encounters just in the first three months of fiscal year 2023. but the biden administration continues to maintain that the border is secure. we re looking live at eagle pass, texas. that s where griff jenkins joins us with the late from there. hey, griff. reporter: hey, good afternoon, eric. and if you weren t just watching that drone, we can take you back up to it. the border patrol air boats just passing underneath the bridge here in eagle pass. it is ground zero here in the del rio sector for this crisis is. these agents in texas dps troopers and national guard here are absolutely exhausted from what has been happening, and that is why these december numbers were so startling. take a look at these numbers. let s go into them. 251,000 migrant encounters in december of which 49,405 were title 42. that means that 200,000, eric, were released into the u.s. that is quite a stunning number there in and of itself. but the the second number is what i wanted to show you. the 717,
there in and of itself. but the the second number is what i wanted to show you. the 717,660 for fiscal year 2023. there have been 113 days this fiscal year since it began on october 1st. that is roughly 7800 migrant encounters a day. that is unsustainable, unprecedented and something that they cannot deal with. but those are just the ones that gave themselves up, the ones that that don t want to be apprehended we can show you this video, exclusively cameras embedded with texas dps here on friday night. in the span of six hours, eric, hay stopped three smuggling attempts, arrested two separate smugglers driving, being paid $2,000 or more, they re being charged with human smuggling. that is why the vice president of the national border patrol council down here says it s unimaginable just how much the cartel has a grip on our borders. take a listen here.