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Brian: while migrant caravans are trying to cross the border into california. get this. there is a surge in migrants in south texas and arizona. ainsley: rio grande valley is ground zero for apprehension. stretching border patrol s resources and putting a strain on the agency as it continues with mission. apprehending 860 people per day compared to up to 145 arrests daily in san diego. steve: manuel padilla jr. is the director and he knows firsthand what the border patrol agents are up against. good morning to you. good morning, thank you for having me. steve: you be betcha. there is a story out this morning apparently border patrol is preparing for, perhaps, a surge with some of these migrants who may try to do what happened a couple weekends ago where they try to race across the border. tell us a little bit about that. ....
Look the other way? they have to investigate how the head got there. this is what sometimes takes them off on a tangent that has nothing to do with what they oorgely were looking for. ainsley: quite an analogy. judge: pleasure, guys, thanksgiving is over. steve: meanwhile a surge of migrants trying to get into the united states from california all of the way to south texas. border patrol chief manuel padilla says his agency is stretched to the limit. is he going to join us next hour. brian: christmas is 19 days away. are you still working on gift list? we have remote controlled gadgets, watches, more exclusively for fox & friends viewers next. run, run, rudolph e. and if i can get comfortable keeping this tookus safe and protected. you can get comfortable doing the same with yours. ....
That are forecasted it will definitely strain the resources we have. we will do the best with the manpower we have and stem and control this. now, in this sector, chief manuel padilla tells me. heaviest trafficked in the nation. 51% is family units and unaccompanied children in 2018. but he says in just this first month of 2019, it s at 64% for family units and unaccompanied minors. a growing trend that he thinks is troubling, guys? steve: absolutely. griff, thank you very much. meanwhile, also troubling as we keep an eye on that large caravan that is heading our way. they did take yesterday off simply because the day before one of the migrants riding on a truck fell and was killed. they took the day off and parked in one particular town where the lals brought ....
Stop the group, now 7,000 strong, griff jenkins live at u.s.-méxico border in mcallen texas where agents said they need a wall, griff. griff: heather good morning, if they get to the texas they will find overwhelming border already, more than a thousand arrested, more than a thousand pounds of marijuana confiscated as well, now the caravan which has grown over 5,000, some say up to 7,000 is moving strongly hire, some saying that the politics behind it will end up here at least in texas, arizona or california and try and cross. it is the major concern of the officials here like chief manuel padilla is sector chief here in rio grande valley, if the caravan gets here, they will be ....
Ready. we will see what the caravan is made up, people turning themselves in, they will turn themselves at a port of entry, if you have people that are crossing illegally between ports of entry and are trying to avoid them in border patrol, we will see them this area, we will not see where we have combinations of resources together. griff: combination is both wall and manpower the border patrol working exhaustively. the president speaking out a lot of this caravan, he tweeted yesterday the caravans are disgrace to the democrat party, change immigration laws now chief padilla noting that the law specifically being the catch and release because caravan comes here and claim asylum and if we release we will release to public because there s no place to keep them, heather. ....