martha maccallum. later this hour, mike rowe is here on a story you probably won t see anywhere else. right now top biden officials including secretary state blinken and alejandro mayorkas meeting with the mexican president. a caravan up to 10,000 migrants makes its way to the u.s. sources telling fox the past three months have seen some 730,000 migrant encounters at the border. that is bigger than the populations of major cities like denver, nashville, and boston. let s bring in k.t. mcfarland and robert charles, former assistant secretary of state under president george w. bush. welcome, merry christmas, happy new year. k.t., to you first. it s interesting because we have been covering this on fox news channel since the border crisis, since the day president biden took office, right? and you look up at all the other networks are not covering it. i look up today, everybody is covering the border. everybody has people down there. that is bad news for president biden. yeah,
let s be clear, this is far from a done deal. until you actually see the indictment, the charges, a lot can happen between now and even the potential for that happening. but sources are telling cnn that new york city, state, and federal law enforcement agencies have been meeting all week long to prepare for the possibility of an indictment. and it will be a stunning surrender of a former president of this country. with all that, talk about fingerprinting, mug shots, an arraignment, a perp walk of a former president of the united states. what his own attorneys telling t new york daily news that if trump is indicted, he won t refuse to surrender, quote, there won t be a standoff at mar-a-lago. plus the story of a wrongly convicted man to this number is shocking 400 years behind bars. now, after 34 years in prison, he s been exonerated and finally able to walk free. that s him hugging his mother. sidney holmes says she never lost hope. and he s here with us tonight. and
a historic surge at the border, but probably not the one you re thinking about. in the last five months, border patrol agents apprehending nearly 2,000 people crossing into the u.s. from canada into upstate new york and new hampshire and vermont. that s nearly as many as the last three fiscal years combined. those numbers are of course much, much smaller than the ones you see on the southern border. federal authorities have moved an additional 25 agents to the area. and the region s top border patrol agent is warning that traveling there on foot in winter poses significant risks to the lives of already vulnerable people making the journey. i m back now with my panel. let s look at the treacherous conditions. we often think about immigration and the southern border.
68 miles on the ground, it was pretty devastating down here in alabama and georgia. bill: thank you. sandra: thank you and best to all those. bill: kirstjen nielsen remarks after a major headline hit overnight about the crisis down there with the families across the southwestern border. drop in right here. profiting from human missouriry every single day. deceiving them about our laws and fueling everything from sexual slavery to child exploitation to the smuggling of illicit goods. make no mistake this chain of human misery is getting worse. yesterday we announced that the numbers of apprehension at our southern border have spiked again, substantially. since late last year we have been seeing 50 to 60,000 migrants arrive at our southern border each month. but in february, we saw 30% jump over the previous month with agents apprehending or
national border patrol council, hector great to talk to you. what steve just said about what happens in the march to the towns, to the localities. that is rarely covered on this network but they don t talk about the effect of this march on all of the people that pass by in those neighborhoods. hector: we have to think of this caravan coming through mexico right now. we have more caravans forming in central america but let s not forget, the caravan coming from south texas. the agents apprehending anywhere from 502,000 illegal aliens coming into the country. we saw a couple of days ago in the sector, three border patrol agents came across 376 illegal aliens that crossed the border over they are so definitely humanitarian crisis causing a lot of problems not only for migrants but for agents and the american public.