in the rio grande valley last night, border patrol stopped a pickup truck on highway 281 and found migrants crammed into the bed of the truck being smuggled. the driver was arrested. also in the rio grande valley yesterday, again, off of highway 281, a source tells us border patrol arrested this suspected human smuggler who had dressed up as a fake oil worker and had actually cloned an oil field truck to blend in while smuggling four illegal immigrants inside of that truck. and perhaps the most bizarre of them all, border patrol near tucson, arizona found six illegal immigrants dressed in camouflage being smuggled inside of a here's. two u.s. citizens were arrested for snuggling them. >> just this week in the rio grande valley sector. border patrol reports they have arrested multiple criminal illegal immigrants including three gang members, a rapist, a child molester and a mexican national warrant out for aggravated sexual abuse of a child. we will send it back to you. >> bret: bill melugin along the border. bill, thank you. the latest fox business poll shows just 36% of registered voters s

the governor himself visiting the construction site down here in the rio grande valley watching the firsto up. here in the rio grande valley, the busiest part of the mexican u.s. border and they are building here for that reason, this will be the first 1.7-mile stretch of the wall. look at drone video we shot. what you are looking at is historical, the first time ever in the history of united states estate decided to build its own border while, a job left up to the federal government but governor abbott said he has to do it because the federal government simply is not securing the border. >> this unprecedented action is needed for one single reason and it's because the biden administration failed to do its job as required by the constitution and by law passed by congress to enforce the immigration laws of the united states of america. reporter: you mentioned at the top president biden cancel federal wall contracts. here is the result, this video we shot in the last couple of months in the rio grande valley, massive stockpile of steel panels just sitting here this january ever since presid

take a look at this video shot by our drone team in the rio grande valley. this is la joya, texas. e seen before. migrant family turning themself up. dhs says the rio grande valley sector has seen more than 12,000 apprehensions. that is up 13% over the same time frame last year. then del rio sector, where we are. last night we embedded with a elite brush team as they work in the ranches in kenny county. 10-miles inland from the rio grande. they're looking for illegal immigrant runners trying to evade and sneak in. these are not people claiming asylum. they usually have camo and black on. when dps finds them, arrest them, jail them for criminal trespassing. they have made 2300 arrests on these ranches. look at this video here in eagle pass. we shot this yesterday as we watched migrants crossing the rio grande, not just in front of us but right in front of border patrol as well. this group in particular was made up mostly of nicaraguans. there was one man from nigeria as well. lastly we show you the photos out of rio grande valley sector, human smuggling. border patrol making mult pel

government take a look at the video we shot yesterday on the construction bright as us rio grande in the rio grande valleyrt of the us-mexico border. the idea this is an initial 1.7-mile stretch of the wall designed to essentially fill in the gaps where there is no federal law. texas governor greg abbott blasting the federal government and the vita ministration yesterday saying they're not fulfilling their responsibilities when it comes to securing the border. if the feds are not going to build a border wall texas will step up and with themselves take a listen to what he had to say. >> the federal government has abandoned its duty to enforce the laws passed by the united states congress. all president biden has to do is simply enforce the current immigration laws of the united states of america. because he's not doing that, texas taxpayers are having to step up and do his job. >> and president biden first took office back in january we had to member had to cancel federal border wall contracts. what you're looking with the videos here are massive piles of steel that had just been sitting around since janua

real quick, we'll show you this video we shot yesterday where we are in the rio grande valley here injolla. migrants continue to spill in this area. everywhere they are crossing is federal land, there is no federal law. essentially no resistance. these family units shot by the hundreds pretty much every single day looking for border patrol to give themselves up and we talk about how they are coming in from all over the world, dhs source telling me that yesterday border patrol here in the rio grande valley picked up two men traveling together. one was from morocco, the other from syria. we'll send it back to you. >> tucker: amazing. bill melugin for us. so texas is the state into which the majority of these migrants are coming. greg abbott is the governor of texas. he has announced that he's building a border wall in texas to protect his state. grateful to have governor abbott to join us now to explain what he's doing. thanks a lot for coming on. so tell us. you are building a border wall. >> we are. tucker, this is unprecedented both in speed and in reason. never before has a state of

since october 1, there have been over 112,000 migrant apprehensions in the rio grande valley. e are in the middle of december. the numbers are not slowing down. migrants are coming from all over the world. just yesterday in the rio grande valley border patrol agency picked up to men from xerria. -- syria. >> sandra: that's a huge challenge. everyone thatting -- thank you. >> john: build back better is already on the back burner.than. >> john: build back better is already on the back burner. what can stay in the bill? it could strip the bill down even more. congressional correspondent chad pergram. >> and there is the bird rule. >> we will go through the bird rule. >> it's named after a west virginia senator and majority leader robert bird. >> he was mr. process and mr. institution. >> if one knows the precedent. there are times when the senate, he had the senate in his hand. >> in the 1980s lawmakers pass partisan policies. it only needed 51 votes. it was an easy way to muscle through controversial items. bird wanted to stop that and put a guardrail in place. now senators must

