with someone who came on the bus, and he says that the border is open and that's why he's coming. does the administration need to be more honest, the border, they have not want today talk about, to open the door for republicans to come in and try and work with them? >> after four years of nonstop lies, this president, i'm proud to say, has brought back integrity to the white house. nobody thinks that our immigration system in the united states is working well. we understand that we have a tangle of problems that have accumulated over the last 20 years, but democrats have put money and resources behind enforcement actions at the border. we're not going to use cruelty as an enforcement mechanism unlike the previous president. this president has a humane policy for individual coming here to build a better life and those individuals need to be treated with due process and those who have a pathway to citizenship her

even democrats like senator joe manchin and henry cuellar agree the border is not secure. revisit this issue seven weeks before election day all because republican and democratic leaders are busing thousands of migrants to sanctuary cities to try to lessen the burden on the border communities. democrats do want some kind of a comprehensive immigration reform package. they want to see a system at the least would include a guest worker program to help fill worker shortages across the country. at the very most offer a pathway to citizenship for undocumented migrants but republicans say immigration reform is not on the table at least until president biden addresses the crisis at the border and secures it. thank you, aishah. >> dana: hot lecontested race in wisconsin could decide control of the senate. the race is up for grabs. incumbent senator ron johnson has a razor thin lead over barnes. likely registered and independent voters. republican senator ron johnson joins us now. great to have you, sir. you are senator chuck schumer's top knock-off choice to try to keep the senate

democrat henry cuellar in a tough reelection fight at the border admits the tactic has been effective. >> nobody was listening to the border communities for years. now that it is happening in their own backyard they're talking about it. once we finish the fiscal year we have to talk about somewhere between 4.5 to 4.9 million individuals that have come across the border. if you call that a secure border, i don't know what it is. >> dana: team fox coverage with reaction from senator marco rubio. let's begin with alexis mcadams live from eagle pass, texas. good morning. >> good morning. every day we see thousands of migrants crossing here in eagle pass, texas. now we standing at the epicenter now the busiest air area for border crossings in texas. this is why. take a live look now. we have a camera here in eagle pass, texas. caught up a short time ago with the latest large group coming in this morning. you are looking at 200 migrants and counting now being processed by border patrol agents in texas. sources tell fox new for the first time ever the del rio sector, that includes eagle pass

let's go toe the democratic texas congressman henry cuellar. good to have you. this rage that i hear from many in your party, sir, about the treatment of these migrants finding their way to martha's vineyard and new york and now possibly delaware, i don't remember that same outrage when there were ten times as many being taken all over the country, all points north, oftentimes in the middle of the night with no word of warning or a heads-up to local officials. i don't remember a peep about that. >> well, one of the things that we see when it happens in your own back yard, then it's a problem itself. what we are looking at is there is some theater involved here. it has gotten the attention, that's what we're talking about right now. i'm more interested in practical solutions. one of the practical solutions is we have to give our men and women of homeland, border patrol, ice, cbp, the power where they can enforce the repercussions. that is you treat people with respect and then at the end of the day, if they don't qualify, then you have to deport them. we're not s

and ducey have done, i mean, obviously it's met with a lot of criticism by a lot of people, but henry cuellarer and el paso, said this is really focused attention on a problem that he's been trying to get attention for. listen to what he said. >> nobody was listening to the border communities for years and now that it's happening in their own back yard they are, you know, they are talking about it. once we finish the fiscal year, between 4.5 to 4.9 million individuals have come to the border. if you call that a secure border, i don't know what it is. >> john: put it up on the screen, we did the math. over the last two fiscal years, year 21, fiscal year 22, and estimated got-aways, right now, 4.8 million people have crossed that border and if the trend continues, it will be probably 5 million people in the last two years. that's an extraordinary number. >> it is, and let's be clear. those got-aways, that's what we know of, detected and were not able to apprehend. there is a large number we do not detect and do not apprehend. going back to what henry said, i'm appreciative of what governor abbo

