dana: customs and border protection expected to soon release the number of migrant encounters at the southern border during the month of august as agents report a spike if runners at the border since the supreme court reinstated a trump era policy for most asylum seekers, christina is with us. good morning, we re expecting those new numbers any day now and this comes after those record breaking figures from july that showed about 212,000 arrests here at the southern border. that s a record high, a 20-year record high. but again, those are the migrants that actually got arrested. there are still runners getting away, lots of them. law enforcement is doing their best to track them down. our fox cameras caught this video from last night of more
mexico, whether that will have an effect in perhaps dissueding some to try crossing the border illegally. we re due to get new figures for august at least, dana, from customs and border protection probably around the end of this week. that will give us the total to the number of encounters in august. remember, in july we had a record 212,000. i would say we might be slightly below that but we re only in one area of the border. we can t see the bigger picture. but it iss going to be very interesting to see what the august figures are. dana: it didn t slow down in the hot summer months as it usually does. we look forward to getting those numbers. thank you. bill: the taliban claiming it has taken over the last resistant stronghold in afghanistan. jennifer griffin reporting u.s. officials say that pakistan helped that group gain control of the province north of kabul. as the taliban gets ready to
u.s. border into mexican territory. it is impossible to reimplement mpp that a way that upholds human rights and due process. mexico has the responsibility to block this detrimental policy. it is obviously far too early as we see apprehensions continue along the texas border, including these in laredo that you are looking at right now, to say whether a change in policy would have the effect of dissuading many of those families from heading north and trying to cross the border illegally. we re due, by the way, to get the figures for august probably around the end of this week in terms of the number of apprehensions made by customs and border protection here. remember in july they were that record 212,000. we await to see what the august figures will prove to be. martha. martha: thank you, jonathan hunt at the border. the new york times report also says that the high court s ruling provided some relief as
are stretched very thin, and i asked to the sergeant if he can cnn back to this. listen to his answer. not any time soon. i think it is probably going to take a few years before we see any change. it started abruptly, but it is not going to stop abruptly. i don t believe that. because of what we see. but what we hear, it is not going to stop. and of course, in july, border patrol reported that there were 212,000 encounters between agents and people crossing the border illegally. we look at the august figures, we believe, around the end of this year, julie, and it will be very interesting to see if those are anywhere near that record-breaking figure of 212,000. julie: jonathan hunt, thank you.
can you explain. yes. we are in completely unprecedented territory july went into the book 212,000 apprehensions and encounters at the southwest border. july, august, and september traditionally lower months of activity. seeing unprecedented crush of humanity come to this border right now. i expect august will be similar territory it will be record. july was 21 year record the department has never seen anything as big as we are seeing right now. and we may be in record territory as it relates to the entire history of our u.s. mexico border. jillian: truly unbelievable. not just migrants coming across. it s the drugs, too. take a look at these numbers. the weight of fentanyl seized at the border. and as you can see here this is in pounds. look at this. this is up nearly double from just a year ago and nearly triple from two years ago. you are talking more than 8500 pounds of fentanyl seized at the border.