anita: the chaos at our southern border continuing into the new year. customs and border protection sources revealing to fox news a staggering new record number of migrants entering our country in just the month of december. at the same time, a massive migrant caravan is marching its way through mexico. welcome back, everyone, to a special edition of fox news live. i m i m anita vogel in los angeles. great to be with you and happy new year. rich: i m rich edson in new york. border officials say they encountered a new record of 302,000 migrants in december, and more than double that since october 1st. the unprecedented figures have some democratic lawmakers pushing president biden to address this crisis. as long as people are coming to the border and they are hitting a speed bump and they are being released and waiting for, five, six years for an adjudication, they re going to keep coming. if we don t address that by addressing detention, giving them the quick hearing
i m rich edson in for martha maccallum in new york at fox news head quarter. december shattering another record at the border. a caravan of thousands on the way, since december 1, migrant encounters at the southern border have topped 276,000. more than the population of reno, nevada. the highest monthly total ever. art del cueto is starting by. first to william la jeunesse with the breaking news about the northern border. ice revealed that it arrested an iranian national with ties to terrorism sneaking in to the u.s. near niagara falls two days after being turned away here at the rain bow bridge. he s a legal resident of canada, wanted on assault charges there. ice held him for two months before a release last week. arrests on the northern border increased by 90% last year. for that perspective, 276,000 apprehensions, that is nearly the population of pittsburgh. again, a single month. not a mention of those got-aways. the point is the mexican border is overrun. agents so bu
alba was trying to diffuse the situation before he killed the attacker. al van bragg now faces demands to drop the charges against him. he was attacked by somebody who is bigger than him, larger than him, what alvin bragg is doing is a tragedy. visitors of thomas jefferson calling out bias. they made it a one-sided point of view, a visitor wrote in online review, even my 11-year-old daughter noticed the bias. steve: good morning, miami flo rida, right now 78 degrees. you are going for a high of 91. it s a beautiful start to this, the 11th day of the seventh month. that s right. it s 7/11 day. free slurpees coast to coast at 7-eleven. she is back from vacation. ainsley: i had best vacation. i had taken by daughter on annual vacation we do every summer. watching the news. brian: are you really doing that. ainsley: get the headlines so i can talk about what i missed over the week. steve: what did i miss? ainsley: i think i missed the best thing that fox
. now, the border crisis, after hailing progress with china, president biden is set to meet with the president of mexico any moment now. migration, fentanyl and relations with cuba on the agenda. we re going to bring you the meeting live. plus, pressure builds on the israeli government to secure the release of more host ages after troops recover another body. new claims about hamas weapons at gaza s largest hospital. disturbing allegations of rape and abuse against grammy winning rapper and produce sean diddy combs. we re following these stories and many more coming in right here to cnn news central. here in moments, president biden will be closing out the apec summit with mexico s president. biden has spent most of his time in san francisco focused on cooling tensions with china, promoting u.s. economic interests in the pacific and the ongoing war in the middle east. but today, he s expected to turn to immigration and border security, as record numbers of migrants
the human traffickers and these drug cartels kind of cart blanche to do whatever they want. and pocket money, traffic humans, it s unbelievable. and just so you know i was speaking on my podcast to a human rights activists and from mexico who used to be a former congressional member there she was talking about how this policy is affecting people, not only in the united states but in mexico and guatemala, these children are trafficked from all over the world now like you said. 160,000 unaccompanied children. what are we going to do with them? where are we going to place them? are we going to know who their guardians are? what is border patrol supposed to do with them once they cross? what about the medical care? these policies have exacerbated what we are seeing at the border, ainsley, and it s a tragedy. ainsley: oh my gosh, sarah, i remember watching you last june, and you were talking to this little boy, and he had not talked to his mom. you gave him your cell phone.