Coming up in moments. Three hours from now President Biden becomes the first u. S. President to join the workers on the picket line in michigan. He will appear alongside the striking auto workers outside of detroit. Their strike against the Big Three Automakers approaching week two. See what the president has to say about that. The head of the d. E. A. Is about to address families impacted by fentanyl. Devastating epidemic had direct ties to the chaos weve been watching at the u. S. Border. Im bill hemmer live in new york. Dana is in semi valley. A big welcome back to smitty. Good morning. Sandra well all be watching tomorrow night. Great to start the day. Im sandra smith and this is americas newsroom. Eagle pass, texas, the town recently saw more than 2,000 migrants in 24 hours. President bidens Border Patrol chief says the surge forced him to divert resources. Cartels are exploiting that to get more drugs over the border. Bill got a picture getting a lot of attention today. A group of migrants attempting to claim a small island in the rio grande near eagle pass. Put up a columbian flag and texas dps quickly took it down. Sandra reaction from former ice agent and bill melugin is at the Reagan Library with more on how the issue will affect tomorrow nights big debate. Lets get to Griff Jenkins with the news in eagle pass. Good morning. Things continue, a stream of migrants coming through a very muddy eagle pass this morning. It rained heavily last night. Thats not stopping them, neither is the razor wire. They are coming in unprecedented numbers. Im here with a texas Border Patrol. There was a flag planted on the island. Why did you take it down and what happened . Its disrespectful to the state of texas and the country when you have Illegal Immigrants crossing unlawfully between ports of entry and those claiming theyre leaving their country out of fear but proudly display their flag and planted their flag on texas soil is an insult to our state. Federal government may welcome that. The state of texas will not stand for it and we immediately took down the flag. We learned yesterday from cbp officials because of the Border Patrol agents having to proper migrants. There are more 60 miles in Eagle Pass Unpat rolled. A cartels dream to have that much open border. Texas dps is taking action. That has been a challenge and issue when you have vulnerable gaps along the border not being pat rolled. When you have a large influx in eagle pass, more Border Patrol agents are taken off the line and pulled from the river where they cant focus on criminal activity. It exploits the gaps more now where mexican drug cartels and criminal Smuggling Organizations exploit that. We will place additional State Troopers in the area working private ranchs and focusing on the areas along the river where we see threats to Public Safety and national security. We can show some video that fox news exclusively got from our sources South Of The Border of migrants on a train, more, hundreds more were told we should see those migrants soon. Migrants walking up past us behind us now. How concerned are you about the continuing trains coming and the influx of this pipeline very concerned. When the federal government encourages mass illegal immigration this is what we say. As a state we face challenges. We try to focus on the criminal element why u. S. Border patrol agents are tied up processing the constant flow of illegal immigration. Lieutenant giving you guys the insight. Bill melugin tweeted out elon musk says he is coming to see the migrant crisis here in eagle pass. If he shows up well bring it to you when it happens. Sandra thank you. Bill a moment ago victor avila retired ice agent running for congress in texas. Good morning and thank you for your time. Want to show you the president s schedule and ask you a question here. Today he goes to michigan, wayne county, mentioned that a moment ago. Wednesday in san francisco. Then thursday in phoenix, arizona. We dont know if he goes to the border. However, this is written up in the arizona central. Will joe biden continue to ignore the mexico border when he visits arizona . The border is in chaos as biden arrives in arizona. He may want to ignore that but hard to argue his policies are working. How often is the question about whether or not the president cares about the border . How often does that come up . It comes up all the time, bill. As a matter of fact i was on with you a year ago this week and it almost seems eerie that were talking about the same constant problem and actually has gotten worse. You mentioned all these cities where the president is going. I go around the country myself speaking to the police departments, police chiefs, and it is affecting everyone. In tulsa, oklahoma, alabama. It is no longer just the border states overwhelmed as much as we are in texas. But really, they are concerned with the methamphetamine, the fentanyl and the other crime associated. A lot of property crime, theft that they are having to deal with, on top of the crime surge that were already dealing with in this country. Sandra were