looming large over this summit is the role of cartels pushing migrants and drugs into the u.s. and the question of whether mexico truly controls its own border. biden s dhs secretary admits the vast majority of migrants who crossed into the u.s. illegally go through smuggling rings. and mexico tried to show strength with that high profile arrest. it s been described as a gift to biden and a message that mexico s approach to cartels called hugs, not bullets, prevents blood shed. tonight, president biden receives a dignified reception in mexico city for the summit with his north american counterpart to talk immigration and drug trafficking. but just days before. [gunfire] it took three it thousand 586 mexican soldiers descending on sinaloa to capture drug king pin son of chapo. cartels forced down two air force planes and shot up a commercial airliner. and authorities confiscated 26 barrett rifles, six machine guns, 26 long arms. nearly 600 magazines. bullet proof vests and
trace: yeah. i want to, if i can, very quickly move on here because we re going to talk about the border and border encounters. put up border encounter numbers. this is very telling because you had the president visit el paso this weekend. look at the bottom right hand number there 2,378,000 and, yet, the president goes to el paso, susan, yesterday and, oddly, not a single migrant could be seen in this entire tour. it s just it s kind of amazing how that worked out. yeah. his first trip to the border. it s an issue that the white house has not been eager to talk about for the past two years. it s one that, you know, clearly a problem at the border. you look at those numbers and you cannot deny we have a problem with undocumented people coming over the border. but hard to solve. we now have the white house trying to strike a kind of middle ground taking somewhat more aggressive action including policies that president trump had backed to try to get control of the border and for th
visiting the border not to solve it. they aren t going to. but talk with border patrol agents. they will get a different perspective and a different lens how they need to look at the border by talking to front linemen and women down there every day that live in these communities and bring the job home every day. when they don t do that it does a disservice to the law enforcement officers. john: if they re allowed to speak their minds the president will get an earful. let s take a look how the numbers have changed. fiscal year 2020, 458,000, 2021 that number increased. 2022, 2,378,000. so far in fiscal year 23 we re out pacing last year. the cartels are seeing there is only a finite number in the people in the triangle countries so they re casting a wider net.
coming aover. 79% continue. interestingly also asked folks the number of migrant border crossing per year 250,000 to 500,000? you see the break down there. most people think it s 18, 20%, up to 1 million. 6% think it s 2 to 3 million. it was actually 2,378,000. yeah. 2.3 million in face equal year 22. let s bring in our panel harold ford jr. former tennessee congressman co-host of the five. mara liasson, guy benson political editor of town hall.com and host of the guy benson show on fox news radio. gcuellar thought he would be abe to do something. hearing get into title 42 mix to continue it legislatively maybe in this omnibus bill. where do you think we are here
we call those encounters. that s when the cbp, the border patrol, takes into custody someone on the border. 2021 there were 1,734,000. the end of this we are. 2,378,000. that s over a 500 percent increase in three years. in october 230,000 encountered across the border. in 2020 it s estimated there were 600,000 getaways. we a you in he will pass we saw in el paso. 1,000 people from venezuela and central and south america, came