grande valley. can you talk us through why that matters? >> yeah, what folks don't understand is this area, the rio grande valley, the mexico border, always, historically has been the place with the first and most devastating impact when these laws get passed, and so a lot of folks will refer back to a woman named rosy jimenez. and she was a mother and student in mcallen, texas, and she was the first documented death from an induced abortion after the hyde amendment was signed in i believe 1972 or 1974. and so her name and face is used a lot in the reproductive rights movement as a testament as to what happens to people who get pregnant and this type of legislation is allowed to stand. and we know in texas that when the governor and the state legislature puts forward these kinds of restrictive laws that it's our communities that get hit first. you know, it's insulting. and it, of course, is a latino woman in texas in the rio grande valley that this happens to, because we've seen it before, and we've

they're seeing companies move to arizona, 1200 miles distant from the rio grande valley. you see it throughout theest of texas because our largest trading partner in this state is the country of mexico. 600,000 jobs in texas alone depend on this and it's not just me talking about this. it is the editorial page of the "wall street journal." it is other statewide elected republican officials like sid millar who is the commissioner of agriculture talking about this horrible stunt that's deeply harming the texas economy. it really everyone. again, the only beneficiary and maybe just on fox news has been greg abbott. for everyone else, this has bee prices, more supply chain problems and killing businesses especially along the texas side of the texas/mexico border and everybody knows about it. >> trying to make a national anti biden, anti mexican point and killing your consumers is boners. the texas woman charged with murder after abortion, the charges were dropped. but it exposes the lie these anti abortion forces don't mean to punish women. is that getting through when you're

the rio grande valley touches the mexico border are where the immigration points are. so if you are an undocumented immigrant and you become pregnant, we do not even have the opportunity to help those folks travel out of the rio ande valley, say come to austin or san antonio because they cannot cross those checkpoints. they are then forced into birth. we are making abortion more accessible and now we're looking at how our work in reproductive justice intersects with criminal justice. it is not like news to us, but this armrest does highlight that situation. what we did was once we found out what was happing, we mobilized to get people out to the starr county. this is a small, rural community. i think they are not used to the sort of, you know, protest movement, you know, things like that in their community. while we were only able to mobilized a small group to show up, we did have our partners from texas reproductive justice and the national institute for latina health and a group of folks show up and let the starr county authorities know we were not going to stand idl

bill melugin live at the border in rio grande valley, texas. bill has done an excellent job this week taking us from point b and c to everywhere. yesterday you were in brownsville and they were putting them on buses and today you're back at the rio grande. >> good morning to you. that's exactly right. border patrol in the rio grande valley report in the last several days alone they have arrested three ms-13 gal members, a cartel member, 18 street gang member and child sex predator from honduras. texas bears the brunt of the current border crisis. a trooper chasing a human smuggler in the laredo area. he loses control an crashes, dust goes up. it rolls over. graphic video ahead here. we're told everybody in the smuggler's vehicle got ejected onto the road. the smuggler and one of the migrants died as a result of that crash. we have blurred their bodies. the rest survived though they were injured. the smuggler was a 19-year-old u.s. citizens with extensive criminal history including for human smuggling in the past. look at the photos from right h

this is going to lead to problems not just here in the rio grande valley, although we have some serious problems here that greg abbott has caused, but it's gonna be very bad for the texas economy. is gonna be very bad for the national economy. >> governor abbott has already signed into law a provision that of's made it virtually impossible to obtain abortion services in texas. that law sent many texas women across the border to oklahoma for abortion services. and today, oklahoma's republican governor kevin stitt signed a law criminalizing abortion. making it a crime for a doctor or anyone else to perform an abortion with a penalty for the doctor of up to ten years and prison. >> i promised oklahomans that i would sign every pro-life bill in my desk. and that's why we're doing here today. we want oklahoma to be the most pro-laugh stain country. we want to outlaw abortion in the state alcohol more. >> here for a discussion tonight, that'll o'rourke. he's now running for governor of texas. i want to begin by what we just heard from the governor of oklahoma because so many women in your sta

and 4 in rio grande valley. those are only the ones they caught and know about. that's a major concern. in the last 6 months alone at the border there have been more than 300,000 known got aways. >> tucker: amazing. millions of foreign nationals come over and don't say in the rio grande valley. a lot wind up in southern california. when they get there it's very easy to break the law and not get punished. we finished a documentary that starts airing today and you have news report. >> yes, ever since gascon was elected criminals celebrated his soft on crime policies. never have we seen such a blatant example of this. fox news got a video of a murderer boasting 3 will get gascon's name tattooed on his face. take a look and lin. >> they will drop by gang enhancement and the gun in the commission of the crime. >> [bleep]. >> [bleep]. >> what you heard is not an isolated indent. your documentary has another murderer in prison toasting a cell mate with prison moon shine saying we are going home on this gascon directive

