the refugee process in an unprecedented way. we are a nation of immigrants and we are a nation of laws. and those laws provide that if one qualifies for humanitarian relief, then one has established the basis to remain in the united states, and if one has not, then one is to be removed. and that is exactly what is going to happen. we have to go, we are out of time. what is the rough cost to american taxpayers since the roughly 4 million people have come into the country illegally since january of 2021, as those people show up at community hospitals, as they enter the school system, get other government help. do you have a taxpayer cost? let me turn that questionp around a little bit. i m going to turn it around to match the question that an international partner asked of me. and the question that the international partner asked of me is what is the economic cost of your broken immigration system? since there are businesses around this country that are desperate for work
port of entry. as we swing to the right, you can see a line a half mile long of individuals waiting to get into the united states for their interview. most of those are day workers tomorrow, that could change. and we pan over to the right here, you are going to see how close we are to the wall itself. so, aerials this morning from just this area show a large group gathering there. last night we saw them as the end of 42 approaches at 9:00 local tonight. at one point they had to stop food distribution and the border patrol pick-ups because the crowd got unruly. you know, they have come from every corner of the globe, no common language, they are desperate, frustrated and everyone wants the chance to get in. now, we saw also yuma yesterday, migrants pouring through a hole in the wall there where president biden has refused to close. experts we talked to fear the numbers are simply going to overwhelm the border patrol and
around so we cannot understand it. i.c.e. men and women are devastated, they jumped over the secretary yesterday in a town hall meeting. griff: spoke with the border patrol president a couple hours ago, he said griff, border patrol is broken and specifically when you saw that exchange in yuma yesterday, but before i play that, there was a moment last week, i happened to watch it, 0 coverage, it was d.h.s. secretary speaking to the governors of mayors about the border. what he said, listen. unlawful presence in the united states will alone not be a basis for immigration enforcement action, but rather we will allocate our efforts, we will allocate our resources on those individuals who present a current public safety threat, a threat to national security or a
since last year and that the federal government is releasing migrants with some misdemeanor criminal convictions, including assault, d.u.i., drug possession, and illegal reentry. back out here live, i asked i.c.e. about that this morning. are they releasing migrants with some misdemeanor criminal history, they did not deny it. only told me they do the releases on a case by case basis. send it back to you. bill, thank you very much. you know, sandra, i ve been covering this issue more than a decade and the national border patrol council president talked to me earlier and i said is the border patrol, or i.c.e. agents, are they broken? he said they are absolutely broken. the point, the point when single adult males are being released en mass, when rank and file men in uniform and women in uniform are confronting a secretary as we saw out in yuma yesterday, that tells you they are indeed