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encounters just in the first three months of fiscal year 2023. but the biden administration continues to maintain that the border is secure. were looking live at eagle pass, texas. thats where griff jenkins joins us with the late from there. hey, griff. >> reporter: hey, good afternoon, eric. and if you werent just watching that drone, we can take you back up to it. the border patrol air boats just passing underneath the bridge here in eagle pass. it is ground zero here in the del rio ...

Really come back like maybe the gotaways dont? >> reporter: thats the a great question, and people have forgotten they are given, essentially, a address for the i.c.e. office nearest to wherever their destination is going to go, and if theyre going to claim asylum, its on their own volition that theyll have to do it. when you and i and arthel first started talking about this crisis in the spring of 2021, the agents were still processing them, giving them a court order to have appear for a hearin...

The numbers appear to be for 2017 under 10%. so the argument the administration seems to be making is come in through legal channels, apply as immigrants in the normal pattern. these are countries where the gdp per cap paw, this is the percentages by the way from guatemala, honduras and el salvador, the number of eye asylum claims granted, 8.8% in guatemala, 7.6 in honduras and 7.9 in el salvador. theres no logical way people are going to try to do it through the legal system because the pathway...