i m john roberts in for bret baier tonight. a tough examination for dr. anthony fauci as he defends his actions during the coronavirus pandemic. we may be just hours away from an executive order from president biden on immigration. as an illegal migrant is arrested for allegedly shooting two new york city police officers. and what it takes to get american hostages back home. we hear from someone who has done just that. but, first, breaking tonight, just days after the conclusion of the first ever criminal trial against a former president, a similarly historic proceeding begins against the son of a sitting president. jury selection has been completed in the felony gun charge trial for hunter biden. correspondent david spunt is in wilmington, delaware tonight where he kicks off our conch. hello, david. david: john, good evening to you. it took all day but the judge, the special counsel and the defense were able to turn 250 prospective jurors into 12 jurors plus four alterna
shut down the border when illegal crossings surge, but the threshold reportedly mirrors the bipartisan border agreement that failed in the senate earlier this year and reportedly similar to a ban trump tried to impose but overturned by the courts as a violation of federal asylum laws. why are we waiting five minutmonths before the electiony wasn t this done five months into the administration when we started seeing these problems. the administration allowed 350,000 migrants with pending asylum claims to remain in the u.s. without a decision on case merits. according to the new york post ice lawyers told prosecutors in 2022 to dismiss pending asylum case force migrants that don t pose a security threat and don t have a criminal record. suggest they followed through. that s going to encourage more people to show up and for an administration that claims this is a humanitarian effort, ,you just created a whole population that has no status no, where to go. the biden administratio
colleges. there were there to explain a program where law school students get credits by working alongside ice lawyers. an ex ternship and ways for future lawyers to get experience. the seattle university suspended the ice ex ternship. as educators, lawyers we hold particular power and bear a special responsibility to be peacemakers and assist those suffering due to the unjust operation of our legal system, laws and their enforcement. seattle university is one of 28 universities in the u.s. overseen by the catholic church. we re told none of the others have booted their ice work study programs. ice s top lawyer criticized the move as disheartening and disturbing. 1100 ice lawyers are in u.s. cities and covered 900,000 hearings. much of their job is removing illegal immigrants but they
deport these families, these children. the president planning a trip to texas this week but only to raise campaign cash, not to visit the border. i don t believe he particularly cares whether or not the border of the united states is secure. in a symbolic sense he almost has go. in a practical political sense there s a risk. the central question, despite the politics, what to do with these kids? the white house says the obama administration will make an announcement tomorrow asking for supplemental spending for the growing border crisis in the southwest. it s related to our efforts to add additional resources to the border in the form of immigration judges, i.c.e. lawyers, asylum officials and others that can help us more rapidly and efficiently process the immigration cases that are currently backlogged as it relates to a surge that we ve seen at the southwest border.
southern mexico hard setting off a landslide that killed two people. gregg: fox news has obtained a leaked memo from homeland security. it discusses creating what appears to be an amnesty program for illegal immigrants here in the united states and how to side step congress to do it. joining us now francisco hernandez an immigration attorney in texas. francisco, always good to talk to you. you and i last talked three weeks ago. and then it was about a different memo immigrations and us toms memo encouraging ice lawyers on staff to dismiss potentially thousands of cases against illegals. you told me, you insisted that was not de facto amnesty. now we have, what appears to be, this is it, another member movement this one is leaked from dhs.