mayorkas: well, i did. i played squash because my younger daughter is a terrific squash player and she drew me to it. she teaches me a thing or two on the squash court. >> are you watching the u.s. open right now? sec. mayorkas: i have not watched television this past week. [laughter] >> i wonder why. sec. mayorkas: the schedule does not permit it. but when i sneak in a moment or two, i do. >> djokovic john the grand slam. will he get it touched djokovic on the grand slam? will he get it? >> that would be the way i would frame one of the greatest tennis players ever. i am a fedor fan, no disrespect to djokovic. i think what naomi osaka is doing is extraordinarily courageous. as an athlete and as a person and a woman. >> thank you so much. we really do appreciate you coming to speak with us here at the national press club as we look towards a saturday and the 20th anniversary of 9/11 and we want to give you the coveted national press club mug. sec. mayorkas: thank you so much. i will covet it. thank you all.

>> secretary mayorkas: we did.untered them, they gathered -- they assembled in that one location in del rio, texas, and we applied the laws. we applied the public health law under the cdc's authority, and we applied immigration -- >> chris: my question is why did you allow them in the country in the first place? whiting you build, forgive me, a wall or a fence to stop them from walking -- this flood of people coming across the dam, it looks like a highway that allows them to cross the rio grande. >> secretary mayorkas: it is the policy of this administration, we do not agree with the building of the wall. the law provides that individuals can make a claim for humanitarian relief. that is actually one of our proudest traditions. >> chris: of the 30,000 haitians who came across the border into del rio, how many did your department test for covid? >> secretary mayorkas: so we have strict covid testing protocols that we apply across the board. we test, isolate, and quarantine unaccompanied children. we work with nonpro

secretary mayorkas: what instance? reporter: 15,000 migrants that the united states government has had to process. secretary mayorkas: we determine the standards to apply in a claim of persecution according to the principles that a government should have both domestically and in the international architecture with the treatment of individuals who are fleeing persecution by reason of their membership in a particular social group. it is not a tool of deterrence to define what a particular social group means. reporter: the people who -- the people who are under the bridge, you talked some of them have gone to mexico. some of them have been flown to haiti. the others, are they spread out at c.b.p. holding facilities? have some been released into the community or released to family members awaiting hearings? secretary mayorkas: let me be clear. some have been returned to haiti, indeed. others have been moved to different processing facilities along the border in light of operational capacity. and then many of them will be r

secretary mayorkas, good to see you. we have a letter that i know has been referenced from outgoing border patrol chief rodney scott that basically claimed great concern that he's witnessed lack of meaningful effort to secure the southern border. i would like to ask you, this person was 29 years in the department, a nonpartisan actor, somebody that served five administrations with the only goal of securing this country. is the border more secure under your leadership than when you started? >> congressman, the border is secure. we're executing our plan. and i've been very clear and unequivocal in that record. >> mr. secretary, the question is, is the border more secure now under your leadership? >> congressman, it is no less secure than it was previously. >> mr. secretary, i want to look at something in his letter, outgoing border patrol chief rodney scott said that suspected terrorists are entering this country at a level we have never seen before. and i want to know, i know it's been asked, how many known or suspected t

secretary mayorkas, good to see you. we have a letter that i know has been referenced from outgoing border patrol chief rodney scott that basically claimed great concern that he's witnessed lack of meaningful effort to secure the southern border. i would like to ask you, this person was 29 years in the department, a nonpartisan actor, somebody that served five administrations with the only goal of securing this country. is the border more secure under your leadership than when you started? >> congressman, the border is secure. we're executing our plan. and i've been very clear and unequivocal in that record. >> mr. secretary, the question is, is the border more secure now under your leadership? >> congressman, it is no less secure than it was previously. >> mr. secretary, i want to look at something in his letter, outgoing border patrol chief rodney scott said that suspected terrorists are entering this country at a level we have never seen before. and i want to know, i know it's been asked, how many known or suspected t

pressed secretary mayorkas and jen psaki moments ago. peter, your thoughts on what happened in there today? >> it was good to get secretary mayorkas on the record explaining why it is thattine though -- i went in there with a direct quote of his. when he was in del rio, texas he talked about the images of mounted officers and he was asked whether or not they were whips. he said they were long reins to ensure control of the horse. now he is claiming he didn't have the full picture. listen to this. >> i made the statements without having seen the images. i saw the images on the flight back. i made the statement that i did with respect to what those images suggested. the horses have long reins. the image in the photograph this we all saw that horrified the nation raised serious questions about what occurred. as i stated clearly, it conjured up images of what happened in the past. >> even though the dhs secretary was talking about long reins 4 days ago. the person who took the photos said i have never seen them the border patrol agents on ho

