the public did not become aware of tda until recently. that's because the fbi and border patrol agents say many people ignore them or just did not believe them. >> in nicaragua has no limits, has no boundaries, and there is no stopping them once they get the foothold. >> border patrol agents and the fbi say that tda is constantly on the move. they infiltrate different cities, build their networks, and go after these vulnerable populations and just exploit them, john. >> john: brooke taylor with the latest for us. appreciate it. now this. ♪ ♪ [singing] ♪ ♪ >> sandra: anti-doge protesters defiant, but that is not stopping the trump administration from pushing forward with its mission. that all agencies are key in putting this all into motion. department of interior says it is completely and praising the doge effort. how? let's ask him ourselves. mr. secretary, great to have you on the program today. first off, detail to us, how has doge so far hit the interior? >> are to be both of you. this is -- the bloat in federal government is so huge.

says the tda is constantly on the move. they infiltrate cities.y take over these cities and they build up their networks and then they find the most vulnerable populations and exploit them, dana. >> dana: thank you so much. >> bill: president trump is applauding the sharp drop in illegal crossings since he took office posting this over the weekend. the border is closed to all illegal immigrants. anyone who tries to illegally enter the usa will face significant criminal penalties and immediate deportation. cbp data shows the number of encounters plummeted. lowest level in 25 years last month. paul perez is the president of the national border patrol council. year by year, you had 8300. look where you were a year ago. 189,000 for the same month one year ago. all right. this is no accident. what do you think is the factor that did this? >> well, number one, the policy changes that president trump put into effect right away ending catch and release and making sure that there are criminal penalties for anybody that is entering the country illegally was

we took seven tda members off the street.ok two illegal aliens convicted of murderer that they released took them off the street. we arrested six child predators took them off the street of chicago. ice is making every one of those cities safer releasing public safety threats back into the public. that on itself is just stupid policy and we're going to keep going. look, they can hate me all they want. we are coming. i said i'm going to bring hell. i meant it. i'm going to stand by it. and i'm going to do it. we're going to take child predators off the streets of these cities where they don't want to do it. >> laura: you guys are going as fast as you can with deportation. obviously you need a lot more, a lot faster. we have tens of thousands a week ideally. these mayors, tom, insist that their cities are safer, watch. >> the city is also safer because of our welcoming city ordinance. that law makes sure that the city's police resources are focused on our local priorities chicagoens welcoming city ordinance laws and foleys do n

chicago venezuelan national tied to the tda gang deported.ed tda gang member released from jail over sanctuary policies and assaulted police officers being rearrested. boston michelle wu, guatemalan national arraigned by raping a child by force. in october of 2022 released on pretrial conditions and rearrested three years later. what do they say? molly line has a preview in boston now. good morning. >> good morning, bill. the mayor of boston joining these other saffron wear city mayors on that panel tomorrow in washington, d.c. before the house oversight committee. michelle wu plans to defend this city but acknowledges there has been some hype. >> well, we have already seen some material put out in advance that seems designed to the try to heighten interest and frame it as some kind of showdown or dramatic moment. >> that could be a reference to a video released by the house oversight committee touting a promise to hold the mayors publicly accountable. republican representative james comer of tennessee claims the mayors of boston, chicago, de

. >> brian: tda, right?lawrence: yeah. >> brian: in terms of money that's being spent on illegal immigrants. new york, $6.9 billion, right? and they are running out of money. they need $9 a across the middle of the city so-called congestion pricing. mayor johnson figured out 7 # million. he would not give -- would not talk about what percentage of budget. the mayor of boston would not answer that question. would only say we don't ask about immigration status. s that's how we keep our city safe. >> ainsley: you can't run a city and just have an open wallet. and not know how much you are spending. she definitely knows. she just doesn't want to answer. >> brian: bob kraft's son running for mayor as a nonpartisan in boston. please elect a nonpartisan. if you can't elect a conservative. but, i think this is an opportunity for someone, a republican to run for that -- for the party to get organized in urban environments. >> ainsley: now to a developing story, officials charging two men in the death of three kansas

. >> and just this week, this illegal migrant and suspected tda gang member is on the loose in chicago, despite being a suspect in a shooting death last september and a weapons arrest back in october. also, john, you may remember here in new york back in december, an illegal migrant from guatemala was arrested and charged with lighting a woman on fire and killing her in the new york city subway, and the immigration detainer in that case was not honored. we will send it back to you. >> john: i remember all of those incidents vividly. all right, nate foy for us in new york. meantime, down in texas, vice president vance now touring the southern border and a hot spot once exploited during the biden administration's border crisis. brooke taylor is live for us in eagle pass. how are things looking there now, brooke? >> hi, john. the vice president has landed, getting a tour in eagle pass and then heading to where we are at right now, really standing in the epicenter of where this border crisis really started. we saw thousands of migrants showing up in masses. a much different scene then what

they talk about tda, tren de aragua and the information that they had.he administration wouldn't buckle down. finally we have an administration that is firing on all cylinders. and the cartel is on the run. >> brian: right. so yesterday was the time for the blue city mayors who love sanctuary city status to go up and defend themselves in front of the oversight committee. and at which time they really couldn't, they spent millions of dollars to prepare for this. all boston -- the mayor of boston is not popular. epic low ratings for the mayor of chicago. the mayor of denver and is going for illegal immigrant first policy. nighttime hauer how that goes. mayor adams had legal problems. now seems to have changed his mind when it documents cracking down on illegal immigrant, not illegal immigrants but illegal immigrant criminals. they don't seem to get it. they are not cooperating with ice. hurts americans. >> ainsley: the mayor of denver was asked if sanctuary city -- you know, about being a sanctuary city. he said we don't use that term. we call ourselves a

that's why we have been so successful in managing and reducing the presence of tda in the city. that's how we reduced presence of ms13. that's working. >> one of the concerns that i've heard mayor johnston in western colorado and third congressional district and southern colorado is that there are illegal immigrants here that are coming that are in denver that are relocating to western southern colorado. are you aware, can you confirm that the illegal migrants that are in denver that were in denver have stayed in your city and not traveled to other parts of the state? >> thank you, sir. we don't track where they go. it's a free country if they choose to move to pueblo, we wouldn't know. we provide emergency services to make sure they are not freezing in the streets. that's our focus but we don't track anyone's long term trajectory. would they surprise there were individuals relocating in other parts of colorado? >> it wouldn't surprise me that folks were move in the same way. >> okay. thank you very much, mayor johnson. sigh me time almost expired and i yield the remainder back.