this was saturday down in the rio grande valley in mission, texas. drone was after the aftermath. texas dps telling us a human smuggler was fleeing from law enforcement when he went right through an intersection and slammed right into a vehicle with that local mother and daughter. tragically, neither of them survived. they were both locals from mission, texas. you can see some of the photos from the crash showing just how violent it was. one of the migrants was launched through the windshield of the smugglers' -- smuggler's vehicle. that smuggler was arrested along with six other illegal immigrants. there's a 59-year-old mother and 22-year-old daughter that were victims. the suspect wasn't arraigned yet. ness the hospital with injuries from that crash. from the rio grande valley from over the weekend, this is our drone shot. a raft dropped off 11 illegal immigrants in texas. these are the runners, not asylum seekers or people looking to give themselves up. they're dressed in all black or camo actively trying get away from law enforcement. it's unclea

this was saturday in the rio grande valley.h that local mother and daughter tragically neither of them survive, they were both locals from mission, texas, you can see the some of the photos from the crash, they were launched through the windshield of the smuggler's vehicle. that smuggler was arrested as were six other illegal immigrants paired the victims have not been identified yet but sources tell me they are a 59-year-old mother and a 22-year-old daughter. the suspect has not been arraigned yet. he is still in the hospital with injuries from the crash. also from the rio grande valley over the weekend, take a look of this remarkable video and we saw a raft dropping off 11 illegal immigrants in texas. these are the runners, not asylum-seekers, not looking to get themselves up, they are dressed in all black or camo and are actively trying to get away from law enforcement. you can see them right off into the brush. them as they did show up later and we did see a man on the mexican side of the river using a rope to pull that raf

just to put it in perspective, here in the rio grande valley sector where we are, pays very little borderl out here. the source telling us here in the rio grande valley sector, since october 1st, there are more than 11,000 known got-aways that have gone through. as a people they see on cameras or sensors but don't have the manpower to get to them. that is concerning considering the news that came out of arizona with a potential terrorist arrested. i'll send it back to you. speed huge challenges for those agents. bill melugin, appreciate your reporting on that. thank you. >> mike: let's bring in tom homan, fox news contributor former acting i.c.e. director. your reaction to this reporting about the saudi national captured in the yuma sector wearing an ems uniform from upstate new york? >> look, i'm not surprised. i've been saying all year long, when you look at what they do, have the border patrol is no longer holding the line. they are processing family groups and facilities. when half of them is not on the line, that is when the sentinel comes through that killed over 100,000 people this

remains to be seen if it is brought here in the rio grande valley and del rio. administration says they don't support that policy and don't want it. only bringing it back because of a court order. we'll see what happens. >> dana: the white house announcing the u.s. will not send a diplomatic delegation to the 2022 winter olympics in beijing over concerns about china's human rights record. athletes will still compete next month. the diplomatic boycott does not go far enough according to some people. let's bring m tom cotton. they did it yesterday. why do you think it is not enough? >> this is really nothing more than the sleeves off of joe biden's vest. status quo. china would have strict travel controls on diplomats and officials because of their lockdowns. the safety of our athletes is what i'm worried about. i asked the biden administration how they would assure the safety of our athletes and sent me back a letter through restrictive channels, nothing classified and no plan to protect the athletes. whether it's from technical surveillance of their electronic d

last 24 hours alone, there have been more than 1800 encounters with illegal immigrants in the rio grande valleye october, the sector has seen over 105,000 encounters already. that's a 165% increase over the same time last year. and, bret, what we are hearing when it comes to the remain in mexico policy it's first being rolled out in el paso and then it's going to be in brownsville and laredo it has not yet been rolled out in the rio grande valley or in del rio 08 years ago today defended the united states. >> we will never waiver in defense security force sacrifice of that greatest generation and we will carry their legacy forever. ♪ >> bret: we have an update tonight on the push by senate democrats to get the president's massive spending bill, the social spending bill through congress before christmas break. republicans pushing back against it, congressional correspondent chad pergram joins us on capitol hill. i want to go over some of the specifics, chad, but just moments ago senator joe manchin from west virginia talking to "wall street journal" ceo council summit said the unknown of inflati

taxpayers continues to sit unused at storage location in the rio grande valley. governor abbott says texas has reached out to the biden administration about potentially using or purchasing that steel for the texas wall, but says they have gotten no response. >> if they want to be responsible steward for taxpayer money, they should be providing that material either to the state of texas or to the contractors who are working with the state of texas. >> bret, earlier today we did reach out to the white house to ask them about all of that federal steel that's been left unused out here, but we never heard back from them. we will send it back to you. >> bret: bill melugin along the border. bill, thank you. stocks tum could today on covid fears the dow loss 433. the s&p 500 was off 53. the nasdaq dropped 189 today. up next, extremism in the u.s. military why the top brass at the pentagon are concerned about it right now. first, here's what some of our our fox affiliates around the country are corresponding tonight. fox 5 in new york as the jury receives the case in the

