border. so i am tired of all the finger pointing and just hoping for some solution. there does not appear to be one in sight. julie: no, you are absolutely right. at this point we don t know of any current plan in place. it is a humanitarian crisis. over the christmas weekend, the number of migrants that came over in the freezing cold frigid temperatures were overwhelming and you say right now the floodgates are open. that s now. because if title 42 is lifted, you call it the dam breaking. we ll see a dam break there. what needs to be done? that is correct. we ll see the dam break and actually it is just unbelievable. what needs to be done in my opinion is they need to get a handle on the situation right on the border. the border is not secure. i don t care what anybody says. i was there and saw it firsthand. the border is not secure. we need to get a handle on that. the border patrol agents are
welcome back to fox & friends. the year is coming to an end. but the migrant surge is not. with just two days until title 42 expires. expected border crossings could surge to over 5 million per year. the city of el paso declaring a state of emergency as property owners are panicking. reaching deals to resume border wall construction in anticipation. joining us now is former el paso u.s. marshal and deputy chief of the el paso police department robert el monte. thank you so much for joining us this morning. what do you expect to happen starting on wednesday when title 42 is lifted? right, you know, prior to wednesday and now we have seen the flood gates open and wednesday the sea the dam break and it really hits home because el paso is my hometown. i spent 25 years there with the police department. born and raised there. i grew up 4 blocks from the
u.s. marshal, he is retired. also chief of el paso police. he talked a little bit on fox & friends earlier about what it is going to look like when title 42 is in the rear view mirror. now we have seen the flood gates open. and wednesday this thing goes through, we are going to see the dam break. el paso is a very compassionate is city there is only so much they can take. for the mayor to declare an emergency, it s really bad. so, what i don t understand is why we are not seeing more response from the white house, washington, d.c., what happened to fema? i thought they were supposed to handle emergencies and disasters? i think that s where we are at rights now. the burden is going to be placed on the city. it s just-el paso is just overwhelmed. i m planning to to be in el paso on wednesday to get a firsthand look at what is going on out there. brian: how many cities are taking taxpayer dollars to allow illegal immigrants to come and
once title 42 goes away, experts expect a massive influx of illegal immigrants. even more than we have seen so far. increasing number of democrats are now call for additional action. white house correspondent peter doocy starts us off tonight live from the north lawn. good evening, peter. peter: good evening, bret. in almost two years in office, biden administration officials have not yet deterred migrants from flooding the southern border. they re coming in record numbers and those numbers could still climb if administration officials don t quickly explain who gets to stay and who has to go by next week. right now, the flood gates are open. title 42, was lifted. you will see the dam break. peter: one idea for a title 42 replacement? let many migrants fly across the border instead. the wall street journal reports thousands could soon apply for asylum from home in venezuela, nicaragua, cuba and haiti and travel by plane if
this is a problem for the united states, migrants are impacting the entire united states and most cities don t have the infrastructure to handle the flow of migrantses that are coming in. right now, the flood gates are open, title 42 if lifted, you will see the dam break. incredible amount of people coming over, take my hat off to the city of el paso and brownsville, this situation is a crisis todd: you hit it is nail on the head, 18,000 migrantses per day, that is 6 million migrants going into the country and spread throughout all 50 states, how can our country from social services perspective to infrastructure perspective to housing perspective, deal with