the migrant surge in democratic run city spurring a blue city backlash. president biden is no stranger to republicans criticizing the border and now democratic mayors are piling on. welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom, i m dana perino. bill: i m bill hemmer. good morning. a fraction of what s coming across the border every day. enough to make sanctuary cities sound the alarm, plead for more help, beg for help from the federal government and the white house. the chaos becoming impossible to ignore. even thousands of miles away from the border as the crisis makes its way into big cities. now the mayors from democratic strongholds say the white house has left them to fend for themselves. the federal government must take responsibility and lead on this humanitarian crisis. cities have reached a point where we are either close to capacity or nearly out of room. it will cramp city budgets around the country. $160 million of cost in next year s budget. 10% of our e
decades. motor vehicle thefts have specifically increased. two people have been killed in the first five days, 18 robberies in washington, d.c. 72 motor vehicle thefts and that is just since monday. these mother vehicle thefts jumped 82% from 3700 in 2022 to almost 7,000 last year. officials in washington, d.c. from the city council to the mayor are acutely aware that crime in the city has increased significantly. mayor bowser put millions towards police officers. some say many more are needed. one of the cities known to have higher crime rates, baltimore, maryland is seeing less crime. the director of the atf and other officials spoke about that historic drop in crime. watch. as you ve heard, the homicide rate in baltimore is at its lowest rate in almost a decade. non-fatal shootings are also down. there is much progress to mark here today. but all of us agree there is a