just in the last 24 hours, just in the rio grande valley sector alone, there have been more than 1100ce october 1st, the sector has seen over 136,000 encounters. that is up 160% over the same time period last year. on top of that, the rio grande valley sector has already seen more than 12,500 known got-aways just since october. meanwhile in del rio sector, the second busiest, there have been more than 800 migrant apprehensions in the last 24 hours. there have been almost 89,000 apprehensions since october 1st. that's up a staggering 238% over the same time last year and just over the christmas weekend, the del rio sector saw more than 2700 migrant apprehensions including the arrest of three sex offenders, bret? >> bret: you know, bill, after all the months you spent on the border and i know you are heading back that way in a few days, seeing all these challenges this year firsthand, what's the morale like for the border patrol down there? >> bret, it's absolutely rock bottom. and we talked to them every time we go out there on these trips. we talk to then out in the field. their bigge

one more thing to add, a dhs source telling me just here in the rio grande valley since october 1 more than 11,000 known gotaways just in this sector. migrants they see on the cameras and sensors and don't have enough manpower to get to. >> dana: important for all americans to see that steel. >> president biden: i'm not going to shut down the economy or the kun tree. i'm going to shut down the virus. >> zbl* that was candidate bite en 14 months ago at omicron shuts down broadway shows and nba games. do we face a major testing crisis? dr. saphier will talk to us about that. >> dana: we'll speak to someone rescued from afghanistan. plus this. >> that is six in a row. >> bill: sweet weekend. tigers woods and his son charlie going on a birdie spree. we'll tell you whether they won it or not coming up next. (vo) nowadays, business can happen anywhere, anytime. with verizon business unlimited plans, you can get 5g, truly unlimited data, and more hotspot data. so you can run a bakery from the blue line. ha! cupcake. or collaborate with clients from the concourse. and to get your team geared u

it is not yet rolled out in the rio grande valley or del rio.porting from la jolla, fox news. >>> we have a little bit of rain this morning, a very little bit and a little bit more wednesday night into thursday morning and then we will see a lot of rain after that and that's what we are going for. a load to the north coming in late tomorrow night into early thursday. remember i said they break, it comes down, you can really see this but picture the low dropping in on the high we can get allowing a pathway for a much bigger event on thursday, not thursday part of me but sunday. this thursday event looks like it's in the mountains for snow, a few inches with a winter weather advisory. we will see light scattered showers similar to what we saw which was a few hundreds of an inch of rain. here is the big picture, system number one is gone, wednesday into thursday you can see it is focused more on the west slope of the sierra nevada which then breaks off another jetstream is reasonable with its latitude so look at this thing sunday into monday that a

so far, nothing has been restarted where we are in the rio grande valley or del rio.>> great stuff, thank you very much. last month u.s. customs and border protection encountered 164,000 migrants attempting to cross us-mexico border. that's an increase of 128% over the october number from master assuming for a moment the biden team really want to slow down to illegal border crossings, what are they doing wrong? taken up with penile county sheriff, advisory committee member sheriff mark lam, good to see you. thanks for being here. first of all, remain in mexico policy, the reinstallation of that policy help things down at the border? >> it will help eventually but my first reaction is it's about time. the judge told them to do this august 24. it's been three months. can you imagine if you or i would have failed to comply or defy judges order for three months but i guarantee you with therapy a different set of punishment for us for not following that. at least they are now doing it, i know they are milking this out as long as they can and until they implement it, it wil

star county, the rio grande valley, biggest hot spot across the u.s.-mexico border. looking at the first wall panels going up what will be the texas border wall this will be a 1.7-mile stretch of that border wall built on texas land, spent with texas dollars. the idea being they're going to fill in the gaps where there is no federal wall. governor abbott first promised this back in june six months ago, announcing texas would bill its own wall. you're seeing the wall materialize. the federal government simply isn't doing its job so texas will fill the void. take a listen. >> the federal government abandoned its duty to enforce laws passed by the united states congress. all president biden has to do is simply enforce the current immigration laws of the united states of america. because he is not doing that. texas taxpayers are having to step up and do his job. reporter: speaking of taxpayers, you mentioned all that unused steel, look at this video we shot with our drone at different storage locations in recent months. we all remember president biden halted all border w

was shot with our drone yesterday of the construction site this is in stark county here in the rio grande valley these are the initial first panels going up, of the texas border wall built on texas land with texas money. this is an initial 1.7-mile stretch that is designed essentially to fill the gaps where there is no federal golf law. governor abbott said they will ask then the law federal private landowners have offered their land for it to build a wall up ever since the feds canceled the federal wall with the board being unsecure they've got to do it themselves at the cost of texas taxpayers, take a listen. >> the federal government has abandoned its duty to enforce the laws passed by the united states congress. all president biden has to do is simply enforce the current immigration laws of the night states of america. because he is not doing that, texas texas taxpayers are having to step up and do his job. >> immediately upon taking office present biden canceled all construction of the federal border wall the images you see are staggering. what you are looking at is all the leftover steel a

