up to the laundrie family home today. arthel? arthel: charles watson live in florida. thanks. eric: to the crisis now on our southern border. authorities have cleared that massive encampment that was under the bridge in del rio texas but patrol agents say that migrants continue to cross across the rio grande river at a steady rate this as thousands of mostly haitians that have camped under that bridge they have been cleared out. homeland security secretary admits to chris wallace on fox news sunday this morning that the vast majority of those were released into our country, and he s not even sure how many. they re released on conditions, approximately i think it is about 10,000 or so 12,000. chris: have been released? yes. chris: are we talking about a total of 12,000 or could it be even higher? it could be even higher. the number that are returned could be even higher. what we do is we follow the law, as congress has passed it. eric: as this continues, jeff
i don t know if governor abbott said the same thing in 2019, when there were more than a million people encountered at the southern border. mayorkas wouldn t call the situation a flood of people trying to migrate to the u.s. he says the biden administration doesn t agree with the building of the wall and that the law provides individuals with the opportunity to make a claim for asylum. but texas governor greg abbott who also spoke to fox news says president biden is in dereliction of duty, and enough isn t being done to secure the border to protect not only texans but the entire country. they ve created a magnet that led to these massive groups of haitians as well as the other groups that are coming here for one reason, and that s because they have sent a message and a signal to the entire world that they are not going to secure the border. they re going to allow them across. sources say there could be another massive migrant caravan just around the corner. authorities tell us th
[inaudible]. arthel: how do you stop them from coming? suddenly you run out of resources at the border. you saw what happened at that international bridge in del rio. you had a horrible humanitarian crisis. i debt your point about detaining them, in 38 days. i get your point about detaining them in 38 days. there s so much bureaucracy. they can t get taken care of and can t get processed. is there a way to stop the spigot flowing from someplace else before they get there? you enforce the law. you enforce the law the way it is written by congress. you do the same thing president trump did. you put title 42 full compliance. you get agreements with the central american countries. the biden administration destroyed all of this. bottom line, president biden ran on open borders agenda, saying he s going to end i.c.e. detention. he s going to have more moratorium on deportations.
correctly that on many occasions they will be allowed to stay. eric: you just misspoke. you said it is going to get better. do you mean it is going to get worse? it will not get better. it certainly won t. eric: would this be a time to reexamine some of those amnesty laws and some of those laws that you point out that you say are faulty, to change them? well, a lot of people have suggested a reform, whereby people could apply for asylum in the country, in the country where they live, not to actually physically come to the united states because secretary mayorkas pointed out today that it is u.s. law that people are allowed to apply for asylum, but he did not point out that it is also u.s. law that it is illegal to cross the board enter the united states without authorization. so where do you balance those two laws? and one of the ways that people have suggested doing that is to