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, fox news confirming in the last two weeks the numbers tripled the number of children, 3250, of which 1360 have been held for longer than 72 hours, as permitted by law. the border patrol catches the kids and hands them to hhs. earlier mark morgan said this is all about the message that the biden administration is sending south of the border. listen. >> their message, the biden administration has to be crystal clear. their message is, our borders are open. come on in. when you do, we are going to release you to the united states and not deport you so you can remain you here forever. to tell the cartels and migrants, please, don't come yet? it's a joke. >> reporter: gonna be very interesting to see what governor abbott has to say in mission texas, still part of that rgb sector which has been hit the hardest among any sector along the 2,000 mile u.s./mexico border. >> john: that area is one of the busiest places for people to cross. right there. griff jenkins, thank you very much. sandra? >> sandra: fox news alert now. to capitol hill where house democrats are putting the finishing touches on president biden's massive $1.9 trillion covid relief bill. already some members of the president's own party are complaining about it. chad pilgrim on the hill for us. chad, what are you hearing? >> reporter: this bill will pass the house of representatives tomorrow. they are going to put this on the floor probably tomorrow morning then a vote in the afternoon. there was some concern from liberal democrats they might not be for this bill, but saturday afternoon, after this move through the senate, the progressive caucus put out a statement indicating they would back this bill and democratic leaders are not concerned. listen. >> this is the most progressive bill passed by the congress in at least a quarter century. i don't think there's any anxiety as it relates to moving forward. >> don't expect help from republicans. all senate republicans expect the same in the house wednesday. >> i would have supported certain portions of it, especially giving americans relief, helping small businesses open those that were actually affected by covid-19. but this goes way beyond compare. >> reporter: just because democrats are on board doesn't mean there isn't problems ahead. keep in mind they're going to pass a gun bill in the house of representatives probably tomorrow. they passed a voting rights bill last week. those bills have to go to the united states senate and keep in mind they need 60 votes. they will not get 60 votes to move those pieces of legislation. >> john: sandra, let's bring in tony gonzalez. he represents the district covering the largest stretch at the border with mexico in texas, the 23rd congressional district from el paso almost all the way to laredo. congressman, we do know the secretary of homeland security has again activated the, quote, volunteer force that was first activated in 2019 to assist customs and border patrol. when it was last activated by the trump organization, we were in the depths of an extreme crisis at the border. are we back there again? >> john, the border crisis is worse than people realize. my district is over 800 miles of border. i am on the border every single week. this is what i'm seeing. our border patrol agents are doing a fantastic job securing our border. oftentimes, they're fathers, they're mothers, they're happy to deal with these migrant children and it's crushing their morale. they're going to get the job done. i was just at an unaccompanied minor facility and it was busting at the scene. within days it was over capacity. lot of it has to do with the administration not being active on the border. >> john: right. this facility is something we reported on a week ago. this is the same facility that came under a lot of criticism when it was used during the trump administration, yet we don't hear the same criticism being echoed by the biden administration. why? >> they are in their ivory tower and they refuse to come down to the border and talk to anybody. we are all in the same boat. they refuse to have a conversation. that worries me because they're leading from washington and they're not down on the ground talking to the people who see it every day. the ranchers, the farmer, the sheriff. this is a crisis and the biden administration is absent. >> john: people on the ground there in texas who see this first hand see that it's a crisis, yet the main stream media is not there yet. today's headline of the new york times, biden faces challenge for surges at the border but go on to write the number of children has tripled to 3250 according to federal immigration documents obtained by the new york times and many are being held in jail like facilities. that number is 30% higher than it was during the trump administration when the coverage was filled with outrage. i went back and looked at some of the coverage. words like horror were being used. concentration camps. yet we're not seeing that now. i don't understand what the difference is, other than change in administration. >> it's certainly not a challenge. the border is on fire. the new administration their whole plan is we're going to do everything opposite of what the trump administration did. they didn't have a plan. that is the wrong approach. they have to get back to listening to those that live on the border. democrats, republicans are alike and have a conversation that starts by getting away from some of this open border, returning to some of the