jon: bill melugin live in the rio grande valley of texas. thank you. joining us now oklahoma republican senator james lankford a member of the homeland and governmental affairs committee, finance committee as well and you made a number of trips to the border. you described as an epidemic. it is about to get worse with title 42 relaxation. >> it was always intended to be temporary but when the biden administration came in the had a year to establish what is next in the nine years they worked on a plan to move people into the interior faster there talking how do i pick people appear at the border and move them into the interior so there's enough chaos, they should be able to stop and turn it around to talking about how to be able to move it. as strange as it is they said the pandemic is over at the border with the members of the military are being forced into retirement if they don't get the covid shot were wearing masks on planes and the administration is requiring that the picketing choosing when the pandemic is over. jon: why did they not think this i

this is the rio grande valley sector. yet again more massive groups of migrants. these they are encountering. all single adults from ecuador, romania, peru. they have been overwhelmed with large groups down here. up to del rio. border patrol reporting they encountered this single group of eight unaccompanied children, all alone. no parents, no guardians. extremely dangerous for those little children. we talk about more criminals being arrested. look at the mug shots here. two convicted felons in tucson, arizona sector, one a convicted child molester from mexico. another is a felon with a lengthy rap sheet for assault with a deadly weapon and kidnapping. live as we've been watching these soldiers preparing these boats we can't see it now. on the opposing shoreline we've seen what appeared to be scouts, several men peeking through the bushes keeping an eye on what's going on right here. they are not used to seeing this large scale of boats being deployed in one area. they want to keep an eye on that. one more point to add on the charter buses to d.c. after that anno

then, take a look at these photos on rio grande valley sector where we are right now. it's a group of 198 migrants across illegally into texas last night. and then lastly take a look at this video in mission, texas we shot late yesterday afternoon for dozens of migrants crossing illegally, being escorted to a processing area by single porta patrol agent for an update on texas governor greg abbott he's going to start busting illegal immigrants to washington d.c. the state saying today then started sending those buses out the texas communities where these amassed releases have been taking place. but they say a majority of those communities are now reporting the feds have not released any migrants into their communities since he governor's announcement on wednesday. elizabeth: bill melugin thank you for your great journalism. and now we are up with ken cuccinelli. good to see you again thanks for spent time this on friday night. your reaction to that report? >> i appreciate so much more details on the border than almost any other reporter out there. i really appreciate th

not just in the rio grande valley border patrol sectors all over the u.s./mexico border. will show some of that activity. tucson arizona were agents report they encountered this group of 55 illegal immigrants near sasse b, arizona the report that 45 of them were minors between the ages of 12 and 17. a majority of them were from cuba and from guatemala. the take a look at these photos at a border patrol del rio sector. what you're looking at is what agents they are 22 migrants they found hiding in car haulers on a train heading further inland to the united states producing this repeatedly pork or migrants will hitch a ride on these trains to try to get further into the interior of the country. if we see them hiding in brenda cars before being shipped to the san antonio area. this is another case of that. border patrol says it's incredibly dangerous they can get trapped and some have been killed before. another thing we like to show in these photos at a border patrol to get ben sector you see agents tracking down a group of runners. these are single adult men dressed in cam

he announced there's going to be a military deployment including an in the rio grande valley, where they are going to be rolling out barbed wire. there will be placing shipping container to try to stop people from coming in. they will be putting lights up in different parts of the border. the headline is the announcement that starting fairly soon, they are going to begin shipping massive toastmasters of illegal immigrants and dropping them off right at the step of the u.s. capitol. we will send it back to you. >> kennedy: how will they track them? i know they talk about these phones and all that think it is a lot of people. it is a lot of migrants. how are they going to police that? >> bill: to be honest we don't know. we know the federal government tried to track using those ankle monitors. in terms of the state of texas tracking them, we don't know. we just heard this announcement 45 minutes ago and a lot of jaws dropped in the room. >> kennedy: thank you for your incredible reporting from the very beginning. in the meantime, we want to take you to a washington development. we could ge

