expensive for him to take over twitter. musks has said he wants twitter to be a free speech platform, but critics fear that would only enable more hate and offensive posts. arthel: well, fox news is learning of some stunning new numbers from the southern border as customs and border protection said in a court filing yesterday more than 220,000 migrants were encountered last month. that s approximately 28% hire than march of last year. it also marks the highest monthly surging of migrants at the southern border under the bide biden administration. let s bring in ron vitello, former u.s. border patrol chief and deputy commissioner, also the former acting i.c.e. director. first, ron, how overwhelmed are border patrol agents? what s a manageable ray sew? for example ratio? for every 100 migrants, how many agents do you think need to make sure those migrants are put into the system for legal processing?
working on the broader problems. that s when you can get legislation engamed. arthel: really quickly, i m way over time here, but regarding changing the law, you mentioned congress. congress is so bottlenecked by politics, you know, so this thing just keeps getting kicked down the road. do you see, foresee maybe because it is at a humanitarian crisis and just out of control that perhaps if now congress is willing to pay attention and put politics aside finally? well, they need to do something. but there are tools that are in place right now that do not require congress to act. once that border is secure, i think all of us would be more willing to engage in a conversation about reform. arthel: okay. we will leave it there. former acting i.c.e. director ron vitello, thank you for joining us. good to be with you. arthel: likewise, thank you. eric. eric thanks arthel. inflation is showing no times of ending anytime soon after hitting a four-decade high last month. how is everyone tryin
reinstate the policies, they could put the force of law behind the migrant protection protocols, they could legislate that in. i don t see that happen aing either. so in the meantime, unfortunately the men and women of dhs and their families have to pick up the pieces. in the case of border patrol, they can t say no to people coming across the border like that. they need to be processed and given their you due process in immigration proceedings. unfortunately, they re left to pick up the pieces because this administration fails to act. todd: let s talk more about the brave men and women that you did lead when you were at border patrol and at i.c.e. how impossible is it for those brave men and women to do this job? look, this was a tough job months ago. it has gotten progressively worse and now we see the scenes the that we see now. how do they do it, ron? it s unfortunate. there are brave men and women that go out every day to protect us.
on a late fourth quarter drive. jillian: my team not only lost the game, we lost one of our best defensive ends so that stinks for us. todd: and yesterday, i m still the saddest story when it comes to football so far this year. 0-2. coming up, continuing coverage on the heart breaking discovery in the search for gabby petito. jillian: was this video taken by a travel blogger the key to helping investigators zero in on a search area? our next guest spent decades investigating homicides and he ll walk us through the developments. todd: plus, ron vitello, james comer, joe concha and dr. carol swain joining us live on a very busy monday morning. don t go anywhere.
if they re being if they need asylum in the united states, they can wait in mexico for their hearing. that s what ended the last surge in 2019 and 2020. that s why the surge occurred. everybody talks about the root causes, we re going to work on the root cause. the t root cause is we ended a policy that kept people outside of the country, not released into the united states. we ve driven this surge by releasing thousands of people into the united states because they brought their children or they sent their children along and so that s driven this flow to del-rio and we ve seen it all across the border since january. todd: but ron, can you envision a scenario whereby this white house actually does that? because that would be admission that they ve done something wrong. yeah. well, we have 212,000 encounters in july, 208,000 in august. they failed to act. congress could force them to