messaging as far as incentivizing those they claim were separated from the previous years, incentivizing with $450,000 a head, that s not going to resolve the current crisis. it s going to make it worse and continue to escalate and that s what we are seeing. i want to ask you about this, we are dealing with a new variant of covid. on pace more than a million people to cross the border illegally and that s more than the populations. how many crossings do you believe have covid do we know and it s a health risk, isn t it? it is a health risk. that s one thing that we don t know. that s the scary part of it. we don t know the illegal immigrants were released that weren t tested for covid. the vast majority weren t especially in del rio when we had the situation with the haitians, over 12,000 released into the country. again, we don t know how many were tested for covid. that s a national health issue not only for the state of texas but for the entire country so that s one thing that w
are able to come back, but we don t know a lot about the variant but that it is great concern and spreads rapidly and i spent half hour this morning with my covid team lead by dr. fauci. jacqui: holiday sales expect today climb at record pace this year. increase of up to 10 and a half percent. also in lesser notice news, president biden after releasing barrels in the nation s emergency stock oil to reduce price, that plan called for boosting the government s royalty rate but it notably did
reportedly as early as this coming week, plans to reinstate or at least a mirrored version of former president donald trump s controversial policy which requires migrant to wait outside while claims are pursuit. the only difference with president biden s spin on it, now the migrant would be offered a covid vaccine before being released from u.s. custody and then sent right back over the border. logistics of how that all would happen unclear, however, there have been reports that the feds would do a slow rollout with this. for brownsville, texas, el paso, here in texas and then san diego in california as the first 3 cities and later additional border patrol sectors could eventually and will be added. meantime, a major critic of president biden republican texas governor greg abbott has deployed an additional or says he will deploy soon an
and, look, we have to get used to covid is going to be here for a very long time if not forever, so we have to message our economy around covid much more effectively which means we can t just shut things down. we have to learn how to keep everything going. business as usual to the greatest extent possible. but just be mindful that covid is out there. stay practical. edward: and hitha, is this pushing people more online or, to dan s point, will people get out there and support businesses? consumers were already going online. i think the way consumer has been shopping has been changing, and the fact that we keep having the rise of this variant, you know, it s just cementing that consumer behavior. but i do want to mention, i mean, this is small business saturday, small businesses make bulk of their money during this period especially if they re
vaccinated so you can go about your life with minimal risk. edward: doctor, thank you for your time this morning. that certainly helps alleviate some of the fears. now, those who are, you know, fighting these covid fierce as shoppers hit fears as shoppers hit the stores sales are boosting higher than last year, let s dig deeper into how this covid variant may play into shoppers thinking. dan geltrude and irs wealth montana david ragland. ladies first. traditionally, this is one of biggest shopping weekends of the year. this year is a little different. we re seeing cpi inflation about 6.2% over past 12 months, that means shoppers might not be finding the deals when they go out for black friday. are those deals still out there? the deals are out there. you know, i was looking through some data last night checking out some of the web site that