america s newsroom. i m dana perino. bill hemmer is off today. good morning, bret. bret: i m bret baier. elevated threats to the homeland coming as a record number of people on the terror watch list were caught at the southern border last year. more than the previous six years combined. the white house yesterday dodging a question about the risk of foreign terrorists taking advantage of weak border security. is it possible that somebody who wants to commit a terrorist attack during a time of elevated threat crossed the southern border into the united states already? i couldn t possibly answer that question, peter. all i can do is tell you that we have remained vigilant to that potential threat. dana: all this as we say a disturbing rise of anti-semitism of college campuses and cities across the u.s. police arresting an ivy league student for making violent threats against jewish students at cornell university. bret: senator josh hawley ahead. rich edson on similar
Now the sixth deceased, reported deceased child in i.c.e. custody, as president, what will you how will you ensure that this atrocity never happens again? i ll bring leadership rather than showmanship. we ll never a separation policy. we ll devote resources to the border so you can adjudicate refugee cases immediately. for the 12 million americans who are living in the shadows and just working hard and want to contribute to our economy and be a part of this great american tapestry, we ll give them a pathway to citizenship. we ll past the dream act so young people can have a certain fate. yes, of course, we ll have security on our border, but we re the country that has its symbol as the statue of libber it liberty. we re not going to have a border wall. thank you. this is a story, of course, cnn has covered very closely. there are now a record 80,000 people in custody of u.s. immigration authorities. that s, of course, a record.
Administration works to close the facility. thousands of refugees going to croatia, to northern europe. using teargas or water cannons to turn back those who want to enter hungary. tens of thousands of people trying to escape terror and violence in the middle east, stretched to the limits trying to deal with this wave of humanity. he is live from london. europe pulling itself apart over this refugee cases, they continued to surge pointing the finger at one another, after a while it gets worse. there were violent scenes as people tried to get through the new razor wire fences.
Agreed to try and keep the total number of refugee cases that germany except every year or two around two hundred thousand now in special circumstances the two hundred thousand figure could be exceeded there would apparently be no change or limits on asylum laws for people claiming persecution on an individual basis including dissidents they could still apply for asylum as before the agreement will see however the rules for highly qualified migrants change party leaders saying that the laws for this group of migrants must reflect the changing needs of german employers well since the refugee crisis began back in two thousand and fifteen markel said that she would not accept a cap on refugees let s get more on this now let s cross over to our political correspondent thomas sparrow who is standing by with the late very latest from our parliamentary studio so you know as we just saw there thomas chancellor angela merkel saying time and time again that she is against this cap that is what s