these are predominantly venezuelans that have been massed released. we caught up with one man that was released this morning. here s what he had to say. title 42 ended yesterday. in my message, it doesn t matter. you can make it to the u.s. and last night, we were out on the river s edge with the border patrol union and four gop senators that got a tour of the area as title 42 dropped at midnight. there were no mass illegal crossings. back out here live. you named the numbers. border patrol reporting this week alone already more than 80,000 illegal crossings between the apprehensions and the got-aways. record setting numbers. back to you. martha: thank you. with that, we bring in senator john cornyn from texas. thanks for being here. this is alejandro mayorkas talking about how things have
michael steele. so jose, we got new numbers from two dhs officials who just told nbc news that u.s. customs and border patrol apprehended a little over 11,000 people yesterday holding steady with tuesday s record setting numbers. what s the sense on the ground there before title 42 is set to expire just hours from now? reporter: these record numbers are going to increase, if anything, and i say hello to you this morning from el paso, texas. i want to show you where we are. this is the sacred heart church in el paso that has been receiving migrants. i want to walk over here and show you if i could just how close we are to the border, just about two blocks from where i am is the del norte bridge, one of the bridges that connects el paso to see ciudad.
saying, oh my god, what is going on? who else are they nominating? essentially, we looked we participated in 14 rounds of no confidence votes for this speaker, kevin mccarthy. meanwhile, democrats remain united each and every time behind hakeem jeffries. we watched someone get punked and pimped by members of their own party. we watched someone essentially sell out congress, the rules, the processes, the integrity of the body for this seat and now we have both a speaker and a congress that is tethered to the extreme agenda of the maga republican right. she didn t tell me that all this was going to happen but i m certainly prepared. and now we this 118th congress that you are part of it is historically diverse with record setting numbers of female, latino members, and
heat. that s right. the secure border. we ve seen groups of 10 or 15 around us, sometimes 200, 300 crossing. 500,000 got-aways in the past ten months along. probably the closer number, a middle. is that a secure border when a million people cross in ten month? is that the definition of secure, neil? neil: doesn t seem to be. to brandon judd, the national border council president. brandon, i think to echo what steve just said, you have 500,000 got-aways, could be double that. to say nothing of those that did get apprehended. we re talking record setting numbers here regardless, right? when you look at the i.d. cards and when ice is saying that it s going to help immigration officials like i m an immigration official. i don t know how an i.d. card will help me to my job better or more effectively. what i do know is that there s going to be obvious benefits to
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