john: just two weeks to go now before title 42 ends, biden administration is announcing new measures to tackle illegal immigration and human smuggling. scrambling to set up tents, tables and portable toilets to process migrants as they overwhelm border towns like brownsville texas. the surge is agents from 200 miles away are coming in to help. shelters in el paso, texas, overrun with migrants while an estimated 35,000 more are waiting across the border for title 42 to end. national border patrol council president brandon judd standing by. he ll join us on this and more coming up. john: but first, president biden taking the podium yesterday for his first news conference in more than a month and appearing to rely on cheat sheets to pull it all off. hello, john roberts, nice to spend friday eve as we like to call it around here with you. aishah: good to see you, john. this is america reports. 80-year-old commander in chief caught holding note cards featuring an expected
We will shut this off. it s like a light switch, we proved that under president donald trump, we have to go back to those policies. john: let me get to this issue of unaccompanied minor children. tara lee roda worked in an hhs office, the office of refugee resettlement and she basically said that the biden administration is complicit with the drug traffickers in child trafficker. how she put it. whether it s intentional or not, it could be argued that the united states government has become the middleman in a large scale multi-billion dollar child trafficking operation that is run by bad actors, seeking to profit off of the lives of children. john: in the last three years, brandon, explosion of unaccompanied minors at the border. 2020,s 33,000. 70,000 so far this year.
Why has this problem gotten so bad under this president? john, the reason why this makes me so mad is because i spoke with the transition team about this. i talked with secretary mayorkas before he was confirmed about this. we told them what would happen if they did not give us the proper policies to control the border. we told them children would be exploited and the border out of control. they ignored every thing we said and now we are seeing children are suffering because of it. we want to protect children, we want to protect life, we want to do what s best for everybody, yet this administration does not care. they constantly pander to open border activists and it s very frustrating and upsetting to every single person that puts on a uniform to see this administration truly doesn t care. they give lip service, but their actions show they do not care about life. john: the whistleblower testimony yesterday was pretty damning. brandon judd, always good to have you on and get your