facilities quickly, alleviate overcrowding at the border and house them in new facilities. now he wants to pay for it. if they re doing it, last month border patrol reported over 178,000 apprehensions. that s a 20-year high. yet as of last week, only 455 minors were in their custody. where are these people going? chad wolf is currently a visiting fellow at the heritage foundation can. secretary, thanks very much for being here. it looks like we are pushing the migrants into the interior of our country as much as possible. the administration has built a lot more housing to house these people, but they re also trying to help them connect with so-called sponsors or family that they stay they have in cities across the country. your reaction to where we are halfway through the year now. well, thanks for having me
facilities quickly, alleviate overcrowding at the border and house them in new facilities. now he wants to pay for it. if they re doing it, last month border patrol reported over 178,000 apprehensions. that s a 20-year high. yet as of last week, only 455 minors were in their custody. where are these people going? chad wolf is currently a visiting fellow at the heritage foundation can. secretary, thanks very much for being here. it looks like we are pushing the migrants into the interior of our country as much as possible. the administration has built a lot more housing to house these people, but they re also trying to help them connect with so-called sponsors or family that they stay they have in cities across the country. your reaction to where we are halfway through the year now. well, thanks for having me
border to central america. by the way in some sectors that is not even with the most people are coming from. they are so out of touch and the secretary has done nothing to change that policy that s what drives illegal immigration. jon: is that an attempt to undo the policy of president trump because they felt he was wrong were cruel to migrants with 178,000 people. there is a couple of reasons. this is ready open borders policy looks like you are right there is legacy anything they are doing on the border right now is to facilitate a
are thinking about coming to the u.s. have been receiving and if you a look at those of the year over year numbers on border encounters, it s been almost a tenfold increase going from about 70000 folks in happening during april of 2020 and all of the way up to 178,000 border encounters this past april partied and friendly, from a humanitarian perspective, the message to be sent at the border is closed because is it a dangerous jury attorney, with the cartels and control and you have some are approaching, it s going to get hotter and only going to get more dangerous from here so the message needs to be sent in a needs have credibility. so that the folks really do decide that i don t want to make this journey. you are right. i think our border patrol is the greatest humanitarian organization in the western him have. the rescue children abandoned in the desert running in the rivers and abused by the cartel prayed
because of the message the folks are thinking about coming to the u.s. have been receiving and if you a look at those of the year over year numbers on border encounters, it s been almost a tenfold increase going from about 70000 folks in happening during april of 2020 and all of the way up to 178,000 border encounters this past april partied and friendly, from a humanitarian perspective, the message to be sent at the border is closed because is it a dangerous jury attorney, with the cartels and control and you have some are approaching, it s going to get hotter and only going to get more dangerous from here so the message needs to be sent in a needs have credibility. so that the folks really do decide that i don t want to make this journey. you are right. i think our border patrol is the greatest humanitarian organization in the western him have. the rescue children abandoned in the desert running in the rivers and abused by the cartel prayed