so let s start with the venezuelans. so first of all, there have been reports that nicolas maduro he be emptied out prisons and encouraged criminals to come this way. other people are saying, you know, that this title 24 that is used exclusively for venezuelans is because the biden administration doesn t want people who are against socialism to be the ones coming in because they were the majority group before. others saying there s something to do with the oil deals between nicolas maduro and the biden administration and this new title 42 process which keeps venezuelans in mexico and not able to come in with the other illegal migrants. what is happening? what s your assessment? reporter: great questions, rachel. and remember, we don t have diplomatic relations with the country of venezuela because of maduro so really nothing about what he may be doing or his intentions are actually confirmable or verifyable. we know this, that is that title
this is a venezuelan passport i got on the mexican side that the they just discarded it before they cross tbhaws didn t want to be identified because now they know they ll be sent back. had thethey don t want to be sek to mexico. the certain of the agents is that venezuela which has been a heavy part of migrants coming into the area will stop coming in large groups that surrender to border patrol, they ll become part of the runners and part of what was nearly 600,000 known got aways last fiscal year. where we stand in this fiscal year, the past 15 days, they re up 66% in the del-rio sector. while people say that, well, it was a record year last year. we re on the start of a new fiscal year and we re headed to a much more even unprecedented footing than we are right now and you had officials like mayorkas said the border is secure. that s just not the case, guys. rachel: griff, just so much in there to unpack.
and have their pulse on what s happening, they don t see inflation is going to it s going to going higher and higher. pete: not so transitory at this point. even with what the federal reserve is doing raising interest rates is not effective. another question asked national economic conditions, is it getting better or worse? this is usually falling if the lap of whoever is in the white house at that moment. 73% saying that the economic conditions in america are getting worse. obviously that includes democrats and eu independents if you re looking at a number like 73. democrats, what they re running in campaign ads, it s abortion, climate and this is underneath what s going going on with highr crime rates. what s going on in schools, 10 years ago, would that be on the list. rachel: i did a segment with charlie hurd and alexandra will, and we talked about obama going
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sent across the rio grande by masked smugglers. joey: they the border is wide open as my migrants continue te flow into the u.s. rachel: griff jenkins is live at the border again. griff, good morning. reporter: hey rachel, joey and pete. we had another big group come. they come every morning like clock work. i want to show you something we ve not shown yet in the 15 days i ve been on the ground here at eagle pass and that is the processing center. the bosses say the border is open. talk to the border patrol agents doing the hard work, they re told don t talk about the border being open, just process faster. here s why. look at this. had this is the processing center on the outskirts of eagle pass, put up about three months ago. if we can go to our sky drone, look how massive the tents are.