Citizens and those that wear a badge. Agents, troopers, deputies and others are addressing criminals as result of open border. Carley Border Sheriff Mark Daniels will join us live this morning. Youre watching fox and friends first, im carley shimkus. Ashley im Ashley Strohmier in for todd piro President Biden stopping in Border States Arizona and new mexico, not to spotlight the Border Crisis, he is talking about the Inflation Reduction Act. Lucas tomlinson is breaking down the reality of byteds policies. Good morning, lucas. Lucas that is right, President Biden claiming economic progress. The rate may have slowed, it continues to rise, as you know when you go to the Grocery Store or gas station. Statement, in the years since i signed legislation to law, companies have announced 166 to bring Semiconductor Manufacturing back to the United States, The Act Is Key part of Bidenomics Agenda to bring opportunity to every point of the country. Gas is not 5, gas is currently at an eightmonth h
was done to do that for him. hundreds of drugs following into the united states haw hollowing out communities and killing citizens. border is the front line this defend our borders. it is not happening. it s a lie coming out of washington. you can get anybody and anything across that border whenever you want to do it. border-related detention costs over the last 18 months is well over $6 million. we had collectively made coach cheese county one of the safest places on the southwest border. i can t say that honestly to my citizens today. well, you just heard from cochise county sheriff daniels and he joins us now good morning to you yesterday you testified that the southern border right now is in the worst shape you have ever seen it. so, just give us a quick update here. what are you experiencing right now? well, good morning to both of
268,000 arrests agents have already made in the last five months, which is a 97% jump. officials say this continues to strain resources and warns the system cannot continue to sustain itself. we will continue to do all that we can to address these increases in traffic safely and humanely. the fact is that these solutions are temporary and this situation is not sustainable. remote locations of the united states border are not safe places to cross and they are not places to seek medical care. the system is well beyond capacity and remains at a breaking point. we are also learning more about the financial impacts. $98 million. that has already been spent on medical cost associated with migrants in custody. that, a figure provided by the commissioner himself. senator lindsey graham says the detention costs add up to about
people who are a drain on society. absolutely. i said it the other day on the network. $5 billion is nothing. this wall will pay for itself in a matter of a couple years because less illegal immigration means less detention costs, which is ice s budget is $8 billion a year. less detention costs, less immigration court costs, less circuit costs. let social services being used by illegal alien families that come in. because, remember, the illegal families come, in they have u.s. citizen child the first thing they do is get in social services. the cost of illegal immigration it s as high as $120 billion a year. the wall would pay for itself just from the cost savings of illegal immigration being slowed and decreased. ainsley: they also say in that study if they bring in children and grandchildren it can cost americans anywhere between 94,000 and $104,000 per illegal immigrant over the course of their lifetime. i know you sat down with the president before his oval office address. what d
the public defenders office there has now brought on an attorney to represent some people who are facing at the portation. it s starting to happen. and i think there s a recogniti recognition. when i talk to mring defenders who represent people on the criminal side, the most frustrating thing in the world is to defend somebody, to get them out of a criminal issue, to get them out of jail, to deal with that issue and then see them slip into the criminal justice system i mean, into the immigration, the civil immigration system and find themselves facing deportation, which is just as great of a consequence if for many people. real quickly, because i know some folks will be saying if they re providing blanket coverage, that has to be expensive. you say in your article fashionly giving a lawyfashion ly nationally giving a lawyer to every indigent would save close to $175 until in detention costs. so this is not necessarily a massively expensive program. potenti potentially a cost saving