day but everything got better. a new york post story finding there is a stunning report how traffickers sell services to migrants who want to come here ille illegally. they post videos, some professionally produced. footage shows migrants happily crossing the border while glossing over the deadly consequences. bill: these smugglers are advertising in the open. authorities say they re powerless to stop it. republicans argue another example of a crisis that cannot continue. the big thing is, we have to elect someone that can take our country back. look what s happened at the southern border. when did border security start to become a political issue? bill: casey stiegel is live in dallas today again. good morning. good morning to you. even though the number of migrants crossing and turning themselves in voluntarily to border patrol agents is down, the number of smuggling events are up according to officials. recently texas dps also captured a confirmed ms-13 gang memb
promising them resources and aid as they dig through the rubble for victims. the survivor say their town is unrecognizable. more states were hit by severe weather including georgia, alabama and oklahoma. this hail pummeling parts of arkansas causing damage great everything you need to know this morning. janice, these tornadoes can touchdown anywhere.it ran right through a community. we can warn people and tell them where the location is going to get hit hard which is what we did yesterday. the panhandle was part of that but when you see the devastating damage and folks out of their homes death and destruction. it s heartbreaking and unfortunately we have another day of strong severe storms. look at the last 48 hours. it s rare to see severe weather outbreaks in june. it is possible but we typically see it in the spring and fall when we have a clash of the air mass and the fact we are saying this amount of severe weather this late in the season is remarkable but we do have
extending protections for more than 330,000 immigrants, some illegal, and some at the risk of overstaying their visas. those from el salvador, honduras, napal and nicaragua are shielded from deportation for 18 months. one top democrat says it is still not going far enough. another initiative from the left might. it is a new bill aimed at giving migrants immediate access to our federal benefits. things like medicaid and food stamps. you heard right. it does away with the previous five-year waiting period which democrats call arbitrary and xenophobic. as the left is focused on that the scene at our southern border stays dire. look at every decision they ve made, it is to open our border as wide as possible. they created the migration crisis in this region. people tested the system early on, saw they could get in and get released and so they called back home and millions have come. julie: casey stiegel with more topping our news this hour. hey, casey. according to the numb
president in a direct challenge to former president donald trump and made no bones about that. back together in new york city. i m bill hemmer. good morning. dana: so glad you re here, my friend. bill: miss or not really? dana: 12 on the miss. you were missed, yeah. bill: i ll take that. dana: you should take that. i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. good to be back together. more on the wildfires in a little bit. i remember last week my parents saying they couldn t see the mountains from denver because of these wildfires. the east coast dealing with it as well. christie launched his campaign yesterday and attacked the president straight out of the gate. he said president trump made americans smaller by pitting them against one another. if you look back at our history, when we have had great leaders, at every pivotal moment in our history there was a choice between small and big. and america became the most different, the most successful, the most
congress. merrick garland answered questions about everything from gun violence to tech giants to child labor and much more. he gave an early sign that he would not go into detail about some of the justice department s most politically fraught investigations. that includes the classified dork found at the home of current and former president it requires as much as possible we speak to our work and our filings in court so we do not jeopardize the viability of our investigations and the civil liberties of our citizens. as expected, the attorney general received his toughest questions from republicans. texas senator ted cruz slammed garland for failing to arrest any protester opposed to the overturning of roe v. wade who demonstrated outside the homes of some supreme court justices. in my judgment, the department of justice has been politicized to the greatest extent i ve ever seen. i vigorously disagree. i believe the men and women of the department pursue their wor