shoulders of law enforcement on the front line. that includes texas dps and u.s. border patrol. today, the head of border patrol told lawmakers the united states have lost control of its own border. does dhs have operational control of our entire border? no, sir. that s border patrol chief raol ortiz, ortiz disputed homeland security myorkas who previously said our border is under control. do we have our border under control? yes, we do. chief ortiz testified there is been a staggering 385,000 known got aways at the border pushing the total to 1.4 million gotaways. they are the threat, they are the migrants who do not surrender. ortiz defended his horse back agent who he is accused of whipping migrants. the chief also told lawmakers that he does not agree with president biden s decision to shutdown construction on the 200 miles of border wall. the goal was to examine the link between president biden and secretary myorkas on the crisis of the borborder. i just got
tennesseean and we are so pleased of the job he did today and bringing for ward of the operational issues. they have said for decades, they need a barrier at that southern border. we know they are very frustrated with the lack of response they with getting from this administration. they ll put their money into their budget for attorneys and illegal immigrants but they ll not put one thin dime in that budget to build a wall. as we talked about quickly with jonathan fahey, he said the border patrol chief that the wall should have been built under trump. that s another blow to the administration. i have got about 15 seconds, senator. yes, it should have been built. the american people wanted built. right now you have all of these fentanyl that s from china, and it is being distributed into the united states by the cartels. it is coming across that southern
out of time. that s it for our studio audience. [ applause ] [ cheers ] good evening, welcome to america s late news, i am trace gallagher in los angeles. breaking tonight a triple blow to the biden administration and it comes from within the administration. the border patrol chief today testified that his agency does not have control over the border. that it is not secure and we need trump s wall. matt fin is live with more on that and why democrats did not show up to hear it. good evening. reporter: the burden of the border crisis falls on the
they are the migrants who do not surrender. ortiz defended his horse back agent who he is accused of whipping migrants. the chief also told lawmakers that he does not agree with president biden s decision to shutdown construction on the 200 miles of border wall. the goal was to examine the link between president biden and secretary myorkas on the crisis of the borborder. i just got back froe border of mcallen t, texas, tha border wall drastically helping them with the immigrant flow. thank you, matt fin. let s
members coming through, t it is national security. it s a national emergency. president trump of floating the ideaa of declaring a natio emergency to completely go around congress and get the tha border wall built. he s going to push for tomorrow night when he addresses the nation from the oval office. kelly and conley, there are som republicans who are worrying that by declaring a national emergency the president could then open himself up to the months and years of legal disputes and get that all plugged up in the court. the president is going to address the nationhe tomorrow a lay out the facts and figures o what he believes to be a humanitarian and crisis at the border. he s going to talk about the national emergency aspect? he said he s considering it. he is never committed to it. they have all the research and legal obligations of it but in many ways it would also let congress off often look one mor time. there are probably some people who want him to declare sobl congress