First, at this hour, Vice President Kamala Harris finally visiting the southern border. 93 days after she became the point person on the crisis. Her trip comes during a record surge in illegal crossings in the United States. Hello. Im john roberts in washington, this is america reports. Good to be back with you again today. Seems like we have a busy news day every day. Today is. Im Gillian Turner in for sandra smith. Vice president harris is on the ground in el paso. Thats where youll recall that we saw one of the most heart breaking videos from this Currents Iteration of the border crisis. You can see Border Patrol footage from april. Shows smugglers scaling a 14 foot fence and dropping two girls on the other side. The smugglers completely abandon the girls leaving them defenseless, alone in the desert outside el paso. John critics point out the epicenter of the border crisis is hundreds of miles away in rio grande. The white house says el paso was a perfect case study. The Vice Presi
the gains since biden took office. bill: the biggest rate hike in three decades. new york post, it s looking grizzly. dana: adding to the concerns is the producer price index for may out just moments ago showing wholesale prices up 11% year-over-year. all of that gets passed right onto you, the consumer. bill: it does. the price of gas holding steady, record $5 a gallon all threatening to overwhelm a white house in crisis. we begin with griff jenkins on the north lawn. good morning. that s ppi number which increased month over month is not welcome news at the white house because it rose and it is rising is an indication that inflation may not yet have peaked. that number, by the way, without going into the weeds represents what companies pay to make the things we buy and that cost gets passed on to us. by the way, bill, i doubt the president wanted to wake up feeling grizzly this morning. a bear market occurs when an index like the s&p falls 20% off a recent high. i
news, americans dying at the hands of illegal immigrants, who should not be in our country. the deadly consequences of president biden s open borders are hitting home hard. i m harris, you are in the falkner focus, texas police caught two men from venezuela, they are accused of the murder and brutal strangling death of a 12-year-old girl. both of those suspects crossed the u.s. border illegally from mexico. future court dates scheduled. so, they were caught and released, catch and release. we are learning about the illegal immigrant who is suspected of raping and murdering maryland mother of five, rachel morin. i.c.e. is confirming border patrol agents as well. three times and sent him back to mexico, he entered a fourth time as a got away. remember how that works? they come into the country, detection services don t pick them up, cameras nothing, i have been down to the border, it s not easy to sneak in but it s not impossible. and they are good at it. aided by the drug cart
they re coming there mexico and being offered work visas and not staying in mexico. they ve certified that as a safe third country. if they re fleeing from persecution and they fear for their lives. they would stay in the first safe country they come to. instead they come to the united states and that s what shows us this is all about economics. it is because president biden continues to release people into the united states. people will continue to come. he is rewarding them for illegal acts and that is what is the magnet that s drawing all these people. dana: southwest border apprehensions per day approximately 7,802 people per day in april. the department of homeland security said it could even go higher. we re waiting on court rulings on that. but yesterday tell me what happened here. a federal judge threw out the biden administration border policy that limits who immigration authorities can arrest and deport. what does it mean for your folks that are on the ground?
First, at this hour, Vice President Kamala Harris finally visiting the southern border. 93 days after she became the point person on the crisis. Her trip comes during a record surge in illegal crossings in the United States. Hello. Im john roberts in washington, this is america reports. Good to be back with you again today. Seems like we have a busy news day every day. Today is. Im Gillian Turner in for sandra smith. Vice president harris is on the ground in el paso. Thats where youll recall that we saw one of the most heart breaking videos from this Currents Iteration of the border crisis. You can see Border Patrol footage from april. Shows smugglers scaling a 14 foot fence and dropping two girls on the other side. The smugglers completely abandon the girls leaving them defenseless, alone in the desert outside el paso. John critics point out the epicenter of the border crisis is hundreds of miles away in rio grande. The white house says el paso was a perfect case study. The Vice Presi