know you didn't have the benefit of seeing the monitor, that was joe manchin of west virginia and henry cuellar, who encompasses el paso, they are drowning. is the border secure? >> i recognize their voices, senator manchin and representative cuellar. i think we can do more to secure the border. comprehensive immigration reform. >> john: is it secure? >> it's securer, but we can make it securer. >> john: how is it securer when 2.35 2.35 million people, by the 31st of this month will have come across the border illegally? >> well, there are more border agents down there in my view by the numbers than were even there under president obama or president bush. why is it not secure? let's have an honest conversation. one of the reasons is you have employers here saying come, come work for us, people are trying to come across the border, they are coming without the paperwork and many want to go back but there's no process and we had comprehensive reform, a process, george w. bush's proposal, and a bipartisan deal if we really want to solve the problem, why not do that, and there are many of us willing

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fox digital is reporting texas democrat henry cuellar responded he represented texas border district, he slamming the president say it is absolutely not secure and we need to do more to stop what's going on. migrants are literally getting killed trying to come here illegally but people don't get that point. the media does not get it, cnn does not get it, msnbc does not get it, cbs does not get it, abc does not get it, nbc does not get it. if you collapse the border and opened it up, people get killed along the way by drug and human trafficked site on and rapist and kidnappers to that's to you. >> from day one of this administration, from day one the chaos began there were groups on day one that were crossing and satan were here because your new president said we could come here. we don't want to leave and there's nothing you could do about it. that is from day one. elizabeth: will stay on the story with congressman van drew and art del cueto. i got a little passionate but it's about people safety as well. good to see a new role for the not for the president biden, john kerry and forme

if you listen to jeh johnson homeland security and the border community henry cuellar, he says if youl send pepco, they send them back, they need to see the video of being sent back and understand that they need to see what remained in mexico looks like. so they go, "honey, this is not a good time to sent them excel the house and give the money to the cartels and cross the river as a risk." they never showed the video but instead we get this, beautiful new york city. who wonderful looking man in a nice suit and we see the families and they get to get the welcome packages, iphones and they care about the six hotels and thousands of hotel rooms. this is the time to flee my country. >> ainsley: you brought up a good point, mine i never thought about. you have all of these liberal mayors complaining because i didn't get a warning. but you are right, app it never got a warning. these migrants aren't calling him and saying i'm coming over, 8,000 are coming over this week. >> steve: this morning joe biden opened up our southern border. here is the problem though. a lot of people don't watch

. >> harris: we have a little bit of my talk with a democrat down in texas on the border, henry cuellarica's border crisis. >> i'm going to say that not listening to you. when you hear that, is the board to secure? vice president kamala harris wright? >> obviously the border is not secure. i've been saying this for so many years, we've got to look at what secretary jeh johnson dead. actually, president trump deported less people than president obama because we had the right repercussions. >> and fewer people were coming in. >> harris: the president kind of quietly this summer, on the thursday in july, decided he was going to rebuild part of the wall or put some more up in yuma, arizona, because mayorkas couldn't deny what was going on down they paid for the most part, they are not listening to any of those people down there in blue. >> kayleigh: no, and karine jean-pierre said the wall doesn't work. it has worked. if you complete the wall, he'd see those numbers come down, but we have a president who doesn't care. he does so to his own peril. when you look at the abc poll, immigration w

even democrats like senator joe manchin and representative henry cuellar agree the border is not securecongressional democrats, neil, being forced to revisit the immigration issue seven weeks out of election because republican leaders continue to bus migrants to sanctuary stiffs to listen the them in border communities. they want a guest worker program to fill shortages. at most offering citizen shun for undocumented migrants. at least for now that is off the table. last couple hours, neil, there may be a push to get more funding to fema. as you know fema dollars are being used to take care of these migrants being bused to the sanctuary cities. they're also being used to take care of the migrants down at the southern border. according to senator elizabeth warren she will try to push more funding be appropriations to fema to deal what we're seeing happening at the border. neil. neil: aisha thank you for that aishah hasnie. others are going a step further than the senator hoe wants to come up with ways to help out what is happening at the border. others are looking into investigations may

