2,943 held beyond the 72 hour limit placed on border patrol. homeland security says the u.s. could soon reach the highest number of people apprehended at the border and more than 20 years. immigration lawyers say migrants are sending their children over the border alone illegally so they won t be sent back. democrats are blaming former president trump for the overwhelming surge of the border. he and his successor, president joe biden, are speaking out tonight. did biden administration still refuses to call it happening a crisis. people are coming in by the hundreds of thousands, young children are coming in. they leave their homes and they come up because they think it s going to be so wonderful and frankly our country can handle it. it is a crisis like we ve rarely had. certainly we ve never had on the border. but it s going to get much worse. shannon: hello and welcome to fox news @ night. i m shannon bream in washington. white house correspondent kevin corke is track
and average per day up from 313 per day from laszlo, 4200 children in custody, 2943 held beyond the 72 hour limit placed on border patrol. homeland security says the us could soon reach the highest number of people apprehended at the border in 28 years. immigration lawyers say the migrants are sending their children over the border alone so they won t be sent back. democrats are blaming donald trump for the overwhelming surge of the border, hit his successor, president joe biden are speaking out tonight, the biden administration still refuses to call what is happening a crisis. people are coming in by the hundreds of thousands, young children are coming in and they believe they think it is going to be so wonderful and our country can t handle it. it is a crisis like we have rarely had and certainly we ve never had on the border but is going to get much worse. shannon: welcome to fox news at night. white house correspondent kevin cork is tracking what donald trump and pres
fox and friends first starts right now. jillian: you are taking a live look at dublin, it is st. patrick s day, 8:00 in the morning and dublin, 4:00 in the morning on the east coast and we might not have that bar but we have irish potatoes here. do you like the irish potatoes, are you a fan of them? benjamin: i am a fan of irish guinness. even though those bars stay close because of covid people are celebrating because you can get yourself a guinness anywhere, you can take it home and drink it. as soon as the show is finished expect everyone to be doing that. jillian: thank you for bringing these in. that is how we are partying here. benjamin: you are celebrating. jillian: i m a little disappointed in you? benjamin: i will make up for it. jillian: you should be ashamed of your self. benjamin: let us go, 8 people killed, police say the shootings happened in three different parlors in the span of one hour. 6 of 8 victims jillian: police tracked down robert long through s
two years in 19 and 20 there was a surge as well. this one might be worse. president biden: it could be. we re sending back people, first of all. the idea that joe biden said come because i heard the other day that they are coming because they know i m a nice guy and i want them here is the deal. they re not. do you have to say quite clearly don t come? i can say don t come. don t leave your town or city or community. dana: what i was going to say i also didn t think it was that strong. if you read it on paper you would be that s fine. there is a forcefulness with which you need to say something like that i believe. bill: i agree with you. dana: getting to a points where the situation is reaching a level crisis challenge, catastrophe that they can t ignore. bill: i want to hear his entire answer play out the way it did in front of stephanopoulos. i don t want to see video edits. let s hear what he has to say. cbs is reporting 13,000 unaccompanied minors in a
never had on the border. it is going to get much worse. what you are seeing now is very bad. record numbers, but it is going to get much, much worse. we had very few people coming in and we stopped human trafficking. when i say stopped it, made a tremendous dent never made before and drug trafficking. we did a lot of things. all of that is now eroded. harris: also stunning new numbers today show border agents encountering an average of 565 unaccompanied minors every single day that s up from 313 children per day just last month. trending higher. there are now more than 4200 migrant children in custody. senate minority leader mitch mcconnell will be with me to talk about it later this hour. plus the escalating battle over the filibuster on capitol hill. it could, in fact, change the government that we know in america in an amazing way depending on your point of view, not good. first, casey stiegel is live along the southern border in mission, texas. casey. and harris, ea