update from homeland security secretary mayokas. the white house knew our nation would face this. where is the plan that actually works to secure the border now? title 42, which helped stem the tide put in place by former president trump during covid expires tomorrow at midnight. immigration helped make this country great, we know that, when people do it the legal and correct way. what we're now experiencing is something different and dangerous. staggering new border numbers obtained by fox news. yesterday marking the most single-day illegal immigrant crossings ever recorded in this country. i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus." it is expected to look like a sea of humanity from more than 160 countries. already they're flowing in by the millions since president biden took office. title 42 is a major legal tool to expel people who must leave america. just before it expires, this video from yuma, arizona this morning. in brownsville, texas today our fox flight team capturing this exclusive look at people lined up to

mayokas mayokas gave this warning to migrants friday. >> the border is not open.quent to may 11th. >> clearly dhs felt there was a need for the department of defense to assist so that they can continue to do their important work. secretary austin approved that request and that's what we're focused on. >> the active duty troops will not be permitted to support migrant processing or escort duties or participate in civilian law enforcement activities. they won't be responsible for property seized from migrants or have direct contact with migrants. >> president biden is sending 1500 quote soldiers to do paperwork. that's not going to secure the border. we need not 1500 soldiers, we 15,000 or to secure the border. >> most of the troops will be stationed in el paso, texas. the reason the white house has to call on active duty troops is because the decision was not taken in enough time to call up the national guard, sources tell fox. >> bill: we've seen the reporting from el paso the last couple of weeks. that town is a mess packed with migrants already. >> dana: house r

when mayokas speaks and he says our border is secure, he is lying. >> president biden and secretary mayokas have proven they are either incapable, unwilling or uninterested in defending and maintaining our borders. >> the big lie of 2023 is that the border is secure. secretary mayokas knows it. >> harris: tempers running hot all the way to the top. former official telling the "washington post" when biden would have explosions, he did have a bunch of them, he would say -- this is a quote, damn it, you haven't told me anything different than what you did last week. ten minutes later he would say i'm sorry, i know everybody is trying. florida congressman mike waltz sits on several committees and also a former green beret. great to have you in "focus", congressman. first of all, i don't have any doubt the president is vacillating on this. there is no clear-cut way to fix it for him apparently. >> well, yeah. my question is where is the border czar? where is the vice president harris? we are passing legislation, title 42 is ending, the border is completely out of control, and nothing, silence, f

update from homeland security secretary mayokas. white house knew our nation would face this. where is the plan that actually works to secure the border now? title 42, which helped stem the tide put in place by former president trump during covid expires tomorrow at midnight. immigration helped make this country great, we know that, when people do it the legal and correct way. what we're now experiencing is

peter, yesterday mayokas said everything is fine. the president does predict chaos. >> chaotic is not a word you hear a commander-in-chief use to describe one of their own policies. president biden is basically saying that's just the way it is. >> president biden: well, we have had problems with the border for a numbers of years. >> you will see 15,000 or 150,000 at the border. are you sending more than 1500? >> president biden: what we want to do at the border is have it work and function the way it is designed to work. that requires us sending more immigration officers, more asylum judges. >> there is already such a backlog that some border crossers will be released with no way for the feds to track them. dhs is explaining it like this to us. u.s. border patrol sectors may release certain migrants who undergone public safety vetting to continue their immigration processes. this may include a processing -- processing migrants for parole to reduce the amount of time they spend in custody. the house leaders on the republican side push

what is mayokas doing now? not detaining them. released without a court date.t lose their case isn't looking for them because mayokas said it is not enough to make an arrest. >> harris: you just spoke to it right then. why does that man still have a job as secretary of dhs? tom hoe man in "focus." thank you. president biden's campaign team may think slow and steady will win the race. his campaign began slowly. critics need voters need excitement and motivation. are they going to get it from him? low me to enjoy what i love to do. as long as you can make an impact, why stop? there are too many options. how do we decide what hotel to book? (yelping) fear not, i got you. who are you? i'm your fairy hotel mother. what is happening? let me help you pick a hotel you feel good about. choice hotels is a family of brands, with a hotel for every type of stay. like a comfort with the kiddos. ooh, spacious! or, a cambria hotel downtown for just the two of you. hold my wand. don't wave it at anything. get the best price by booking direct at choicehotels.com. (grunt) yeah! w

republicans want mayokas out.hey get their wish there won't be a policy change on the border. we can see that clearly. two months ago you were sitting on the set and said this administration is part of the open border society. we're about to see whether or not you were right and just looking at the aerial video that griff jenkins showed us from brownsville, you nailed it. >> well, bill, look, it breaks my heart we nailed it. the truth is from literally the day that the 2020 election was settled, what we've seen coming from south and central america is nothing short of a stampede. we're standing here today in the worst border crisis in american history as a direct result of the open borders policies of president joe biden and the democrats and the message that they've sent south of our border. but it is also a result of the decisions this president made to stop construction of the wall, to make every effort to suspend the remain in mexico policy that i negotiated on behalf of our administration with mexico, and fin

