let s get to the news. border towns bracing for the end of the policy that lets the u.s. quickly expel migrants. texas is putting up barbed wire and deploying hundreds of national guardsmen in addition to the 1500 troops being sent by biden to do administrative duty. bill: the white house says the president would veto a republican border bill that s coming up for a vote in the house. despite the number of migrant encounters under his watch ballooning to nearly 5 million. dana: another city bracing for impact is el paso. there already thousands of people are camping on the streets. ice is launching a targeted operation to process and hopefully deport some of them. we spoke to some of the migrants living in el paso and the reasons for them driving to cross the border illegally. they detailed their journey to seek asylum here. americans should know not all of the people are bad. we want to work and get ahead. i m daniel rom rom and have been in el paso, texas for three d
than 40,000 south african miners employed by anglo american. in a statement, bhp ceo mike henry said. anglo had rejected bhp s previous offers, saying they undervalued the company and its prospects. speaking of deals, it s been a big week for consolidation in the energy sector. the latest development? conocophillips s acquisition of marathon oil in a $22.5 billion deal. erin delmore has all the details and more on this rising trend. think about the early days of the pandemic. people are stuck at home, not going out and not driving their cars. 0il at home, not going out and not driving their cars. oil prices crashed, but sent them, prices have come back then. back up. take conocophillips. the share price has nearly tripled and now it s acquiring marathon 0il worth $25 billion including debt. that will help conoco expand drilling in mexico, north dakota and texas and are to equatorial guinea. large and midsize oil companies have been competing to buy up the smaller rivals. a
two other cases one was a homeless individual and another person was deciding to just take it. we ve seen so many stories of kids who don t even realize what they are doing is taking fentanyl. it is something else that s laced with fentanyl and they end up suffering a fatal overdose. dana: one last quick question. do you think the u turn the community wants to make have an immediate effect? not an immediate effect. when you have allowed things to get this bad over the course of three years it will take some time before we start to see some results especially given it is not just bellingham. we have police departments understaffed so they can only do so much. hopefully we ll start seeing a little positive turn. definitely not in the short term. dana: thank you. it s devastating for that community. glad you are there to report on it. you have to wonder if that type of reaction, ann milligram, the head of the dea.
fentanyl and meth at the same time. this is happening all across the city. unlike in bellingham, in the city of seattle the council here decided to go all in and not pursue any law that criminalizes public use. they say they won t seek treatment if you do this. we have all the programs. no one is going into them because we aren t coerceing them to go into them because they know there are no consequences. when officers can go around. i have an officer saying could you please put away your crack pipe. that officers can t do anything in these scenarios. no arrests are allowed. dana: i mentioned that out of these 223 overdoses i would say it s a relatively small community, two were children. were those accidents? so three of them, actually now have been children unfortunately. one was an accident. it looks like the parents had drugs around or were dealers. that was the allegation.
belling ham saw 220 overdoses resulting in 2 1/2 emergency calls per day. now city officials are making a u turn. let s bring in jason rantz. tell us more. what s going on? what s going on is, as you pointed out. there has been a significant push towards drug decriminalization which is effectively legalization and how it is working. as a result of turning away from what has been going out on the streets and choosing not to stigmatize drug users, we ve seen an increase in addiction, an increase not just in overdose calls but fatal overdoses driven in large part by fentanyl and meth it becomes untenable. so bellingham said we can no longer do this. they decided to criminalize the public use of drugs.