returning to the places that are frigid right now in the negatives. that will be the case across the midwest. any snow you see will be starting to melt because boy, it gets actually really warm. temperatures running in the 50s. now above seasonal averages. it will be the story as we get closer to the new year from thursday, friday and eventually into saturday you see more millions of people hitting these above-average temperatures. so a warm-up is on the way and boy do a lot of folks deserve it. it has been a tough few days. julie: it sure has. thank you. alicia. alicia: calls are growing for president biden to visit the southern border as the migrant crisis continues to spiral out of control. even with title 42 still in place. federal officials reported a record number of migrant crossings at the southern border last month with more than 233,000 encounters, jeff paul joins us live with the latest. hi. a quarter of a million
november of 2021, 174,000. remember, that s a record year. already november of this year, 233,000. a 39.4%. we re talking about 233,000 people being coming across the border in texas and arizona. we re not supposed to freak out. washington freaks out when they get a bus load of those people. what do you think is going on along the border? it s not just the big towns like el paso and mcallen. you go to el paso, yuma or del rio, texas, they re being crushed by the number of people coming across illegally and being dumped into their communities by the federal government because they have no recourse, no resources and inadequate infrastructure. chad, i want to have a quote here from foreign policy magazine in october. i know you spent a lot of time in central america trying to stop people coming out of the
and vote on that separately. a real debate can be had without the hostagetaking on the other money that needs to be spent. there are two reasons it was all put together because it was not enough time and i daresay not enough of a political will on both sides to get it done, we need the increase in defense spending president zelenskyy couldn t have made a more compelling case to congress, i believe it was wednesday, bottom line there is a lot of pork in there that doesn t make sense, there was also very little if anything in the bill for border security. this is an imperfect bill passed just to keep the government going and to provide the necessary defense spending. but this is how to run a country which are run a government, that is for sure. brian: doug we had a record-setting november and the border over 233,000 migrants crossing illegally in one month.
the problem on our southwest border. the vice president has been out of touch on this issue probably for most of her career. for now, definitely no slowdown insight on this crisis at the border. the new cbp number show more than 233,000 border encounters last month in november, that the largest amount border encounters for november on record. brian: migrants and their families left out below freezing temperatures, humanitarian crisis continues. christina coleman, thank you and merry christmas. merry christmas. anita: president biden is expected to sign the massive $1.7 trillion spending package, now that it s past the house and the senate, critics are still slamming the bill for what they call unnecessary spending, the latest on this from washington coming up next. oh man.
new boarded apprehension number migrants continue to flood the country illegally.eg customs anald border protection reporting more than 233,000 migrant encounters and just november. that is the most of any novembeo on recorstd up 33% from november november 2021. we should also note that this t informatiohin was released on friday night ahead of theig christmas weekend whenht mostri people arest not focused on the news. s lieutenant governor spoke about the security risks facing communities. i want to get both of your takes on what it looks like today. what every person in a mallem enforcement knows.en if we apprehend 2 million a year, maybe we apprehend one out of every two or three that