we have in the last 20 years. all this as republican lawmakers this week on this show and on america reports recount similar stories about their conversations with border patrol agents. i looked out and talking and said the night before, 100 had come across. he said some of them are on the list. he said what list? the terror watch list. we go to monument 3 and talk to the agents. it s not just people from mexico or honduras. they re finding people from yemen, iran, turkey. people on the terrorist watch list they re catching. those remarks prompting this from rubin guillegos comments. in 2019 the state department said there s no credible evidence indicating that terrorist groups have sent operatives via mexico. that same year, dhs said we stop ten individuals on the terrorist watch list per day from traveling to or entering the u.s. former white house press secretary kayleigh mcenany is standing by on this. let s begin with tom holman, former ice director and juan will
house minority leader kevin mccarthy leading a group of republican lawmakers going to the border today. it comes as republicans are blaming president biden for the surge. they say he has sent a clear message that the border is open for business. it is entirely, you cannot but notice the administration changes and there is surge. there can be no question when sending a message to people. it has to be our border is closed. you can t say in spanish one thing and english another. one for the consumption of those in central america and the other for domestic consumption. it has to be the same message. they aren t doing that. when a similar surge happened a few years ago president obama called it a humanitarian crisis. as i suggested, this is going to get nothing but worse as the spring comes. bill: former acting ice director ron vitiello joins us. we begin with casey stiegel in mcallen, texas. thanks. it was another busy night for u.s. border patrol agents all along the
governor greg abbott say the situation that now needs disaster relief apparently, is president biden s fault but democrats like house speaker nancy pelosi blame former president trump while joining biden in refusing to label it a crisis. the biden open border policies that are inviting even more illegal immigration and actually have created this humanitarian crisis. this is a humanitarian challenge to all of us. what the administration inherited is a broken system at the border and they re working to correct that in the children s interest. it is entirely you cannot notice the administration changes and there is a surge. the 11-year high for crossings without documentation at the border was in the middle of trump s presidency. is idea it is joe biden s election that prompted more people to show up is belied by the actual facts. harris: more now. kevin mccarthy is leading a delegation of one dozen republicans to the southern border today. casey stiegel is live along th
are being told, we will go there live when it happens. another fox news alert now. house minority leader kevin mccarthy and a dozen other house republicans are going to visit migrant facility in texas amid the escalating crisis at our southern border. meanwhile, the bad and white houses deploying emergency officials from fema to help with the surge of unaccompanied minors despite the president denying there is a crisis. fema goes where there are disasters. u.s. border patrol reportedly is holding more than 4200 migrant children in short-term facilities. nearly 3,000 of them held longer than the 72 hours legally allowed. house speaker nancy pelosi is blaming former president trump s policies for the situation and echoing biden and calling it a challenge, not a crisis. what the administration has inherited is a broken system at the border and they are working to correct that in the children s interest. so this, again, is a transition from what was wrong before to what is righ
number of migrant kids remained in custody but the biden teams are still not calling the situation, sandra, a crisis. john: griff jenkins is live near the border in el paso for us where we do expect to hear from a group of lawmakers a short time from now. the microphone is set up. i had a fat, you are on the ground they are. what have those lawmakers been seeing? hey, sandra and john, how are you? the leaders which by the way includes congressman tony gonzalez and el paso as part of his district. what you can see behind me, the press conference is waiting to begin after the tour and the visit, the briefing to lawmakers are getting. they started at the el paso central processing center resources told me they are at or near hitting their capacity levels right around us today or tomorrow, certainly this week. then come up they are going to go up to what is called monument three and get an overview briefing, a briefing and an overview of the high points. you can see here as w