he is enabling mass shooters. biden administration has destabilized the southern border. it s a lie when administration officials claim they have operational control over the southern border. mexican drug cartels have control of the southern border. they have allowed it to worsen. they have actually refused to take any action to meaningfully secure our southern border. there is a war at our southern border and right now we are losing it. sandra: begin america reports with slamming biden for surrendering the southern border to the mexican drug cartels. i m sandra smith in new york. great to have you here, trace. trace: they argue biden could have cracked down on the cartels and drug smuggling by putting pressure on mexico s president when they met earlier this month but he failed to do so. sandra: those lawmakers also say open borders have helped turn human trafficking operations into a multi-billion dollar business for the cartels, which has made them even more of
house. finally, we got good news last night that the federal authorities had dropped the charges against abdul safai, trained by u.s. special forces to fight the taliban. he crossed the southern border illegally in september and found himself the poster child for a broken immigration and asylum system. we have been speaking to his brother sami, an american citizen who also served the u.s. military in afghanistan as a combat translator. he s been working tirelessly with veterans groups to get his brother who crossed the border illegally to seek asylum, freed. he served alongside united states special forces and being treated criminal defies everything i ve ever known about america. sami says he s so grateful so many americans came to his brother s defense. fox news has confirmed he has been released and is now
receiving medical treatment. sami has a room prepared for him in houston. safi faced death threats from the taliban. he documented his journey through ten countries, went into hiding, moving from safe house to safe house, thanks to the help of american veterans he was in contact with. abdul wasi-safi still faces asylum hearings but will not do so from a u.s. prison cell. he will arrive in houston this friday, first time out of u.s. custody since september. we are expecting a press conference with sheila jackson lee texas. 173 afghans are in custody as of january 9, 2023, the agency said. sandra: incredible story, jennifer griffin on that. thank you, jennifer. trace. trace: for years, seen the heavy burden put on the border agents as large groups of migrants and massive doses of
i characterize this as a logistical error. and a nightmare for mr. safai. these processes are very complicated. but i cannot imagine the horrors that he has faced in making his way across several continents to be able to be free. safai filmed his journey from brazil to the southern murder with mexico. he received a head injury from security forces in panama and is still bleeding from his ear. his repeated requests to see a doctor are ignored, according to his brother sami, a u.s. citizen who once worked as a translator in afghanistan for u.s. troops. disappointment, pleading to the biden administration, step up, do the right thing, and do what was promised to this man who fought alongside the very
0 john: yeah, that s the big unanswered questions, the documents sat there for five years, why did they become an issue. sandra: and that s a huge part of the question still, and the fact that the white house is not providing any transparency or clarity on that is leaving a lot of room for speculation on the part of the media. i mean, i m sure you saw joe rogan floating the theory that biden s document scandal is a ploy by democrats to replace him, ruin things for his 2024 potential bid. a lot of that out there. and mixed messages from the media, see how the reporters are in the room in a moment there. one of the anchors on cnn saying the classified documents defense by the white house is concerning if you are explaining you are losing. on the other hand, msnbc is praising biden s handling of the documents. it depends where you watch, look, read, john, why the white house needs to step in and offer facts for the american people where this investigation is, what the president knows,