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The border in el paso, i can tell you there is no evidence with the pictures from friday. it goes to that point that we heard from official, that the surge itself, it actually had been happening days before the lifting of title 42. this certainly will come as some relief for officials on this side of the border that now are tasked with processing the close to 23,000 undocumented people who are still in cbp custody, those who are trying to make that final push toward the u.s. side of the border, ...

Texas. >> reporter: it is certainly less chaotic than what authorities had expected in the last 48 hours since the lifting of title 42. you better believe authorities on the ground will certainly not take the weekend off. they are going to be focusing on the well over 20,000 people still in cbp custody to process them and eventually find out what happens next for them. are they subject to the new biden administration immigration policy to potentially be sent back across the border or are they pr...

On the border and an orderly process of migrants not coming at the numbers they were. the numbers crossing now are under the capability and capacity of cbp. having said that, i continue to urge my colleagues to report a bill i filed called the safe zone act that creates safe zones in places like central america and around the world for migrants to show up and claim asylum at that juncture and not force them to walk 1500 miles to our southern border. that does several things. one, it takes the pr...

Hundreds of migrants spent the night sleeping on the ground at the San Ysidro border. Many say they've been here for days, and the journey wasn't easy.

The Biden administration on Friday asked a federal judge to resume the fast-track release of illegal immigrants in ...

Blocking calling the block in a statement, quote, sabotage, adding that the claims that cbp is allowing or encouraging mass releases of migrants or categorically false. and again, shifting that blame to republicans in congress, saying in part, quote, if they truly wanted to solve this problem instead of making things worse, they wouldnt have spent the last two years refusing to reform our immigration system, and denying the resources that we have been requesting. the administration separately si...

And ive shared videos and other things. what is happening on the ground, folks are anxious, people along the border are anxious, and american citizens are getting roped up into this. i was in el paso yesterday and i visited the bridge there, a bridge about two months ago about a thousand venezuelans rushed and they had to close that bridge. one thing that is happening is customs and border protection is getting prepared for this. if theres another type of rush, what im also hearing is the cartel...

Lot of different factors here. there are still many people on the mexican side of the border still weighing all of their options so if they choose to come across and that does have potential to increase numbers as federal officials fear but theres the other factor, the rate of release as federal authorities are deciding what happens to those close to 23,000 people still in cbp custody, are they deported back south of the border or released and allowed to continue on their way? that goes to the p...

Which is extraordinarily high, but saying perhaps theyre not going to get to the peak numbers they were at anticipating. >> notable that those expectations have changed. ed, keep us updated on that. david youre live on the other side of the border. what are you seeing there on the ground? >> to eds point, were starting to see the numbers go down behind me. probably best to see it from above. let me show you from our drone. we can take you crass the rio grande. thats the demarker between the u.s....

Course our mayor whos been working closely with a lot of federal officials, calling them and very helpful with respect to making sure that we coordinate all our resources, and the council followed that up by approving the declaration for the state emergency mayor put in place. and so we have been doing this for quite some time, and it has been something el paso has been doing for decades. but in the last 45 years it at a serious uptick in the numbers and they have really grown over those same am...