again, thanks to secretary mayorkas and director wray. i've had a few tough jobs in my life and they don't compair to what you're doing. thank you for taking on all these responsibilities working with us and others. i have a question for recseitary mayorkis and wray. you discussed how china represent as threat to u.s. economic competitiveness. we spent time as leads on the senate subcommittee on investigations and we agree with that fully. in past years, the director wray has stated that the bureau views china as one of the greatest threats to our nation, due to their counterintelligence and espionage interests, compared to targeting economic assets and intellectual property. as we address near peered a vrgsaries, as opposed to traditional threats and actors, could each of you, mr. secretary and director wray, each of you speak to how your agencies are working together and separately to combat the threat that china poses to the national interests and overall security? mr. secretary. >> thank you very much. let me identify three different

mayorkas said the border is secure. our eyes tell us the truth.see thousands under the bridge and democrats trying to give amnesty to 8 million people. americans will put republicans back in charge. >> sean: -- >> jim is right. today a prime example. the prime minister of great britain took more questions in the oval office than the president of the united states. when will this end? >> sean: you have to understand. joe explained it over and over. he is not allowed. they will get mad at him. >> [laughing]. >> they might take away his little ice cream at the end of the night. do you believe there is no covid testing because the people they are letting in illegally. do you believe it's because they won't be here long. my kids didn't get in trouble for what they did but when they tried to insult my intelligence and lie to me. they would get in trouble. >> this is the whopper for all time. the biden administration is saying that because this displays the hypocrisy of what they are doing against u.s. citizens and holding a different standard at the sou

senator johnson. >> secretary mayorkas. i'm putting a chart that i've been keeping on southwest border. to date this calendar here, have been almost 1.3 million apprehensions. we are averaging last two months 67-6,800 people per day. that is a large caravan per day being apprehended by border patrol. 8-1100 known got a ways. equates somewhere 300,000 got a ways for the year. if you analyze these figures, couple hundred thousand people per month. we'll be up to about 2.1 million apprehensions. add the get a ways. we're. you have repeatedly stated our boarders are not open. they are closed. do you honestly believe that our borders are closed? >> senator, i do. and let me speak to that, we -- >> no. let me ask you a couple questions here. this committee received, it was dated september 11th. but apparently this letter was not received until thursday. i didn't find out about it until yesterday. i release you had it to the public immediately. by recently retired u.s. border patrol chief rodney scott. in this letter, former chief

chris: you just heard my conversation with secretary mayorkas.on. >> listen, secretary mayorkas and even president biden, they are in dereliction of duty. l they talked about the laws they were trying to apply. the united states constitution itself requires that the president and the federal government secure the sovereignty of the united states of america colluding the states in the united states of america. and the biden administration has abandoned any pretension of securing the sovereignty of either texas or the united states by having these open border policies that you so well articulated. they have created a magnet that led to these massive groups of ray sans as well as the other groups that are coming here for one reason, and that's because they have sent a message and a signal to the entire world that they are not going to secure the border, they're going to allow them across. you talk to secretary mayorkas, repeatedly asking him why they did not stop the haitians from coming across the border in the first place are. chris, everyone knew

president biden says those involved will pay dhs secretary mayorkas is promising an independent probe> what the images suggest horrified the american public. that is quite different than learning what actually happened, determining the facts, what those images suggest, what they appeared to portray was horrifying. that i think that is quite different than fact determinations. jillian: the texas land commissioner intended different texas attorney general, thank you for being here, we appreciate your time. you heard what the secretary had to say and since these images have come out we've heard from multiple people including the photographer himself saying he never saw anybody being whipped, we heard from the former border patrol chief saying that's not what's happening they were doing their job, you heard so much condemnation for members of this administration and you wonder when this investigation is wrapped up, if it proves to be factual and photographer old and former border patrol and many others, they were just doing their job, how bad would that be for the president and his admini

to follow up on the line of questioning, these are for secretary mayorkas. last time you testified, you admitted your agency had released migrants who have tested positive for covid-19. since then, multiple reports indicated that thousands of covid-positive migrants have been released from dhs custody. in addition, they released a report highlighting that your department has failed to take sufficient covid-19 preventative measures at the border, which puts the dhs workforce and communities at unnecessary risk of being exposed to covid-19. so, to me, it is clear that either your department does not have a strategy or it is not effectively executing a strategy that will effectively mitigate the risks of covid-19 at the border. why is that? >> congressman, we do have a strategy. we concurred in the recommendations of the inspector general's office. we are implementing those recman dagdss. we have made changes and i can walk through the processes that we employ currently with respect to the different populations of migrants whom we are encountering at the border