two in yuma, two in del rio. four in the rio grande valley sector, adding up to a total of 23. keep in mind those are only the ones they know about, only the ones they can't. take a look at this video here at the border. we will explain why that is so significant. more than 400,000 last year. this year in the last six months, the sources tell us there have been more than 300,000. south former ice director says it is essentially a statistical certainty that they are going to be some bad apples mixed in with these huge groups of people who are invading our border agents busy processing border paperwork. take a listen. >> not a single one entered this country from the country that sponsors terrorism to do us harm, then you are ignorant. you are ignorant to the facts. >> in the meantime, mass releases of migrants continue. take a look at this. we shot this right here in texas. we saw busload after busload. the same thing happening on repeat. a local ngo here. some of government issued cell phones or ankle monitors. and others with no tracking whatsoever. but this has been taking pl

they don't stay in the rio grande valley. there's not the economy or the services to support them an awful lot w. t them wind up in southern b california and when they get there it is veryre l easy to brk the law and not get punished for it. you were instrumental instrumental documentary we just finished on los angeles is sort of streaming today and you have news to report relevant to this story for us . >> what is it? yeah, tucker , that's right. so look, ever since ladha george gascon was elected, it's no secret that criminals have been celebra eating his soft on crime policies. but never have we seen such a blatant example of this is what your viewers are about to see in here right now. fox news has obtained exclusive jailhouse audio of a convicted gang murderer named louise unhealth hernandez boasting that he is going to get george gascoigne's name tattooed on his face and he calls george gascon a champ for dropping his gang and gun enhancement with real good. now we've got a new day in l.a. so they're going to i got caug

. >> reporter: migrants who cross through the rio grande valley come through this bus station in downtown mcallen, and officials here worry if the numbers get too high, it could overwhelm the bus station, the shelters, leaving people with nowhere to go and sleeping on the street >> we're asking them to reconsider, you know, lifting the title 42. >> reporter: sheriff eddie guerra says he's been told by border patrol to have his officers on standby in case the ports of entry are overrun. >> we're talking about deputies dressed in their riot gear with their shields and their helmets and batons to keep the crowd at bay. >> reporter: the biden administration is facing bipartisan criticism of its immigration policy with 1.7 million illegal border crossings last year, an all-time record but at a mcallen migrant shelter, we met a honduran family who supports lifting title 42, saying it keeps migrants waiting in dangerous conditions in mexico ava and her husband told us she became a victim of rape >> translator: the same person who offered her the job took advantage of her, abused her, and that wa

grande valley of south texas. she was arrested thursday for murder over a quote self induced abortion stemming from a police report filed by a local hospital in january. the arrest came seven months after that state's controversial heartbeat abortion bill became law banning abortions as early as six weeks. regardless of that. texas law exempts women from facing a homicide charge for boarding their own pregnancy. ukraine digging in for a prolonged fight in the eastern part of the country. i'm jeff paul in lviv, ukraine, the details of the situation coming up and on the lighter side, and only in san francisco type of event has returned for the first time in more than 40 years, coming up details on today's soapbox details on today's soapbox derby. ♪ ♪ thousands of women with metastatic breast cancer... are living in the moment and taking ibrance. ibrance with an aromatase inhibitor is for postmenopausal women or for men with hr+/her2- metastatic breast cancer as the first hormonal based therapy. ibrance plus letr

same thing happening in the rio grande valley sector. look at these photos from our rgv in the star county area. border patrol encountered two groups totaling over 400 illegal immigrants most single adults. rgb is over capacity as well and why we're seeing the mass releases in bounceville. major drug bust in tucson, arizona sector. look at these photos from border patrol. an agent and canine partner made a bust of 12 pounds of fentanyl in a car going through a checkpoint in arizona. the second bust in one week. that exact same team you'll see in the photos made a bigger fentanyl bust last week. 80 pounds of fentanyl. they got enough fentanyl off the streets to stop 10 million lethal doses from getting into the united states. back out here live border patrol here in the del rio sector reporting they've arrested two convicted sex offenders including one mexican national with a conviction for the sexual assault of a child who had been deported 10 times in the last two years including as recently as last month. we'll send it back to you. >>

just before he drove down here to where we are in the rio grande valley you will see dozens of migrants crossing the rio grande illegally walking right into eagle pass. that sector very busy, more than 1600 apprehensions and just the last 24 hours read most in that group told me they were from cuba. take a look at these photos i caught this group of runners on a private ranch in kinney county. adults and kids. they found out this man in the blue shirt, he was a child a predator with the previous conviction with indecent liberties with a child with the man in the green chart also a carbo had a conviction for aggravated robbery. take a look at these photos big-time human smuggling bust by texas dps buried what you see are 76 of migrants being smuggled in the back of what appears to be some sort of a gravel trailer almost all of those migrants single adult men. the driver was a man from honduras in that country illegally part he had a lengthy criminal record part i am told he had meth on him. he was later arrested and charged for human smuggling. the last thing to show you, these photos of