we see what happened down here in the rio grande valley, one of the most active part of the border, there'sroopers love it. if the fed are going to do it, we will do it ourselves. >> quick about your great reporting this week, i've been running around, you've been on tv all week reporting but no all migrants are in the northern triangle or from haiti, a few arrests were coming in. >> two days ago here in the rio grande valley, two men traveling together, one was from syria and one from morocco. last week they've picked up more than 3500 illegal immigrants in one single weekend. syria and lebanon, we've seen people from northeast africa, they are coming in from all over the world, 120 countries and so far. it's not just the northern triangle countries, kamala harris says she's focusing on guatemala, honduras and the root causes which is great but what about these other countries showing up? >> important reporting because we have the governor talking about sovereignty of the country, not just texas. great work. greg abbott wrapping up his news conference, here is the new texas border wall, we

also in the rio grande valley yesterday morning. what you are looking at is what law enforcement tell me is a fake oil field worker human smuggling trying to dress up as an oil worker and cloned an oil field truck and had four illegal immigrants smuggling inside that truck. that driver also arrested for human smuggling and perhaps the most bizarre of them all if we can pull up this photo here. this was monday night in border patrol tucson sector. they pulled over a hearse being driven by two u.s. citizens and six immigrants. human smuggling incidents very dangerous. pull up the photos here. we remember this past weekend two innocent people killed. the suspect here. 18-year-old. he is now charged with two counts of murder amongst a lot of other charges. bail set at 3.3 million dollars. but let's talk about the victims here. this is the first one, the mother, 59-year-old carmen a local resident of mission, texas. then we'll show her daughter. 22-year-old, also a mission, texas resident. just posted on facebook she bought a new car. th

this is right now down in the rio grande valley in la joya, texas, you can pull up this video from an hour ago, 50 of them came through, something we see every single day down there. dhs source telling me since october 1 in the rio grande valley 112,000 migrants have been encountered down there. up 163% compared to the same time last year and dhs sores tells me there are 10,000 known gotaways just in october and our sector alone. here in del rio sector. last night embedded with texas dps to the early morning hours working the private ranchs in kinney county. dense, brushy land. what are they doing? looking for runners, illegal immigrants who cross in the middle of the night wearing camo or black and not turning themselves in. they don't want to be caught. texas dps the only ones working these areas. no border patrol agents out there. they don't have the manpower. they are finding single adult men arresting and jailing them for criminal trespass. 10,000 arrests since march alone. right where we're standing yesterday afternoon in eagle pass, texas. once again we have seen this many time

nothing has happened with remaining mexico in the rio grande valley or in del rio.the administration does not want to bring back remaining mexico. they disagree and the only reason to listen to the court order will have to see what happens with that. that's incredible 1800 apprehensions in the area in the last 24 hours grade reporting, always appreciated. after that i'm going to change subjects. new york city's mayor, bill de blasio expands the city's vaccine mandate. enter big time. study december 14, kids age 5 - 11 will need to show proof of vaccination for all indoor dining, fitness and entertainment, two doses will now be needed for new yorkers over the age of 12. mayor de blasio is floating the idea of boosters for all out else. he likes mandate. andy puzder drains me now. to me what they're doing in new york with the vaccine mandates is draconian and disastrous for the city, why am iran. >> you're not wrong. >> i went to my favorite restaurant and they asked me for my vaccination card, that the first time i've ever been asked for vaccination card tennessee th

as usual, rio grande valley sector continues to be the busiest along the border.ere are the family units streamed in is all federal land. federally owned land. no border wall here. a free for all. people can get across the river and walk in and give themselves up which is what you are looking at here. the drone video we shot yesterday morning. it was entirely different groups of migrants showing up. you can see they just stream into the la jolla area. we see it almost every day out here. dhs source telling me since october 1, 112,000 migrant en courters have already taken place in the rio grande valley sector alone. numbers up 164% xwaird to the same time period last year. there is barely any federal wall and much of it is federal land and now governor abbott says where there is state land we'll build a texas wall. back here live we talk about how the migrants continue to come in from all over the world. dhs source tells me yesterday border patrol picked up two migrants, one from syria and one from morocco both traveling together. just goes to show you they're com

you can take a live look overhead right now, this is rio grande city in the rio grande valley, the busiestreg abbott is saying he has to because the federal government isn't doing their job when it comes to building a federal or wall, all contracts were canceled so he set the state of texas will step up and fill the void. picking up the federal wall, look at this video, once the contracts were canceled by the biden administration, look at this unused steel unused sitting on ground, tens of millions of dollars worth already bought and paid for by u.s. taxpayers and i asked governor abbott earlier, is the state of texas able to use it? he said no, they've approached the federal government and asked about repurposing it and they haven't even got a response. >> if they want to be responsible stewards for taxpayer money, they should be providing that material either to texas or the contractors working with the state of texas. otherwise the biden administration has on its resume wasting billions of taxpayer money doing absolutely nothing. >> the bottom line is we know the biden administration th

when she did come she visited el paso, hundreds of miles from the heart of the problem in the rio grande valleyextensively and the fact that you have this entrenched democrat border, is fully more aware of what is happening on the border offering advice to the vice president, that does not bode well for how seriously she's taking this crisis. benjamin: congressman cuellar released a video showing this early on. the biden administration keeping the media away them. vice president harris did not respond. the biden administration, you can get hold of their office and respond, return your call, the vice president's office doesn't do that. griff: we saw that he looks forward to working with the vice president, writing the ship on the tension between the two democrats. one thing is for sure. whether the office picked up the phone behind the scenes and called cuellar and said what is with the shame you are throwing, there is no plan, no leadership, no indication vice president harris, the numbers right now are unbelievable. this is the part of the year the migration should slow down. it is skyrocketin

