fuerza, comenzamos con cruce masivo de inmigrantes en la zopna, 4 mil personas entraron en el área de yumarantes no pán de llagar . >> ¿qué tal?, así es cruzan de manera constante en esta zona, en san luis en donde no tenemos cerco fronterizo, el problema es que tardan horas para hacer contacto en suelo estadounidense con el primer vehículo de la patrulla fronteriza . >> las filas parecen inmensas, son cientos todos los días, se ven un grupo a lo lejos, algunos llegan a estados unidos por yuma san luis y río colorado . >> gracias a maduro estamos aquí, muertos del hambre, no hay salud ni bienestar . >> la mayoría son migrantes principalmente de venezuela, todos quieren asilo cruzando por este tramo . >> hace frío . >> mucho frío . >> durante el fin de semana pasado, este sector registró aproximadamente a 4 mil migrantes que cruzaron por este sitio . >> estamos escuchando a 1500 . >> a los que se llevan primero son mujeres y menores de edad como esta inmigrante de perú . >> Él sabde lo que pasa . >>le hemos dicho que no podemos caminar . >> el gobernador de arizona visito esta zona este mar

if we have would do that in yuma.in yuma and send them to the northern border for processing we would have our people in the field. this administration has done absolutely nothing. no policies, no programs, no operations, no new technology, nothing to security this border and that's why we're seeing the influx that we're currently dealing with. >> dana: you are urging the administration and talking to them and urging them. do you get a response ever? >> lukewarm at best. they say they listen to what i say but they are not -- they've never implemented anything. no, i'm not getting any type of response. >> bill: one last question here some of the observations on crime in soef these big democratic cities. you start to see a shift. the mayor in san francisco, the governor in california said something about it the other day. have you seen any shift on the border in this administration at that level? >> right now if you look at what happened yesterday again we've been yelling at the top of our lungs to get them to fill in t

another story we are tracking right now out of yuma, arizona. migrants who just crossed illegally wandering around the city with no border patrol anywhere to be seen. the yuma mayor saying more than 6,000 migrants crossed into the city in the last several days. 2600% increase since october, some of them walking into a mcdonald's. border patrol completely overwhelmed down there. the mayor has declared a local state of emergency riding that he had to do so in part because of the unprecedented numbers of migrants entering the city prior to being processed and released by border patrol. the influx of these undocumented persons entering the yuma area is resulting in many of terrien and border crisis. earlier today, mark kelly's office told me he hasn't spoken with dhs secretary alejandra mallorca's about the situation and said more federal resources down to the yuma area. >> tammy: my goodness, what a catastrophe. the new york city council approved the bill allowing noncitizens to vote in local elections. anyone who cares at all about the integrity o

joining us now is yuma mayor, judd nichols. mayor nichols, thanks for joining us.to start asking you why did you declare a local emergency and how did you get to that point? >> we've been watching the immigration situation on the border beginning of year but watch it every year being a border city. great concern about january, hearing discussions about the traffic picking back up. sure enough it picked back up but it was at a point where customs, border patrol, i.c.e. were able to manage the numbers. which the numbers were four times higher, five times higher than normal in crossers in the yuma sector which is about 950 people a day. we had the one weekend a few weeks ago where 6,000 people crossed in five days that overwhelmed the system. what that caused was a backup. the backup was contained at border. people were waiting for border patrol to come pick them up t took so long they started moving. they started walking to try to get to the border patrol station. they had, no resources. they didn't really know where they were going. hundreds of people coming into th

yuma is being overwhelmed. meal and saying at one time they had 4,000 in custody. another thousand stationed at the south of the border. they don't have the facilities to handle that many people. every agent was pulled off the line to process which means there are several hours where nobody was on the line. they said several hundred crossed the border unimpeded just walked across the border and walking through the city of yuma with no arrests at all. the border patrol agents are overwhelmed as you said earlier, they are overworked. there is no relief in sight. dhs rather than sending additional resources there, what are they doing? they're forcing the agents to take diversity, equity and inclusion training on top of this historic surge, it's just ridiculous the position these agents have been put in by this administration on purpose because they want open borders. will: it's 4,000 migrants in as many days, tom, some are saying a thousand a day crossing over. take a rook at this year compared to last in october