senator johnson. >> secretary mayorkas. putting a chart that i've been keeping on southwest border. to date this calendar here, have been almost 1.3 million apprehensions. we are averaging last two months 67-6,800 people per day. that is a large caravan per day being apprehended by border patrol. 8-1100 known got a ways. equates somewhere 300,000 got a ways for the year. if you analyze these figures, couple hundred thousand people per month. we'll be up to about 2.1 million apprehensions. add the get a ways. we're. you have repeatedly stated our boarders are not open. they are closed. do you honestly believe that our borders are closed? >> senator, i do. and let me speak to that, we -- >> no. let me ask you a couple questions here. this committee received, it was dated september 11th. but apparently this letter was not received until thursday. i didn't find out about it until yesterday. i release you had it to the public immediately. by recently retired u.s. border patrol chief rodney scott. in this letter, former chief sco

today on fox news homeland security secretary mayorkas was asked about the perception that many migrants make the journey thinking they will eventually get released into the u.s. here's how he responded. >> this is nothing new. we've seen this type of irregular migration many many times throughout the years. i don't know if governor abbott said the same thing in 2019, when there were more than a million people encountered at the southern border. >> mayorkas wouldn't call the situation a flood of people trying to migrate to the u.s. he says the biden administration doesn't agree with the building of the wall and that the law provides individuals with the opportunity to make a claim for asylum. but texas governor greg abbott who also spoke to fox news says president biden is in dereliction of duty, and enough isn't being done to secure the border to protect not only texans but the entire country. >> they've created a magnet that led to these massive groups of haitians as well as the other groups that are coming here for one reason, and that's because they have sent a message and a signal t

admits more than 12,000 haitians have been released into the united states. >> meanwhile mayorkas is now reversing course on president promise to punish on horseback andrea joins us live from washington with the latest. >> we saw 17,000 my graduates camped out thawrngd del rio bridge we know that most of them have been released into the u.s. how many have been released -- >> on conditions and approximately i think it is about 10,000 or so -- 12,000. have been released? >> yes. when we talk about a total of 12,000 or could it be even higher? >> it could be even higher. >> that make shift town for mostly haitian migrants is now cleared as state agencies in texas brace for where caravans might head next but homeland secretary ann alejandro doesn't see this much more than par for the course. >> statistics of your own department show that flood of people coming illegally across border have gotten worse under biden administration. >> wouldn't call it a flood but a large number this year but in 2019 we've saw a large number this is nothing new. >> what is new is con tell nateed of mounted b

senator ron johnson interviewing mayorkas. wouldn't he have the information at the ready? have numbers to share that he didn't want to, what's your take? >> yeah, he better have those numbers as the leader of dhs that's charged with protecting our border. your own eyes are telling us what is happening. people transiting easily back and forth. some appears to be carrying takeout food from the mexican side back to their, you know, chanty town under the bridge. failed leadership of the white house and at dhs with how they are allowing these immigrants to come across the country illegally and -- and really then releasing them quite frankly into the interior of the united states without covid tests or without really anything but a notice to appear. maria: well, matt, i mean, what kind of situation is this in terms of legality? look at the pictures, crowds coming every day, they are traveling through the river, across the road to texas and waiting there. i mean, this does not look like america. what are the legal ramifications here? >> first of all, each one of those people are

so mayorkas needs to go. secretary mayorkas needs to do.know his job and will never fix the border. dereliction of joe biden relies in two areas. he abandoned thousands after afghanistans and now surrendered our border to drug cartels and human smugglers. dereliction of duty on the border as well as afghanistan. >> martha: one other observation. they talk about human behavior. pointing the fingers at these border patrol folks on horseback. they knew the thousands of people were coming. they knew they were crossing. they were warned in june by the border patrol that they needed more people down there. then they have inhumane situation where people don't have water, don't have feed, living in squalor conditions. they have the -- should have sent fema down there to get ready for them and to make sure that they lad a good setup to take care of these people that now they're upset about in terms of an interaction with this person on a horse. it just boggles the mind. thanks, senator. good to see you. >> thank you. >> martha: retired fbi criminal

