house minority leader kevin mccarthy leading a group of republican lawmakers going to the border today. it comes as republicans are blaming president biden for the surge. they say he has sent a clear message that the border is open for business. it is entirely, you cannot but notice the administration changes and there is surge. there can be no question when sending a message to people. it has to be our border is closed. you can t say in spanish one thing and english another. one for the consumption of those in central america and the other for domestic consumption. it has to be the same message. they aren t doing that. when a similar surge happened a few years ago president obama called it a humanitarian crisis. as i suggested, this is going to get nothing but worse as the spring comes. bill: former acting ice director ron vitiello joins us. we begin with casey stiegel in mcallen, texas. thanks. it was another busy night for u.s. border patrol agents all along the
and it s certainly something that you could not pay the cost of sending all of the undocumented immigrants back. so a lot of it is motivated by just bias and hate. i think that s exactly right. you know, alabama is suffering economically, terribly. one person at the university of alabama estimated that the state was going to lose $11 billion of economic activity each year up to a million dollars in state and local taxes each year because of the blow to our economy from this bill. it s a disaster on the economic front. a disaster of human proportions. it ought to be repealed. we are here 47 years later marching. we saw 47 years ago those in the generation ahead of us had to face danger, threats, homes being bombed, assassinations. we don t have that kind of danger but there s institutional inequality and racism that is