getting worse along the southern border despite the reinstatement of president trump s remain in mexico policy. joining us, lieutenant chris rivera s of the texas department of public safety. we did not thank you for taking time, merry christmas eve to you, sir. merry christmas eve, griff. it s great to be with you. it s great to be with you. for our viewers, full disclosure, i just spent the entire last week embedded with you in the amazing men and women of the texas dps. i want to get your reaction on the quote there. henry cuellar has been a border congressman, democrat for many years. he s very versed with what is happening at the border. he says, like many of you, that you ve never seen it like this. but yet, he is saying that vice president harris is not interested in solving the problems there. right. you heard from congressman and his remarks as far as the federal government not taking any actions at the start of this border crisis. they ve removed and counted every resou
cuellar a democrat by the way a border congressman says in the rgv 20% of migrant children are positive right now. that s more than quarter of the kids being held in that area. and, really, it is the sort of discombobulated system they have between the apprehensions of these massive number of folks turned over to ngos like the catholic charity in this case in la joya and the inability to test them right at the point of contact is now what is this covid problem that they are dealing with. and it s interesting, too. the reason why i ended with that the washington post article because maybe the administration is finally realizing they have a problem on their hands that if left alone is going to be catastrophic going forward. steve: discombobulated is the perfect word. brian: rare when a word like discombobulated is a perfect word for anything. thank you, griff. prevent it it s amazing, two major stories, two major stories
and visit the border. how much longer can this go on, her not visiting the border? it s hard to fathom what her reason is for not doing so. it is hard to fathom considering that she s already made the trip to central america and to mexico and it is time for her to begin look first of all, you re in south carolina, you know why we re a draw to people around the world. it s not what people are running from. it s what they re coming to. if she goes to the border, she has an opportunity to learn what henry knows as a border congressman and what i know and juan vargas knows that we have to support the men and women we have to keep the borders safe and secure and stop drugs from coming over and stop human trafficking. a myriad of issues being complicated. so won t just hear about migration.she will hear about the frustration by the men and women of the border patrol in not being able to do the other
such a hazardous trip, but everyone in the trump administration has done everything they possibly can to make that trip more dangerous, more deadly. they destroy water supplies that are left in the desert by samaritans who are doing what donald trump s bible tells them to do. the trump administration is illegally blocking fathers and daughters like this from seeking asylum at our border stations, and so they face the choice of hopelessly waiting near a border station for the trump administration to suddenly decide to obey the law or finding another more dangerous way to cross. nbc s cal perry has been covering the situation at the border today. he spoke with border congressman texas democrat beto o rourke who was visiting a migrant center in jaurez mexico.
to do. the trump administration is illegally blocking fathers and daughters like this from seeking asylum at our border stations, and so they face the choice of hopelessly waiting near a border station for the trump administration to suddenly decide to obey the law or finding another more dangerous way to cross. nbc n nbc s cal perry has been covering the situation at the border today. he spoke with border congressman texas democrat beto o rourke who was visiting a migrant center in jaurez mexico. what is your reaction to that? you do not travel 2,000 miles with your 7-year-old child for kicks or to take advantage of another country. you do it because you re