to acknowledge there is a crisis. we have a president and administration that will not acknowledge a crisis at the border. it took the president 718 ways to make his way down to the border, when he carved out 146 days fvacation time. marianne: and border czar kamala harris responding monday in washington to ask for taxpayer money not to build a wall, but to give away to countries to deter illegal crossings. agents will testify today just before the state of the union address. todd: thank you. i am sure this topic will be front and center. officers in arizona seizing fentanyl pills and nine pounds of cocaine in six loads in one
0 about the animals there. a staffer recognized him from photos released pie the police. dallas morning news said irvin entered the zoo several times and he had plans to take additional animals. he is charged with six counts of animal cruelty. fox news alert, house republicans bringing president biden border crisis to capitol hill with two border patrol agents set to testify just hours from now. you re watching fox and friends first, i m todd piro. ashley: i m ashley strohmier, in for carley shimkus. border agents say the border situation has gotten out of control. one homeowner told just how bad things have gotten on her ranch. we just finished construction several months ago, this is the second time they attempted a break-in. it is sad we cannot come up here and enjoy the life that we did several years ago without fearing for our lives. we have constantly got to be armed. there is no feeling of safety, it is fearful. you are looking over your shoulder and listening for sounds
slot with our drone, this is exclusive footage when three gop female senators, blackburn, britt and smith came here where i am under this bridge and able to observe and actual migrant crossing while it was happening, a group of cubans with an elderly grandmother struggling to get across the water. the senators spoke with the migrants about their plight and they had this reaction to the president s trip and whether that accomplished anything. take a listen to this. took him 718 days to get to the border. it took me six. you have to come and you have to see it. you have to ask for the real unvarnished truth. the president didn t see what we re seeing. he has not seeing how there are lives that are wrecked because the cartels are promising them something they can never deliver. in just to reiterate to drive
pass, part of del rio sector where officials tell me in the last 24 hours they had 1,155 migrant encounters in this sector alone, that s why you can see high in the sky the con tapers, the shipping containers that governor greg abbott texas governor greg abbott placed here with razor wire on top to try to slow it down and mike, stunning new numbers, cbp sources giving fox news this morning across the entire southwest border, we can show you more than 718 total migrant encounters in first 101 days of fiscal year 2023 which began on october 1st, nearly 200,000 released under title 42 meaning more than half million were released into the u.s. let s go just to the el paso sector where mark meredith was. the encounters in first one hundred days, can see nearly 170,000 and they are up more than 220% from this time last year and that bottom number,