policies that ensure we had a secure border. protecting our citizens. >> john: congressman tony gonzales, thank you very much for joining us. appreciate it. >> thank you, john. >> john: sandra, there are some people who believe the goal of the biden administration is not to keep people from crossing the border. it's to process people as quickly as possible then release them into the united states. >> sandra: and these numbers, this is fox news reporting this, apprehensions are expected to be up to around 100,000 this week. that's up from 78,000 in january. still you have the biden administration, when asked about this, not committing to even using the word crisis at our border. certainly there's a challenging situation there. we're going to have a lot more coming up. >> john: on that point, joe biden was visiting a hardware store in washington, d.c. a reporter shouted a question to him, do we have a crisis on the border? he ignored the question. >> sandra: no formal news conference either. >> i do want to thank people who are with us here today. they include the director of the texas department of public safety, steve mccraw, general north, the general in charge of the national guard in the state of texas, as well as the national president for the border patrol council. i thank them for being here. also especially for our state team members for their leadership and the texas operation lone star. let me begin by making one.very clear. there is a crisis on the texas border right now with the overwhelming number of people coming across the border. this crisis as a result of president biden's open border policy. it invites illegal immigration and is creating a humanitarian crisis in texas that will grow increasingly worst by the day. and getting information in my meeting with the border patrol, i learned these things. that is, one of the reasons for this crisis that has led to a dramatic change is the change in policy. there was a policy that people who had come across the border illegally would be returned. there was also the remain in mexico policy. with the elimination of those policies, that led to a dramatic increase in the number of people coming across the border. second, the border patrol told me that they did inform the biden administration and let them know that this influx was coming. it' not as if the biden administration didn't know about it. but it is clear they are completely unprepared for what is going on at the border now, and they will be even more unprepared for what will be happening in the coming months. what the border patrol told me, and this is part of the cartel strategy. because of the volume of people coming across the border, the border patrol that makes the arrests has had to engage quite literally, in baby-sitting. while they are doing baby-sitting, that provides an opportunity for the cartels to be able to bring other people across the border illegally. >> sandra: that was texas governor greg abbott. not only are we tpaeugs a crisis at our southern border, but the biden administration should have seen this coming. he said the biden administration is completely unprepared to deal with it, talking about the challenges the border patrol has as we see this surge not only in migrants, but migrant. the governor will be joining us fresh off this health copper ride. he just took a tour of one of the busiest sections of the border. >> john: you heard what he said about the border patrol being reduced to baby-sitters. that is the same thing we heard in 2014 and again in 2019 which is why the trump administration under took the policy changes that it did to stop people from coming across the border. those policies were reversed by the biden administration. now we're right back to where we were six years ago. >> sandra: more from the border coming up. to new york, where governor cuomo faces criticism over an order his administration put into place almost a year ago. it requires that homes for people with developmental disability accept covid patients. also gives the homes permission to accept people without testing them for the virus. this is still in effect today. brian llenas doing some important reporting on this. he's live from brooklyn. what do we know? >> reporter: sandra, good afternoon. fox news reports just as andrew cuomo's administration handled nursing homes on april 10th they issued a similar directive to residential facilities that help developmentally disabled people, requiring them to admit covid-19 positive hospital patients. 552 developally disabled people have died state wide. now senate republicans are saying they believe the true numbers are worse. >> all the day that we've seen from this administration has been false. they've hid nursing home data. we have tremendous concerns that the same exact thing is happening here. developmentally disabled individuals are clearly some of the most vulnerable of our population. we have a heightened job to protect them especially in the middle of a pandemic. >> reporter: now, "the new york times" is also reporting crown publishing has stopped promoting cuomo's leadership book entitled american crisis pending the on going investigation into whether his administration covered up nursing home death data. new this hour, six new york democratic state lawmakers are now demanding that cuomo turn over all documents and correspondents related to that book deal. they believe there is suspicious timing between the cover-up of the data and that book deal. sandra? 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