wall street journal assistant editor james freeman is here to weigh in. but first, no end in sight for the migrant crisis overtaking the southern border and no plan in place yet from the white house with the title 42 policy possibly ending any day now. welcome to america reports, i m aishah hasnie in washington. i m rich edson. border patrol agents are taking drastic steps to prepare for the worst. in just a matter of days, built a massive tent in the el paso desert bigger than a football field to handle the expected overflow of migrants if title 42 is lifted. and the new york post puts it welcome mat for illegal immigrants. chad wolf is standing by, but first matt is live at the southern border in eagle pass, texas. matt. rick, so far today our crews have seen four different migrant groups cross into the united states. standard procedure along the southern border. the surge is not slowing down and did not slow down over the christmas holiday weekend. sources
catch dr. oz. there will be a recount. more on the monologue. first matt, with pinpoint accuracy you told us we would be in this position tonight. where will we be tomorrow and monday? well, last night there was talk about 25,000 republican ballots out there. i didn t believe that. there are 8700 mail in ballots and that s lower. they are slower in getting those numbers upon i you have the same day ballots. don t have many out. i said to the viewers the majority of the precincts are democrats. you don t have many votes left to count. mccormic will do well but dr. oz did well in philadelphia county. dr. oz may drop a little more. in the end as long as you are up by 50, i have never seen a recount change an election. sean: i looked at all of the numbers and every single county and the percentage of the vote. i added even 5 to 7% extra to what percentage they had in the outstanding counties. even did that. you might get down to that number you mentioned. i see that as a ba
first matt is live at the southern border in eagle pass, texas. matt. rick, so far today our crews have seen four different migrant groups cross into the united states. standard procedure along the southern border. the surge is not slowing down and did not slow down over the christmas holiday weekend. sources felling fox news, 16,476 encounters between december 23rd and 25 at the border. 2,150 of those migrants were expelled under title 42, but 14,326 that were released into the united states. here is the vice president for the national border patrol council responding. i mean, you are releasing 14,000 people, that just does not make any sense. and i know a lot of the focus is on title 42, but this is happening with title 42 still in place. so, that will give you some type of a message of how bad it is
in his truck, something we see so often here along the southern border. rich. matt, thank you. aishah: chad wolf, former acting dhs secretary under president trump. thank you for joining us. i want to get right into where matt left off with this giant football field-sized tent that dhs, that border patrol has had to put up in el paso, where they are expecting upwards of 5,000 people a day once title 42 is lifted. when you look at this thing, do you think deterrent? no, you don t. the soft sided facility they are constructing there, because all the facilities along the border are at capacity or frankly beyond capacity. and so they need more space, they need more agents to process more and more individuals. this is the strategy, unfortunately, of the biden administration is they want to
catch dr. oz. there will be a recount. more on the monologue. first matt, with pinpoint accuracy you told us we would be in this position tonight. where will we be tomorrow and monday? well, last night there was talk about 25,000 republican ballots out there. i didn t believe that. there are 8700 mail in ballots and that s lower. they are slower in getting those numbers upon i you have the same day ballots. don t have many out. i said to the viewers the majority of the precincts are democrats. you don t have many votes left