this is the first time we have heard secretary mayorkas in the white house briefing room. he has talked about it throughout the week. there will ban investigation, it does not hold the ethics and values of his department. but you can tell, as you were just saying there, the last question in the briefing room a few moments ago about the searing history and the hurt and the pain that those images certainly have conjured up, and we heard the secretary there say he also is an immigrant, which is true, but the question is there is still a lack of trust about what will actually come out of this investigation, but he said there will be a thorough investigation. he said this department knows how to investigate the matter, so, you know, regardless of what it was, if it was a chain or a kw whip, we all saw those images. they have suspended the use of horseback at the border there. interestingly he said the migrant camps are empty and tried to make the distinction. one other question is title 42. title 42 is a health initiative, a cdc standard, a health policy, it's not a migration l

mayorkas was interviewed by chris wallace this weekend.ssing him on how many people have been released out of those migrants that were underneath the del rio, bridge, how many of them have been released into back into the united states. steve: right. over the last week, the secretary has been very cagey. they know the numbers. we told you on the program they know exactly the number. when asked go well, i don't know for sure. and people would say, the reporter said how about a ballpark? he said i can't even give you a ballpark. ainsley: he stalled and stalled. steve: look, i'm working 18 hours a day to control this and don't call it a flood. but, yesterday, finally, you know, we did get some clarity. we thought there could be 15,000 people under the written over the last week or so. turns out probably closer to 17,000. will: wouldn't put exact number on how many of those 17,000 have been released into the united states. but, again, to your point, steve, he gave us a ballpark. watch. chris: 17,400 that weren't deported back or didn't return

. >> homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas joined the press club for a discussion on national security and dhs priorities . during his remarks the secretary discussed domestic extremism, illegal immigration and cyber security as being among the most pressing security concerns for the country. >> good afternoon and welcome to the national press club. i'm lisa nicole matthews, 114 president of the national press club and assignment manager of us video the associated press . we will begin in just a few minutes. i want to thank everyone for joining us. and i want to thank everyone for abiding by our covid rules this afternoon. today the honorable alejandro mayorkas, secretary of the department of homeland security is joining us . we will begin in a moment before we do please remember that we are happy to accept your questions and we will ask as many as time e permits. email your questions to headliners@press.org . america is preparing for a very solemn moment on this saturday september 11, 2021. it marks the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on new york and washington that

i know that you're not getting answers from secretary mayorkas but what's your sense?are they doing? where are they going? what cities are they going? are we just going to see them blend into the country and eventually get green cards? what's the plan? >> you know, again, that's the question that we were asking. can you tell us where these folks are going, how many have been released and of course homeland security at the top level, secretary mayorkas, will not answer that question. however, we're very lucky because we have fantastic relationships with those boots on the ground, the border patrol agents themselves. yesterday several of them were watching as we questioned secretary mayorkas and they were feeding us information. had they have told me that they have witnessed haitian migrants being released through the donna processing facility and other processing facilities. and i have a feeling that a lot of them are coming to my home state. florida has a large haitian population and from there they have no court dates, there is no way to know who is going where or how

i respectfully disagree with my friend secretary mayorkas. we did make today. it's terribly important in two separate appearances, the president and vice president acknowledged what occurred was inhumane, the president said there would be consequences and we're seeing that. i acknowledge secretary mayorkas is allowing migrants, asylum seekers to come into the u.s. there are human rights attorneys that need to provide counsel to the asylum seekers. even before, folks were still reeling from the earthquake. they were reeling from tropical storms. that was profound political vie -- violence in the country as a consequence of the unconstitutional extension of the haiti president. he tragically was assassinated in july. woe need to appreciate there is a connection between the policies we're seeing in haiti. i respectfully disagree with the president and the progress they made in short order. i want to say we have to know it works because the combined voices of americans saying this is not us compelled administration to act. >> it was seen people b

. >> trace: mayorkas says -- the biden administration struggles to get a handle on the growing chaos at the southern border. jackie heinrich is live at the white house. good morning to you. >> good morning to you, trace. homeland security secretary count answer congress. they expected he would show up to answer other questions on the second day. that did not happen. mayorkas blaming long workdays and a laser focus on the mission to even be able to say how many haitians are illegally crossing the border. >> congressman, let me share something with you quite clearly. i work 18 hours a day, okay? when i returned from yesterday's hearing, i actually focused on mission. we will get that data both to the senator who posed it yesterday and to you, congressman, today. >> because the department is supposed to have those numbers couldn't answer the question, we asked the white house. they pointed us straight back to dhs and promised us at the white house they would get us the numbers by the afternoon and it never happened. >> i certainly understand why you are asking and people have been askin

