mentioned the specific policy as you mentioned similar to policy that was put in place during the trump administration, what the fallout will that be among allies that argue that some of the new policies that the this administration, the biden administration has put forward are unfair to migrants. griff: yeah. molly: the border patrol calling for more stringent actions that could have greater impact faster. we will see what ultimately happens and if this trip, long-awaited trips that critics say should have happened much sooner, what the impact of that would be. griff: a lot of ground to regain. you look quickly at the canned that will we showed of mayorkas, border patrol have the saint mayorkas candle because they are frustrated, they have to regain the trust of the men and women in green who have done courageous, brave and difficult job to maybe taken it. that s all for us. fox news live with eric and arthel continues. i m griff jenkins.
28th district told kaitlan just about a week ago. listen. do you think the biden administration understands that sense of urgency? you know, i i don t think they do, or if they do they just have a very different perspective. look, it s okay to listen to immigration activists. it s okay to do that. that s one perspective, but who s listening to the men and women in green and blue? and more importantly, who s listening to our border communities? i don t know why they keep aborting the border and saying there s other things more important than this on the border? if there s a crisis can, show up. just show up. as the commissioner of a border community in texas, do you agree with him? you know, i do agree with the fact that the biden administration needs to listen to us locally here on the border, and come through with the requests that we re making.
we have 23,000 agents trying to enforce the border well they re not. they re facilitating the cartel sending them across and processing them. that s why agents are giving me these numbers because they re frustrated at the lack of leadership and lack of support. those men and women in green are trained to stand on the line and keep people from coming across. you know, apprehend them when you get them. not wait for them to cross and load them up in bases. i hate to belabor this point but i get so frustrated when you talk about the cartels being this international network. i fought two wars based on a narrative that we needed to go and destroy international terrorist networks and basically that s what s happening here and attacking us in our home, you know, slow steady attack. and i don t understand, you know, the texas military s down there, the national guard but we re not attacking this like a national security issue and i jocks take pose that to the 20 year old fighting a war and wo
spreading disinformation smugglers. rachel: here to react, democrat texas congressman henry cuellar. congressman, welcome. merry christmas. we re glad you re here, it s the perfect today to have you. you ve come on and defied your party to expose the fact that the border is open. are you helping smugglersesome. [laughter] smugglers? absolutely not. look, you know, what we need to do is to address what s happening, the reality down can here. i don t just come visit the border, i live here, i know what s happening down here along the border. i spend a lot of time talking to our men and women in green and blue and other city officials, county officials, and the border is open. and once title 42 goes away, i ve been told that there s more than 50,000 people and more, counting, that are waiting for this title 42 to go away so they can come in, into the united states. that will i will tell you that next week is going to be very challenging and very
follow up on that question, your answer, i appreciate that question needs to be asked of the administration because the motivations lie within. but you probably have some ideas. you probably have some speculation as to why they are doing this. and just to build upon that to your question as well, what inflection point is the action point? when is enough enough? if you were trying to answer those questions, what is the why and when is enough? yeah. and i ve asked that the questions many a times. i think the white house has a particular thinking that leans more to the immigration activists, but who s listening to the men and women in green and blue? who s listening to the border communities that i represent? and i think, and i ll say this as i ve said more than once, they need to let homeland security do its job. will: all right. congressman henry cuellar, we appreciate your perspective on this and joining us this morning on fox & friends.