breaking news from the pentagon as the biden administration makes big moves ahead of the potential border disaster. it could come in days if it s not already happening, title 42 will be lifted and the surge is expected to grow. welcome back as america reports heads into another hour. bill: no dramatics today. i m in for john roberts, i m bill hemmer. we are told pat ryder makes remarks off the top and new information about the plan to send 1500 troops to the southern border within the next week to nine days, sandra. sandra: it s a big deal. the decision is coming nine days before title 42 expires. fox news teams have been reporting for weeks now, this has been anticipated. overburdened border towns are in panic mode over what could happen when that ends. we talked about el paso. bill: seeing migrants massing by the tens of thousands, believing the end of title 42 will be the perfect time to make their move and make the crisis at the border a bigger catastrophe. sand
bill: seeing migrants massing by the tens of thousands, believing the end of title 42 will be the perfect time to make their move and make the crisis at the border a bigger catastrophe. sandra: as we await the pentagon briefing to begin, morgan ortagus, welcome to you. thanks for joining us. what are your thoughts as we are expecting this formal announcement from the pentagon a short time from now? important to level set expectations what the u.s. military can and cannot do at the border. u.s. military, sandra, cannot enforce immigration policy. they can t they can do things like build a border wall, build infrastructure. we saw the army corps of engineers were going to do that in the trump administration, that was one of the proposals. they can also do admin functions, right. because we did have 1100, if not more border agents that left the job in 2022 because a myriad of
reasons but a lot citing being very frustrated with the policies of the biden administration, so the military could come in and do admin functions, for example. but what can they not do? can t get into shooting wars with the cartels, they can t arrest immigrants who are illegally crossing, they can free up border agents by doing some admin infrastructure work. i also think it s important to remember why do we have to make this announcement today, why do we have to do this, not blind, they see and they know what s going to happen, they see the images you are showing throughout the day, sandra, of the border towns and what will happen a few weeks and days, a matter of days whenever title 42 will end, and that s one of the reasons why the administration was forced to make this announcement today. sandra: getting a little more information from the pentagon ahead of hearing from brigadier general pat ryder in just a