why do you think that was and is secretary mayokas right in the 50% number he cited? >> yeah, for the most part in yuma. 600 per day is 100% more than what we were seeing last month averaging 300 a day. if you go back two years we were at 20 to 30 a day. still a significant number of people coming across. this morning we had people from moldova and west africa. i don't know if i would agree with secretary mayokas on anything other than it is half from what we saw the week before but still a significant number of people coming across illegally into the united states. >> dana: with the big surge you had last week and it continues even if it's at a lower rate, what is it like and how has it transformed yuma? >> first and foremost it has brought everybody together as far as a community or the ability to work together between the cities and county looking for solutions. yuma fire department stepped up and unfortunately we have had to place those people who have been released into the community into an emergency training facility. but we did so and the city did so in order

if you are at the white house and, or even mayokas at dhs, what are they supposed to do?hey are supposed to coordinate. what you are talking about is you expect the mayor, not you, there is an expectation mayors should do it on their own. this is -- immigration is a federal government responsibility and the convening power to get them to coordinate is at biden and mayokas's shop. not with the individual mayors, even though the mayors like lori lightfoot, sanctuary city, everybody can come. actually we don't have room for them. what about the small border towns in texas? they don't have room, either. they are running out of the space for them, the shelters. >> i totally agree. i drove to work the other day, spanish drive, a bunch of obvious recent arrivals were on the sidewalk. they were asking and waiting for lunch to be served at this wonderful church across from my hotel. they were from venezuela. they have a huge situation now where they have -- people are fleeing from venezuela and cuba and nicaragua. you have turmoil and the whole continent in upheaval and on the mov

. >> dana: secretary mayokas oversees immigration policy.his is why they're not to blame. >> this is a really tough challenge and has been as we all recognize for years and years. we are seeing a level of migration not just at our southern border, but throughout the emotion is fear that is unprecedented. the president on day one delivered a solution. he delivered immigration reform legislation that we had hoped congress would act on swiftly. they haven't. within the constraints of a broken immigration system, we are doing so much. >> dana: is this congress's fault, congressman gonzalez? >> i do think it is congress, absolutely has a role to play here but like any good politician mayokas just punted it to somebody else. congress should come together and you know what? last week house republicans passed a bill out of the homeland security committee. you will see when we get back we'll pass a border bill that had some teeth to it that goes down the route of holding cartels accountable. gives more money to law enforcement officers, the sheriffs

when secretary mayokas says if you cross illegally you'll be processed and quickly removed put an asterisk next to that. it is the case for some people. right now a majority of people are released into the country. what happens is because they're so over capacity and diplomatic relations with different countries, once people get here they are typically released with a future court date. because of how back logged everything is it can be years down the road. the cartels are able to advertise off that. the migrants know that. they told us that in interviews if they can just get here they believe they will be released and if you just walk to downtown brownsville now go to the bus station and venezuelan men with dhs packets and government cell phones all over the place waiting to get on a bus toggles where around the country. mass releases are taking place and it is part of the biden administration's policy. >> bill: you are several hundred miles of yuma, arizona. in brownsville where you are located is where they put the razor wire up this week and governor abbott ordered other officers to re

homeland security secretary mayokas writing in part, quote, starting tonight people who arrive at the border without using a lawful pathway will be presumed ineligible for asylum. the border is not open. people who don't use available, lawful pathways to enter the u.s. face tougher consequences including a minimum five year ban on reentry and potential criminal prosecution. in addition to title 42 expires yesterday a federal judge in florida blocked the biden administrations parole without conditions program in which the white house wanted to essentially release migrants without a court date. now that federal judge has ordered migrants cannot be released without a court date, which prohibits any catch and release. border patrol wrote in part this is a harmful ruling that will result in unsafe overcrowding at cbp facilities and undercut our ability to process and remove migrants. creating dangerous conditions for border patrol agents and migrants. as that statement just referenced, in theory the judge's order is going to slow down the processing of migrants all along the southern borde

what's at stake on thursday if mayokas and the rest really got this wrong? >> cartels will control our complete border. right now they control portions of the border. when this dam breaks cartels will control everything, fentanyl will pour into the country. more lives will be loss in the united states and that's what the outcome of this. >> harris: brandon judd leading the border patrol union. the federal government targeting your own operations to catch illegal immigrants. it's unreal. stay safe. thank you. >> thank you. appreciate it. >> harris: high stakes today at the white house as if the crisis at the border weren't already making it so. this is even more. president biden is finally meeting with the house speaker kevin mccarthy on the debt crisis that would cripple the entire country. the president still says he is not going to negotiate. he will just sit with them. if nothing gives our nation defaults in three weeks. house republicans are vowing they will hold the biden family accountable to the law of the land in that investigation. watch. >> no one