yuma has become a destination where migrants can cross easily and turn themselves in to border patrolocal emergency to help the situation in his city. >> this is a very out of the ordinary level of traffic for yuma. >> reporter: migrants have happened before, but now it's the remote areas like this that are being hit hard. in october, border patrol arrested nearly 22,000 people crossing an increase of 1200%. >> we're busy everywhere. we're not slow in any specific location, so when you take resources from another location, up another busy location, you're just dep pleating those resources to deal with an issue that could be dealt with through policy. >> brandon jud is the president of the border patrol union. he said smugglers and cartels contribute to the numbers. at the request of governor doug ducey, the department of public safety has deployed to monitor for criminal activity. >> out here we are watching the desert, looking for movement, looking for any signs that we have a group coming through. >> reporter: on this 75-mile stretch of the border, major cecil and his troopers try t

la presencia de migrantes cerca de la frontera en yuma arizona estÁ aumentando en los Últimos dÍas, segÚnector de yuma han llegado migrante de venezuela, haitÍ cuba y brasil. las autoridades migratorias recomiendan que no se ponga en manos de coyotes para venir porque las fronteras nostÁn abiertas y confiar en los traficantes de personas hacen mÁs peligroso el viaje. >> hablemos de congresista republicano por california que ja su escaÑo para convertirse en director general del grupo trump media y tecnologÍa, es uno de los polÍticos mÁs cercanos a trump, despuÉs que trump fuera expulsado de twitter y suspendido en facebook y asÍ recuperar protagonismo en redes sociales. >> el mandato de vacunaciÓn Ás estricto de nueva york viene cargado de controversia, son ce escenas de miles de negocios que tendrÁn que vacunar a sus empleados, pero la cosa no queda ahÍ, tambiÉn los mayores de 5 aÑos se verÁn afectados karla amezola tiene los detalles ¿quÉ tal? buenas tardes. >> efectivamen felicidad, ¿quÉ tal? muy buenas tardes esto es uno de los mandato de vacunaciÓn mÁs estrictos del paÍs el alcalde de

yuma is getting hammered.arizona. one of my border patrol sources told me that they see hundreds of thousands of got-aways on surveillance video and oftentimes they go and they wait in arizona. i know yuma is the hardest hit city to see this surge of illegal migrants. yuma sector border patrol agents reported more than 2,600 encounters just from friday to monday. that was a weekend, 2600 illegals. what else can you tell us? >> well, yeah, in october they apprehended 164,000 people. that's over 5,000 people a day. plus there was 49,000 got-aways. my county had -- everybody who comes to my county is in cam cam camoflague clothes. they're not here to claim asylum. one of our interdictes, our k-9 guys had seven traffic stops yesterday, all were human load vehicles. we have three deputies per shift that work that area. we have a pursuit every day where people run from us. yeah, this is a big problem. we as sheriffs are standing against it. maria: i think we need to start talking about social media. social media is

the yuma mayor saying more than 6,000 migrants passed through yuma in the past several days.t's a 2600% increase. take a look at this photo. some migrants as they walked through the city stopped by to get a bite of food at mcdonald's. border patrol doesn't have the manpower right now. these migrants were never encountered by agents. the mayor has declared a local state of emergency saying that he had to do it due to the unprecedented number of igrants is resulting in a humanitarian crisis. i reached out to democratic senators. mark kelly's office said he was on the phone with alejandro mayorkas urging him to take immediate action and send more federal resources down to the yuma area. however when it comes to kyrsten sinema's us a, i never heard back. back to you. >> neil: thanks, bill melugin. let's go to the arizona governor, doug ducey. you're 16edding troops to the boarder and trying to deal with this as is the governor of texas and others. i'm just wondering where does that stand right now? >> i've worked now with three presidents, obama, trump and biden. the biden admini

carley: let's talk about yuma, arizona. in october of 2020 there were 787 encounters with illegal immigrants. look at 2021, october, over 21,000. do you know why there has been such a spike in encounters with the yuma county, arizona area? usually think of border crossings at high-capacity we think texas but now arizona has become ground 0 for this behavior. >> i think they can get across the border and texas is doing some things, not necessarily the administration and one thing, the cartels have more control over the border than the president is allowing our border patrol agents to exercise. the trump policies are working, remain in mexico, look at building the wall, those things work and the biden administration has reversed all that, catch and release and we have the danger of people on the terror watch list that have been caught crossing the border. the people who are not being caught coming into the united states. >> you said the biden administration did have to reimplement the remain in mexico policy but the thing i f