this video from our drone in the rio grande valley.saw a drop of 11 illegal immigrants. they ran into the brush. not turning themselves in and not claiming asylum. it's unclear if they were caught. border patrol showed up a short time later. back out here live. temperatures are dropping. nothing is slowing down out here. >> sandra: you will continue to report on it. thank you. >> trace: after the senate voted to repeal the federal covid-19 vaccine mandate for private businesses, the gop backed resolution headed to the house. will members take up the measure. south carolina congresswoman will weigh in next. -up-like-this migraine medicine. it's ubrelvy. one dose can quickly stop my migraine in its tracks within 2 hours. don't take with strong cyp3a4 inhibitors. most common side effects were nausea and tiredness. ask about ubrelvy, the anytime, anywhere migraine medicine. as a dj, i know all about customization. that's why i love liberty mutual. ask about ubrelvy, the anytime, they customize my car insurance, so i only pay for what i nee

americans which is why as i pointed out before they are moving toward the republican party in the rio grande valley the way up the east coast as well. >> it is not about politics, it's about human life, carmen's family in law enforcement, her sister who retired from law enforcement, this president shows that he doesn't care about americans left behind in afghanistan, doesn't care what inflation is doing to the american family, just doesn't care, put these radical policies of the left, open borders on the line and people are paying a price. when our soldiers are killed in the line of duty the federal government reaches out, the president will go to delaware and see the coffins come back in. i argue these people on the border are on the front lines and they deserve the same dignity from your office so at least call that family, mister president ask jen psaki if the president even cares, if he knows. carmen sosa, 59, her daughter, 21, probably sitting there at the stop sign a moment before their death i this 18-year-old smuggler racing at 70 miles an hour, he never hit the brakes, probably talking abo

and then we'll show you the video from yesterday in the rio grand valley. la hoya migrants continue to spill in. everywhere they're crossing is federal land. no federal wall. there's no resistance. these units show up by the hundreds pretty much every day looking for border patrol to give themselves up. we talk about how they're coming in from all over the world. a source telling me yesterday border patrol picked up two men traveling together. one from morocco and the other from syria. back to you. >> amazing. so texas is the state in to which the majority of these migrants are coming. greg abbott is the governor of texas and announced he's building a border wall in texas to protect his state. this strikes us as big news. and grateful to have governor abbott join us to explain. thanks for coming on. so tell us, you are building a border wall? >> we are. tucker, this is unprecedented. both in speed and in reason because never before has a state of the united states of america had to step up and build its own border wall. we have to do that because of all the

in texas's rio grande valley at the instruction of governor greg abbott the state of texas started constructionst time a u.s. has everdone this. the first wall panels went up in star county. a 1.7 mile stretch meant to fill in gaps where there is no federal law. it's built on state land with state mondayy. -- money. >> the biden administration abdicated its constitutional obligation to enforce the laws of the united states. texas is going to step up and enforce those laws. >> texas cannot use the steel from the piles that were bought and paid for by the federal government. those materials have been sitting in storage since january. that's when president biden halted all of form's president trump's wall construction. the feds won't sell that metal to texas despite having no intent of using. the contractor was building this ball. as you can see construction never finished. now that contractor is building for texas and governor abbott. >> illegal immigrants are crossing over federal land and border agents are overwhelmed. >> the biden administration tied the hands of the unit border patrol limitin

take a look at our live fox drone up in the air, this is are rio grande city in the middle of the rio grande valleyt you're looking at are the very first wall panels. this is ultimately going to be a 1.7-mile stretch designed to fill in gaps. take a look at video we shot the other day. no state has ever built its own border wall before. typically, that's the federal government's job, but governor greg abbott has said because the feds aren't building the wall because the biden administration canceled it, the state of texas has to step up and do it itself. and the contractor had previously been building president trump's wall until they were canceled. now, as you can see, they are building for greg abbott and the state of texas. this is all texas land, and it's being paid for by the state of texas. meanwhile, take a look at this video we hot the other day, migrants in that hot spot area where there is no federal wall. family units constantly pouring in, they look to give themselves up to border patrol. and a dhs source tell us us in the last 24 hours alone in the rio grande vector, there have been ab

another very busy morning in the rio grande valley in la jolla. how many times have we shown you this before. a broken clock every day. what you are seeing here is a bunch of family units being apprehended as well as runners and more keep showing up here by the minute. we've shown this almost every morning for the past 8 or 9 months now. this is something that happens out here every day as the federal government just the same situation every day here. it looks like a group of runners being put on the bus right here. we have the family units to the right. talk about how busy a morning it has been. look at the live fox drone in -- you see the pickup truck in a mud. it flew by us earlier this morning and dps and border patrol chasing it. the driver was arrested and seven illegal immigrants in the vehicle. take a look at this piece of video. a border patrol processing center for people who will be title 42. the ones who will be returned back to mexico. hundreds of people in this processing center almost all single adults usually single adult men. one

