security issue. chris is live from washington with more on this. good afternoon. that s right. we will see numbers we have never seen before. the outgoing chief scott posted a farewell message to the men and women in green. over and over again i see other people talk about our mission, your mission in immigration. the current crisis today being an immigration crisis. i challenge you that i believe it s a national security crisis. if we look back at the numbers every month since president biden took office. the number of migrants crossing the border surged from 100,000 in february to 190,000 in june with july about to shatter records. the continued surge is impacting the president s standing among
here was to announce the figures for apprehensions in july. 212,672 was the figure the secretary announced and you ve seen from our pictures surging across the border all day and all night every day and every night. that 212,000 figure represented a five fold increase over july 2020. the secretary met with some local political leaders. they let him know exactly what they think. listen here. the men and women in green and blue need help. bottom line. they re strained. they re overworked. they don t need a pat on the back. they need resources of whatever system they re using is broken and needs fixing. now, after that meeting with those local leaders, secretary mayorkas arrived here in brownsville, texas to hold a news conference in which he admitted that this really is a
making plans, she will go to the southern border or at least close to it in el paso. she is facing heavy criticism from both parties for failing to go earlier. 90 plus days in fact. she is heading for a firsthand look at conditions among the crisis. the white house confirming that she will be in el paso on friday, tomorrow, along with the homeland security secretary. that visit coming more than three months after the president asked her to handle the matter. henry cuellar wondering why ?e is going to el paso instead of the rio grande valley which is hundreds of miles to the southeast of el paso. even if she goes to el paso, which is a first step. she has to spend time with landowners, with stakeholders, with cities and counties officials and i hope she sits down with our brave men and women in green and in blue.
he is down there in the lower rio grande. even if she goes to el paso, which is a first step, she has to spend time with landowners, with stakeholders, with cities and counties officials and i hope she sits down with our brave men and women in green and in blue. our border patrol agents so they don t just get a pat on the back but they actually get some reinforcement and support down there. bill: sir, you have been on our program many times over the past several months and we appreciate you coming back today. you extended an invitation to her for months. did you ever hear back from her? no, we didn t. we heard about it from the news like everybody else. in fact, i talked to some other texas democrats, they had no idea until they saw it in the news. so again, it doesn t matter if it s a democrat or republican you have to pay courtesy to the members of congress that are down there at the border. dana: do you think you might get an invitation to travel along with her?
throwing more people behind bars? no. that s not the right approach. whether trying to build a fence on behalf of the state of texas or trying to arrest people, this is again something that the federal government should do. i think we need to do more on behalf of the federal government. i speak to the men and women in green and blue. and they re frustrated because of the large numbers of people coming in and this is just the reality that we re seeing here. so what do you think about what biden did with those funds that were allotted for the wall? the wall doesn t stop the unaccompanied kids or the family units with. a fence, they usually put a fence not at the river bank but a half mile. so it doesn t stop any of those people. i said that i m glad the money will be going back to men and women in uniform. i m glad. but the way we stop people is