now it s the top story, hourly live shots and mayorkas press conferences are carried live. listen, no one is more surprised than me and bill melugin that this is not the top story of the day, but the fact is, the numbers are considerably down. just on monday in the rgv sector, on monday the chief said there were 3300 migrants encountered in just one day, in one sector right there. today we can report it s less than 500, a significant drop. and we can talk about the reasons why. but at the end of the day, the point you raised is that the border is not secure. it s still a major crisis. there are tens of thousands of migrants in the pipeline. it does continue to keep these numbers on a downward trend, otherwise we re going to be back where we are and the story of the year was the border. howard: right. and now while it may be true there wasn t the expected surge after title 42 the officially expired, 83,000 people crossed the border in the past week, so
standing by. i can tell you, there s a sigh of relief and lot of pride running through border patrol agents from coast-to-coast. they have agents all over the place. we re in the rgv sector, i m in brownsville, five hours south where cleveland, texas, where the murders happened. they were concerned that oropeza was trying to get back to mexico. what we know how about how it went down, i m getting details. we ll find out in the press conference. what my sources telling me, about 6:15 local time in texas, they got a tip about a resident in conroe, texas. you mentioned about 25 miles west of cleveland where the
but first, we re going to go live to texas where fox is . griff jenkins is standing by . griff, what can you tell us tonight? hey, laura , good evening. i can tell you there is a sigh of relief in a lot of pride running through border patrol agents from coast to coast because oropesa was brought into custody by bortac agents. they are the elite units of. the border patrol. they re a unit hav based out ofl paso, but they have agents all over the place. weector, i in the rgv sector, in brownsville, about five hours soute clh of where cleveland, texas, where the murders happened and they werencerne concerned that oropesa initially was trying to get back to mexico. obviously, having been deported some four or five times, being mexican nationals illegally present in the u.s. but what woe know about how it went down,n th i m getting some details and we ll find out at the press conference. but what my sources are tellingl me is that about tim 615 local a in texas, they got a tip abouttm a r
lives. this one is going to make it. the rgv sector becoming ground zero for this late migrant surge. you can see the challenge that the troopers have in trying to move very small children but, clearly, this is a crisis that they haven t seen in a long time the in this specific area. and i want to show you just one other piece of video we got exclusively yesterday. you can see lines of humvees, texas national guard humvees, all part of operation lone star doing a show of force. this is called a pdi operation, prevent, deter, interdict. so while, obviously, you have troopers on the river trying to literally save lives in this humanitarian crisis, you also have the show of force similar to what we saw in del rio, and it s the happening here now. and i will just add one last thing, and that is it s not just here on the border. in chicago we ve got video of migrants sleeping in the airport yesterday saying they re seeing
venezuelan are arriving and coming down the hill to tent setup, temporary site. but we were able to get exclusive access with texas dps yesterday, mike, ride along the river and it was quite shocking what we saw. take a look here. you re getting a firsthand look at operation lone star literally here to save lives here in brownsville and the other side of the banks matamoros, mexico, you can see women and children on the raft in dangerous river current, the texas troopers along with the national guard all under texas operation lone star throwing flotation devices to help the texas state trooper here working this line to try and bring them across. they are coming anyway. they can t stop them. the least they can do is save their lives. this one is going to make it. the rgv sector becoming ground