and rio grande valley border patrol sectors. and sources telling fox news there have been more than 300,000 known individuals at the border in the last six months alone and critics say that it is time for the secretary to be treating this crisis as a national security issue. >> he's the secretary at homeland security. when does he have enough integrity to say hey, i cannot keep this border open no matter what without creating a national security issue of the highest proportion. >> fox news has also revealed that there were over 221,000 migrants encountered in march, the highest number since president joe biden took office. revealing dhs released over 80,000 migrants from federal custody into the united states in march, and expelled more than 109,000 using title 42 and a growing number of democrats urging the joe biden administration to keep rule in place. >> we know that 221,000 people this last month, and certainly they are looking at title 42. the moment that they left back, there's a lot more people coming across. >> even wit

. ♪♪ ♪ ♪ >> laura: six gang members arrested in three days in the rio grande valley. two convicted. >> lieutenant colonel davis: off enders nabbed -- convicted sex offenders nabbed. they are repealing title xlii. pollution -- bill melugin is here. >> greg abbott made an announcement stating that the state of texas will begin buzzing illegal immigrants from washington, dc and dropping them off at the steps of the u.s. capitol and here's part of the reason why he is doing that. take a look at the figure. he is sick of seeing the federal government mass release illegal immigrants into texas cities. some of them too small to handle. this is brownsville where we went, hundreds of -- witnessed hundreds of illegal immigrants being released into city. they are dropped off and walked across the street to a nearby bus terminal and free to travel wherever they want to across the country and sources are telling me that these illegal immigrants after release are being given that cell phones by the government. i'm told the government is using these phones to try to the tractor migr

three in el paso, four in del rio and four in the rio grande valley center. they put together the database. these are only the ones they know about and caught. if you look at file video here we'll explain why it is such a concern. in the last six months alone here at the border there have been more than 300,000 known gotaways. border patrol can't be everywhere at once. people are getting through in major numbers. that's one of the reasons why former ice director tom homan says the terrorist numbers, the guys caught at the border last year are a major concern and he says dhs secretary mayorkas has to start considering the border crisis as a national security issue. take a listen. >> he knows 23 people have been arrested at the border. he knows that. he is the secretary of homeland security. at what point does this man have enough integrity to tell the white house i cannot keep this border open no matter what because we have created a national security issue. if he had any intig tee at all he would tell the white house no we need to secure the border. >> guys,

we shot it as we were packing up to drive to the rio grande valley. what you look at is a group of dozens illegal immigrants walking across the rio grande and entering in eagle pass. dhs source tells us on saturday alone they saw more than 1600 illegal crossings including more than 200 in a 45-minute span in eagle pass. we're told del rio sector's numbers up 179% over the same time last year. now with word that title 42 will be dropping next month oklahoma senator james lankford says the administration is not ready for what's coming. take a listen. >> everyone knows it was temporary from the beginning but they have had a full year to be able to plan for what happens when they bring it down and their plan seems to be we'll move people across the border faster. >> dana, those high level cbp forces tell me since october 1 there have been more than 300,000 gotaways at our border nationwide. just to put that in perspective it's equivalent population the size of the city of cincinnati sneaking past our agents in just the last six months and everybody tells

then take a look at these photo out of rio grande valley sector where we are now. 198 migrants who crossed illegally into texas last night and the last play take a look a this video in mission, texas, that we shot yesterday. dozens of migrants crossing illegally being escorted to a processing area by a single border patrol agent at an updat on texas governor greg abbott's announcement that he was going to start busting illegal immigrants to washington dc. they started sending those buse out to texas communities where it these mass releases have bee taking place. they say majority of those communities are now reporting that the feds have not released any migrants into the community since the governor's announcement on wednesday. we will send it back to you. >> the white house taking heat from republicans and democrats alike for the planned elimination of title 42 and there's new blow back to the bone plan for some illegal immigrants. let's bring in brandon. >> welcome back, brent. >> are we good to see you. how are you? >> i am very good. i would imagine that you have had a very tough time

three migrants discovered under a tarp the tractor trailer carrying produce in the rio grande valley sector where a 24 hour period, 543 migrants and three groups were apprehended. one group of about 130 migrants apprehended at once here in eagle pass texas. as we head to the summer, we could expect more large groups and there's growing bipartisan pressure on the biden administration over whether or not the list title 42. there are real concerns once the title 42 policy is lifted, we could expect up to 18000 migrants to cross to the u.s. illegally, more than double than what's already on record pace. elizabeth: great journalism, good reporting. back with us now, brian, house financial services. your response to this report? we are hearing the white house will go along with the judge's ruling saying yes for now, we will abide by the trump pandemic border policy title 42, now we hear that may not happen, they will let it go away. the equivalent of fresno or atlanta georgia coming in every month. >> since the president took office, 2.4 million people have entered the country illegally. w

