instead they will be bogged down in paperwork and taking agents away from doing their job at the border. immigration courts are pectize up already and the caseload is getting worse by the day. a texas lawmaker says the biden administration should be sending more judges to border towns instead of u.s. troops. the way it stops is instead of the president sending 1500 u.s. troops to the border, he should send 1500 immigration judges. dana: david spunt is live at the justice department as it gets underway. 2.1 million cases, that s the backlog as of this morning. think about that for a moment. that number only expected to grow when title 42 is lifted. that number will only swell over the coming weeks and coming months. right now the backlog is about 4 to 6 years. some experts say it could go 8 to 10 years to get into court to hear your case because of title 42. one of the reasons only about 600 immigration judges right now that are active in the united states. obviously the
it s done. dana: a big tease for quite a while. president biden made the announcement in a video released early this morning and some of the slogans from his last campaign and attacked so-called maga republicans and implores voters to help him finish the job. president biden: when i ran for president four years ago i said we re in the battle for the soul of america. we still are. the question we re facing is whether in the years ahead we have more freedom or less freedom, more rights or fewer. this is not a time to be complacent and why i m running for re-election. around the country maga extremist are lining up to cut social security that you paid for your entire life while culting taxes for the wealthy. dictating what healthcare decisions women can make. banning books and telling people who they can love all while making it more difficult for you to be able to vote. this is our moment. bill: it s part of the 3:02 release today. the president going ahead with his campa
southern border days before title 42 is set to expire. jeff has details of the plan. they have had control for four months but republicans say they have a plan for the southern border and they are seeking change at the border but with the man who is in charge of security. most americans know this is out of control on the open southern border has to be closed and resolved. it was get back to the legal system that should be working for everybody everybody should know what the rules are. he continued to confirm border wall would resume border agents would get a pay bump and those seeking asylum would have to do it at a port of entry and pay $50 fee there s talks of impeaching the homeland security secre some democrats are pushing back already. it s a rehash of the same it doesn t deal with the issue it doesn t deal with the challenge it doesn t deal with the urgency of where we re at right now. another devastating aspect the ongoing functional crisis but families of 60
secretary karine jean-pierre coming up in the next hour. the president launching his campaign in a three-minute video promising to finish the job in a second term in the white house. sandra: the president will need to win over voters concerned about his age, 80 years old, as well as the millions of americans tired of stubbornly high prices and filling up gas tanks a daunting task for two straight years now. john: fox team coverage begins now, charles payne is standing by, but first peter doocy, live in wilmington, delaware, and peter, what is the biden team s early strategy in the campaign rollout? john, we have been in touch with president biden s campaign team and they are telling us the early strategy is just to let the president be the president. so official duties over campaign stops, and we are seeing that, these remarks going on in washington, d.c., he has not even mentioned the re-election. it s a lot of stock lines that we have heard before like this one. i l
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