will do what we need to do, and that is change the law, add some funding, put the funding in the right places. i see that they re crossing the border fence there. put money for i.c.e. so we can deport people when they don t meet the asylum criteria. griff: yeah. and, congressman, you said such an important thing a moment ago, and that is addressing the pull factors. my sources tell me, and mayorkas did not deny it in his interview with bret, that more than 70% of the migrants being encountered every day are being released after not meeting the credible fear threshold. so that means they re not coming for the asylum reasons, they re coming for economic reasons. the giant caravan making its way through mexico now carrying a banner that says [speaking spanish] free us from poverty, they re coming for economic reasons, and they re getting released. would you point to that as one of the main if things that has to change, the mass release
changes the policies and puts money in the right places, we ll give him the tools where they have to do what they need to do. detain people, deport people if they don t meet the criteria, and that s the bottom line. address the pull factor. griff: your voice and your insight on the border is one of the most important in this discussion, and i agree it is, indeed, a crisis. congressman henry cuellar, thank you for taking time. have a great weekend. thank you. happy new year. griff: happy new year. alicia: and joining us now from the other side of the aisle, republican congressman from florida, aaron bean. congressman, thank you so much for being here. before we beginnings let s take a listen to the president when asked about the crisis at the border and funding being negotiated in congress. listen. [inaudible conversations] give me the money i need to
protect the border. alicia: i guess the question is, congressman, what would they do, and what does that mean to this administration, to protect the border. first of all, it s great to be with you. it s just, to see president biden so out of touch with what s really happening at the border, i was there with speaker johnson earlier this week when we had over 65 members of congress to see how, what a disaster, a crisis, a catastrophe, all man manmade on our southern border. what joe biden wants money for is to continue the jet planes around the country at midnight to continue to hide these immigrants from the more than people. but we re figuring it out, alicia. we re sick of it. we re tired of it. so we don t want to give president biden or mayorkas any more money to continue to do the same things they re doing now which is allowing our southern border to be wide open and to continue to dispossessor these illegals all over our country.
policy of this administration? look, you can add a border fence, you can administer border patrol, you can do other things, but if you don t address that pull factor, what brings people over here, and that is it s very simple. they know that they can get to the u.s. border, the border patrol is not going to push them back. they ll help them. border patrol is processing them right now, and then they re going to be released in the united states, wait four, five, suggestion years for an immigration six years for an immigration hearing and if they show up, 87%, at least the figures that we ve seen for the last 25 years, 87% of them are going to be rejected. but once they re in, have is we seen any mass deportations? there s over a million final deportation orders right now. griff: congressman, i just have about 20 seconds, but i do want to ask you, finally, if there is a vote to impeach mayorkas as secretary, how will you vote? i m going to vote no. look, you know, we ve got to wor
stop selling them u.s. soil and take back the land they ve already purchased. we re going to make sure we go to our universities and say you take foreign money or american money, but the days of taking both are over and get that infiltration out of our schools. we re going to make sure we close down these chinese police stations that are around our country. griff: that s former south carolina governor and go gop candidate nikki haley campaigning in north liberty, iowa, ahead of this weekend s caucuses week s caucuses and her town hall with bret baier on monday. she was introduced by new hampshire governor chris sununu. we ll continue to monitor it. alicia, we ll send it to you. alicia: thanks, griff. the travel industry bracing for this weekend s storm as officials give advisories. c.b. cotton is live at laguardia airport. what s the situation like out