thousands of migrants being released from the camp with destinations unknown with noticing telling them to appear in court within 60 days. jen psaki was pressed on this just moments ago. there are 15,000 mirpts under the del rio brink on saturday. if you add up the ones that you say were expelled or released, that s 5,000. where is everybody else? i m happy to get a rundown for you from department of homeland security. john: remember michael mccall will weigh in on this. dana: first to bill, on the ground reporting in del rio, texas, for us. bill, we just heard a lot from the administration. not sure if they are the answers most were looking for. yes, we did hear a lot and i think we ve got to put an asterisk next to psaki s comments. she says they are titling 42ing
they love to talk about it. we have a real crisis on our hands and they are absolutely tone deaf and they refuse to acknowledge its their problem. she says the administration is tone death and they are not recognize ohhing the probable ohlem. when you factor in what she s equaled in on, horse, at, and the pictures, is where she s been animated and yesterday the vice president put out a readout of call, not with a foreign leader but with the department of homeland security, and it was an interesting readout. she was telling him how unfortunate and horrified she was and he was saying how she agreed. it sounded like a call with a foreign leader but it was within their own cabinet. you rarely see that. got to get those pictures out of those people in del rio.
thanks for having me. there has been an open border from the start of this whole crisis and that s why they have deployed hundreds and hundreds of personnel, tabs tabs department of public safety personnel to the southern border to help our federal partners to secure the board. i was in del rio saturday afternoon. thousands and thousands of migrants were crossing into the u.s. from mexico freely with no resistance until our troopers got there and they put a stop to it and contained the area. it was a very effective strategy from our personnel to put a some to that current surge in that particular area. we saw how they did it, backing the patrol cars up against the river creating a wall of steel. in june they sent letters to the sent for heads, or marls, rather, to sector heads saying we re expecting something will happen and it will require a lot
forget is back in february when biden came in they changed isis policies. they changed isis policies and directive to only go after national security threats and aggravated felons for the most part so when you have hundreds of thousands of people being released with court dates ice doesn t have the manpower or resources or the back of the administration to go back after those people who potentially skip a court date. we ve been talking about del rio this whole time. there is a heck of a lot of area along the southern border that s not being talked about. look at this situation out of el paso, texas. human smuggling a massive problem. this is near the port of entry in el paso. they stopped a tractor-trailer and found 131 people being smuggled inside. not just a heat risk but also a covid risk. security issues along the border.
more manpower. reading from their email they said we suggest sending agents to the field in del rio with tablets to start the intake process instead of letting the groups sit there while space is cleared in the station. this way we can at least get part of the process finished before they get to the station instead of wasting that time. so they were trying to be proactive here, and with the idea that something like this was going to happen. what was dps hearing? we did the same thing. we knew there was a surge of migrants coming across. we ve never seen the numbers like we ve seen this year and we work closely with our partners. we gather intelligence. we have information coming in and they had a proactive strategic plan to take care of the surge but it was ignored. of course now, we re having to deploy state resources to the southern border to take care of a federal government issue in which they are failing to secure