in the hands of smugglers run by cartels with no regard to human life. they take their phones away from them and they have no lifeline. a complete disregard for their safety as they are being transported even if you think of the pursuits we get in and the way they are thrown in vehicles and breaking out. it is a disregard. they aren t considered humans, they re considered money. bill: border patrol confirms at least 600,000 gotaways this past year. 160,000 of those in the del rio sector alone. those are just the ones they know about. griff jenkins, national correspondent live again in eagle pass, texas with more on his ex plusive ride along. what did you learn? good morning. before we even get there, here in the del rio sector in eagle pass where i am take a look. an extremely busy morning. you can see now what is the remnants of a group of more than 300 that came here. this is what is remaining. we counted as many as seven large white buses and waiting for more to come
be released fairly soon either into the u.s. or back into mexico depending on arizona yeah of origin and we ll probably see them back here in a few days. meanwhile just to give you a sense in the first five days of this fiscal year, remember last year more than 2 million unprecedented. this fiscal year they have had in this sector more than 5600 migrant apprehensions already. they re up 69% in the del rio sector. in el paso, they got more than 2300 in the last 24 hours. more than 9100 in the first five days. that sector up more than 600%. we found out yesterday that a migrant who allegedly went for an agent s gun was shot and killed in a border station in el paso. so this year is starting off as much of a mess as the entire last year was, bill. bill: what a story. griff jenkins back on the border. thank you, griff.
in the hands of smugglers run by cartels with no regard to human life. they take their phones away from them and they have no lifeline. a complete disregard for their safety as they are being transported even if you think of the pursuits we get in and the way they are thrown in vehicles and breaking out. it is a disregard. they aren t considered humans, they re considered money. bill: border patrol confirms at least 600,000 gotaways this past year. 160,000 of those in the del rio sector alone. those are just the ones they know about. griff jenkins, national correspondent live again in eagle pass, texas with more on his ex plusive ride along. what did you learn? good morning. before we even get there, here in the del rio sector in eagle pass where i am take a look. an extremely busy morning. you can see now what is the remnants of a group of more than 300 that came here. this is what is remaining. we counted as many as seven