washington. doug. doug: warning about a tidal wave and chaos at the border and numbers keep climbing. we are in excess of 10,000 immigrants per day crossing the border illegally. the surge is already underway and fox learned the administration has organized mass release of immigrants into communitieses once shelters are overcapacity. president biden is bracing for what we are likely to see ahead. president biden: we ve had chaos at the border for years. we are making real immigration more streamlined and the direction people know there is a legal way to get here and not a legal way. doug: the secretary of homeland security continues to claim the border is closed and secure. we are taking this approach within the constraints of a broken immigration system that congress has not fixed for more than two decades. when we release individuals, we release them on conditions. the vast majority will be addressed in our border patrol facilities and our ice detention facilities.
there are other ones in the camp who do not plan to go until they find out after title 42, midnight tonight, whether that will continue. if it does continue, you will see a whole lot more, they are telling me that if the americans are letting them in, they are going. a big group, a big mass group, yeah. todd: before we bring in anna, what you just answered, you are reporting biden officials are coordinating with mexican officials to let migrants come over to brownsville, texas, a coordinated effort. it seems to me it is about optics, so people will not look crowded at the border. walk us through in detail exactly what you have seen, exactly what you have heard. todd: yes, i just broke the story yesterday at cis.org,
isn t this august, not supposed to be a lot going on. don t you wish one day we d say there s nothing going on, go home. change the channel. a lot has to do with the economy, up first president obama talking jobs in the heartland of america. the president is in iowa this morning. no straw polls. no campaigns it s a campaign stop. it s a campaign-style trip through three mid western states. he ll meet with a group of farmers and small business owners today. he s been making his pitch for job growth and sounding a familiar theme that republicans are playing politics with the economy. the problem we have is not with our country. the problem is, that our politics is broken. [ applause ] the problem is, is that we ve got the kind of partisan brinkmanship that is willing to put party ahead of country. that s more interested in seeing their political opponents lose than seeing the country win. well, the president was glad handing after a town hall meeting in iowa, he was c
built a watchtower to deal with this, is really an extreme response from our point of view. from his, it s doing what he needs to do to protect himself and his family. megyn: we heard that in the sound bite where he talks about going up the stairs and has four walls of windows, so he can see what s going on and protect himself and his family. if people want to look at it, it s a short film, less than 20 minutes total. you have a couple of pieces to it. how do they watch it? go to our center for immigration studies website, cis.org. it s running at the top of the website and it s on youtube as well. megyn: it s helpful, particularly to people like you and me, sitting here in d.c. and new york, so far removed, you cannot get in your head when you hear the stories about what these folks are facing. thanks for being here.