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I just heard judd say its 40%, being released without being tested. what is the real number? >> yeah, as far as border patrol goes, its rare that we test anyone. the only time somebody gets tested in our custody if they show signs or sometimes or have another medical emergency. very few get tested. when they go over to hhs or ice, some of them will get tested there. the vast majority are untested when they leave our care. i dont know who that other network is, but i did read something like that ...

Virus, might be escalating the numbers as we speak. so how did they handle it because when youre trying to deal with that, youre also not dealing with some of the other things for which youre really kind of paid to do. youre really playing, you know, a nurse here. >> no, absolutely. theres 3 different categories that you have to look at. we hold people in custody and transform them to ice. theyre going to be tested. we then transfer people to hhs, those are going to be the family unit members or...

Helping spread out all across the u.s. i would assume that many americans actually now got open positive test results because of joes open border policies with that large number of people and high percentage of covid positive rates. is that a good assumption on my part? >> absolutely, sean appeared the report is that there were 7,000d positive people released into this to be of mcallen just over the last few months. 1500 just over the last week or so.t ive been on planes, out to the border multi...

Across south texas, also learning thousands of children are in hhs and cbp custody. and on thursday alone, the 834 unaccompanied minors were apprehended crossing the border. this while the biden administration continues to focus on the root causes of migration and not whats transparent -- transpiring on the southern border. joining us now, president and the national border patrol council, good to see you this afternoon. before we get into it, i want to put up this graphic on the screen so that p...

They are now being spread out all across the u.s. and i would assume that many americans actually now got covid positive test results because of joes open border policies with that large number of people and a high percentage of covid positive rates. is that a good assumption on my part? >> absolutely, sean. the report is that there were 7,000 covid positive people released into the city of mcallen over the last few months. 1,500 over the last week or so. ive been on planes, for the border multi...

Declared disaster and set up these temporary emergency shelters but at a press conference yesterday the mayor is pleading for help. >> we are running out of money and running out of money fast. this -- our community is angry where before we could handle it i think were at the point where it is very difficult now. >> this as numbers reflect the worsening crisis, hhs announcing 834 unaccompanied children apprehended yesterday with a total of 2784 in cbp customer 14,005 and 23 currently in hhs shel...

Without congressional democrats. democratic leaders say they are waiting on the biden administrations intelligence review due at the end of the month. >> we are undergoing our own process here. our 90 day review. certainly the chinese providing information and being a participant in the process. >> this report recommends the administration to implement a series of additional sanctions against china including on chinese research facilities that failed to meet certain safety standards and those th...

Arrive at the border, the majority of them are being expelled under the cdcs title 42 authority. weve addressed the challenge of unaccompanied children, working with hhs, to get them out of the border patrol stations as quickly as possible and in the care of the department of health and human services. and with respect to the families, they are being placed in immigration proceedings when they make their claims for asylum under united states law, and we are addressing that. and if they dont make...

On that end, the other end of this to change the situation. so what are some of the things that can be done in the short term? >> in the short term, jonathan, the current secretary of dhs controls the border patrol, controls immigration enforcement, controls assets land, sea and air, and there is emergency authority in times like this for the secretary and fema to coordinate a broader response that includes the defense department, hhs. i know that from my own experience when we had a similar but...

500% capacity. i dont even know what that looks like when they are that much over what they prepare for. how bad is it? >> thats right. well, it means there is not a lot of sleeping room and especially what it means is for these families with young children it can get very bad there and theyre worried about koevgd outbreaks. other viruses spreading. theres also the issue of what happens to children. so children who come without their parents have been transferred to hhs custody as quickly as pos...