fox news digital did investigative reporting in yuma, arizona and found in an illegal immigrants are making use of ubers to get to the next destination in the u.s., typically hotels. fox news spoke to two drivers in yumament. one had drivers confirmed they're here illegally and others deduced they were illegals based on circumstances with those getting picked up with bags in a remote location near the border. here is one of the drivers. >> we get a notification, head down to the location. there will be a group of 20 plus immigrants standing on the corner waiting for uber and they'll just hop in and go wherever they're going. >> fox news reached out to uber. the ride share company did not respond to direct questions but did say a driver can cancel a ride if they feel unsafe or report suspected illegal activity. one of the uber drivers told fox digital that law enforcement warned him it's against the law to transport illegal immigrants but he says he can't predict the status. the surge in pickups began in the last few weeks and yuma's mayor tells fox digital that immigrants turning to

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take a look at these photos put out by border patrol and yuma sector.y said this man, 21-year-old saudi man, crossed illegally from mexico on thursday. they arrested him once he came across. they say he has ties to known subjects of interest in yemen. and as you can see, he was wearing some sort of an ems jacket. we looked it up. it belongs to the oneida county volunteer angel's core. they are based out of upstate new york. we call them today and their chief told us they have no idea who this man is. he has never worked for them. they don't know how we got one of their jackets considering they are in new york and this happened in arizona. and they have serious questions about what happened here. no further details have been released by border patrol. but this just plays into the argument that president biden's critics have about his border policy saying it is leaving us open like this to bad actors trying to get into the country. thankfully, border patrol was able to take this person into contact, custody who it they were describing as potential terrori

. >>> thousands are arriving in yuma, arizona seeking asylum and misinformation drove many to make thathey arrive by the dozens some dragging the few belongings they could bring with them, others carrying their children many coming all the way from south america. venezuela, cuba and columbia, rushing to cross this open gap along the yuma, arizona border this peruvian mom forced to lie to her 3-year-old son for motivation >> reporter: most came with one goal in mind, to seek asylum in the united states. but now they must wait more than 4,000 migrants have crossed the border into arizona since friday thousands rushing to cross the border after misinformation began spreading that the u.s. was once again processing asylum claims the rumors coinciding with the announcement that the remain in mexico policy would go into effect monday. but migrants quickly realize making a claim would be a challenge. families forced to set up camp along the border wall, waiting for border patrol officials to process their claims some have been waiting for days, forced to endure the desert climate that make the

border in yuma. yuma, arizona is the next hot spot now.peak out about it. >> the situation in yuma, arizona is completely out of control. yuma, arizona is under siege. the population of arizona is fraction of texas. this is bombarding an extremely size state compared to texas, they are totally, completely overwhelmed and there's two people, two people in the country responsible for this crisis and that's senator mark kelly and senator kyrsten sinema. maria: miller says they should be speaking about this crisis, we did have a statement from those senators yesterday. we have not heard much of what was taken place in arizona beyond that from kyrsten sinema and mark kelly, the two senators from arizona. joining me right now is national border patrol president brandon judd, brandon, thank you very much for being here. you were the first person to tell me when we had our team on the ground in del rio earlier this year that this crisis is broadens out into yuma. you told me about all of the thousands of arrests that you had made and your team was

enforcement, say they're overwhelmed of hundreds of illegal migrants to crossing the border wall in yuma each day in the county mariposa state of emergency to secure additional resources for dealing with the inflow of people, local sarah that describe the situation as chaos. caleb and explains how it's got to this point. arizona mexico border is buzzing with activity. 3000 migrants crossed just this weekend and the local sheriff says they are in a hurry. there were a lot of people who were planning to come here, but because of the new law they decided to come as soon as possible. now the biden administration recently reinstated the prompt administration's policy of having asylum seekers remain in mexico waiting in mexico while their claims are considered . now the sheriff thinks that the administration's actions are fueling the crisis. we told this administration, if they decided to in phoebe, it was going to cause these problems and obviously the ancillary impacts in the upper in our back yard. so we end up with the desk in the desert of the robberies that are happening along the border

