Ambulance sirens and screams of fear common events shattering the peace on a regular basis in new york. Washington, d. C. Strive to enforce the law while confronting safety challenges. A big deal. Dont know how to figure it out. They have to get on it. Dana is back on monday. Sandra k. Smith has the honors today. Sandra no better way to kick off my friday than with you, william. Good to be here, thanks for having me. Im sandra smith. The epidemic of Violent Crime raising serious questions about political priorities as d. C. Crime rates skyrocket. Everything from murder, carjackings to assaults, prob re and rampant shoplifting. Despite the City Council Chairman proclaiming earlier this year there is no crime crisis in the Nations Capital. At this cvs store in northwest d. C. Shelves are just empty. Not because of Supply Chain Problems or booming business, but because thieves are walking in and walking out with absolutely everything. Bill the mayor says the city is doing Everything Possible to keep residents who live there and work there safe. Watch. We are going to keep working to make sure that we have the laws that we need to deter crime. So what i want to be Crystal Clear to the community is that we are going to do everything that we can to make our community safer. Bill we went from defund the police to this now. Griff jenkins is more on the citys effort to crack down on crime. Good morning. Bill and sandra, good morning. In the Nations Capital it is in a crime crisis. Here in this Columbia Heights area of d. C. The thieves are in charge. Were at that cvs and give you a look. Look on the wall. You see the police had a very serious camera set up outside on both sides of the cvs. That isnt stopping thieves from emptying the shelves. Look at these photos again inside this cvs. They literally stole everything they could get there. D. C. Police say the city has seen a string of Retail Thefts across the city and they were able to make some arrests. This incident at this cvs arresting seven teenagers. They are working with the cops and have no plans to close the store. D. C. Is suffering another typical week of Violent Crime. Up 40 compared to last year starting monday night you remember the carjacking of congressman henry cuellar. Since then ten more carjackings, a total of 760 this year, up 100 compared to last year. Critics point to the u. S. Attorneys office as part of the problem. They decline to prosecute 67 of all the people that the police arrested. Attorney matt graves defended his Office Yesterday when i asked him about it. Simple takeaway is majority of individuals for all offenses in fiscal year 2023 during the Fourth Quarter ever 2023 have been charged at the time of arrest for felonies in particular. We continue to charge roughly 90 of our most serious crimes at the time of arrest. Meanwhile mayor bowser announced a Sting Operation that nabbed almost 50 fugitives but she worries that some of them could be back on streets about this weekend. Up to a judge to determine if theyll be in custody. Hopefully it means they will be made to reengage in supervision. Bowser says she has a crime bill she hopes the city council will make permanent that will hold fugitives longer, among other things. Again here outside this cvs people are going about their business. One shopper telling me, bill, they dont shop on tuesdays. Thats delivery day and thats when the thieves are most likely to strike in broad daylight. Bill keep an eye on it. Griff jenkins in the Nations Capital. Thank you. 14 buses today. It is a growing christ ills not just for the City Of Chicago but for the globe. The failure of federal policies is now impacting the people of chicago in a very dramatic way. Sandra Brandon Johnson blaming washington. Not President Biden, for the citys worsening migrant crisis. Texas officials told the state to expect 25 buses a day full of migrants. Many of those buses will be headed for the sanctuary City Of Chicago. Residents are furious, including one woman who spoke to us just last hour. Well, my concern is that they try to put a bandaid on a leaking fountain. The thing about that, it doesnt work and they dont have a plan. This is not a city where you can dictate to us. You cannot just be a dictatorship to the people in the community. Im retired and i got time for this. Im going to make some noise. Sandra she is up for fighting the battle. Garrett tenney is live in the windy city. Garrett. Chicago hasnt been able to open up these shelters fast enough. Theyre completely full. Right now more than 3,000 migrants in the sanctuary city have nowhere to go. As you mentioned, hundreds more are expected to be arriving by the day. Right now 800 are here at the bus terminal at chicagos Ohare Airport sleeping on the floor with no place to go as they wait for space as shelters to own up. Cameras are no longer allowed inside to see the conditions theyre living in. You can see in the video a bit of what it was like a week or so ago. This morning one man told us the migrants have to use bathroom sinks to shower and cutting their hair in the bathrooms leaving hair all over the floors. The conditions are not much better at Police Stations across the city where more than 2,000 migrants, including some children, are currently living. Some of the stations are now so full that migrants are sleeping outside on the sidewalk. One man who recently arrived from venezuela says the Living Conditions back home were never this bad. In venezuela, we never lived on the streets. Now we are living on the street. While we wait for some help. City and state officials are pushing for the white house to step up its support of these cities dealing with the crisis, a growing number of democrats are also blaming the Biden Administration for allowing it to happen in the first place. Federal level we see a lack of company Hereent Federal Policies at the border we see irresponsible treatment. It is being created because of poor policies. We ask from the federal and state level to treat this as a humanitarian crisis rather than playing with peoples lives because of political games. Bill while other Sanctuary Cities are telling migrants not to come and there is no more space chicago Officials Say they are continuing to welcome migrants with open arms despite struggling to handle the number of migrants that are already here. Sandra. Sandra a lot for everybody to take in. Garrett, thank you. President biden i tried to get them to redirect that money for the border wall. They didnt, they wouldnt. In the meantime there is nothing under the law other than they have to use the money for what it was appropriated. I cant stop that. Do you believe the Border Wall Works . President biden no. This was topic a yesterday. President biden there defending his decision to reverse course on the border wall. Administration will build 20 miles of additional barrier in the rio grande valley. The mayor of the town of rio grande is with me now. Good morning, thank you for your time. I want our viewers to understand, your city