as its known is underway, a few tensions that existed in the early stages. president biden is about to sit down with president obrador and justin trudeau. what can biden say to ease the crisis at our southern border. that number there, 2.3 million plus border encounters for fiscal year 2022. that ended in october or the new one began in october. it was an all-time high by an enormous margin. for some context, that s more than the entire population of houston, texas and we monitor the summit at this hour. we ll bring you that live. we re waiting to hear what these folks might say about the cartels, about our border and any agreements that they might reach to crack down on this situation. retired four-star general jack keane, chairman for the institute of study of war and a fox news senior strategic analyst joins me. good to have you with us today. obviously one of the greatest concerns is whatever pertains to u.s. national security from president biden s perspective. and he we
mentioned it, martha. you re absolutely right. the cartels are in charge of the border. it s the cartels that are facilitating a security problem of human trafficking, sex trafficking, drug trafficking, the movement of terrorists across the border that are on the terrorist list and now exceed 100. we have no idea of those who got across who have obviously not been detected. we don t have a plan to deal with this. we should dust off the plans that we had columbia when the united states got involved in recognized full up that the counter insurgery, the farc and the cartels were impacting u.s. security with the drug trafficking problem that it was having. we got organized with our intelligence services and the united states military capabilities, not directly involved, but nonetheless technologically involved and
state, to a state that has competitive elections. so, they built a lot of institutions. but the one place where they really have not made as much progress as they need to his rule of law. and that is specifically related to law enforcement. now, what happens when people are murdered, there is not a good sense of investigation, and very few people actually go to jail and so forth. but a big driver of that is the drug trafficking problem. i do not see that problem changing. i do not see him coming up with any solutions. the fundamental problem is that this country has a huge man for drugs. those dollars go directly into the pockets of criminals because, by definition, since this is a prohibited transaction, it goes to criminals. so, that means that these cartels get literally hundreds of millions of dollars every year. that overwhelms the system in mexico. he talked about doing amnesty for drug traffickers, and he backed off of that. he changed his story a number of
favor of moving it ahead of client change and the president said if we continue to act at a federal level. is there a chance they push this forward ahead of mid-terms? yes. lindsey graham is a key player here for the republicans. senator graham working with senator schumer and others saying there is a need to get something done right now. part of this conversation in washington is look, they are putting pressure on the democrats to say we supported you in the past. how come we re not getting payback in our key issue, immigration reform? you hear from charles and others, immigration, immigration. i don t think it s out of control. napolitano is right. the border up right now, steps taken may it less likely to immigrate right now. we have a terrible drug trafficking problem blowing up in mexico, killing people and leading to kidnappings and the like. that is a separate issue and we have to fight that. to say it s going to why
favor of moving it ahead of client change and the president said if we continue to act at a federal level. is there a chance they push this forward ahead of mid-terms? yes. lindsey graham is a key player here for the republicans. senator graham working with senator schumer and others saying there is a need to get something done right now. part of this conversation in washington is look, they are putting pressure on the democrats to say we supported you in the past. how come we re not getting payback in our key issue, immigration reform? you hear from charles and others, immigration, immigration. i don t think it s out of control. napolitano is right. the border up right now, steps taken may it less likely to immigrate right now. we have a terrible drug trafficking problem blowing up in mexico, killing people and leading to kidnappings and the like. that is a separate issue and we have to fight that. to say it s going to why