i have a friend in yuma.se she couldn't get into the hospital because the hospitals are overrun. in that area and in other area, people are having to travel a hundred miles away to get their child into a doctor because their hospitals are overwhelmed. people that i know who work for the fire department in yuma, finding dead bodies, you know, in the dessert. i mean, this is -- this town is not set up to deal with this. this is a border community in -- under senile, really. pete: you heard the governor say a surge of state badges. that means state law enforcement. just like down in texas having to fill the gap because our border patrol is overwhelmed. and effectively told to stand down. you also hear ice, immigrations and customs enforcement effectively deporting nobody. they have been told to stand down as well. rachel: can we bring back those images of the fence that you have there that were just up? it was like a half done like the fence is not completed? we just had it up there? in yuma, people were calling

in yuma, arizona, border patrol resources are completely overwhelmed.or says over 6,000 migrants have passed through the city in recent days. more than 2000% increase. some people appear to be walking around the city with no border patrol to apprehend them. the mayor has declared a local state of emergency saying he had to do to the unprecedented number of migrants entering the city prior to being processed and released by border patrol. earlier today i did reach out to both of arizona's democratic senators to ask them what comment do they have with what is going down in yuma right now? senator mark kelly's office got back to me and told me he has already spoken with dhs secretary alejandra mallorca's and urged him to take immediate action by sending more federal resources down to the yuma area. when it comes to senator kyrsten sinema, i never heard back from them when i reached out. >> mike: thanks very much. tonight wikileaks founder julian assange may be one big step closer to extradition to the u.s. a british judge has thrown out a lower court decis

>> that's just for the yuma sector, so there's two sectors in arizona, and the yuma sector there's aboutbut yet the administration doesn't support you. >> well we reach out frequently to the white house and to dhs secretary office and we have a lot of conversations. we have seen some movement lately after i declared my local emergency as we've had some additional searches of the border we've had a lot of different conversations, but the long term issue is still something we're dealing with, so it's something that we have to focus on day-to-day, so we don't have the large numbers of people coming through our community as we did last week, week and a half ago. ainsley: okay, mayor nichols thank you so much for joining us >> thanks for having me on. ainsley: south dakota governor kristi noem answering the call for action in the fight for fairness. she's joining us live on her initiative to ban transgender athletes from competing in female sports, that's next. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ hey, tam-tam! i was thinking maybe... your mom's car? ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ merry christmas, dad. why hide your skin if dupixent has your m

yuma, arizona, is under siege. of the population of texas, about 7 million in arizona compared to texas' 30 million. so this is bombarding an extremely small state compared to the size of texas. so they're totally, completely overwhelmed. and there's two people, two people in this country responsible for this crisis, and that's senator mark kelly and kyrsten sinema. let me tell you how washington works when you have a 50-50 split senate. one phone call from either of those senators to the white house that simply says i'm a no on nominationings, i'm a no on legislation, and i'm a no on build back better until you end catch and release. the fact that they haven't made that phone call is monstrous. it is unforgivabling. so if you're a citizen of this country whether you live in arizona or not, understand either one of those two people has the power with one phone call to shut this down, and i pray, i pray that they will change their mind and do so. maria: yeah. i mean, to be fair, this morning, just this morning we ha

this is the mayor of yuma arizona. mayor, this is outrageous. cartels that are funneling people and drugs into the country. they get into the border and the last leg of the mission is being executed by uber? >> that's a new development in yuma. the border patrol was so overwhelmed. they could not pick up people along the border that were waiting to get through the system and give them their paper work to stay in country for the next few years waiting for a court date. that's the process of what happened. some called 911 to try to get rides from the police department which we don't do. some took it into their own hands and called uber to get over to the border patrol station. and some took to foot. we had hundreds walking through our community. they have to go 10 miles to get to the border patrol station. they were walking into the community without any resources and not knowing where they were going. there was a mix of things that led me declaring a local proclamation of emergency. >> sean: when i get into anec uber, they make me wear a mask. th

it is completely lawless in the yuma sector right now.at's why i'm in the senate race. this is the number one federal issue. dagen: general, how is the campaign going? >> campaign's going great, dagen, 26,000 miles driven in the last 23 weeks, seeing the arizona -- seeing people in all counties and working in the urban air aas. there's real energy out there. i tell them we're going to generate an army of voters in arizona that say i pick mick and we'll seize back control of the u.s. senate and stop the radical left from destroying the nation, the greatest nation in the history of the world. dagen: thank you so much for being here this morning. >> thank you for having me. dagen: happy holidays, merry christmas, general. >> merry christmas to you. dagen: coming up, new advisory on the johnson & johnson vac seen, what you need to know if you got that one dose shot. plus, the hottest stock picks from top investors. the word on wall street is ahead. stay with us, you're watching "mornings with maria" live on fox business. ♪ everybody's singing

