taking direct aim at president biden s open border policies. in a new video desantis is promising to secure the border, stop the cartels, build the wall, and stop the invasion. right now governor desantis is getting ready to meet with potential voters in eagle pass, texas as you look live there. we will he will deliver remarks and take questions there, we re told. here is some of what he had to say yesterday about president biden s immigration policies. the parolee is doing is unconstitutional. we sued him on things like catch and release. he is abusing the law to change the law to allow people to have an open border. we ll deputize state and local officials to also enforce immigration laws. dana: bill melugin is live in eagle pass, texas. what did you find out? good morning to you. this is governor desantis first trip to the texas border as a presidential candidate. as you can see behind me in a matter of moments he will be meeting with potential voters here in eagle
the number of boats plummeted that were trying to come in the first place. why would you want to get into a rag tag vessel, go hundreds of miles potentially in very hostile waters sometimes, knowing that the only thing that will happen is you ll go right back where you started from. people aren t going to do that. the same principle applies at the southern border. if they come and know what will be happening is get a sheet of paper saying come up for a court date in three years and go enjoy the united states, well they will do that. if they come and they are not if they are denied entry or immediately repatriated, guess what? people won t want to mess with this. they won t say some coyote thousands of dollars to be able to do it because they know the united states enforces it s law. we have to reestablishment the rule of law in this country. [applause] we have to make sure that people understand that there is a
effort to help the situation. the president has the authority to do this under the ieepa. he has to have an emergency and he called it an emergency for many months. the democrats were calling it a manufactured crisis. but more and more them who visited the border agree. pictures don t lie. and the president has to see the economic impact and national security impact. that s there as well. what about the actual cost illegal immigration brings to this country every year. we know it s in the billions. we know the billion dollar criminal enterprises are trafficking people. but most of importantly are taking money to make that treacherous journey northward. you may be getting a coyote
effort to help the situation. the president has the authority to do this under the ieepa. he has to have an emergency and he called it an emergency for many months. the democrats were calling it a manufactured crisis. but more and more them who visited the border agree. pictures don t lie. and the president has to see the economic impact and national security impact. that s there as well. what about the actual cost illegal immigration brings to this country every year. we know it s in the billions. we know the billion dollar criminal enterprises are trafficking people. but most of importantly are taking money to make that treacherous journey northward. you may be getting a coyote
this is the far more basic version. the muddy shores of the river. i m here in guatemala. that behind me is mexico. these rafts that are made of wood and inner tubes, many people who want to get to the united states who come from el salvador, honduras, guatemala, get on these rafts, go across the border and go into mexico without any problem whatsoever. nothing has changed here. this is the way it s been for generations. people crossing the international frontier, despite the fact that about a ten-minute walk away from me to the right is the official border station where guatemalan and mexican officials work. people who want to cross without papers do it here, absolutely easily, and the price of the ride to go from mexico into the united states across the rio grande, you could pay a coyote thousands. the price of the ride here is 10 guatemalan, the equivalent of about $1.30. this is the river which separates mexico from guatemala. right now we re in guatemala, the western most part of