it was the rio grande valley of south texas where we saw some of biggest shifts anywhere in the country in 2020 from the democrats towards the republican among hispanic voters, talking 30, 40, 50-point shifts in some counties there. the question on 2020 was it just trump's re-election? the early polling we're seeing in 2022 suggests this is very much a story for this midterm, and again, something we've been talking about for decades. if the hispanic vote comes up for grabs between the parties, it's a huge shift potentially in american politics. >> one that would potentially be an ominous sign for democrats banking on that vote for so long. i want your sense of whether what you're seeing in polls about the issue among the latino immigrants about immigration, which is sort of a polarizing topic there, and one that's about to become to the forefront of discourse this summer. a lot of experts believe with the situation at the southern border coming under increased scrutiny. >> yeah. interesting. the biden administration's decision to roll back title 42, the trump administration's enforcemen

. >>> border patrol agents in the rio grande valley reporting an increase of large groups of migrants each day placing strain on resources. this as the biden administration plans to lift pandemic restrictions on may 23rd. dhs officials say they expect migrant numbers to increase as hundreds of ukrainian refugees also wait to enter the united states. >>> police say an aggressive fox that bit or nipped six people has been captured. congressman armey berra says the fox bit through his pant leg. he's taking rabies shots out of an abundance of caution. there are several fox on capitol grounds and animal control will trap and relocate any they find. we heard from that congressman, but i want you to know what the fox said. >> what does the fox say? ♪ >> those are the "5 things" to know for your "new day." more on these stories on cnn and cnn.com, and download the "5 things" podcast every morning. you can find it wherever you get your podcasts. >>> all right, new this morning, remarkable video, remarkable statement from pope francis. you can see him there addressing a crowd at the vatican.

bill melugin back on the story live in rio grande valley, texas, with the latest. hi, bill. >> reporter: hi, arthel. good afternoon to you. even with title 42 in place, the u.s. border patrol chief says every one of his sectors are seeing higher numbers this year than they did last year, and remember last year set the record. cases in point, this is happening all over the place, and we'll show you some evidence of that. take a look at this photo out of tucson, arizona, sector. this is a group of 55 migrants they caught if arizona, 45 of them were unaccompanied minors between the ages of 12 and 17. most of this group from9 guatemala and cuba. then take a look at these wild photos out of border patrol's del rio sector. 22 migrants that agents found hiding in car haulers on a moving train. concern moving train. we've seen this in the past, but agents say this is incredibly dangerous. some of them were trapped, and they have seen migrants die from doing this sort of thing before. more poe -- photos out of border control patrol's big bend sector. some of the most remote

grande valley where the issue is? todd: there is a greater chance of her i should say as greater chance of her going to the border as me starting in the nba playoffs. this is exactly what the democrats want the progressive left wants this you heard senator hagerty referred to as the border is going to collapse. that's what the progressive left wants they want open borders and they want the boaters that are beholding to the democratic party because they ultimately left at them, as part of a cycle in front of her eyes. >> scary stuff still ahead spring break gone wild what happened near one college to every. needs to see coming up. ♪ this is vuity™, the first and only fda approved eye-drop that improves age-related blurry near vision. wait, what? it sounded like you just said an eye drop that may help you see up close. i did. it's an innovative way to... so, wait. i don't always have to wear reading glasses? yeah! vuity™ helps you see up close. so, i can see up close with just my eyes? uh-huh. with one drop in eac

she was released from jail saturday evening, hours after activists with the rio grande valley-based la frontera fund held a protest outside the starr county jail in the state capital austin. this is one of the organizers. >> should have been filled with our fury. not just in texas, but all over this country. that should have been filled with people raising hell, refusing to let these fascist politicians go on with business as usual. untracked overturn roe v. wade -- the supreme court is on track to overturn roe v. wade and there will be no rights for legal abortion in this country a new -- [indiscernible] the status of women across in this country. amy: because of the public outcry, she was released and the local prosecutor dropped the charges. you had a fascinating exposÉ that just came out last week. talk about the prosecur involved and who he is. >> the first thing i want to say, my first instinct when i heard about this was, what is going on? what is the law they're basing this arrest on? a lot of people heard texas come heard abortion, people being arrested for an abortion compan