state of emergency because he says there have been 6,000 illegal immigrants walking the streets of yumaou kind of look, you step back and see all that she's done, and i think it comes from the fact that she's uncomfortable. she's uncomfortable because she knows that she's not not perforg for the american people. >> is it uncomfortable, sean, or is it economy -- incompetent, deliberate or a little bit of both? she ran up the numbers when she was attorney general to make it look like she was tough on crime. when she gets into the vice president presidency, there are key issues that are obvious to the american people, so she doesn't miss this. >> listen, i think she's unsuccessful, she's unimpressive and, frankly, david, i disagree. i think those cackles are wring-worthy myself -- cringe-worthy, myself. when you tell the american people when tough problems happen they go to you to make sure you're going to take care of them but then you op don't take care of the problems on your plate, if you go to people in pain, why isn't she at the southern border? why isn't she talking to little girls

i was just in yuma on monday and in yuma i saw several groups of people crossing the border illegally am. what texas is doing is going after people equally. people violating trespassing laws, traffic laws, they are not enforcing immigration laws, nor do i advocate them enforcing immigration laws, they are enforcing the laws of their state which they are allowed to do. because this is political theater everybody knows this lawsuit is going to be thrown out. it's not going to go anywhere but the aclu wants to appear they are doing something when in reality all the are doing is pushing courts and stalking courts with cases they don't need. todd: the texas operation is narrowly tailored under the law. they do what they are doing, not abridging on federal immigration law. there is no chance they lose in court but there bringing it to get the attention. appreciate your time, thank you. carley: president biden's winter of death is coming, the president returning to his doom and gloom narrative about covid 19 with all the mixed messages on vaccine, fox news is there to try to clear it up. tod

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legacy will be, i suppose, one of enduring hope that he's mingled with face and care and especially yuma. and if you have the sense of humor the dismal to, to have it means that you do not take yourself too seriously. but that to the review, your people were that sense that something better is coming, something better is always worth working for. and even though you cry about something, god gives you something in the lives of other people that makes you feel good. that makes you laugh. a little extra smile, and that is a legacy that all of us are now embracing the reverend allen. this act from former president of the world alliance of reform churches and even d. f leader in cape town. thank you so very much for being anita leo. it is a pleasure, thank you. while the consequences of climate change are being felt and a growing number of regions in africa, the like of rain there has led to extreme drought in some areas eastern kenya is one of the hardest hit regions. now many people there are suffering from food and security, not at iron, lincoln and the other residents of a village are fin

. >> fox fox news digital did som investigative reporting in yuma arizona and found illegal immigrantsivor making use o uber to help them get to their next destination here in the u.s. typically hotels. fox news news posted to drivers in yuma when driver said he's had drivers confirmed their hea here illegally the other driver said he deduced that passengers are illegal based on circumstances such as getting picked up with bags in remote locations near the border. here is one of those drivers. we'll sbe in 20 plus immigrants on the quarter, and they will just hop in and go wherever they're going. >> fox news reached out to f ub come at the age did not respond to the direct questions, but sec a driver can cancel a right if they feel unsafe or if they suspect illegal activity. law enforcement has warned him it's against allowed to transport illegal immigrants, but he can't predict an immigration status. he saysdi the surge and pickups begin in the past few weeks and the mayor also tells fox digita that immigrants turning to uber is a new tactic. >> what people we're doing is ae the border a

. >> en la frontera el alcalde de yuma arizona declaró emergencia por la llegada de tantos migrantes nacional de inmigración atropelló a dos migrantes de la caravana de inmigrantes, los demás migrantes ayudaron a los heridos. >> otra de las noticias es fuerte, es que la inflación aumentó un 6,8% en países como méxico los datos son peores, rogelio mora tagle tiene reacciones. >> cada vez que salen de compras, a maría le ridne menos dinero. >> es que al momento de pagar duele. >> porque los precios de los productos aumentó casi 7% desde noviembre del año pasado, el crecimiento más acelerado de un año a otro . >> venía anteriormente y llenaba una canasta con 50 y eso es no es nada lo que esta llevando. >> todo ha subido y la gasolina casi 60% y la carne de restaurantes 24 entre muchas otras cosas. >> la inflación ha llegado a niveles que no se veía desde hace décadas. >> porque los ditribuidores le aumentaron el precio a muchos productos. >> que es transporte y escasez de empleados para transportar mercancía. >> es el caos para transportar y también ela inflación y para atenuar los efec