looking at live images from the fox flight team. Day after day of this now. It is men, women, children, and its a constant flow. The numbers keep getting bigger. What do you believe eventually would give within an administration who seems to have so far ignored this crisis . They have ignored it. I just got back from eagle pass and el paso, texas. It is as bad as the images as you see. In el paso the facility there holds 2400 migrants. It is over 5,000. They are releasing 1,000 migrants a day to the streets. They are staying in the Historic Downtown plaza, my hometown in el paso, texas. They have nowhere to put them. The city of el paso is trying to buy an abandoned school to put them in there. Ngos ran out of space. Hhs ran out of space. They have nowhere to put them and they are being released to the streets. Ignoring the problem is not going to go away. Thats why i run for congress to finally change this. Bill sir, this is the Border Patrol chief jason owens on abc on sunday. Listen to how he describes what is happening with the cartels. Its a Money Making Opportunity for those smugglers and a distraction for them to cross other things into the country like narcotics, fentanyl. Cash, weapons. People of interest, hardened criminals, gang members. Convicted sexual predators. Bill did you hear all that . If you are admitting that and you know that, why as a country are we not changing our focus there . It doesnt make any sense to me. The chief is 100 correct. I just spent time with the families of the lost voices of fentanyl in washington, d. C. Where they have lost their loved ones to a deadly Fentanyl Poisoning. These families are democrats, republicans, all types. The Fentanyl Poisoning doesnt care your political views. This administration has really needs to focus on this. The real epidemic were facing with the deaths not just with fentanyl but the order itself. We lost three people in drownings in eagle pass, texas. It is something that needs to we have to force this administration to Pay Attention and get them down there. Sandra victor avila on all of that. Thank you. Bill want to repeat this. What he said there was narcotics, fentanyl. Bulk cash, hardened criminals, gang members, convicted sexual predators. Is there a country in the world it allows it to continue . The drone shot. We watch this every morning, folks. Every morning its the same. The sun comes up and they start crossing people across that river and putting them in the buses and off they go to be processed. Sandra off they go to other areas of the countries, blue cities and states who said they would welcome all these migrants who are now saying they cant handle a Single Person more. Bill thats the border beat as of 9 09 00 a. M. East coast time. Sandra worsening situation at the border is expected to be a hot topic at the republican primary debate tomorrow night after the rnc tightened its standards from the first showdown demanding candidates hit a 50,000 donor threshold and garner 3 if polling. Up from 1 from the last debate. Bill melugin is live at the president ial library. What do we know so far . Good morning to you. Because of those tighter standards, Asa Hutchinson did not qualify for the second debate. Seven gop candidates on stage tomorrow night instead of eight. It is set by the gop and announced it yesterday. North dakota governor doug burgum. Chris christie, ron desantis, nikki haley, mike pence, Vivek Ramaswamy and tim scott. Florida Governor Ron Desantis is making the Border A Big Key Point of his campaign as illegal crossings surge to record highs. Willing to go to drastic lengths to secure the border including using lethal force against cartels and drug smugglers. Expanded on that idea in an interview with abc news lindsey davis. Listen. We wont let our country get overrun with fentanyl. Tens of thousands of Fentanyl Deaths every year now. It is all coming from across the border. Ramaswamy says because the u. S. Is helping secure ukraine on day number one he would send the u. S. Military to secure our southern border and he says he would do it with or without congressional approval. Take a listen. We can use military to secure somebody elses border we can use our own military to secure our own border. Meanwhile former President Donald Trump skipping this second debate as well. He is now facing multiple indictments in several different jurisdictions and highlighted that in a speech in South Carolina yesterday. Thats where he said democrats are targeting him with political prosecutions trying to keep him from being the gop nominee. Listen. Every time we get a good poll we get indicted. This is high level Election Interference and it is happening for a single reason, im the only candidate they do not want to run against. Trump addressed the fact he is skipping these debates and equated them to essentially being Job Interviews as he described them and said so far, quote, i am not too interested. Sandra. Back to you. Sandra bill melugin, thank you. Bill dana will join us live next hour and reveal the debate stage for the very first time. We do believe the sun might