has 14,000 who live there but you are in starr county. I have a population of 66,000. Thats where this temporary wall is going to go up there. Im told it is temporary because it can move. How bad is it if they have to make this decision and how many migrants are coming into your area, sir . Good morning and thank you for having me on. Happy, happy friday, america. I will call it for what it is. President biden lied to the American People because if memory serves me well, he was not going to build another foot of border wall and yet here we are for political expediencesy he is building the border wall. Again, President Biden a building the border wall. He should have never taken the position against the border wall. According to cbp there are sections along the 2,000 Mile Southern Border where the wall is beneficial. He doesnt mind communities are in favor of securing the border. The question is how. What is the right mixture of personnel, infrastructure and technology . When you look at 180 degree turn by President Biden it begs the question, why the charade . Why sue Governor Abbott for building a barrier when President Biden is doing the same thing . Its hypocrisy. It wont help because of the influx. People are turning themselves in by the thousands. So is it going to help as far as the influx . The answer is no. When we have influx the only thing that works is expedited removal and remain in mexico. That is not a permanent solution to our broken Immigration System but during the influx we need to make sure that we exercise caution against our global enemies, exploiting our Immigration System to inflict pain on america. We must. When our Migrant Processing capabilities are compromised it jeopardizes national security. Unfortunately we cannot bridge the political divide with Border Security. They are not mutually exclusive. We continue on the same trajectory and well continue on the same trajectory and having the same conversations ten years from today. Bill hope not. Let me jump in. You are a democrat and you just called President Biden out by name. But yet the mayor of new york does not call him out by name. Neither does the governor or the mayor of chicago. They talk about the administration and sometimes the white house, not the president by name. Why would they do that when you right now are saying that the president has not told the American People the truth . We got to call it for what it is, whether republican or democrat. Were americans. This is an american issue, not democrat, not republican. So lets call it for what it is. I have called out Governor Abbott and President Trump and President Biden as well. We have to address it. Unfortunately for decades weve been seeing the same issue play out and we continue to play the same song and dance and it is unfortunate. I hate to laugh about it, but it sad and a travesty our broken Immigration System is on full display for the rest of the world to bear witness that the United States of america, the greatest country in the world, lacks the political will for comprehensive immigration reform. This is an issue, white house, congress, unfortunately we dont bridge the political divide. Why is that the case . When you are looking at this whole concept of political gain, all these both parties engage in this debate on immigration and Border Security and they dont do anything about it. At the end of the day we continue to have the same issues. I could go on and on. Bill i dont think you are wrong. I get it. On the wall, okay, mayokas, the president , Kamala Harris all say the wall is not effective. I have been down there and i know that migrants and cartels can build temporary ladders and scale that wall. I have know that at 2 00 in the morning they can bore a hole in the steel and for the time they can get drugs or people through. Until that portion of the wall is fortified yet again. So here is my point on this. It may not be 100 foolproof, but at a minimum, it slows down the flow, do you agree with that . There are sections along the 2,000 Mile Southern Border where the wall is appropriate. Where it is beneficial. Not the 2,000 miles of seamless wall. The 20 miles here in starr county you look at a cost of half a billion dollars. Now what can we do with that money . Especially down here in starr county we can do a lot with that money. Is it going to be effective for the influxes . The answer is no. By the way, sometimes these miles are a mile into the u. S. It is not even close to the river. Its unfortunate. Bill let me try one more question here. You see this every day and it is a problem and now in the heartland when you look at cities like chicago. And i understand your plea. But you have an administration that sued the state of texas to get the barriers out of the rio grande river. You have an administration that sued the state of arizona to try to get these Shipping Containers removed from the border. So you see what the states are trying to do . Theyre trying to slow the flow. Why would this administration allow this to get so out of hand . I have no clue because thats not the way we should be handling immigration and Border Security. Which again they can coexist. We need Legal Immigration but all kinds of issues as far as our Legal Immigration system. But we do need bill it has to be of the open borders policy on behalf of the progressive left. There is no better way to understand it unless you think that way, right . Hey, we should not catch and release does not help the United States of america. In fact, it does unfortunately put us in the position where it jeopardizes our national security. We cannot stress that enough. Thats something that we need to do and take care of more effectively because we are putting american in harms way. No doubt about that. Why we continue to do this, the broken Immigration System. The president , congress, and you go down the list. But we are continuing to fall into the same trajectory. I guarantee ten years from today but the parties are refusing to address it at a global scale. I want to say this. I serve in a nonaffiliated capacity here as mayor. Bill fair enough. Good luck, mayor, well keep in contact with you and the 14,000 people you govern. Thanks. Thanks. The more information did i do anything wrong . No, no, i understand, i understand. Sandra Fatal New Jersey car crash involving the girlfriend of senator bob menendez filling in a key gap in the federal bribery and Corruption Case against them. Bill major retailers like walmart making College Degrees optional for hundreds of white collar jobs. Well tell you why and what else it is doing to help workers try to get ahead. Veteran homeowners. Are you applying for a car loan . The Monthly Payments can be expensive. With an affordable home loan from newday, you can pay cash and own the car or truck of your dreams. That first time you take a step back. I made that. With your very own online store. I sold that. And you can manage it all in one place. I built this. 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