and that moderate democrats, that the president tries to work with all the time on everything else want to be, it could be a back door win for the white house. arthel: all right. peter doocy reporter: but we re never going to hear them say that. [laughter] arthel: well, you and i are talking about it, so that s something, i think. [laughter] all right. peter doocy there with the president in seoul, south korea, take care. eric? eric: as we wait for the results of the administration s appeal, how will keeping title 42 for now affect what s going on there on the ground on the border? bill melugin is in eagle pass, texas, with the latest for us now. hey, bill. reporter: well, eric, i can tell you in the immediate hours after that federal ruling on title 42, we saw more illegal crossings here in eagle pass, and that s because that ruling essentially just keeps the status quo in place. title 42 has been in place throughout this entire border crisis. we ll show you what we saw. take a
and looking aing t the bigger picture, since october 1st, the start of the fiscal year, they ve seen about 270,000 illegal crossings. the numbers in this sector up about 145% over the same time last year. and, again, that is all with title 42 in place. send it back to you. eric: all right, bill, thanks so much. arthel? arthel: some of president biden s fellow democrats are urging him to make use of this setback on title 42. ads senator mark kelly says arizona senator mark kelly says the rule, quote, does not change the fact that there is a crisis at the border, and there must be a detailed plan that can be implemented before title 42 is lifted. and this from arizona s other democratic senator, kyrsten sinema, saying, quote: the administration should use this delay to coordinate with local leaders and get resources on the ground in arizona s communities to implement a workable plan before ending title 42. joining me now is douglas
this was literally minutes or less than an hour after that ruling came down right here in eagle pass. we saw this group of migrants walking across the river in broad daylight, one guy using his cell phone to record them all. mexican police on the other side of the river had been trying to stop people from crossing, but this group slipped past them, and they walked right into the united states right after that ruling. thaw certainly haven t been the only ones. take a look at this video we shot just a couple of hours ago. this was a group of approximately 60 people who crossed illegally, broad daylight once again, some of the people actually waving at our fox news drone, also waving at a helicopter belonging to mexican law enforcement that was hovering above them. had a chance to talk with some of those migrants. they were from cuba, venezuela and nick rag a what. those are all countries that the administration is not enforcing title 42 with for the most part right now. this third piece
by 24 states works through the court. the judge says that he s siding with those states after they argued lifting title 42 would put a burden on their local health care systems. the justice department says it plans to appeal. now, this comes as president biden is visiting south korea, one of our closest allies in asia. the president met with his south korean counterpart today. topping the agenda, boosting military cooperation and containing north korea s nuclear threat. peter doocy is live in seoul, south carolina, with more on the president s first asia trip as president and white house reaction to the title 42 ruling. peter. reporter: yes, arthel, we ve got all that. the administration thinks that it is time for border patrol officers to stop using covid as a reason to deport illegal border crossings, but this federal judge is basically saying, too bad. if. all this ruling is, is a stay
mood as they come across. it was mostly single adults, and the reason they re celebratory is because they know the administration really isn t title 42-ing those countries, and they will have a very good chance of just being released into the united states once they are taken into federal custody. take a listen to what former i.c.e. director tom homan had to say about the situation. this administration twice, when a federal judge ordered them to do this in order to secure the border, they appeal it. what the secretary of homeland security or purposefully appeals a decision to secure the border? and because of their policy, because of what this bunch of people have done, they took the most secure border we ve ever had with all the work we did in the trump administration and purposefully unsecured it. reporter: and dhs source tells fox news just here in del rio sector just in the last 24 hours alone, there have been nearly 2,000 illegal crossings.