Mostly haitian illegal immigrants crammed under a bridge in south texas last week. And they are still there right now. Things are so bad it s not just republicans sounding the alarm as obama s dhs secretary jeh johnson, well, he is also crying uncle. We have to get control of our borders. 200,000 a month is a lot of people. Dhs just released the numbers for august, it s 200,000. August is typically a month where it s very low. And those kinds of numbers and the images you just showed your audience saps the ability. It overwhelms the ability of ths, the border patrol, ice,. Pete: overwhelmed. Unable to ignore the crisis any longer the white house sent current homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas down to texas with a shall we say weak message for these illegal immigrants. We are very concerned the haitians who are taking this irregular migration path are receiving false information that the border is open or the temporary protected status is available. I want to make sure that
We ll have numbers and analysis. We begin with major immigration news. President biden is absorbing another major policy hit tonight with a ruling that democrats cannot include immigration reform, a path to citizenship and the massive tax and spend plan they call human infrastructure this as they desperately try to ease the mass of illegal immigrants many of them haitians along the southern border in one texas town. We have fox team coverage tonight aishah hasnie on capitol hill with all the goings on there bill melugin in del rio, texas again tonight. Good evening, bill. We have redialed. Bill: bret, good evening to you. Texas governor greg abbott sent a letter to president biden asking him to declare a federal emergency here in texas over what s going on here in del rio. You can see over my shoulder there are still thousands of migrants living in this makeshift camp. The conditions are brutal. It s incredibly hot out here and this border crisis is only getting worse. [speaking are sp
The long awaited and long delayed summer olympic games officially begin a few hours from now. But the director of the opening ceremony, well, he won t be running the show. He was abruptly fired yesterday, the fourth olympics official to be forced out. We are live in tokyo where the games have already been postponed of course for a year because of the pandemic. And covid continues to cast a shadow over them. For the first time, olympic events will be held without spectators in most venues. And only a fraction of the 11,000 athletes scheduled to play will parade in the opening ceremony. The u. S. Will have one of the larger presences with about 200 athletes. As the clock ticks down, covid cases keep ticking up. About 20 athletes have so far tested positive and have been forced to drop out. The olympic village has had at least a dozen cases of people testing positive too. We begin our coverage with blake essig joining me live from tokyo. And despite all of those negatives, the show is goi
Children to escape their home, they re looting and then torching their belongings. The taliban claiming there s hundreds of weapons seized from the afghans. Here s the president moments ago. How many more, how many thousands more americans, daughters and sons are you willing to risk? how long would you have them stay? already we have members of our military whose parents fought in afghanistan 20 years ago. Would you send their children and their grandchildren as well? would you send your own son or daughter? i will not send another generation of americans to war in afghanistan with no reasonable expectation of achieving a different outcome. Trace: general jack keane was at the pentagon on 911. He s the former vice chief of staff of the army and chairman of the institute for the study of war. He s also a fox news contributor. General, always good to see you. I was a bit confused. Maybe you were, too, sir when the president said the taliban has never been stronger but not strong enough t
heating the stoves. people are running out of fod and water. heading to a shelter is a pretty frightening concept. millions of texans are still struggling without power after severe winter weather shut down the power grid. it s a disaster. as for ted cruz, fresh off his stint toying with insurrection. well, he just returned from his 24 hour south of the border with fam. who wouldn t want a get away to a beach resort to mexico when their state is in crisis. his story about why he was out of country has evolved. here is ted after getting busted for the trip. texas going through horrific storms and millions of texans lost power and lost heat an had been hurt. our family was among them. we had no heat and no power. yesterday my daughter s asked if they could take a trip with some friend. heidi and i agreed. i flew down with them last night. dropped them off here and i m headed back to texas and back to continuing to work to try to get the power on. what s happening in texas is