don t look now, but the border crisis is back with a vengeance and a big concern among presidential candidates that make that a primary start. why tim scott shows this time to do it. scary numbers are probably the reason. kevin corke has more. kevin? griff jenkins. i apologize. look out, kevin corke. neil: my bad. i ve covered the border forever. there s a reason why tim scott isn t just going to the border for a photo open. he s going there because the situation is not under control. sources tell me that border encounters are trending up, averaging between 5,000 and 5,500 a day across the entire southwest border. cbp says they seized more than 22,000 pounds this fiscal year alone as mexican cartels tightener that grip on the border. here s senator scott. as president of the united states, i would sign the legislation i created that would freeze the assets of the mexican car tens. we have the power to do that. just a few hours area, jason owens tweeted this saying y
neil: just wondering how it resonates in the early polls that we re getting. not just this issue but whether we re seeing some maneuvering in key states. there s an iowa poll out that shows donald trump still leads. a little less so. i m wondering what is being rejiggered here. look, how it s playing with these primary voters, a lot of these candidates are trying to get as much exposure as possible. tim scott s visit to the border comes a day after donald trump s indictment. so this is a way for them to make headlines of their own. get out in front of the cameras, get out in front of the public as they re trying to leap frog a ron desantis in second place or a donald trump in first place. will that happen any time soon? it doesn t seem like it will, but this is about publicity but also about honing in on an issue that is very important to the gop base. neil: i m wondering with this third indictment and another one
Don t look now, but the border crisis is back with a vengeance and a big concern among presidential candidates that make that a primary start. why tim scott shows this time to do it. scary numbers are probably the reason. kevin corke has more. kevin? griff jenkins. i apologize. look out, kevin corke. neil: my bad. i ve covered the border forever. there s a reason why tim scott isn t just going to the border for a photo open. he s going there because the situation is not under control. sources tell me that border encounters are trending up, averaging between 5,000 and 5,500 a day across the entire southwest border. cbp says they seized more than 22,000 pounds this fiscal year alone as mexican cartels
That is horrific. the concern is bipartisan. democratic candidate r.f.k. jr. posting a 19-minute documentary of his trip to yuma, arizona. one last thing i noted, chief owens tweeted that agents apprehended four child sex offenders in one day this week. neil? back to you. neil: thank you. i apologize for screwing up, griff. so what is the fallout from this? also from washington, the hill national politics reporter with, julia, tim scott is not the first presidential candidate to get there and see what s going on. there s been others and there there be more. this is bubbling up to be quite the campaign issue, isn t it? it is very important not only for republican primary voters but for all voters. covering last year s mid-term
Tightener that grip on the border. here s senator scott. as president of the united states, i would sign the legislation i created that would freeze the assets of the mexican car tens. we have the power to do that. just a few hours area, jason owens tweeted this saying yesterday border patrol agents in el paso arrested a foreign national that was identified as the head of a violent gang in panama longed to narcotics trafficking. we arrested 531 individuals with gang affiliations. now, senator scott isn t the first gop candidate to see the crisis first hand. he follows recent trips by desantis and haley. what i saw today was a dereliction of duty. a president has one job, and that is keep america safe. this border is controlled by the mexican drug cartels. that is a disgrace.