90% of those who claim asylum never get relief in u.s. courts because they don t qualify. they need to change the trafficing victims act. when children comes across treat that child like you would treat a child in mexican. mexican children go back. people from other countries you have years of hearings. families coming across, we used to detain families in a family center until they saw a judge. 90% send them home. this can be fixed. until congress can take action, the administration keeps saying title 42, we don t control it. what they do control is remain in mexico. they could turn that on today like the trump administration did and give the border patrol relief. it would move the numbers way down. they aren t going to do it. congressman gonzalez is right. what they will do is send more resources to the border to
president would be upset about an infringement on federal land in general, say at our international borders. they go through all this effort to dismantle and stop this effort but go through they put no effort into preventing illegal immigration and disincentivizing it. molly: your thoughts on this trespassing supposedly in arizona when in reality there are a great number of people coming across? well, i agree with congressman. if the federal government wants to do something they should put time and energy to securing the border. instead it appears as though they are interested in filing lawsuits to actually take away border security measures such as what the governor of arizona is doing. i know that they are also suing governor of texas and others. i think they ve got misplaced priorities at the end of the day. the federal government needs to be securing that border. they aren t doing that. it is a very clear to every american they aren t doing that. the numbers bear that out. th
dana: the white house says it has a plan to handle the crisis but president biden seems none too eager to talk about it. mr. president we re covering the border from all angles. alexandria hoff at the white house, former acting ice director tom homan looks at the big picture. let s go to bill melugin at ground 0 of the crisis live at the border in eagle pass, texas. temperatures have fallen off a cliff at the border. in the mid 20s in eagle pass. dangerous for anybody trying to get into the water behind us. we want to show you something that happened right where we re standing trying to interview texas congressman tony gonzalez. a group of migrants rushed the river from mexico as they were being chased by mexican authorities. look at this.
time this holiday. first we ll get an update from our reporter bill melugin consistently bringing light to this very topic. bill, to you. good morning to you. certainly not used to these kind of temperatures down here at the southern border. we re in the mid 20s here in eagle pass right now. we want to show you something that happened yesterday right here where we re standing as we were trying to interview texas congressman tony gonzalez who represents the area. a group of migrants rush the river behind us and get chased by mexican authorities. take a look. wow. some of that beeping you hear are from the vehicles belonging to the mexican authorities who are honking at the group of over a dozen migrants who jumped into the river. pulled up and started yelling at the migrants. didn t want them to get into the river. a dozen migrants did that in the
cold, frigid water and some brought little children with them. they crossed illegally into eagle pass and walked onto a local golf course where people were playing golf and they surrendered themselves to border patrol. congressman gonzalez says this happens every day and get only more dangerous with the weather the next few days. it is going to get very cold. we are talking temperatures we haven t seen in a decade. here you have people wading through the water. it is not good for everyone. children, it is not good. we have to keep title 42 in place and need to have a plan after. i ll take you out to the tucson, arizona sector. border patrol arresting two u.s. juveniles ages 14 and 15. they were driving that red car and they were smuggling five illegal immigrants inside of their vehicle including two in the trunk.