instead they will be bogged down in paperwork and taking agents away from doing their job at the border. immigration courts are pectize up already and the caseload is getting worse by the day. a texas lawmaker says the biden administration should be sending more judges to border towns instead of u.s. troops. the way it stops is instead of the president sending 1500 u.s. troops to the border, he should send 1500 immigration judges. dana: david spunt is live at the justice department as it gets underway. 2.1 million cases, that s the backlog as of this morning. think about that for a moment. that number only expected to grow when title 42 is lifted. that number will only swell over the coming weeks and coming months. right now the backlog is about 4 to 6 years. some experts say it could go 8 to 10 years to get into court to hear your case because of title 42. one of the reasons only about 600 immigration judges right now that are active in the united states. obviously the
slide off the pedal. i was getting off the bike and it got stuck on the right side. come on. don t make things up. now you sound like a republican politician. that was a joke. all kidding aside, no, i don t think it is. i was talking to larry summers this morning. there s nothing inevitable about a recession. here s what we can do. i think we can get a change in medicare and a reduction in the cost of insulin. we also can move in a direction that we can provide for taxes on those in the corporate area as well as individuals as relates to trump tax cuts. we have a chance here to make a fundamental turn towards renewable energy, electric vehicles. across the board. that s something that we should be my team is going to be sitting down with the ceos of major oil companies this week. giving an explanation of how they make $35 billion in the first quarter. the president said quite a bit on the beach this afternoon. david asman and charlie gasparino join me now. great to have
fentanyl. one of the cases is a case from washington, d.c. a woman named diamond lynch. forever 20 years old, purchased what she thought was a percocet pill and died almost immediately. it was not percocet, it was fentanyl. we tracked our washington field division with our local police department and partners. they tracked that back to the drug dealers who had sold her that pill. we then tracked that back to the source of supply. the suppliers in los angeles who were using instagram to communicate and do their business. and then we tracked it from los angeles back to the sinaloa cartel in mexico. diamond lynch never lived. she was planning her 1-year-old birthday party when that happened. dana: america is fortunate to have you at the helm at dea. thank you for sharing the information and congratulations on those arrests and hope it keeps going. thank you so much. aishah: newly released body cam footage shows bryan