politicization of law enforcement and it is historically nearly unheard-of. i can only think of one other example in american history where you ve had this kind of lack of cooperation between state, local and federal law enforcement and this kind of politicization, it really arms officer safety, puts leaves more criminals in communities and makes communities less safe while failing to enforce the law. it is incredible law enforcement agents are doing this. men and women on the front line serving as first responders and officers have a lot of difficulties with their job. acting director of citizenship and immigration and enforcement ken cuccinelli. the president like making it up with reporters, the exchange with the commander-in-chief is gone viral, joins us live to talk about headlines of the day.
more than 107,000 in all of face wall year 2018. and those large groups, caravans that i have covered, there have been 70 large groups of 100 or more migrants total ling more than 12,000 apprehensions compared to only 13 groups last year and only two in 2017. and more are on the way. mexico s interior secretary who was in washington last week warns they re on pace 700,000. here is how cbp commissioner put it yesterday. based on the experiences of men and women on the front line, this is clearly poet a border security and humanitarian crisis. the system is well beyond capacity and remains at a breaking point. meanwhile a vote in the senate nears with enough republican defexzs to block the president the president s emergency declaration. still oppose the use of bordemilitary funds for a border
ainsley: glad to have you. steve: busy story and lead story is right there. we have hit the breaking point, pete. pete: the crisis at our southern border reaching a breaking point as steve said. steve: brand new numbers from the border patrol show a record surge of illegal immigration in the united states with more than 76,000 people trying to cross into our country just last month. ainsley: griff jenkins joins us live from washington, d.c. to break it all down for us. good morning, griff. good morning. these numbers are just staggering. this is how commissioner put it yesterday. based on the experiences of men and women on the front line, this is clearly both a border security and humanitarian crisis. the system is well beyond capacity and remains at the breaking point. griff: look at these numbers 300 percent increase in the number of family units apprehended this year compared to last year. 136,150 in the first five months so far of fiscal year
is part of it. dean: men and women on the front line border security people say that is something very necessary. you take it from them. pete: that s it. if you have your ear to the ground, the people that actually have to do what we re talking about. academic and political and partisan until you are on that line, they say the wall, of course, hence us. dean: of course. pete: can you run across the dessert or try to scale a 30-foot wall. dean: scanners and the drones all the things that would be very, very effective. pete: on another note as you bring in the new year. there is a former snl, this story caught our eye. former snl comedian. dean: she is a comedian because of what she says here. pete: this is supposed, to i guess be fun y this is what the left turns into comedy in 2019. this is what her resolution was for 2019. any new year s resolution is to make sure that the republican party dies.
we look at other countries where they do it differently and it s a whole different story. i was with the president of finland, they don t have any problem and when it is it s a very small problem. so i know everybody s looking at that, to that end. president trump referencing the forests of cold and rainy finland while seeming to blame forest management for the deadly fires in california. michael, i want to point out the president of the california s professional firefighter association called president trump s original tweet blaming this on forest management quote, ill-informed, ill-timed and demeaning to those who are suffering as well as the men and women on the front line. as far as i can tell these fires have been ravaging california for millions of years. forest management is a rather new idea in comparison. i watched the president on the ground there. i watched the governor and