. >> reporter: in the rio grande valley sector, agents found this 2-year-old boy abandoned near roman, texas. there have been a staggering 38,000 of these unaccompanied children found in that sector since october. and, jon, tomorrow house minority leader kevin mccarthy is going to be bringing a delegation of republicans down here to the border, actually right here to eagle pass where we are standing where they will be meeting with border patrol and texas dps as both agencies prepare for title 490 to develot month. and later this week, dhs secretary mayorkas will be testifying before the house committee. jon: the numbers at the border have been staggering already this year. if the increase comes as expected, they're talking about, what, triple the numbers? >> reporter: yeah. it would be nearly a tripling of the current conditions right now. right now nationwide they're averaging about 7,000 illegal crossings a day which they're already overwhelmed with. the worst dhs projection is showing potentially upwards of 18,000 a day. so that, as you said, is nearly a tripling of the current sit

take a look at this picture from the rio grande valley. they've encountered huge groups. all single adults from peru, romania and ecuador. a group of eight unaccompanied children that were found by order agents, no parents, no guardians. it's happening more and more in del rio. back out here live, we heard jacqui heinrich talking about how the white house responded to the governor's announcement that he plans to ship migrants to d.c. she's calling it a publicity stunt. governor abbott says even though near voluntary, it's full steam ahead. i talked with the state of texas officials. they plan to get up to 900 buses, to get ready for that. back to you. >> martha: thanks, bill. stunning pictures and video from bill at the border. let's bring in john thune, the second ranking republican. co sponsoring a bipartisan bill that would prevent the end of title 42. good to have you with us today. we just heard jen psaki fielding questions about speaker pelosi who has covid and a number of people on capitol hill who attend to different functions. we're talking about lifting title 42

in the rio grande valley sector. border agents encountered two groups totaling 4 of 8 illegal immigrants. more than half of them single adults. in border patrol's sue tucson sector. agent and k9 partner made back-to-back major fentanyl points nogales. seizing more than 90 pounds of the deadly opioid. and bret border patrol agents here in the dell rio sector report in recent days they arrested two convicted sex offenders including one child rapist from mexico who had been deported from the united states 10 times in the last two years. his most removal just last month. we'll send it back to you. >> bret: hey, bill, quickly. you have been down at the border for a long time. you have seen things move and flow. where do you think it is now as far as numbers and what you're seeing firsthand? >> well, right now border patrol sources are telling us they are encountering a little more than 7,000 migrants ever single day nationwide. they are already buried under that amount. when you hear dhs projecting possibly upwards of 18,

i think that the partnership that i have here in the rio grande valley with our ■law enforcement and the government and the border patrol, we work together to make sure we address this correctly, and there is not that -- there should not be that fear for the people that are entering our country. i think that we must help us understand differently what the border is like, so come and visit and see for yourself, and understand our community and how we work and also hwho are the people we serve. >> brennan: i know your not a political person, you're a humanitarian, but the work that catholic services do for children who cross the border got some sharp criticism from a conspiracy person in this country, alex jones. and i understand pope francis heard the criticism, and i want to share his personal message to you. he said in a video: "the migrants must be received. they must be protected. they must be accompanied, and they must be integrated." fofour things: receive, protect, accompany, integrate. what did that personal message mean to you? >> it reaffirmed the fact that we, as a country,

including central, yuma, tucson, el paso, del rio and rio grande valley border patrol sectors. and with cbp sources telling fox news there have been 300,000 got-aways at the border in the last six months alone. critics say it's time for alejandro mayorkas to treat the border crisis as homeland security issue. >> at what point does this man have enough integrity to tell the white house i cannot keep this border open no matter what because we have created a massive security issue of the highest proportions. >> fox news obtained federal court filing from dhs which reveals there were over 221,000 migrants encountered at the border in march. that's the highest number since president biden took office. the filing reveals dhs also released over 80,000 migrants from federal custody into the u.s. in march. and expelled more than 109,000 in march using title 42, a growing number of democrats urged the biden administration to keep the public health rule in place. >> we know 221,000 people this last month and migrants are looking at title 42 the moment they lift that you are going to be se

take a look at these photos from border patrol in the rio grande valley. part of the reason they're stretched thin. they keep encountering huge groups like this. a group of 120 encountered in star county single adults and all from ecuador, romania and peru. that puts a serious taxing on border patrol resources, they have to do paperwork and process the people and can't catch the runners. look at this out of the del rio sector. eight unaccompanied children found crossing the river completely alone. no parents, no guardians. del rio sector sees this very often. kids completely by themselves being smuggled across the river. no parents, no guardians. extremely dangerous for them. if we can pull up this video. these photos. when we were in brownsville the other day you heard me report my sources were telling me that migrants were being given smartphones by the federal government when they were mass released. yesterday jen psaki confirmed that. peter doocy asked her about it and she confirmed they are giving them phones. shsays it is to track them. take a listen

