dana: dramatic moment as homeland security secretary mayokas is forced to face the family of a grandmother and 7-year-old girl killed in a texas car crashed with an alleged human struggler. he turned to face the family expressed condolences but refusing to offer an apology for his failure to secure the border. very emotional day on the hill yesterday. welcome to a new hour on america s newsroom. i m dana perino. bill: i m bill hemmer. good morning. a heated hearing as republicans hold secretary mayokas accountable for the historic crisis on the border calling his leadership an abject failure. this grieving family of that little girl and grandmother later meeting in private urging him to send thousands of troops to secure the border saying he needs to do that first before any attempt at immigration reform. dana: lawmakers calling out the secretary for being complicit in fentanyl deaths of 100,000 americans. these are some of their faces. bill: bill melugin has spent
victims when you talk about $95 billion in shrink losses per year, which was our latest numbers, that is a lot of money and that is the kind of thing that is going to increase prices for everyone eventually. one of the big problems there is a market for these stolen goods. resale market is strong with all the options online. bill: that sign to your right is seen on just about every block in this city. madison, live in new york, nice to see you. they came today because they want answers. they came here today because of the failures of you and your leadership. they came here because they want closure. they deserve answers. mr. mayokas, will you turn around and offer them your condolences and apology?
upon our country. under mayokas s leadership illegal crossings have reached all-time highs in back-to-back years with over 5 million total now. more than 1.3 million known gotaways have successfully snuck into the united states without capture. migrant deaths have set an all-time record with more than 1400 at the southern border since 2021. ice deportations are at an all-time low. fentanyl deaths have reached record highs. innocent americans are killed and injured, caught up in daily barrages of human smuggling pursuits and mayokas will not call the border a crisis. he insists the border is secure putting him at odds with his own u.s. border patrol chief. do you disagree with the head bort e border patrol agent when he said our border is not secured. you do disagree with your chief of border patrol. i respectfully do in that