the biden administration s repeatedly denied that there s a crisis at the border despite the commander in chief requesting backup. john: texas governor greg abbott will join us live for an exclusive interview later in the show to talk about what he is seeing in his state. sandra: in just a moment we will be speaking about joe biden s policies pushing the district he represents to the breaking point. john: greg, what s the latest from where you are? reporter: we re here at the point of entry at brownsville where anyone can walk up, claim asylum if they have evidence of a credible fear. but let s go up in the sky to the fox drone team and show you over these ports of entries where some 25,000 asylum seekers are waiting for clearance. that s not the problem, officials say. it s the crossings illegally between the ports of entry. you see the rgc sector, they had 1500 apprehensions just in the last 24 hours. the numbers sandra mentioned about the unaccompanied children, fo
the border patrol was using this park, shelby parkgior,rom l as staging ground for mass releases. they were collecting illegal aliens from all throughout the area and even using water taxi s to collect illegal aliens in the river, bringing them into shelby parkry, remove whern necessary, barriers created by texas, and then send them on to their final destinations all throughout america. so the texas dpsguar usd national guard and governor abbott said, we are not going to allow you to this park to stage mass releases. assert so they used their own disaster declaration and use the national guard hat pa to assertoffice control over that park and then to have their dps officersrser h arrested for trespassingarea. and illegal aliens they encounter in the area. well, steven, when you thinks about this playing, you goting r the migrants in chicago freezing in the coldou, buses a being brought in to try to warm people. boston is trying to figure out
and that s going to relee some of the border patrol agents out to other areas where they haven t been able to patrol, where the gotaways are coming through, where the trafficking, sec trafficking griff: right. so that s, this is what the and i get along great, i have a great relationship with him, brandon judd, the border patrol consul president, john an finson is in all these meetings. but here s the challenge, and that is, ultimately, most of these migrants end up having to be turned over to border patrol, and agents say this is making it more difficult because you ve got on dangerous roads and other areas where the texas national guard and dps is handing these migrants that they re not charging, which is the majority of them not being charged, handing them off to them, further complicating it. and the prospect of putting a agent back out on the line, last week i was tweeting out weapons and ammo that was being confiscated by agents, they were already going back to the job
The Rio Grande International Study Center protested a possible licensing agreement between the City of Laredo and Border Patrol for constructing an access road.