the numbers are up. 70 to 80% of agents are not on patrol. making food, transporting them to different places, 70 to 80% off the line and that s when the trafficking of children happen and known expected terrorists come across the border. when these numbers go up at the end of title 42. that just means they will put more agents off the line because this administration is all about processing quicker, release quicker because of overcrowding. when you get 90% off the lines, more fentanyl will kill americans, more americans die, more migrants die, more gang members get in. it s not just immigration issue anymore, it s a national security issue that s about to get a whole lot more. rich: we are going to bring griff jenkins. griff: of course a breaking situation just to set the stage about 8:30 a.m. local here in brownsville we are 4, 5 miles from the border but what happened a vehicle drove up on the sidewalk. struck a group of individuals standing next to a bus stop and result
receive them. rich: how much of a challenge is that tom? it was a challenge in trump administration but we fixed it. guam em three, honduras and honduras they were pushing back return to but president trump told them either you do it or we are going to take your national aid away. he told mexico you are going to put troops in northern and southern border or we will tariff your products. look, the administration needs to get a backbone and hold the other countries accountable. if cuba don t want to take citizens, there s a process to return to country. this is a policy issue. we ve already wrote the plan that was they gave us the most secure border in my lifetime. all they have to do is take the plan and dust it off. title 42 coming up, everybody is panicking, they can put remain in mexico program back in play, the federal courts have said it s legal. that was a game-changer for the trump administration. they could fix this tomorrow if
and is this the time the to go now? or cuba is going to resist the presence of big american corporations. great point. now is the time to go. i ve seen more change in havana especially in the last three years than two prior years traveling to cuba. much more money in the system. change is happening. more modern cars. the old american cars may be gone in ten years. and of course i think by then the u.s. embargo will be history. u.s. corporations will be there. i will not be happy to see mcdonald s there but there is certainly room for marriott, four seasons, etc. i like how you threw that in. i guess we know you re a luxury traveler then. after the deal was struck, fiddle castro s daughter said this. people of cuba don t want to return to capitalism. all cubans love what is going on. there is a tremendous affection and affinity going back more than a century between americans and cubans.
about $5 million in cuban businesses in their words stolen. they are among 6,000 on a decades-old cuba claims list run by the don t of justice. many large and well-known u.s. corporations are object that list seeking millions of dollars like exxon, texaco coca-cola and goodyear tire and rubber company. claims cuba has never dealt. with. the problem is if they do not pay, then it signals the world that you can confiscate american properties anywhere and you can get away with it. what exactly can impoverished cuba pay? when the average cuban only makes $20 a month. when cuba paid off spanish claims it was for $40 million. 10% what was asked. canadians were only paid $850,000 also a fraction. cuba don t have much to write checks. cuba is indebted up to its eyeballs and it squandered the
detriment of our overall national security. i think that s how it fits in to the broader narrative. jeb bush s wife is mexican american. he has close ties to the hispanic commute in miami. it s possible they re becoming more isolated with time as this i think you even see that in the generational splits in the cuban american community. many of the chirp of these people who came and fled cuba don t have the same degree of animosity. i think public opinion overall there s an affinity between americans and cubans. i ve bipeen there twice. this artificial embargo for 50 years is artificial. once it comes down we still have a lot of things to work out. they need to change in a lot of ways. it s all going to be positives and it will be harder and harder for the marco rubios and jeb