washington post obtain cbp data showing border agents made about 40000 arrest highest one month total for the sector in 15 years. the dire situation is captured in some of these photos shared by the tucson sector s border patrol chief. he says agents rescued a migrant in the brush suffering from seizures he also said one week alone they had 11000 apprehensions, 43 rescues, 15 human smuggling events and 10 narcotic seizures. we ve got fennel coming across the border. we have lost operational control the border. also this outdoor facility for migrants was getting lots of criticism due to the extremely hot weather. summer: the structure a cage. a spokesperson for customs and border protection tells me single adult men are rotated to this outside overflow facility
griff: you are looking at live images from fox flight team over eagle pass, texas, part of the del rio sector where in the last 24 hours 1,284 apprehensions bringing the fiscal year just 29 days in at almost 39,000 yet migrants continue to stream into the u.s. at an alarming rate. let s bring in the spokesperson for the texas department of public safety in south texas region, lieutenant chris olivarez, you and i have spent a lot of time covering the crisis and i m just struck by the fact that as we are just 29 days into the fiscal year it doesn t seem that things are slowing down by the stretch of the nation. i have to tell you especially as we talk about human smuggling, continuing increase in human smuggling events in the eagle pass area and we continue
processing individuals, but we re not seeing that and also why now? why now, almost two years in the border crisis why now are they trying to put an initiative in place for only one country. and i don t think it s going to make an impact as far as what we re doing on the state side we re dealing with individuals coming across mexico and central america and human smuggling events and trying to traverse the private ranches. and what s the long-term goal, the long-term strategy for this operation or that the federal government has put in place. neil: lieutenant, thank you very much. as you ve reminded me many times, my friends, one country, it s just one country. just one. neil: pan a mixture of those coming into the country come from 116 countries. you fight the good fight, lieutenant. thank you very much. thank you, neil, always a pleasure. neil: all right. chris olivarez. you ve heard a lot about the administration forgiveness plan
violating state law. but the fact of the matter is, the federal government has allowed an open border policies and they say they come to this country because the border is open and that s what we re seeing that. because of that the criminal organizations are exploiting that and a multi-billion dollar trade. 500% increase since 2018 in human smuggling events. that shows you how profitable it is to smuggle immigrants from mexico making the long dangerous journey from over 150 countries and to the united states and criminals will continue to exploit that and doesn t matter what operation or initiative the federal government will put in place, we know it s temporary and the criminal organizations are going to try to fine the loopholes, they re not going to lose tear profits. they ll continue smuggling people across that border. neil: so let me ask you, chris, when we hear of this move to deal with this subset of migrants, a tiny subset about 24,000 venezuelans with mexico essentially adjud
trailers, in wooden crates, the trunks of cars. with the extreme heat in south texas, unfortunately and tragically we will continue to see more events that took place in san antonio. the whole purpose of the initiative is to deploy additional manpower, state resources, law enforcement, to actually crackdown on this, these commercial vehicles that may be used for smuggling. some have already made it past checkpoints and border patrol so our focus is to stop these vehicles, inspect them, and try to prevent any more mass casualties we saw and human smuggling events that turn tragic likely sign san antonio. the vice president, the board s czar comes that they are yourgovernor is putting politic. they say that the borders are closed but the lieutenant governor in texas as if the borders were close people wouldn t be coming in. we saw the highest reported number of apprehensions last