really speaks to that development we saw this past week where chief ortiz was here in the rgv, and he said many if his words that the border is not, they do not have operational control of the border. it stands in stark contrast to what we ve heard from secretary mayorkas who last year said that they do have operational control. come spend time with this texas dps officers like i have, and you ll find out that s simply not true. st the not the case. it s anything but under control. guys? will: griff, speaking of tweets, i don t think i missed in this e in your report, i definitely saw this this morning that we just hit a record number of chinese nationals crossing the southern border. reporter: that s right. in fact, just yesterday, will, the chief of the rgv sector here, gloria chavez, between thed out that that on thursday they tweeted out that on thursday they apprehended just in this sector 90 chinese nationals illegally crossing in one day. it s brought the fiscal year to date
to help us. griff: for him to stop the smuggling in the past two years, bill melugin, a lot of time on the border with unprecedented numbers. i will show you video, in the rgv sector the ground zero for this, you ll see smugglers abandon a family with infants. that s gloria chávez, she s the chief of the rio grande sector. mexico is not doing enough to stop that country from being a transit state from people trying to get ultimately illegally into the u.s. president biden needs to do more. president obrador needs to do more. when you look at the human suffering that rips your heart out and you look at the death because of fentanyl, precursor
only passes through the port of entry. or tease showing pounds of fentanyl carried by migrant outside of yuma, arizona. or tease adding in 2023 more than 476 pounds of fentanyl have been seized between legal entry points. enough to potentially kill 100 million americans. in washington, at a senate hearing on fentanyl today, republican senator jim rich says president biden needs to get serious about addressing it. it s time the administration wakes up we have a serious threat at the border. in about an hour from now a bipartisan group of house lawmakers will be hear in the rgv sector, bret, for a firsthand look at the crisis at the border public health crisis they see. the white house has put out a statement today, a spokesman accusing republicans of partisan doesn t down here, worth noting
set to appear in just a few hours before the house oversight committee alongside gloria chavez the chief of the rgv sector. first time we have heard from sector chief since the border crisis began two years ago. meanwhile over in texas. governor greg abbott posting a picture to twitter, video, actually, of more border wall being constructed as a state effort to try to supplement what he sees as a lack of federal resources along his border. now, that wall section, you are looking at, is being constructed in the rgv sector. perhaps that will come up in the hearing with chief chavez today in the more than 10 years that i have covered the border guys, every agent has told me they need three things to keep things under control. manpower, technology, and infrastructure that wall obviously infrastructure. see what happens. the hearing starts at 10:00 a.m. brian, ainsley, and steve. steve: we will cover it. ainsley: i read an article in newsweek george allen kelly the man griff was talki
perhaps, you re doing the rest of the job well. but look at places like our border. the job s not getting done there. the border patrol many del rio sector is reporting in a single 7-day stretch, 10,343 illegal crossing, almost 6,000 known gotaways and 6 sex offend pers who were arrested. cbp sources are telling us just the del rio sector alone had 34,000 gotaways since october 1st. will: since october 1st. rachel: unbelievable. will, i think it was you who interviewed brandon judd joey: yeah, had brandon judd on last hour, and this is him talking about the high numbers. del rio is only one of nine sectors. you look across the entire southwest border, we re seeing this everywhere. we re seeing it in the tucson and the rgv sector.