this rio grande valley is the incenter of the trumps zero tolerance that led to the forcible celebration of more than 2,000 children from their parents. people are asked it keep families together rally here have walked forward to enter the federal courthouse in brownsville where so many migrants have been taken. so many migrants separate interested their children. they are demanding to go inside. police are hear the department of homeland security. we will see what happens. >> we are here to request access to the court hearings that are taking place. that is the main reason. we want to be in the hearings. [chanting] >> we are about to enter federal courthouse to see the freedom of the children and see trump said the parents won't be separated but he said they should not have court or lawyers or judges. amy: on looks night 2018 alexandria ocasio cortez gave democracy now! one of her first interviews when she was elected to congress. >> i believe that our president has abdicated his responsibility as leader of all people and clearly drawn lines to which americans he champions appear which

unaccompanied minors into south texas as the cvp reveals 2200 migrants were detained in the rio grande valley4 hours. that region has seen 100,000 illegal encounters since october first, 163% increase compared to the same period last year. a new wave of migrants rushing the border at the biden administration relaunches the trump era remain in mexico policy. people planning to come here. carley: a new op-ed argued the court system is the only way to keep the white house in line. national border patrol council president brandon judd rights president biden's border crisis gets worse by the minute. easy-going to be created a disaster of monumental proportions and brandon joins us now. you say when it comes to the border the court system is the solution. elaborate on that. >> the only reason the protocols are going back in place is because a federal judge ruled the biden administration illegally got rid of the program. this is a coequal branch of government equal to the executive branch and they are able to go in and look at and review the actions the executive branch took and because the biden ad

is why frankly, as you pointed out before, they are moving toward the republican party in the rio grande valley up the east coast as well. >> yeah. laura, and this isn't about politics, this is about human life. this family, by the way, they are carmen's family in law enforcement. her sister is retired from law enforcement, and her brother-in-law. this president -- this president shows that he doesn't care. he doesn't care about americans left behind in afghanistan. he doesn't care what inflation is doing to the american family. he just doesn't care. he's put these radical policies of the left and open borders on the line and people are paying a price. you know, laura, when our soldiers are killed in the line of duty, the federal government reaches out to the family, offers condolences. sometimes the president will go to delaware, see the coffins come back in. i would argue that these people on the border are on the front line, mr. president, and they deserve the same dignity from your office. so at least call that family, mr. president, ask jen psaki tomorrow the press conference if the presid

unaccompanied migrant youth into south texas as cpp reveals 2200 migrants were detained a in the rio grande valley sector within 24 hours. the region has seen worth 100,000 illegal encounters since october first, 163% increase from the same time period last year. iowa senator chuck grassley and many republican slamming potential state and local tax repeal a democrat proposed spending bills many gop lawmakers note repealing the south e help the ultra rich. grassley saying democrats always want you to believe they are always worried about the middle class, in this particular time build back better really stands for blue state billionaire bailout. according to the urban institutions tax policy center, repealing the assault plan would give middle-class families an average tax cut of just $20 while almost all tax benefits would go to the top 20% of us earners. interesting. todd: the ceo digital mortgage company better.com make the shocking announcement in a zoom call as we enter the holiday season. >> i do not want to do this. last time i did i cried. we are laying off 15% of the company. >> you got to

also in the rio grande valley take a look at this video this is texas where we saw a raft drop off a of them were just an all-black these are people who do not want to turn themselves in and trying to evade law enforcement. our drone saw a man using a rope to pull the raft back to the other side in mexico border patrol responders, it's unclear if the group of runners was ever caught. in del rio sector we were out with texas dps until 3:00 a.m. last night were working with airbrush unit they go out to private ranches in kinney county and hunt for illegal runners who are trying to obey law enforcement this is deep rugged terrain sometimes in the middle of nowhere and the troopers go out there and find his runners and bushes and these are people who do not want to turn themselves in. the women the catcher turned over to border patrol in the single adult men are arrested and jailed criminal trespassing. we talk about how busy the del rio sector has been, telling us october 1 in the sector there have been more than 70000 migrant apprehensions, that is up 235% from the same time. last year

there's been no slow down whatsoever down here in the rio grande valley sector. the busyist area.ll show you activity here. take a look. we went out on a exclusive ride along with texas dps in the middle of the night. didn't take long to find activity. you'll see a human smuggler bringing a raft to shore. runners go taking off in the brush trying to get away. other people were on the board and not able to get off. it was women, children, family units. the texas troopers went up there and tried to catch them. take a look at this video. they went after them in to the brush. they tracked some of them down and holding some of them at gun point as they tried to hide, telling them to put their hands up and put them in handcuffs and took them away. this is part of a bigger operation in la jolla because of how busy the activity is. they're doing it in the daytime as well. look at the video from the helicopter showing us what they're doing out here. they're putting about 30 boats in the water owned by the state of texas to try to deter the rafts from coming across and stopping people from