i attended hearings from mayokas where people and democrats are calling him and the administration outthey were not prepared for the end of title 42. he kept saying they had a plan. they had a plan to send in 24,000 cbp officers. that wasn't enough. they had a plan to add 2,000 contractors. that wasn't enough. now their plan is to send 1500 u.s. troops. is that going to be enough? >> well first of all, our heroes in the military, our active duty and veterans are our best patriots and do whatever the orders tell them to do but it's not enough. we're catching over 9,000 a day. 1500 a day arrested in south texas and el paso alone. >> aishah: processing. >> they don't have to be hands on with the migrants themselves but they will do some of the jobs that would pull our processing coordinators and border agents away. there is added benefit but not a solution. it is not brute force. it is policy and state department and white house holding other countries sending these folks accountable to say no, you have to stop this. we need to shut this down and clean up our own backyard. we have a lot o

the numbers have dropped 50% according to mayokas.here are still thousands, tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of migrants who just crossed into the united states and are basically in limbo overwhelming resources in border towns like el paso and major cities like new york. here on the ground migrants tell me point blank they're starving. they don't have a dollar or working papers to earn money to get to their next location here in the united states. president biden, who visited the border only one time while in office, criticized the media yesterday and says he does not have plans to come back. >> how are things going at the border? >> president biden: much better than you all expected. >> do you plan the visit the border? >> president biden: not in the near term, no. it would be disruptive. not anything else. >> so looking ahead we're talking about all these releases of migrants. talking with some of the migrants on the ground and one woman yesterday showed me one of her documents and it indicated that she has a court dat

i don't see a lot of -- mayokas said yesterday, john, that 83,000 people now have appointments. who is going to give those appointments to them? >> who knows at this point? some people are getting dates in 2026 or beyond. we're already seeing new tent cities form up like we had with the haitian migrant camp. tent cities over in el paso and arizona. there is no point in trying to pretend this is under control. it is ridiculous. they were all upset what was happening in del rio and they let it happen again. this is self-inflicted. they could change it if they wanted to, but they don't. >> harris: they are getting appointments in 2026 years from now? >> and some beyond. >> harris: if biden isn't here a second term the next person inherits this nightmare. your last thought. >> this has been a problem for decades and decades and it has been relatively under control, i guess, in past add min trigss. this is the year to blow it up worse and gum up the works even further. it is terrible. >> harris: i say this daily with all my heart and i have met so many of you and feel blessed to have

the man in charge, secretary mayokas, insists that is not the case. >> so we are prepared, number one. number two, we have a migration information center that is specifically set up to communicate with state and local officials and we have been doing so. we are using our fema regional coordinators ascii points of contact. we need immigration reform. everything that the department of homeland security is doing, everything that our partners across the federal government are doing, is within a broken immigration system. >> dana: team fox coverage. marc thiessen on deck with analysis. let's get to bill melugin live in brownsville, texas. >> good morning. the numbers are already starting to explode. border patrol reported last week alone they made 55,000 migrant apprehensions, almost 8,000 every single day with a huge surge continuing here in brownsville. look at this stunning drone footage our team shot in brownsville late yesterday afternoon. one of the biggest single groups of migrants crossing illegally we have ever seen during our fox news coverage of the border. a line almost as far

mayokas says the border is secure. president biden says we'll send 1500 troops down there.will fix the problem. this just demonstrates how clueless they really are about what is causing this problem and what needs to be done to fix it. >> harris: is the problem that they're clueless? is anything else going on? >> i like mr. cornyn. they aren't clueless at all. they know exactly what is happening there and they are causing it and it is their intention for this to happen. it is not that they're mysteriously unaware. yet when the president's spokesman comes out and makes absurd claim that somehow illegal immigration is down 90% under this presidency. let's call the sky green instead of blue. everyone knows it's not true. we've got to work urgently with this. perhaps we could pass legislation that would compel the same outcomes as title 42 but we only have a couple days to do it. even if we do do that, there is somewhere between 2 and 3 million people who crossed the border illegally. >> harris: it would prove the president isn't doing everything he could. if they will make it

think about the contrast of what the president just said and what you've seen secretary mayokas say when he is repeatedly said the border is not open, the border is closed. and it's nothing but a lie. the fact of the matter is the border has been open under the biden administration enticing people to come here illegally. that process will continue unless and until, as mike banks said, the federal government will start to enforce title eight of the united states laws that allows the united states to return back to the country of origin those coming across the border illegally. >> dana: mr. banks, one of the things we're curious about, partial solution has been the barbed wire placed in certain places that we have seen some video of that. is that helping? >> it is absolutely helping. if you look at the area in brownsville, texas where the tactical border force was down there and started repelling people from coming into the country you have seen a dramatic decrease in that area. a dramatic decrease. the fact is where there is deterrents, you fix the problem. until the federal government st