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Conference from texas governor greg abbott, top of the hour. he is calling on the biden administration to declare a federal emergency at the border. he said this is a crisis of the presidents own making. we have the latest from the dhs secretary testimony to the senate homeland security committee this morning. well go to the border in just a moment. >> john: we kick off hour one of "america reports" with former acting ice director tom holman. i wanted to play from yesterday, theres a little bit ...

Tactics. she says that she is in contact with secretary mayorkas and that she supports a full and thorough investigation. dhs secretary alejandro mayorkas announcing today, too, that he is just horrified by these images. saying that horses should not, cannot be weaponized to attack migrant children. saying that this needs to be investigated. that dhs has launched an investigation. and also, sent personnel from the office of professional responsibility here to del rio to make sure that these indi...

Patrol officers. these border patrol officers are overwhelmed with the amount of work they are required to do. and theyre suffering the consequences of an administration that is not providing them either the personnel or the resources they need. to speak more about it we have brendan judd, president of the border council. >> i would like to thank the men and women in uniform our military personnel, our dps officer, our sheriffs. these people put on uniforms because they care. they care about the...

An alarming increase from the previous two years. not even close. those are unprecedented numbers. and those numbers dont even factor in the new caravan we learned of today of 20,000 additional haitians that are preparing to make their way to the u.s. or all of the proud residents of bidenville the third world tent city filled with nearly 15,000 haitian illegals at its peak. most of whom are still crammed under a bridge in del rio, texas. the white house likes to pretend like its doing something...

Both of them, which i rather do on occasion. i think she was just giving the example and nancy was saying, thats not what happened. otherwise the reaction would have been completely different. >> sandra: thats right. they do go in there and consider everything. we will likely have that report soon, possibly in the next couple of days. the migrant crisis out of control at our southern border, as we heard from officials, including the governor of texas. homeland security chief getting grilled on c...

Who were mounted on horse back. people were saying they were using whips. theyre reigns. they dont carry whips. theres questions being raised as to whether what they were doing was appropriate. the white house and dhs will be sorting that out. its an impossible job the border patrol has gotten down there. so many people are just going back and forth and back and forth. >> sandra: good point. these are live pictures in del rio, texas. we are expecting to hear from texas governor greg abbott. hes ...

Them. i have talk to a lot of these horsebacked agents that have been on the ground. they will spin them like a propeller when they want to surge the horse forward. taps signal to the horse that they want it to move forward. if you look at the video or the pictures of this incident down at the river, nobody was whipped, no migrants were whipped. it was just them using the horse as a physical tool to force those people back into the water. but the agents are very frustrated by the narrative out t...

Further their entry into the united states. >> pete: its being facilitated. even bidens former border chief rodney scott is details concerns in a letter to the senate majority and minority leaders saying, quote: the biden administrations team at dhs is laser-focused on expediting the flow of migrants into the u.s. and down playing the signature cant vulnerability this creates for terrorists, narcotic smugglers, human traffickers, and even hostile nations to gain access to our homeland. isnt ther...

Texas troopers deployed to dell rio in an effort to regain control after 15,000 illegal immigrants set up a massive tent city. todd: griff jenkins with the state governor requesting president biden declare a federal emergency. >> reporter: texas dps troopers stop the search, 15,000 mostly haitian migrants in dell rio and we hear from texas governor abbott calling out president biden and dhs secretary mayorkas went there yesterday refusing to call it a crisis, a message for migrants. >> we have r...

Conduct of our employees is consistent with the policies, the training and values of this department. lastly, if i may, the individuals who are the subject of the investigation are oned a -- administrative duties not executing duties and not to be interacting with other migrants at this time. the actions were taking are swift and strong and we will take further action as the facts adduced in the investigation compel. >> that answered my second question, whether those were dhs employees. you answ...