for being here illegally, that s just going to be another magnet to bring people here. i tell you something else, he wants to concentrate and focus on the criminals. i guaranty you when this report gets continued the numbers will be down at least 50%. i know that. i talk to ice every day. their hands are tied. he s not the secretary of homeland security. he s a secretary of homeland insecurity. this country is less safe under his leadership and president biden. he needs to be impeached for that very statement he made telling sworn officers, ignore the law, ignore the oath you took, this is open borders and we can t stop it. griff: tom, they are also not releasing dhs won t release the december apprehension numbers. we found in a court filing it s 178,000 according to filing, if you look at first 3 months, october, november and december, the traditionally slowest months in the border last year s numbers pail in comparison to what we are seeing this year alone in the first 3 months,
in la joya, where we saw a mixture of migrants apprehended by border patrol, a mix of runners and people who are voluntarily giving themselves up from a dh source this morning. and just from october 1st, there have been more than 157,000 migrants encounters, again, huge numbers, those numbers up 143% compared to the same time last year. back here live, the ice report with the federal government still has not released. another thing they haven t released are the official numbers for the month much december. here we are pushing into late january. they have not released the december apprehension numbers though in a federal court filing they know the numbers, they say it s about 178,000, if that turns out to be true, calendar year 2021 is going to push over two millions encounters in total at our southern border. jacqui: bill melugin for us.