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Of i.c.e. has done, but they wont do that. they have crippled i.c.e. there is no enforcement for immigration, and theyre proud of it. this is part of the agenda. >> reporter: and covid is affecting manpower here in the rio grande valley sector. a dhs source telling me border patrol currently has more than 200 employees quarantined with 188 confirmed to have covid-19 as of january with 6th. back to you. arthel: certainly does complicate things down there. bill melugin, thank you. everything? eric...

Sovereignty should be protected. >> sean: our sovereignty should be read protected. tonight we have now obtained exclusive audio by town halls julio rosas and dhs secretary, this is mae arcus and every seat meeting with border control. it didnt go particularly well. julio is reporting that one agent even turned his back on the secretary amid his total disregard for the rule of law. to take a to this. [indistinct]

That being said, the activity never just stops, take a look at what we saw yesterday right here in la joya yesterday in the afternoon, still people crossing, migrants, they are in much smaller groups compared to the pest. not groups of 3 to 500, individuals, smaller family groups mixed in with runners as well. even with the slue activity, so far, dhs source just since october 1st, well over 140,000 migrant apprehensions already in that activity is expected to pick up once the mexican marines lea...

Migrants cross illegally into la joya, texas tuesday morning. its a scene that also a played out here repeatedly during this border crisis. and now, for the first time, new dhs data reveals how many migrants never reported to ice after they were released from federal custody with a notice to report or ntr. between march and august, dhs says they released over 104,000 migrants with ntrs but only 50,000 checked in with ice. more than 47,000 migrants never reported to ice and another 6600 hadnt rep...

Say. >> if theyre proud of their policies that joe biden is doing the right thing, they ought to be having a press conference and bragging about the success of i.c.e., what i.c.e. has done this past year. but they wont do that because the truth is they have crippled i.c.e. there is no enforce. ment for immigration, and theyre proud of it. this is part of the open borders agenda. >> reporter: and, jon, some concerning statistics coming out of the rio grande valley sector, a dhs source telling us ...

Time because they will be out on bail. the border crisis and border patrol agents, the prompter there, apprehending five dangerous criminals in just 30 hours. the agents arresting two murderers, a sex offender, two gang members. illegal crossings keeping border agents busy, they have encountered 40 illegal crossers in the del rio sector in just six days. instead of tackling the flow of criminal migrants, dhs is focusing on climate change. >> todd: cheryl casone from fox business joins us live. h...

Long defended border policy they think the humane thing to do is not turn back unaccompanied children and keep family together. now they arent turning away unaccompanied adult men, either. roughly half in a recent dhs study were not showing up for their immigration hearings. >> why let them into the u.s. unsupervised in the first place? >> well again, we have a stringent protocols and processes that we implement here that includes expelling individuals who come in under title 42 given were still...

For by the state of texas. the idea being they will try to fill the gaps where theres no federal wall after the biden administration canceled all of the federal contracts. the trump wall that was in the process of being built. take a look at the video. this is his opponent, former congressman beto orourke, democrat taking a drastically different approach to the border. he does not believe that a border wall should go up. he says its a waste of taxpayer dollars and he says the national guard shou...

People were allowed to stay. edward: that will be an interesting number. so with more on the border crisis and how the administration has been dealing with it, retired acting ice director and former border patrol chief, ron the tello. i want to get your reaction, they are saying the new report from dhs, 47,000 immigrants were released between the us and august never to report back to ice. first on the smuggling report and then failing to find these folks. >> smuggling is always a risk but you ca...

Not a threat ask basically closed the investigation. we dont know what happened after that. of course, there are still a lot of questions about how he came here, why he was here, and where he was in between his time when he arrived at jfk airport and then made his way to texas. so, theres still a lot of questions certainly for the fbi and homeland security folks, but this is some of the new information were getting, and of course, all of this is coming as the fbi and dhs has sent out a warning, ...