he demonstrated. let me close with this. there is no greater responsibility of government than to insure the safety of the american people and those who serve and protect us all. we re incredibly proud of all of you, i mean that. incredibly proud of all of you. we will have your back as long as we need to, as long as you are engaged. just in the past two weeks our nation has observed national fallen firefighters memorial weekend. national police weekend, national peace memorial officers day and also hosted this event several times as president and vice president and co-sponsored the bill that created the metal of valor when i was a u.s. senator. these are the same some of the most meaningful things i do as president. knowing you, meeting your families, looking in your eyes, seeing your courage gives me so much hope for the country. you represent you represent the very best of us. you represent the best of who we are as americans and god bless you all. may god protect publ
our southern border is poised to become more open for trafficking and for drug business. imagine being on the front lines. our border patrol are truly heros out there risking their lives under near impossible circumstances. take a look at the streets of el paso, texas. 150,000 are waiting on the other side of the border to push across. so texas state troopers have done what they can on their own to prepare. they have laid razor wire across areas that are so porous that people can just come right through as they try to protect their state. they re keeping them from crossing the river at those points while we hear this, again, from dhs secretary mayorkas. watch. let me be clear, the lifting of the order does not mean our border is open. in fact, it is the contrary. martha: really? okay. lieutenant christopher olivarez from the texas department of public safety very much on the front lines of this. he s going to join us in just a moment with an update of what s going on wher
all right. so in just a few minutes they re going to try again. president biden, speaker mccarthy will continue their debt standdown face to face at the white house. biden is hosting mccarthy and three other congressional leaders to once again try to get closer at least to a deal to raise the debt ceiling, as has been done dozens of times. they have just over two weeks to do it before a potential u.s. default. somehow it is looking like the two sides have dug in even more since last week s meeting. we go to capitol hill. melanie, we ve seen this before, right? we re making progress, we re not making progress, it s sort of the definition of a game of chicken. the trouble is the economy hangs in the balance here. what s really happening? is there any real progress? do we expect any real probably in the white house? reporter: i will tell you, jim, staff have been working behind the scenes to come up with a potential number of policy options for a potential deal but there has b
itself as a sanctuary city and busts people to our country. it s only draining taxpayer resources from the families already here. this is incentivizing illegal immigration and does nothing to support the infrastructure on the hard working citizens. martha: a lot of backlash to this plan. the major s plan would pay for up to four months of food and shelter for 300 men that would move into a hotel in rockland and then another one in orange county. they are absolutely outraged by this plan. so really, you could see suburban towns in other places in america starting to feel the burden even more once title 42 lifts in three days. thousands are crossing every day. over five million think about it. we have about 320 million people in this country. over five million people have crossed the border and come in since the president took office. that s a lot of people who have now been let in with no process, no vetting. very little court dates. two years out for a court date. like co