. >> secretary mayorkas and president biden, they earn dereliction of duty, it talked about the laws were trying to apply the united states constitution requires that the president and the federal government secure the sovereignty of the united states of america including the state in the united states of america and the biden administration has abandoned any pretense of securing the sovereignty of texas or the united states by having open border policies. lara: here's why the release of so many illegals in the u.s. is so concerning at least one third of them do not show up for the court appearances. a lot to get to, you heard greg abbott calling out joe biden in alejandro mayorkas say there dereliction of duty these men took an oath and swore to protect and to preserve and defend the constitution of the united states, the question is are they doing that are than dereliction of duty? charlie: without a doubt. listening to secretary meyer chris, you would be hard-pressed to find a single thing that came out of his mouth in the interview with chris wallace tht was actually true everyth

this is how mayorkas, who runs the agency that oversees those officials, responded to that today. >> the entire american public, correctly and necessarily, were horrified by what the images suggested. they conjured up such a dark past that we have not entirely put behind us. i think the president echoed the sentiments of the public in terms of what those images suggest. >> mayorkas also suggesting a lot of this is out of his control because he simply can implement the laws on the books, calling our current immigration system completely broken, alex. we should point out, this has been such a tough one for the biden administration to handle because there are so many people within president biden's party who are saying this does not seem consistent with the type of more empathetic approach that the biden administration campaigned on when it comes to people fleeing violence and instability in countries like haiti. but the biden administration, white house officials, also concerned about the perception of looking too lenient on people coming uncontrolled into the country, particularly wit

the department of homeland security alejandro mayorkas set to brief quarters live from the white house as present in biden and vice president harris finally address the haitian migrant crisis at the border more than a week and silence backlash pet hello, welcome everyone, it is friday, i am sandra smith in new york and this is "america reports." hello, john. >> john: hello, sandra, last day this week. i'm john roberts in washington. in looking at a bridge in del rio, texas, where you can see a dramatic difference from just a few days ago. the numbers diminishing from 10,000 migrants to about 3,000 now. >> sandra: it all comes as democrats compare the situation to slavery with false claims of agents on horseback using whips to control crowds of migrants. the white house now facing widespread criticism for failing to offer meaningful solutions to the crisis. >> john: questions linger over how many haitians are being deported and how many are being allowed to stay in the united states. we have live fox team coverage to kick off this friday afternoon. chris wallace joins us in just a minut

forward from advisor stephen miller. >> it is alive from secretary mayorkas is a pathological liar. i spent days on the phone with all of my sources in the us government who work in homeland security and the message is the same across the board. they are making a small cell deporting and full of people, thousands of haitians have been let into the country, thousands more across the border are being let into the country, illegal haitian families being sent to ways to be released, it has been described to me as a shell game. >> it is clear this administration is scrambling. yesterday to see even on some mainstream media even they are doing reports from the border, not just bill. and fox news going to the border but other media outlets and you wonder, the white house finally eight month into their presidency after they unleashed the sport a crisis on all of us are starting to say there may be something here we need to deal with. >> not just reporters at the scene of the border but media in general, some people submitting this agenda from this administration is in danger after multiple

secretary of homeland security, alejandro mayorkas, doing the media rounds this weekend and standingpartment >> i'm intensely and immensely proud of the men and women of the u.s. customs and border protection in fact, in del rio, texas, i saw them act heroically. what those images suggest does not reflect who cdp is, who we are as a department, nor who we are as a country >> i want to bring in nbc correspondent, guad vanagas. tell me what you've seen and ways it like right now >> reporter: good morning, jose. well, thanks for going back to normal herein del rio. they opened the border over the weekend. today, it has opened for commercial vehicles, which is a big deal the mayor of del rio says they were losing $35 million every day, during the time that the port of entry was closed and we also know that the migrants that were here were either allowed to remain in the u.s. while asking for asylum or some in processing centers. secretary mayorkas also said as many as 4,000 have been deported to miami on planes yesterday, we were outside one of these processing centers where congresswoma

