2,943 held beyond the 72 hour limit placed on border patrol. homeland security says the u.s. could soon reach the highest number of people apprehended at the border and more than 20 years. immigration lawyers say migrants are sending their children over the border alone illegally so they won t be sent back. democrats are blaming former president trump for the overwhelming surge of the border. he and his successor, president joe biden, are speaking out tonight. did biden administration still refuses to call it happening a crisis. people are coming in by the hundreds of thousands, young children are coming in. they leave their homes and they come up because they think it s going to be so wonderful and frankly our country can handle it. it is a crisis like we ve rarely had. certainly we ve never had on the border. but it s going to get much worse. shannon: hello and welcome to fox news @ night. i m shannon bream in washington. white house correspondent kevin corke is track
to compact a pretty place that is reined by dormant volcanoes. but unlike other countries in the region, this country el salvador not high-end beach resorts or tourist attractions along the coast. there has been very little foreign investment and there is a reason for that. for a long time el salvador has been a dangerous place in a few yours ranked the most by rent domain violent country in the world. ongoing fighting in the 80s with the brutal civil war and extending to the current battle against gangs like ms-13. if you are from long island, virginia, you know all about ms-13. you read the stories about human trafficking and beheadings. el salvador s most famous export with millions of low-wage workers. about a third of all el salvadorians live in the united states, many illegally, and many more appear to be coming soon. the reason the biden administration has declared the violence in el salvador and other parts as a humanitarian crisis. that means the united states now h