also from the rio grande valley yesterday, if we can pull up this drone video our team shot h.aft dropped off 31 is illegal immigrant -- 11 illegal immigrant runners who took off into the brush. black.ere dressed in mostly all) clearly, they did not want to be apprehended. a guy on the mexican side of the river used a rope to pull that raft back over into mexico. unclear if those runners were ever caught. they did end up responding to the area. then brings it here to where we are in the -- bringing it here to where we are, we were out with texas dps until 3:00 in the morning last night where they were working private ranches about 10 miles inland where illegal immigrant runners try to go through the area in the middle of the night, obviously, not want toing to turn themselvs in. elite guys out there, extremely rugged terrain. we were with them as they arrested multiple people, and texas dps are the only people working those private ranches. border patrol is not out there. all the single men they capture are arrested and taken to jail for criminal trespassing. back out here live

this is rio grande city, right in the middle of the rio grande valley here in texas, one of the busiestng the u.s./members ecoboard -- mexico border. you take a look at this wall, you're going to see the crane here, texas flag on top of it. this is a texas-built wall built on texas land, built with texas money. talk a look at this video we shot of the construction earlier today with our fox drone. again, texas governor greg abbott saying that this had to be done because the federal government is not securing the border or. what you're looking at is an initial 1.7-mile stretch of the wall designed to essentially fill in the gaps where the federal government never built a border wall out here. and governor greg abbott was out here touring the construction earlier, taking a look at these first wall panels going up. and he said for any critics who think it's not going to to be effective; think again. take a listen. >> it doesn't look like those bars are all that big. i have with me, this is the steel bar. it's heavy and it's wide. people aren't making it through those steel bars. >> reporte

this happened saturday afternoon down in the rio grande valley in mission, texas. texas dps said law enforcement was chasing an 18-year-old human smuggler loaded with illegal immigrants. he t-boned a vehicle with the innocent mom and daughter. tragically they both passed away ages 59 and 22. take a look at the photos given to me by a source from the scene of that crash showing how violent it was. one of the migrants was launched through the windshield of that smuggler's vehicle. he was okay. none of the migrants passed away. only the mother and daughter. horrible situation there. we're told the smuggler is an 18-year-old u.s. citizen. we'll keep you posted when we hear on that possible arraignment and his charges. in the rio grande valley we saw a raft dropping off 11 illegal immigrants in texas. these were the runners you. you'll see they are dressed in all black and take off into the brush. they don't want to be caught and evading law enforcement. man on the mexican side of the river with a hope to pull the raft into mexico. border patrol responded to the area bu

this is in particular the rio grande valley 2020 to 2021. sector the rio grande valley is up 175%, yuma up massively. all border sectors up across the border but some more so than others, how is it that the illegal immigrants focus on some areas, why in some areas versus others? >> well, look, the criminal cartels pay attention to the border patrol resource and where they are. let me say something straight. the 173,000, that may be accurate number on encounters. that's not a total number of illegal crossings in the united states. one thing this administration is doing. they are playing a shell game. they will say okay, the numbers went down from 212 to 180. yeah, the number ever arrests went down. but the number of got-aways increased because what the border patrol is doing, like they did in yuma last week. they had so many people crossing the border in yuma, there wasn't any border patrol agents on the line. they are all processing people. when they do people. more people come across and got-aways. less encounters means more got-aways. you

>> i think as you see the crisis in the rio grande valley make start to crack down and put more resourcess well. liz: good to see you, thanks for joining us. i'm elizabeth mcdonnell, you have been watching the evening edit on foxbusiness, thank you for watching. have a good evening during this again tomorrow night. ♪♪ kennedy: breaking news from the verdict is in, jussie smollett is very much guilty on five of the six counts against him and now he's looking at up to 15 years in prison for lying about a phony hate crime. the jury only needed about eight hours to deliberate and found evidence overwhelming. claim two is beat up by two guys screaming this is mag a country in chicago. in the middle of the night. during a frigid snowstorm. he testified

in rio grande valley, 29% of migrants across there -- the cartel goes there. >> harris: juarez. >> kayleighcriminals who committed these atrocities on the beach as american tourists are swimming and going about their vacation. >> harris: you heard tomi talking about how you cannot necessarily depend on mexican forces to help out americans in these instances. they've got a lot of crime down there. get in line for them. are we not teaching the world what we think about crime like that by our own people not being able to adjudicate cases and keep criminals off the streets? the world looks at us when we go to other places and things happen to us, and i don't want to get to a point where they say "americans must not mind much when they get robbed or whatever it is. they put up with that at home." >> emily: great point. throwing stones. the point we often make up our conversations like this, the people that are at the are law-abiding mexican citizens who are losing family members to cartels, or law-abiding tourists who are losing their lives needlessly in violently like tomi's friends. the people

and as the sun sets behind me here across the rio grand valley on yet another day, it has been anothery one for u.s. border patrol agents and other law enforcement agents working on the ground and the officials here on the ground tell us they're not so sure that that reenstatement of the policy will deter migrants from continuing to come to the southern border and cross it illegally. look at this video shot overnight by our photojournalist brian all monday showing agents apprehending group it was a big one about 250 people near the river in la jolla texas really 24 hour rays day seven days week numbers show no sign of it slowing any time soon down here. texas state senator don buckingham and she's also a republican candidate for texas land commissioner says that she does recognize humanitarian side of this all but you cannot forget the criminal aspect as well she says. listen. >> yes, of course, there are delft people who need asylum and fleeing something terrible but we have to see a lot of crime, a lot of human trafficking, record amounts of drugs recovered. reporter: those on the fr