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dhs secretary alejandra mayorkas revealing an online legal conference the 13,000 patient migrants are having their cases heard before immigration judge increasingly previously known number of migrants released in the us. >> 12, 13,000, that are placed in immigration proceedings are what we consider to be appropriate. jillian: the big bombshell with mayorkas of anyone in 5 amid a global pandemic. >> a population of people who have a rate of illness of approximately 20%. what that is is the tragic rise of adult a variant. jillian: the white house is not shifting their stance on del rio board of regents displayed images, doubling down and condemning the agents and praising the ongoing investigation. todd: eight after the hour, president biden has a bone to pick with the media catching him off guard with off-topic questions. >> what he said is they are not always on deck and some of the questions are not about the topic he is talking about that day. jillian: does the media's treatment of president biden compared to the treatment of donald trump? joe concha doesn't think so it has a lot to

line has been crossed just as the vice president did by sharing those details of that call with mayorkas yesterday, so it's just part of a pattern and concern that's growing around immigration issue and concern this administration does not have a hold of this problem.

. >>> unos 4 mil migrantes haitianos fueron deportados y mayorkas dijo que esto fue por incumplimientosde los cdc (en inglés) mayorkas dice que cuando las autoridades de salud decidan que no hay más riesgos sanitarios entonces dejara de aplicarse este título 42 . >>> y para muchos migrantes el camino hacia estados unidos comienza en sudamérica de hecho en chile desde el 2010 a 2017 el ingreso de haitianos aumento a 110166 personas al año y en bolivia se aprovechan organizaciones criminales de ellos . >>> estas familias de haitianos son presa fácil de traficantes de personas . >>s> e aprovechan de su estado de necesidad y cobrando diferetnes motnos . >>> llegaron desde brasil y chile donde vivían cerca de 200 mil y ahora escapan a la crisis por la pandemia en su tránsito hacia los estados unidos . >>> es el sueño de nosotros llegar a estados unidos pero nada más, busando nueva vida. >>> su escaso español y situación hace que sean vulnerables. >>> bolivia es un paso de rdiego. >>> 5418 personas hubieran pasado por el territornoi nacional . >>> y son 20 personas imputados por tráfico de pe

christopher wray and alejandro mayorkas are set to testify. he is expected to face tough questions on the border crisis after his visit yesterday to del rio, texas where over 10,000 migrants are living in poor conditions under a bridge. breaking news in the hunt for gabby petito's boyfriend. authorities are turning their attention back to a nature reserve that brian laundrie visited. good morning, trace. >> trace: good morning everyone. i'm trace gallagher. the hunt for gabby's boyfriend is heating up as we await the completion of a body found in wyoming. investigators believe the remains belong to gabby petito. >> dana: after the f.b.i. completed its search of brian laundrie's parents. >> trace: we're learning more about the august 12th incident in utah that prompted police to pull the couple over. here is what a witness told 911. >> what were they doing? >> we drove by and the gentleman was slapping the girl. >> trace: he was slapping her? >> yes, we stopped. they ran up and down the sidewalk and proceeded to hit her, hopped in the car and t

we did call dhs secretary alejandro mayorkas and have not heard back.s like a well-coordinated plan. all of a sudden 30 haitian my grants emerge at the same time, the same overpass for them, the same bridge. they were going back and forth to mexico, getting provisions and food and things like that. and now we're hearing that more reports are on the way. what are you hearing? >> i'm hearing the same, charles. good afternoon to you. good to see you again. you know, it's obvious, very clear that the only thing the biden administration here is for is a wide open border. with as many people as you can possibly bring in the united states knowing full well that most will not report to an ice agent or ice station where they are in the united states. they know this. this is all very orchestrated, very strategic situation that we've seen. yes, we have another 15,000, 20,000 that are headed to the area. headed to the texas border. you know, our secretary of our national security, alejandro mayorkas, who really -- we probably should hand that title over to susan ri

they did this on purpose and did it after mayorkas was on television a couple of time saying he didn'tigation. why is the vice president going out of her way to make clear i'm not happy about this? >> it's an extraordinarily remarkable as you point out so well. i think the vice president is technically on the hook for what happens. the biden administration gave her responsibility for challenges of immigration and these images quite frankly cede the moral high ground. democrats watched what happened at the border under the trump administration and they were rightfully in many cases outraged about what they saw. the president ran on a platform that included changing some of these immigration policies and they have certainly done that in certain ways behind the scenes with regulation but it's these images of these men on horseback with the haitian immigrants that americans are going to remember, and i think it's clear that the vice president wanted to make sure that she was putting mayorkas on notice. >> look, one of the calling cards of candidate biden was i'm going to bring grown-ups in