and i'm sure i'm absolutely certain that henry cuellar, a blue dog democrat in the state of texas, probably a few things fresh to say, too. but the venezuelan flag planted, did you hear about that? with bill melugin as people are coming through that fenced area. and i said, what does that mean when they do that? he says, i don't know. i'm going to chase that down. we are a sovereign nation. we should act like one so people don't get it confused. >> emily: i wish they had the strength and articulation. we've been talking about this, and yet the chicago mayor has the nerve to call into question the faith of some of those texas leaders. let's take a watch. >> he professes to be a christian. this is not the christianity and the teachings of the bible that i know. i think religious leaders all across the country are standing up and denouncing exactly this. >> so what is the difference between what she is doing, sending these migrants from her city, which has the capacity to handle it, mind you -- it's a city with millions upon millions of people -- to this tiny enclave in illinois that has a few

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henry cuellar is a democrat. he says the border is busted. this is happening every day. does he not use it as an opportunity with the democratic mayors to start working on solutions instead of trying to work on litigation? does he understand -- does the president understand he is president of the entire country but we only paid for you griff until 6:09. i unfortunately have to let you go unless we can pay you overtime. >> griff: let me just add one last thing that is notice there has been no criticism of el paso's democrat mayor busing migrants. >> steve: great point. griff, we thank you very much for that. and, when griff was talking to the migrants coming off yesterday, they were efoosball in their praise for jobe. they wanted to thank him, the so-called migrant president for allowing them to come into the country. what is interesting though let's see what the doj combings up with. suggesting the governors of texas and florida are conducting kidnapping operations which is crazy. because it's okay for the federal government to let people in but then it's not okay for pe

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correa: madam speaker, as the member designated by congress members gonzalez, tim ryan, henry cuellar inform the house that these members will vote yes on the previous question. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does gentlelady from missouri seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. bacon of nebraska, i inform the house that mr. bacon will vote nay on the previous question. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does gentlelady from texas seek recognition? ms. garcia: as the member designated by miss spehr of california -- speier, she will vote yes on the previous question. thank you, madam speaker. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does gentlelady from pennsylvania seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by mrs. demings of florida, i inform the house that mrs. demings will vote yes on the previous question. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recog recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. sherman and mr. vargas, i inform the house that these members will vote eye on

>> madam speaker, as the member designated by congress members vicente gonzalez, tim ryan, henry cuellar, and zoe lofgren, i inform the house that these members will vote yes on h.r. 8. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from wisconsin seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. tom tiffany of wisconsin, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that mr. tiffany will vote aye on h.r. 8987. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new york seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by miss kathleen rice of new york, i inform the house that miss rice will vote yes on h.r. 8987. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new york seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. jacobs of new york, i inform the house that mr. jacobs will vote aye on h.r. 8987. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from indiana seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. carson, i inform the house that the member will vote yes on h.r. 8987. the speake

senator, senator sinema; tony gonzalez, republican from the 23rd yecial congressional district and henry cuellar. we offered this bill as a bicameral bipartisan beginning to come up with a solution, yet we've not heard a single peep out of the biden administration. you would think with the president's poll numbers plummeting as a result of his failure to deal with this border crisis, they would be looking for some way out, somewhere to land that plane. but they've not reached out at all. they've not responded. and democratic leadership in the white house, house, and the senate have taken zero action. i would just like my democratic colleagues to pause for a moment and think about the communities in my state that have been operating at crisis levels since president biden took office more than a year and a half ago. we are the ones and they are the ones picking up the federal government's slack and managing a crisis, or trying to, that our democratic colleagues refuse to even acknowledge. my constituents and border communities in texas and beyond are exhausting resources paid for by their tax doll