be up for that, too. Stand by. There is this now from the white house on monday. I get the polling that you are laying out. I get that but we cant we cant be focused on that. Bill those lackluster poll numbers are raising eyebrows and raising the specter of a third party challenger. How that could change the game for a second term. Sandra the pentagon relying on drones to deter china. Why that plan is facing a major hiccup. Mike gallagher is here to respond. Bill President Bidens appearance with ll cool j over the weekend sparking controversy of what he said. Charlamagne that god said this. You try to make this 187yearold man sound cool because he is talking to black people. Nothing more uncool someone trying too hard to be cool. This is Spring Semester at fairfieldsuisun unified. They switched to google tools for education because theres never been a reported Ransomware Attack on a chromebook. Now theyre focused on learning knowing that their data is secure. with fastsigns, create custom graphics that get tails and tongues wagging. Fastsigns. Make your statement. Veteran homeowners, do you know whats taking a big bite out of Family Budgets . Car loans. 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According to the fire department, 11,000 firefighters are currently suffering from 9 11 related diseases some 22 years later. Remarkable story there ongoing. Now the white house. Polls are polls, right . They are going to be all over the place. What were going to focus on is how we can continue to do the job that the president promised that he would do is make americans lives better and give them breathing room. Sandra President Bidens hit in the polls doesnt matter to the white house according to karine jeanpierre. Slipping four points in three months tying him with trump in a potential 2024 matchup. His Campaign Team quietly fearing reportedly the potential of a Third Party Candidate putting even more of a dent in his standing. Jim mass in do you believe this to be a real threat to joe bidens campaign . I believe its a real threat to both parties. When you are running a president ial campaign what you want to do is control what you can control. Third parties throw a wrench into the match into a way that will make both parties very nervous coming into the election. You dont know who the candidates will be and who they will take votes away from. Sandra Hillary Clinton has experience with this. Biden met with Hillary Clinton apparently in a private pull aside. Nbc news, at the white house when she visited this month. She pressed him to take the Third Party Threat seriously and come up with a way to compensate for it saying this is the nbc news report on her warning. Pressed him to take the Third Party Threat seriously. Can you add anything to that . Have you heard anything about that, jim . Look, i did a political deck for our clients recently. They talked about this threat. They talked about why we should be concerned about it and why both parties should be concerned about it and why its a problem. Ross perot got 19 and 13 of the votes in 92 and 96 and 0 electoral votes. Voting for the parties throws away votes. In florida ralph nader gave the presidency to george bush. A vote for third parties is a vote for donald trump, i hope they know. Sandra democrats are talking about replacing joe biden. A recent headline. Forget fantasies about replacing biden. Kamala harris cant beat trump saying you can see why im not feeling good about the future when the fate of the world defends on the vigor of an octogenarian who looks his age. Do you think there are plans to replace joe biden . 0, absolutely not. You know this because there is no significant primary for the president. No real democrat has filed against him. He beat donald trump once and he will do it again. These reports are just d. C. Speculation fueled by people who would love to be the candidate if joe biden werent to run. He is running and the democrats best shot in 2024. Sandra a New York Times piece detailing robert f. Kennedy, jr. Talking about the Libertarian Party. A voter asked about his plans. He is keeping his options open. Apparently this meeting happened back in july with the chair of the Libertarian Party both attending a conference in memphis. This wasnt previously reported. It is now. What about that . A flirt with the Libertarian Party. Your response. Have at it. Take it. Who cares . You have the same positions as ramaswamy, crazy positions on things like vaccinations and healthcare and conspiracy theories. He would be a great libertarian candidate if thats what he wants to do. Just get out of my party. Sandra interesting. Still garnering a lot of attention. Great to have you on this morning. Thank you. Thank you. Bill a Blue Collar Battle Is Brewing on the campaign trail. President biden joins the Union Picket Line today in detroit. Donald trump will rally Union Workers tomorrow. A live report on the two frontrunners. The United States may open a Space Hotline with beijing as it tries to manage the new space race ongoing. 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