de las cdc por la pandemia y destacó el gran número de admitidos. >>> (en inglés) . >>> mayorkas dijoe no han más riesgo entonces dejará de aplicarse el título 42 a los inmigrantes . >>> pero además de los deportados otros haitianos decidieron no correr riesgo y llegaron con inmigrantes de otras nacionalidades, vamos a ver otro lado de la historia , maricruz . >>> hola, te saludo con mucho gusto y el estado de nuevo león es el hogar temporal de miles de inmigrantes en su mayoría haitianos que por temor a ser deportados decidieron no viaj a estados unidos y acá autoridades dicen quehabrá una nueva oleada . >>> los albergues han dado un respiro en su tránsito a estados unidos . >>> quiénes llegan acá iban rumbo a acuña pero desistieron y salieron de tapachulas porque las condiciones son precarias. >>>eellos dicen que han sido muy bien tratados en nuevo león solo lo que esperan es que les ayuden a agiliz los trámites migratorios para estar acá . recibir más inmigrantes .an para >>> contabilizamos 1500 migrantes haitianas . >>> esta es cifra en el albergue más grande de méxico, pero tambi

dhs secretary mayorkas will be in del rio having a press conference at noon local time.ave that for you and send it back to you. >> harris: i'm reading notes on that. his availability will be pressed by you and other reporters on the ground. bill, thank you very much. i want to bring in senator marsha blackburn in focus, republican senator from tennessee who sits on the senate judiciary committee and visited the border earlier on in the crisis for a firsthand look. senator, i want to get your firsthand thoughts about what mayorkas may be faced with when he gets to del rio, texas. >> i think -- first of all concerned cbp agents trying to keep order on the border. he is going to hear from them first-hand why they need to have those additional officers on the ground there, why they need additional support. he is also probably going to hear from some of the family members and harris, they are concerned about the disease, outbreaks of measles, other diseases that the border patrol are being exposed to as they try to handle this humanitarian crisis, this health crisis that is

dhs secretary mayorkas telling chris walsh on sunday that more than 12,000 haitians or potentially more have been released. >> sandra: he says the processes in place to make sure migrants make appearances in immigration court but how many of those immigrants actually show up? that's the question that still in the air. former acting ice director tom homan is here and he is standing by to weigh in on that. >> john: but first we go to griff jenkins in upper tula mexico where in the many migrants start their journey north. and there's another group looking like they are ready to go. >> good afternoon. the pipeline of haitians trying to get into the united states stretches all the way to south america through central america and they have all crossed here in tough petula, the southernmost city. there are thousands of migrants, mostly haitian, trying to get papers so that they can get a permit to work here in mexico. as they work their way north, they are all aware of what happen with their fellow countrymen and women who crossed over in del rio last week and the fact that 12,000 or more are

secretary mayorkas put in a pitch for comprehension new reforms. talk about the number of people that need to be processed through the immigration system. these are thousands of people. what's the plan? >> reporter: one of the most interesting things we heard from the secretary, for those who have not been evacuated. 17 evacuation flights back to haiti. he said the u.s. will continue to play a role helping that haitian government to deal with them. >> right. >> reporter: i believe it was 2,000 individuals of the 30,000 who have surged to the border now back in haiti. a number who voluntarily went back to mexico, but then the vast majority of these individuals are now being scattered throughout different border processing facilities. >> right. >> reporter: at the border. what the secretary made clear, most of them are in fact going to be turned away. there is a very high bar as he reiterated for a claim of asylum here. again, democrats are among those who say that that claim should be relaxed here given the circumstances, given the really broken gov

in recent days we have seen the administration specifically allowed mayorkas actor. director for with regard to the haitian migrants saying maybe the administration was finally implementing some solutions but not so fast says forward from advisor stephen miller. >> it is a live from secretary mayorkas who is a pathological liar. i spent days on the phone with all my sources and the us government who work in homeland security and the message is the same across the board. they are making a small soap supporting a handful of people, thousands of patients have been less into the country, thousands more being let into the country, the illegal haitian families being sent to ways to be released, illegal haitian minors are sent to hhs to be released. it is a shell game. todd: as we talked about with regard to afghanistan fake optics. we heard it in afghanistan, the white house focusing on optics and not results. it is happening again here, stop with the shell game, find results, stop the process, time, 9 minutes after the hour, as that crisis raises at the southern border vi

