tom, what s your reaction to just not images but numbers as well? in august of this year 209,000 encounters at the all right. one year ago 50,000. looking at increase of over 300 percent. there are the numbers, tom, and you have seen the images. well, once again, the biden administration is lying and saying there is 209,000 encounters which is down from the 212,000 the month before. let s be clear, the encounters are down almost 4,000 but the border crossings continue to rise because what s happening, will, they are taking more and more agents off the line to deal with this crisis like what s under that bridge. they shut down checkpoints to do this. they re taking more agents off the line although 40% were already off the line. when you take agents off the line there is going to be less encounters it means more got-aways so what the administration is not telling you yeah we have less encounters but got a lot more got aways, the crossing at the border hasn t slowed down a bit. let me
border patrol, but for the troopers on the ground. because these drugs are coming from mexico, they are crossing through the river, so we re the first line of defense to try and interdict these drugs before they make it into the country. reporter: 212,000 apprehensions in july, and we re expecting new number for august any day now. back to you. eric: christina, thank you so much. arthel: families still trying to dry out and clean up from the last big storm could soon have a new disaster to deal with. that s up next. frank is a fan of fast. he s a fast talker. a fast walker. thanks, gary. and for unexpected heartburn. frank is a fan of pepcid. it works in minutes. nexium 24 hour and prilosec otc can take one to four days to fully work. pepcid. strong relief for fans of fast.
operations and drug trafficking and they ve located unaccompanied children on the river banks in this brutal heat. as a father seeing that and wondering what kind of circumstances their parents must have been in to send them across, to think that was the best option for them and what kind of people would willingly take a child across the river an leave them on the river banks. reporter: from the sky, state troopers are able to get an ariel view of migrants trying to cross the rio grande. more than 1,000 state troopers are assisting border agents rights now with apprehensions. border patrol, they re pulling agents from the field. they re busy processing the migrants coming across. we re providing as much resource as we can to help our federal partners. reporter: as of july, there were 212,000 apprehensions at the southwest border, that is a 20-year record high. and again, we are waiting for those new figures for august.
large drugs, hundreds of pounds of marijuana, we see cocaine and it fentanyl coming across the river by snug smugglers seeing more counterintelligence as they use their own technology to evade law enforcement. they will launch drones do counter surveillance and actively guide groups across. using the drones to scout out locations for different law enforcement agencies and border patrol agents. normally what they do is cross over here. state troopers are taking to the sky to help. in addition to the drug trafficking and human smuggling, covid is adding to this crisis in the rio grande valley. an aerial view for covid positive migrants being held. again, we are dealing with a pandemic right now. a record number of migrants are still crossing the border each month. more than 212,000 were apprehended at the southwest border in july new numbers for august are expected any day now. dbs has this message for president biden. you have got to come down. you have to visit with the men
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