martha maccallum. later this hour, mike rowe is here on a story you probably won t see anywhere else. right now top biden officials including secretary state blinken and alejandro mayorkas meeting with the mexican president. a caravan up to 10,000 migrants makes its way to the u.s. sources telling fox the past three months have seen some 730,000 migrant encounters at the border. that is bigger than the populations of major cities like denver, nashville, and boston. let s bring in k.t. mcfarland and robert charles, former assistant secretary of state under president george w. bush. welcome, merry christmas, happy new year. k.t., to you first. it s interesting because we have been covering this on fox news channel since the border crisis, since the day president biden took office, right? and you look up at all the other networks are not covering it. i look up today, everybody is covering the border. everybody has people down there. that is bad news for president biden. yeah,
groups of migrants still crossing the border. top biden officials crossing south of the border to try to get mexico s help. the numbers are not lying. this crisis is intensifying. now the largest migrant caravan of the year is approaching. where is all this heading? your world starts right now. charles: welcome. i m charles payne in for neil cavuto. first to mexico. a failed root cause strategy and a border less secure than ever before, today president biden turned to mexico for help. secretaries blinken and mayorkas urgently met with president obrador to focus on a problem the administration has ignored. agents apprehending 1,000 immigrants today. in lukeville, another 1,000 last night. thousands are more are on their way including this caravan of 15,000. so what exactly does the u.s. want? one, resume deportations buses and flights to central america. the u.s. wants the migrants detained before they reach the u.s. number 2, resume policing the railroads. the beast as
that. very good to have you. thanks for coming. great to be here. thanks for having me, neil. neil: that would be largely expected. i know as you know, the guesstimates on what the jobs numbers would be were all over the map. nobody could get a sense of who the storms hit. what do you think? it s a byproduct of the hurricane. you have businesses that couldn t report jobs numbers because they were dealing with the aftermath. the underlying fundamentals are good. more people are working. under employment rates are down and incomes rising. the economy is healthy. you re seeing consumer confidence high and the dow breaking records. neil: are you surprised that the economy is doing as well as it is? whether it s just the underlying fundamentals are good or optimism that the president s tax cuts are going to become
does continue to pump stimulus money into the economy, pushing down interest rates and sending investors to stocks because it seems to be the best game in town. that is really what s created this stellar first quarter. look at the returns just in the first three months of the year. the dow is up 11%. the nasdaq is higher. and the s&p 500, that s climbed almost 10%. in fact, today the s&p 500 is making history of its own. it just broke through its all-time high that was set in october, 2007. so we have the dow breaking records earlier. a few weeks ago. now the s&p 500 is breaking its own record. so all of that is really helping this upward momentum that we ve already seen this year. alison, tell us about blackberry. i understand there was a lot of anticipation and even some excitement over what they were announcing earlier. yeah. what s interesting is earnings reports really don t get people all jazzed up but this one is reel it biggy especially when you think of all the hype that l
is behaving in this way. i know. you have to look at the fine print. what s interesting in the record-breaking streak that the dow is on, the dow breaking records every day, it sounds great. but it s doing just barely. the dow eeked out a five-point gain. the day before that, ended two points higher, technically, a record. every day the dow ends higher when it broke through the level of 14,164. but there aren t many traders in the game right now. that s the reality. that could put gains in jeopardy every single day. so could random piece of negative news. for now, we re on s & p 500 record watch. the dow already hit it. now the s & p 500 s turn which would be bigger because of your 401(k), portfolio, tracks that index. it hit its all-time record high of 16,055. that could give momentum to the whole market to move higher. we ll see. alison kosik, live at the new york stock exchange.