here we have mayorkas that has also spoken bad about them. he tried to back pedal a little bit but it was a little bit too late. and he has access to the actual training manuals. he has access to the agency heads so he can ask direct and specific questions of what is going on. but what can we expect when they are releasing so many individuals pretty much with an nta with hopes and dreams that they show up to their next court date? you mentioned the 12,000 haitians. that's just a small number compared to nearly 1 million that have been released under the administration from january until now. and those 1 million, none have been checked for any kind of viruss. >> harris: i want to unpack that. >> i'm all over the place today. >> harris: that's the lane i want to drive hard in. that number i hadn't heard. it is 1.5 million since the president got into office and allowed to come into the country and have a fantasy that they will show up for court dates. the percentage for people who don't, oh, yeah, it's actually above 60%. on average it takes 89

we called dhs 60s mayorkas and have not heard back. bill, thanks for being here.t is the impact of this migrant surge on your property? >> well, glad to be here. for starters, the property belongs to my son. he purchased it about six years ago. the impact that we're having is with the cut fences, livestock getting out on the road. >> sandra: we're showing pictures of this property, your son's property that you're using and you're allowing this fencing to go up. do you believe this to be a solution to the problem or you think this will stem some of the problems you're having? >> well, i think it will be a deter rented but it's not a solution. we had a fence that was approximately a border fence, a real fence being built approximately two miles upriver from us. the international bridge is right at three miles down river. excuse me. that fence was a deterrent. what we have here is a chain link fence. before they even finished building the fence, there's a photo there, i think yeah have, where they already cut the fence to smuggle illegal drugs and human resources. >>

hold mayorkas accountable. they are looking at the face of the american people and lying to them about what is going on on that southern border. there are families that are being devastated because of this. and maybe what we want to do is just hire every trust that we can hire in the state of texas hire every charter aircraft, bring the national guard c-130s to the border and load these individuals. and take them to maryland and leave them there. and maybe -- [overlapping speakers] >> sean: you are hitting on something important here, governor or secretary, i don't know which you prefer. whichever title you like, you own them all. but the important thing is, one they areth here and joe left thm in. we don't have the ability to deport them. because that is supposed to be the role of the federal government to enforce the law and they dispersed people, no test. no vaccine mandate all around the country and then people come without any money and states bear the burden of food and shelter and education and healthcar

we are reuniting families that were separated. >> reporter: and secretary mayorkas making clear that in del rio, texas, but wolf, those searing images linger on. >> they certainly do. jeff zeleny, thank you. let's look at the crisis on the southern border where at one time 15,000 migrants were camped under the bridge in del rio, mexico. matt is across the river from delly rio. ma -- del rio. matt, what are you seeing and hearing right now? >> we show video proof of that right now, you saw jeff saying it there, secretary mayorkas saying all remaining haitian migrants on the u.s. side have now been removed, either deported to haiti or brought to other parts of the u.s. border with mexico for immigration processing. however, that's a bit different than the scenario that's happening right here on the mexico side. you can see behind me the remains of an encampment here. we can walk a little bit and show you where there are dozens and hundreds of haitian migrants that chose to stay here on the mexico side. these are the point of impact that made the same journey of all those images we've s

secretary mayorkas admitted one in five illegals is coming with some kind of sickness.sick people with covid, they only deserve this when they are wearing a red baseball caps. they will only focus on vaccinations and covid when it fits their political agenda. again, they go after republican state governors, but they don't go after democratic governors who suffer the same problems with vaccination rates and the spread of covid. they use every crisis to their political benefit or attempted political benefit and then when that doesn't work they have to lie. maria: it's been all about optics, it absolutely has. whenever it's good in the pr statement that's the way they will go. we will take a break and when we come back general mark meli will be in the hot seat today on capitol hill and retired general jack keane is here to give us his expectations on the testimony, botched afghanistan withdraw, because to china and how about that while way hostage swap. we'll be right back. maria: welcome back. good tuesday morning and thank you for joining us. i'm mario bartiromo. looking

secretary mayorkas needs to resign. >> harris: on the other side of the aisle maxine waters used that same word. everybody is mad at the president at this point. michael waltz republican congressman from florida and moember of the house armed services committee good to see you today, congressman. okay, they started to attack the visual in del rio, texas. a lot of people out of sight. they aren't out of the country, though. so fixing the visuals is coming at a cost for americans. what do you think it looks like? >> this is a trend, right? i think the only reason they are taking any action at all is because of the visuals and i think that's the only reason they even started an evacuation take this over to afghanistan was because of the visuals around kabul international. otherwise the administration wants to turn the page and get back to its domestic socialist spending program. harris, i want to say loud and clear along the lines of senator graham how our border patrol agents, law enforcement agents are being treated here is abyss mall and shameful and i want them to hear from me loud a