i want to put on the screen the numbers from the yuma sector, really stunning numbers.. what is the impact on state resources and what is the impact in places like the city of yuma? >> i was down in yuma recently and you had people literally walking across the border illegally entering this country with their bags, their luggage. you and i would get more of a hassle at the airport, assuming the airline didn't cancel our flights, trying to go through airport security. that is why we know people are watching them be apprehended, which we know is a danger. we know it has an impact on our schools and resources. state taxpayers, federal taxpayers are subsidizing this. i eluded to the supreme court case, that is what the biden administration wants to give government benefits, essentially welfare to people coming into this country illegally, which i think is fundamentally unfair to hardworking taxpayers. then when you put on top of that the fact that the cartels have seized essentially operational control of our border, and we in arizona, just this year, more than 9 million se

are you in yuma right now? border area where i've been many times and reported to you about, people come up across the border, they raise their hand and say i'm here, let me in and they come over in droves. here they're coming over, almost all you adults and they're coming over one or two at a time. the cartels are using a different tactic here. the number of crossings in the arizona sector are up -- they're more than the last three years combined and they're being overwhelmed. for every person they catch here, they're documenting, there's electronic surveillance there's an equal number getting away and a getting into the interior of the country. you think about -- it's amazing. when i was standing here yesterday, talking to a border patrol agent, three people came across and the border patrol agent grabbed them. it's truly the wild west here. maria: this is exactly what i saw when i was in del-rio where a number of the border patrol agents told me they arrested 5,000 people in yuma just in a week's time. drugs

yuma border patrol agents apprehend a potential terrorists trying to enter the us through the southern border. >> could explaining the breach of security on the border policy. >> reporter: border agents nabbing a 21-year-old migrant from saudi arabia, the man is linked to several yemeni subjects of interest, trying to cross into yuma, arizona. images show the jacket with an american flag patch on one sleeve and the other reading central volunteer ambulance corps but the upstate new york volunteer organization denies knowing the migrant and says we don't know how he got one of their older model jackets. retired ice director and fox news contributor tom homan is blaming the biden administration for the porous border. >> it takes half the border patrol off the line you open up to criminals, human trafficking and terrorism. how many of that 400,000 can get arrested? >> reporter: texas listening dan patrick is calling out biden for issuing statements on the laquan variant. >> this is a plan. what he should be addressing an issue as serious as the border, terrorists coming into the country.

they jason: border patrol agent in yuma announced they apprehended a 21-year-old saudi michael withential terror ties. >> reporter: border patrol in arizona report they have arrested a potential terrorist who crossed illegally. look at these photos put out by border patrol, this man, 21-year-old saudi man crossed illegally from mexico thursday, they arrested him once he came across, they state has ties to known subjective interest in human and as you can see he was wearing an ems jacket. we looked it up. it belongs to the central volunteer ambulance corps who are based out of upstate new york. we called them today and their chief told us they have no idea who this man is, he never worked for them, they don't know how he got one of their jackets considering they are in new york and is happen in arizona and they have serious questions about what happened, no further details have been released by the border patrol, this plays into the argument that president biden's critics had about his border policy, leaving is open to threats like this, actors who are trying to get into the country,

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in yuma, arizona, the area that jennifer pitt referred to in her remarks about lettuce in the winter time, there's infrastructure improvements that can make sure that over deliveries in the lower part of the river do not occur. that water will not go to waste. if those infrastructure improvements are made. we also are looking again at paying for conservation with willing partners. i think some of the funding could be available for that. it's not necessarily infrastructure, but it will result in more water in lake mead and leveraging money that the state has made available to me for that purpose within our state. we are working with the nevada water authority, the metropolitan water district of southern california, the central arizona project on potential recycling project in southern california that would allow the recycled water to be used in southern california instead of being discharged into the ocean in a way that the other partners could share in some of the benefits of that water in their states. so those are just a couple of examples. infrastructure funding and the funding av

