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More than a week since president biden made his first and only official visit to the southern border but rather than slow the flow of migrants, illegal crossing have instead been hitting record after record highs. multiple border patrol sources telling fox news agents reported at least a quarter million migrant encounters last month along. some high profile democrats are taking note and telling the biden administration to step up. griff jenkins is live at eagle pass. what are we seeing today? >>...

The spot light, and the white house trying to show they are trying to do something to address an issue that has become very intractable. >> all right. thank you so much. lets talk more about the presidents visit. with me now to talk about this along the southern boarder is a city council member in el paso, texas. isabelle, youre joining us on the phone. i know you will meet with the president later on. what is your hope in that meeting with him? what do you expect to tell him and what do you w...

Democrat says. hes governed so far with a broad coalition. hes said to republicans, im willing to keep doing that. balls in your court. >> hes governed by pretending the crisis dont exist. they claim the border is secure with a straight face. theres no evidence of that? just ask the border community. >> mike: olivia, one new reality for this white house will be congressional hearings, at least the house side of the building, and probably lots of folks getting dragged up to the hill. your thought...

Can agree on here. i know you laid out some but what are the roadblocks that keep causing agreements to break down? >> immigration report, i supported immigration reform. look, our republican friends are not going to come to the table on that because they want the border security, i understand that, but keep in mind that we added money. if you look at what president trump got on appropriations on homeland, he got about 42 billion dollars in discretionary funding. this lasts appropriation bill pa...

Try and deal with this issue? >> so, as far as im aware, fema is helping us. they are providing funding for us. the problem is, is that, you know, long-term thats not the solution. that should not be our permanent solution. providing more money should not be our permanent solution. long-term, our solution should be legislative. here in el paso, we are a border community. we are a city of immigrants. i myself, im a first generation latina. my parents and my husband, everybody, theyre all immigran...

Hope to see title 42 go away, see what happens on the 27th. that is their hope. it is a complete failure of the biden administration to address the needs of this border community. >> griff: jonathan, you have gone out there live as you have numerous times and shown what is upon haing, it is important to do that, you shot video, we were showing and i would like to show again. you pan across the hole in the wall, you sent this video, here you go, wide open, hundreds upon hundreds of migrants and y...

Theyre coming in anticipation that this is going to be lifted. and even if they get here in title 42 remains, the people that are going to be handling our crisis are the people in juarez. they are not prepared for this. theyre not happy with this. they havent asked for this and quite frankly at this point, extending it will only push the problem over to them. >> and anybody not living in a border town today, what would you like them to understand about this moment in the ongoing fight over immig...

Men and women in green and blue at the border and especially, especially youve got to listen to the border community where is i live. hes got to listen to them. >> he suggests that the white house is listening only to the immigration activists who really like open borders. and theyre not listening to cbp. >> well -- scott, jon, it is absolutely true. weve had eight months in a row of over 200,000 illegal border crossings, and on the border where -- congressman represents we have tony gonzalez no...

>> i am the president of the united states of america clothed in immense power. you will procure me these votes. >> he just was a miracle as abraham lincoln. im so honored that he finally said yes after my pursuing him for ten years. daniels one of the greatest actors who ever acted in front of a camera. >> its a mess, aint it, sheriff? >> if it aint, it will do till the mess gets here. >> "no country for old men" is based on a cormack mccarthy novel. its set in a border community. josh brolin p...

Emergency was declared by the mayor thursday. he cant handle 13,000 illegal immigrants. >> i feel the frustration that he feels. i am a border community and the border patrol and men and women of homeland have felt this frustration. we have been feeling this for over 10 years. listen to the men and women in imreen ain -- in green and blue. otherwise it will go to washington, d.c., chicago, and other places. brian: the busing of migrants to blue states has finally gotten attention because this bo...