in the rio grande valley, 40 migrants were found in a locked metal box in nogales, 16,000 fentanyl pills were seized. >> back here eagle pass, texas, behind me is memorial honorable 22-year-old national guard specialist bishop evans who drowned last week while trying to save migrants. his funeral services are tomorrow in arlington, texas. bret? >> bret: bryan llenas along the border, thank you. this week doorks doom do you alejandromayorkas. sending missiles into the capital city amid a visit from the united nations secretary general. correspondent griff jenkins is also in kyiv tonight with the latest developments from the war. good evening, griff. >> good evening, bret. the war is entering day 66 here with missile strikes across the country. the white house urges americans not to travel to ukraine for any reason but also offering sympathy for the marine veteran killed on the battlefield. >> we know a family is mourning a wife is mourning, and our hearts are with them 22-year-old willie cancel first u.s. stain die while fighting alongside ukrainians leaving behind a wife and 7-month-old

and take you and put you on a bus and take you down to the rio grand valley, that would be kidnapping, same thing applies to anybody who refuses to get on a bus, it would be kidnapping, even though it is a law enforcement agency. >> dana: the white house hitting back at governor abbott's announcement. >> the texas governor says he will bus border crossers to washington, d.c., when they get here, are you guys going to help them find a place to stay and something for them to do? >> press sect. psaki: i'm not ark aware of what authority the governor would be doing this under, i know the governor of texas or any state does not have legal authority to compel anyone to get on a bus. >> dana: republicans are not the only ones sounding the alarm on title 42, democrats are raising concerns with what ending the policy will do to the states, many are in tough re-election races, but not all. >> jesse: if i came from el salvador and i made it to texas and they put me on a bus to dc, i want to go back to el salvador, have you been down there recently in they got to clean that place up. shellenberge

. >> and justifies the stretch last week, border patrol in the rio grande valley sector report their rest of the mexican men convicted of child, a mexican man accused of in indiana and a honduran men convicted of murde and the salvadoran man wanted for homicide and a mexican man wanted for attempted murder and the gang member and because the child cruelty. and house minority leader kevin mccarthy's notes he's going to be making a trip down here to the southern border sometime later this month. he said he's doing it to highlight what he describes as the district the policies of th biden ministration. reporting from texas, fox news. >> we want to bring you some good news before we say good night. an 11-year-old oral and organ being called a hero for saving her mom present life. she found her mom on the ground having a seizure. that young girl accused her mom present phone to call 911 after she first who -- her them to unlock the phone. pivots with the save the mom an first responders honoring the daughter given her a lifesaving award. her month that it's not surprising. this is a kind

. >> look at the images from the neighboring rio grande valley sector where agents apprehended 71504 migrants over the last couple of days. they were spread out traveling and for individual groups, 123 of them unaccompanied minors. border patrol tells us they were primarily from cuba in addition to countries from south and central america. liz: thank you for your always terrific journalism, good to have you on. joining us now, border security caucus cochair, congressman brian of texas. we welcome you to the show, good to have you on as well, thank you for spending time with us. the new narrative out of the white house is they had to fix a broken system. nobody believes this narrative. they are creating a stampede backward killed people trying to cross illegally so what do you make of this white house narrative? >> it's more of a same, great to be with you as well. no president in the history of our country has joe so much intentional damage to america than joe biden and his administration. it's incredible he's going to get rid of title 42, the last tool we have from the tool chest of

this is out of the rio grande valley sector, a 2-year-old honduran boy that was completely abandoned traveling in a group of 38 migrants that crossed illegally near roma texas. agents say nobody in the group knew who the boy was. he had his birth certificate and father's information. that photo there, that incident, that is not isolated. cbp reported there were more than 14,000 of these kids found in the border. remarkable numbers. now back to you. >> neil: as young as 2. thanks, bill melugin. let's go to the border patrol union honcho here. chris, good having you on. i can't believe the number of children in this case, a 2-year-old. how does that happen? >> you know, it happens because we allow it to happen. i don't know how we can even give that child pack to the father after the father put him in those types -- that type of situation. it's just unconscionable. >> neil: what happened? i'm curious. you can't -- where does that kid go? >> that kid will go back to the father if the father is here in the united states. we want to keep the families together. >> neil: what if it's not? >