i'm going to point to yuma.ma, there are several gaps in our walls and that's where people are crossing the border, that's where people are giving up and they're opening up the more urban areas, i'm sorry, the more rural areas, they're opening up to higher value products, criminal aliens, fentanyl, opioids and potentially even terrorists. that's a serious i don't know and i'm going to point right back to it again. this white house is doing nothing about the issue. carley: well, border patrol agents worked on christmas. they also delivered christmas gifts to communities. i'm sure that this was a wonderful moment for everybody involved. >> it is. when you look at law enforcement nationwide, we have a very unique opportunity to get into the public, to interact with the public, border patrol agents delivering christmas presents to needy families, law enforcement nationwide putting on the uniform going out and protecting the american public, at the same time also doing service for the public. had this is something th

hombres en grupos, uno tras otro cruzaban por esta apertura que hay en la frontera sur en el sector de yumade tan sÓlo cinco aÑos. padre e hija escaparon puntos de venezuela. >> estoy saliendo de mi paÍs porque prÁcticamente casi me matan allÁ. >> es una oportunidad que nosotros estamos decidiendo. pedir un asilo para tener como sustentar a la familia. valeria: Él es uno de los que tomÓ esta decisiÓn para evitar la polÍtica de "quÉdate en mÉxico". >> vamos a darle rÁpido porque nos podemos quedar allÁ y son de 6 meses a un aÑo que nos pueden dar asilo. valeria: en del rÍo texas se ha visto un aumento en cruces ilegales. [habla en inglÉs] valeria: republicanos como el senador de florida apuntan al gobierno de joe biden por la situaciÓn en la frontera sur. esta semana, el secretario de seguridad nacional visita la frontera. ilia: el gobernador de arizona ordenÓ enviar mÁs recursos para asistir a los agentes en la frontera, 'se —— ¿se ha visto algÚn cambio? valeria: llevamos aquÍ desde las 9:00 a.m. y no hemos visto ningÚn agente de la patrulla fronteriza. los migrantes tambiÉn estÁn desde la

oscar: yuma se ha convertido en el epicentro de migrantes que cruzan la frontera de forma irregular paraaba llevando.quisiera saber para dÓnde se la iba a llevar. me dijo que podÍa esperar o y basta ya. oscar: algunos que cruzaron se cansaron de esperar y decidieron ir en busca de los agentes porque dicen necesitar ser procesados y solicitar asilo. >> andamos buscando a la migra para hacer la cosa legal como debe ser porque u si uno comienza con el pie derecho siempre andarÁ con el pie derecho, pero si nos escondemos es peor. oscar: durante las 12 horas no han comido ni tomado agua que esperan. el ir a buscar se ha vuelto una necesidad de sobrevivencia. [ininteligible] >> somos profesionales que no nos merecemos esto. oscar: mientras unos inmigrantes caminaban en busca de migraciÓn, unas 200 personas corren a encontrar dos camionetas de la patrulla fronteriza. despuÉs de esperar varias horas en estos campamentos finalmente llega la patrulla y empieza a transportar a estas personas. >> muy alegre. a todo lo que nos pasÓ en mÉxico, nos robaron en todos lados, manosear a mi esposa. oscar: l

will: tom you and i both mentioned yuma worth putting that to numbers.00% in the sector. i want to focus on texas for a moment, tom. governor abbott says the state is going to take over building some sections of the border wall. now, i believe he said they can start with a 1.7-mile stretch. that the state owns land that the state owns. what will texas be able to accomplish? either through private land or state owned land in recreating the border wall? how patchwork? how what will a that look like, tom? >> look, for every mile of wall they put up, lives are saved and there will be less illegal immigration, less illegal drug flow. texas is going to use their land so they can build this wall. using the same it will the administration used build it on their own land no, problem. they also have ranchers donating land because they are sick of what is going on. another thing we need to be reminded of is that the federal government seized a lot of texas land, last year to build the wall eminent domain. since this administration has chosen not going to build that

they are using a mechanism to transfer water and deliver that down the yuma area. we have several issues to work with mexico and then if we decide collectively to move forward we are probably ten years out in the course of business for nevada and california participating and of course for mexico. we will achieve that over time. it is critical to the success moving forward with mexico. >> i want to thank my colleagues and today's witnesses. thank you very much for being here. before we conclude i want to request unanimous consent to add statements to the record from the agriculture water coalition, the colorado river energy distributors association, the arizona farm bureau and family farm alliance. so so ordered. the subcommittee has a deadline for members to submit written questions so you may see some more questions. the hearing record will remain open for two weeks and thank you again especially to the witnesses and the subcommittee stands adjourned.