absolutely. especially when the recall is on ballot this november potentially. neil: how is aha going there? i know it s a separate issue. i know that his side has started saying we want to look into these people who signed on to this petition. do you know how that s going? yes. it s in the verification, signature verification process right now. apparently, the county rebel star registrar looked at a sample, and that sample was high but not high enough to just go and put it on the ballot without complete verification. so he s given himself, the county has, until august 17th to check every of the 715,000 signatures that have been done relative to this ballot initiative. neil: so you need at least 500,000? is that what s the rule? it s about, we need about 566, 567,000 actual signatures, and then once that s done, then
sheer number is so extraordinary. to add to that, to make it even worse, the united states is underfunding border patrol and not providing enough border patrol officers to do the job. reporter: how many border wide migrants deaths have we had this year? cbp doesn t publicly reported the number since biden took office. fox news exclusively learned you see here, 518 in 2022 fiscal year so far. 566 last year. 247 in 2020, the last time they publicly reported it. my question today, for our colleague at cbs, margaret brennan, anchor of face the nation. she has interview with secretary mayorkas. we ll ask him why he does not want to report the number of migrant deaths to the american people. pete, will, rachel. pete: great point, griff. rachel: put the numbers back up, this flies in the face of the
high court decisions in this time, we dropped this policy but that would mean migrants of the border would now have to have the cases adjudicated back to the united states, a job that s already pretty risky and very dangerous for those at the site. already we had 518 migrants deaths year today including the 53 who were found in a trunk and essentially suffocated. there have been others to put in perspective, all of last year, all of last year, there were 566 so almost up to that level. we got another half year to go. chris knows the problem very well and joins us on the phone with the texas department of public safety, kind enough to join us now. chris, good to have you. we are looking at these drone shots here, so far, relative calm along the border but i think you and you folks don t see that lasting very long.
speaking of alexandria ocasio-cortez alejandro mayorkas, they are covering monday, exactly how many migrants are dying with this crisis going on? i discovered cbp does not publicly report official numbers to our sources, we learned there have been 518 migrants killed this fiscal year since october not including the 53 in the truck, if you add that, obviously higher. there are reports last year, 566, the last administration. our friend and colleague, the anchor of face the nation has an exclusive interview tomorrow, i hope she will ask him why dhs
julie: fox has obtained new audio from monday s horrifying discovery at 53 dead migrants in a tractor-trailer. near san antonio. you can hear a police officer who arrived at the grisly scene calling for backup. all we have right now, south in that location. towards the mechanic shop right there nearby. i have so many bodies here. julie: wow. customs and border protection call fox exclusively, 518 have died so far this fiscal year, not including that s 53 on monday. that is way up from last fiscal year s unofficial total of 566 and 247 only in 2020, if you compare the numbers. those numbers are expected to keep rising after the supreme court okayed ending the remain in mexico policy. the new york post writes that scared scotus ruling paves the