in the rio grande valley, border patrol agents arrested these two convicted child sex predators, both mexican nationals. they also arrested two ms-13 gang members over the weekend. in the yuma, arizona, sector, border agents arrested this child sex predator from mexico, previously convicted of lewd acts with a child under the age of 14. reporting in eagle pass, texas, bill mel lugen, fox news. >> immigration drama playing out in the supreme court tuesday where justices heard oral arguments regarding the biden administration's evertz to halt enforcement. trump era policy on seeking asylum. temporary restraining order block president biden's plan to repeal title 42. let's start here on the supreme court today on remain in mexico. people who want to apply for asylum have to wait on that side of the border. that was something the biden administration got rid of. it's worked its way all the way up to the supreme court. nbc news reporting on it today. the supreme court hinted it might let biden's policy remain in place. it's a provision that allows immigration authorities to release people

and four in the rio grande valley sector. it adds up to 23. only the ones they know about and who were caught. if you look at file video here we'll explain why that is such an issue. keep in mind multiple high-level cbp sources are telling us in the last six months alone 300,000 gotaways. people are getting through in massive numbers. border agents are dealing with proper sention and paperwork and tom homan tells us this is a major national security issue given these numbers and he says dhs secretary mayorkas has to start treating it like one. take a listen. >> he knows 23 people have been arrested. he knows that. he is the secretary of homeland skooufrment at what point does this man have enough integrity to tell the white house i cannot keep this border open no matter what because you have created a national security issue of the highest proportions. if he had any integrity at all he would tell the white house no, we need to secure the border. >> in the meantime mass releases continue. look at this video we shot just within

in the rio grande valley sector border agents found this band and 2-year-old boy neuroma, texas and he only had a birth certificate with his father's name left and 30,000 unaccompanied children sounding the sector since october. >> between the president and the border kamala harris and secretary mayorkas, not only have they not done a single thing to secure the border. >> you can add two more names to the growing list of vulnerable democrats speaking out about title 42, virginia abigail spanberger and michigan representative militia panning a letter to alejandro mayorkas urging him to not let title for t to drop without a plan in place. eagle pass, texas, bill melugin, fox news. >> shannon: push back against the biden administration continues to grow tonight over what critics are calling contradictory pandemic policy position. say that three times fast. regarding to continue the mass mandate for public transport versus the plan to let title 42 expire next month. fox news contributor dr. marc siegel and texas state representative brian harrison also part of the former administration. gr

heart-wrenching out of border patrols rio grande valley sector this is a 2-year-old honduran boy who was found completely abandoned by border agents neuroma texts. he was mixed in with a group of 38 and nobody knew the little boy was paired all he had on him was a birth certificate with the father's information written on the back of it. back out here alive, that sort of thing is been happening nonstop during this border crisis. shocking numbers for you. just in the rio grande valley sector alone since october 1st or the patrol says they have found more than 38,000 unaccompanied children just like the one you saw. we will send it back to. >> sandra: well my pray the numbers continue to be staggering and hate filled my heart breaking into medications stomach cases, phil thank you. >> trace: let's bring in tom houchin, it's a good place to start 38,000 unaccompanied menards. that they scream from the rooftops about kids in cages and yet 38,000 kids with nobody to look after them, tom, nobody says a word during the border. >> look it's going to get worst. what a good job they're doing p

there is a reason kamala harris has been to the rio grande valley zero times as vice president, she does not give a damn. >> wad is at a fair criticism there's not been a lot of focus in news conferences or interviews or state of the union on this issue from this white house. >> i don't think it's fair and think it's hard not to pay attention this is a very big issue. obviously as you pointed out the republicans are using it as a political cudgel against the administration it's hard to ignore. right now at the border, martha i think there's like 7000 arrests daily and it's likely to double if they lift the covid restrictions more than double i think it would spike at about 18000. that's a lot of people. hard to ignore. right now the administration is looking already trying to put in plan to create more detention facilities. to get help for the border patrol. more transportation to get those immigrants out of there. all of this is going on including, i think this might be the biggest thing they're trying to do is more streamlined the asylum system so it would go from a five year process t

these are just senate races and house races particularly in the rio grande valley. south texas, there are a bunch of congressional seats that republicans are looking at that five years ago, ten years ago, it wouldn't have dreamed of being competitive in. they think they've got a shot to win this year. we talk in 2020, a shift in south florida, miami-dade county in particular, the hispanic vote there. we're seeing this in various parts of the country. it could be the outcome of 2022, and if republicans do maintain or build on those inroads with hispanic voters, it's not just necessarily 2022. 2024, that could open up a lot of new possibilities for republicans and beyond. it could really be transformative for american politics if the hispanic vote really goes up for grabs. >> i got to tell you, steve. some of those numbers were outstanding. it was extraordinary, like, jaw-dropping. thank you for that. >>> next, the one industry that is profiting off the war, and american taxpayers are helping them. off the war, and american taxpayers are helping them ♪ ♪ we believ