also video out of the rio grande valley from this weekend. look at this.a raft dropping off 11 illegal immigrants. they are dressed in all black. they are running into the brush, actively trying to get away. these people are not claiming asylum, not turning themselves in. border patrol was not in the area later. unclear whether they were caught. we saw the raft pulled back into mexico by a man on the other side of the river with a rope. undoubt owedly using the raft sometime in the future. late with texas dps we were embedded with the elite brush unit with the private ranches in kenny county. what they're doing out here looking for illegal immigrant runners not willing to turn themselves in. this is desowe late, thick, brush, terrain, finding dozens of migrants in all could of hours embreaded with them. mostly single adult men. they're arresting and jailing them for criminal trespassing. they're not handing them over to border patrol. last piece of video we wanted to show you happened where we're standing this morning. groups continue to cross the rio gran

there is a story here in texas who lives in the rio grande valley.ntment. many people don't have paid time off. that's just the beginning. there is child care, money, lodging, food. can you talk about the women coming in and getting care? because i think a lot of republicans believe that abortion is some casual thing people are choosing to do like a fun thing to do on their day off and they don't care and there is no emotion involved and they're not concerned. can you just talk about the women that you're seeing and who are they? >> yeah, just to respond to that, you know, i don't think it's republicans don't understand. they don't care. it's the caring part that is missing for so many of them. the people i see are thoughtful. they know what is best for them. they often times have kids at home. they know what it's like to be pregnant and it's important to think about pregnancy in and of itself. carrying a pregnancy has physical tolls and mental it wills -- tolls and that's something someone has to decide and consider to take on if it's right for thei

that was saturday afternoon down in the rio grande valley mission, texas.hen his car was loaded up with illegal immigrants. he flew through intersection and slammed into a vehicle belonging to texas mother and daughter none of them survived that crash. they were ages 59 and 22 you can see some of the photos. one of the migrants got launched through the windshield of that human smuggler's vehicle. again, the mother and daughter locals from mission, texas but six illegal immigrants and the driver were all arrested but the driver has not officially been charged yet because he is still in the hospital. one more thing to show you, talk about how busy the border has been lately. this is del rio, sector where we were last night. we went out in the late early morning hours elite units working the private ranches in kenny county. 10 miles inland from the border. illegal immigrant runners. dressed in black and camo not giving up. not claiming asylum. not turning themselves. in these people want to get away. just in the span of a couple hours we saw troopers arrest do

also add in the rio grande valley, look at this video. of 11 then illegal immigrants who we saw dropped off on a raft. you can see they are mostly wearing black and they just go running into the brush trying to get away. border patrol was not in the area and we didn't immediately see them capture and unclear what happened with them. final thing to show you, the video we shot last night as we were out until 3:00 a.m. this morning working at the private ranches in kenney county where they will looking for illegal immigrant runners about 10 miles inland, the people that don't want to be caught and aren't willing to turn themselves in. arrested those runners late in the morning hours. back to you. arthel: bill, we will take it. they are live at the border in texas. thank you. eric: talking with iran over its nuclear program, but guess what, ron says we want the money first our next guest says talking to iran is a waste of time. senator jim risch explains why. is struggling to manage your type 2 diabetes knocking you out of your zone? lowering

we saw what happened in the rio grande valley where this part of the country, many latinos and latinasnas in particular respond to this is really what the future holds for the country. i'm still holding on to the fact that what just happened in chile where you had a dictatorship where they not only banned books, but they killed artists like victor hara, a young president was democratically elected. so there is only so much you can do to keep this down. >> andrew, i have about 30 seconds left and a question that cannot possibly be answered in 30 seconds, and that is banning or burning books has a very long history in this country. should we be afraid? >> we should be very afraid. we are living in the moment of backlash, and at a time of the annihilation of free speech. and in one justice, one has to confess this comes not only from the right but also from the left. that in the polarization that is an affliction in our country, particularly from the right but also from the left. there is a silencing of voices, and a silencing of voices is the first and most basic step toward an autocracy

crossed illegally to le hoya in the remain in mexico policy has not been implemented in the rio grande valleygrants continue to come in. single adult men with one agent telling us more than 500 people were processed there on his shift alone. martha, circling back to fentanyl, cbp says they have seized more than 12,000 pounds of the opioid this year. that's enough to kill several billion people. this as the cdc announced for the first time, more than 100,000 americans died of the drug overdoses in one year. back to you. >> martha: thanks, bill. all right. so let's bring in lieutenant chris oliveras, spokesman for the texas department of public safety. great to have you with us today. this is such a terrifying situation along the border especially when you talk to parents that have kids who take one pill of this that someone gives them and they think it's one thing and the next thing you know, they're dead. it's a one and done situation tragically in many of these cases. how can this be stopped? >> good to be with you, martha. the numbers are astonishing. not only what we've seen as far as a st