day to all those who are irish and everyone else who wish they were. we are monitoring texas right now with the drone view you will see only here on fox. meanwhile, 400 miles north in dallas, the governor getting ready to give an update on the migrant kids the state is holding and overflow facilities there. sandra: president biden told those migrants, do not come over to the u.s. but in cities like war as mexico, that is not stopping thousands from making the dangerous journey, cartels and smugglers also taking advantage of this situation. the new york post slamming the bite administration for refusing to call the situation there a crisis. despite the fed s warning that the u.s. is on pace for the most border crossings in 20 years. the homeland security chief speaking about that in hearing today, taking a dig at past administrations. a crisis is when a nation is willing to rip a 9-year-old child out of the hands of his or her parent and separate that family to deter fut
biggest campaign promise, the wall. how much of it is actually being built? nbc shows us what is happening with it. marianna? reporter: so what is the state of the president s wall? as of last thursday, only 83 miles of mostly replacement wall has been built. the president now asking for almost 500 miles, by 2020. is it going upping up or not? when we got on the ground to do the story, i personally saw a portion of the wall going up in arizona. but it is more complicated than it seems and everything that has been built so far has mostly been replacement wall. does that constitute a campaign promise kept? i want you guys to see our report and be the judge. ranchers connie kimbro and daughter mckenzie have worked this remote land in southeast arizona for their entire lives. both of us that live right here on the border, and are
barriers but working with the government letting them lease her land during construction for a say in the process. we will never say we wanted it, but that s where we turned around and we went and said, okay. if it s going to happen then we re going to be involved. reporter: involved in the future of the wall. for the next generation of ranchers. seeing a border wall fragment the landscape is a heartbreak but i know roots run deeper than politics and my family heritage will outstand whatever issues we face here and i m excited to keep thatay. reporter: as of last thursday only 83 miles of replacement wall had gone up and the president is asking for 450 miles by 2020. all eyes next year are going to be in texas when it comes to this issue, because that s where most of the new wall is going to be built. that s where most of the land is privately owned. so we re really going to look at an eminent domain issue going into next year. we re already talking to one family who s prepared
figures, but nearly all of that is classified as replacement wall. it s not new wall. the white house declined to comment on the report, and the paper notes kushner s defenders in the administration say he is bringing a private sector approach to the project. that brings us to steve ratner s chart. it s not just the washington post reporting, it s also the commissioner of customs and border protection who said from the podium at the white house, 83 miles of wall, all of it just renovation of existing wall. there has been no new wall. there is no new wall. not quite, but let me come to that quickly. what? that s what he said. no, no, there is new wall but let us build ourselves to that. go ahead. lets just start with the fact that there s 1954 miles of border between us and mexico. trump has pledged to create his kind of wall on a thousand miles of that. 654 miles of fencing of one sort or another exists now.
that would be replaced as part of his thousand miles. and as you said earlier, 83 miles of replacement wall has actually been built so far. but there has been some new wall started. there are eight miles of new wall that has been started. would anyone like to hazard a guess on how much of the eight miles of new wall that has been started has actually been finished? susan del percio? how about none? close, 32 feet. they have actually completed 32 feet of new wall. so let s take a look at what trump is up against or what jared kushner is up against. as you heard, they want to have 450 feet plus or minus of wall completed by the next election day. 285 of that would be simply replacement wall, so more replacement wall, not really adding any new wall. 60 feet of it is what s called duplicate fencing when you put a second wall in front of an existing wall to make it more