john: america reports, waiting for a federal judge s ruling on the fate of title 42. decision could come down any minute as border states brace for a bigger crisis if the trump era immigration order is allowed to expire on monday. i m john roberts. gillian: great to be with you, john. gillian turner in for sandra smith. border areas are seeing a big surge in activity in anticipation of the title 42 decision in the del rio sector in texas, 1800 migrants in 24 hours. a large number of those people were single adults. that s the migrant demographic that is likelyest to be expelled under title 42. john: texas governor abbott says it will only get worse. it would surpass the population of houston if title 42 is not renewed. 18,000 pouring into border states every day. bill joins us from the border in eagle pass, texas. what are you seeing there? john, good afternoon to you. del rio sector getting hammered with activity, nearly 2,000 illegal crossings in just 24 hours, an
trafficking, the trafficking women and children. sex trafficking. this president has done harm to the united states, he s done harm to the security of the you state, especially from national security issue. john: we ll find out hopefully in the next few hours what happens with title 42. thank you. thanks for having me. gillian: president biden is wrapping up the very first day of his asia trip. the visit grabs headlines before the president ever touched down in seoul. tell you what had local police getting involved in a drunken street brawl next. john: live to south korea with what s at stake during the president s trip, not just overseas but here at home. critics say president biden should be here on home soil as americans confront the duelling crisis of historic inflation, baby formula shortage and border unrest. charlie hurt on that when we come back. stay with us.
thousand overdose that s in this country but it s because the cartels control the border to mexico. that s when the drugs to men in the bad guys come in. john: one of the big issues with remain in mexico is when people were sent back across the border into mexico, many of them were victimized by criminal games or the cartels. if you really implement remaining mexico, how do you ensure that does not happen? mexico has to take some sort of response build it. letting tens of thousands of people and giving them transit visas knowing that they are coming to the united states. they need to step up and uphold their laws. they have laws down there against trafficking women and children. they need to enforce laws. that s a president trump dead. he forced mexico to put forth stomach troops on the southern border on the northern butter. the buy demonstration needs to take a page from that trump playbook and make mexico do what they need to do. john: they do have some responsibility.
apprehended. so the problem perhaps yes. griff: pervasive. well, it s pervasive, griff. the border patrol s already said approximately 1500 a days cape apprehension. day escape apprehension. these are people that don t want to be caught. why? because they re criminals, they re drug traffickers, they re trafficking women and children. these are people that don t want to get caught because they know if they get caught because of who they are, they will be detained. when you say a 1500 a day, there s already 300,000 gotaways approximately since biden became president. who are they? where are they? are they would-be terrorists, criminals, drug traffickers? we don t know, and that should scare the hell out of every american. griff: and we re getting some of the criminals, in fact in the rgv sector, more than 1600 criminal migrants have been apprehended. just in the past 48 hours, three