Molly dueling visits to the southern border this week from President Biden and former President Trump preponderance as immigration dominates the 2024 race. Welcome to Fox News Live, im molly line, happy to be back in d. C. Mike im mike emanuel. This comes as family and friends gather to mourn laken riley after she was allegedly murdered on the university of georgias campus by an illegal immigrant. Griff jenkins is live in mission, texas, with the latest. Ing hello, griff. Reporter hey, good afternoon, mike. 9 and the border encounters are tick up again as we enter march, more than 7,000 in the last 24 hours, perhaps thats why we add those dueling president ial visits. President biden went to brownsville which is part of the rgv sector while 300 miles away former President Trump going to eagle pass, part of the del rio sec or tomorrow each man taking a shot at one another, biden calling on trump to join him in supporting that failed Senate Border bill while trump simply blamed biden for what he called an invasion is. But look at the numbers. Newt went to a heavilytrafficked area. We can show you in the last 24 hours youve got the Tucson Sector In Arizona leading with more than 1800 encounters, san diego, over 1200 while the rgv had just 350, del rio just over 30. But that migrant 300. But that the migrant crime continues. In eagle pass just in the last few hours, look at this exclusive video, our fox cameras rolling as two female smugglers were busted smuggling three illegal aliens. And had they gotten away, they would have been those gotaways that the officials talk so much about, keeping them up at night. We had an exclusive interview with Border PatrolChief Jason Owens who talked a little bit about that danger. Listen here. So i know so far the known gotaways, thats the folks that weve been able to detect that we have not been able to get to and apprehend, its in excess of 120,000 already this fiscal year. As for the unknown gotaways, its the whole tip of the iceberg theory. Its what we dont know. Im worried that it could be a substantial amount. Reporter and in the wake of the slain uga student, laken riley, obviously part of why americans are so concerned with immigration leading almost every Election Poll weve seen as of late. Itll be interesting to see if the white house does anything. Theyre supposedly considering taking some sort of,fingtive action. Mike, well send it back to you. Mike Griff Jenkins live in mission, texas, many thanks. Molly . Molly family, friends and classmates gathering to remember laken riley. The 22yearold Nursing Students funeral was held yesterday in woodstock, georgia. Madison scarpino is live in atlanta with more on that memorial service. Madison. Reporter molly, it was a really sad day in rileys hometown for her funeral, and its only about 90 miles away, woodstock, georgia, from ugas campus where the Nursing Student was killed while on her Morning Jog Last week. And hundreds of family and friends came to Woodstock City Church to honor riley at the private service. The churchs lead pastor said in a statement, quote, laken was special. She was a gift to anyone who knew her. Smart, kind, compassionate and thoughtful, dont even begin to scratch the surface. And rileys death is bringing up a lot of questions and frustrations about how the city of athens and the country handle ilLegal Immigration. Makes people feel less safe at night, you know . My girlfriend doesnt feel comfortable going on walks with her dogs like she used to now since this murder. So its pretty tragic. Reporter i. C. E. Says rileys accused killer, jose ibarra, came to the u. S. Illegally in 2022. Just a few days ago protesters repeatedly interrupted the athens mayor during a news conference. The mayor made it clear athens is not a sanctuary city, and this is all while protesters screamed liar, justice for lakin and called for him to resign. As you just heard, former President Donald Trump was at the border thursday and said he spoke with rileys devastated parents. She was beautiful, just so beautiful in so many ways and and brutally assaulted, horrifically beaten, kidnapped and savagely murdered. The monster that charged, charged in the death is an illegal Alien Migrant who was let into our country and released into our communities by crooked joe biden. Hes crooked. Reporter now, the accused killers brother was actually arrested during rileys Death Investigation for having a fake green card. Hes set to be in the federal court on monday on fraud charges. Back to you guys. Molly our heart breaks for laken rileys family. Thank you, madison, for the reporting. For more on President Biden and former President Trumps visits to the border this week, were joined by democratic congressman from california, a member of the House Foreign Affairs and intelligence committee, amy bare rah. Congressman, thank you so much for giving us some time on this saturday afternoon. We really appreciate it. This young woman, laken riley, who has been now been laid to rest by her grieving family and friends has also raised the question of Sanctuary Cities all across the country and whether or not Law Enforcement in these areas, if there should be a change. And a lot of critique of this, but the man accused in this murder could have been picked up at some point, possibly could have been deported during one of his prior interactions with Law Enforcement. Your thoughts as this becomes really a central the issue and, sadly are, laken riley right at the center of this. Your thoughts. Thanks for having me on. Our hearts go out to lakens parents and the tragic loss of anyone whos been murdered in this manner. Weve got to deal with this. And and, you know, how im thinking about it and how i think some of my colleagues are thinking about it, separate Legal Immigration wells the Immigration System from what were seeing at our borders which does seem to be more of a National Security issue is, and i think youll come up with a different solution for this. I do think we need to do a border bill. I think we need to address that issue, and then we need to address the chronic influx of folks that are showing up on the border. Molly one other thing to highlight because you are a congressman from california, now weve seen an enormous influx shifting there to the san diego area. And that city on the border is really struggling to handle that recent influx. There were some migrant shelters that were open, now the money has run out. There are hundreds and perhaps even more than a thousand people going to bus stations there in the city. Your thoughts on this shift and now california has become a little bit more the epicenter that we saw texas being most recently. Yeah. Right now ground zero is arizona and california because it really has shifted westward. Again, i would say, you know, there is a real urgency to address what were seeing on the southern border. And the reality is its going to get worse before it gets better. You know, i was in europe last week, and europe is seeing that influx of migrants over the past decade. What youre seeing in the global south with Climate Change, with instability, with crime, its a different sort of migrant that is coming up through the border. Whereas a decade, two decades ago youd see folks that were coming here for work, but theyd go back and forth over the border and, you know, it wasnt the same issue that we see today. Molly i think its interesting we were saying there needs to be two issues, theres the border issue and then migrants across the country and policy issues there. What were seeing in san diego is that people are coming across the border, theres the border impact president ially, but then they do dispossessor and go a disperse and go across the country and were seeing cities like boston struggling to find housing for migrants. So your thoughts on what can be done between those two separate points that youre talking about. I mean, i think its compounding an issue, we see e it it here in sacramento, my hometown, where we have a tremendous homeless challenge, and this is dropped on top of that. You hear eric adam talk about it in new york, the mayor of chicago talk about it. So, again, i think weve got to come up with a longterm solution. I think, you know, its not going to be an easy solution. Its going to take democrats and republicans coming together to do this. Probably have to keep folks closer to the border. You know, if its setting up camps where you can process them, treat them as a human being, but again, this problem is not going to get better. Its going to get worse because you see that instability in the global south. Molly there were these dueling visits, the president , the former president down there on the border. Biden pointing at former President Trump saying you need to do more to Bring Congress onboard, but does the president , joe biden, need to do more . Can he do more . Weve seen Executive Orders in the past that trump had in place that biden rolled back, could biden be doing more . You know, i think President Biden is thinking about Executive Orders. I certainly think when we hear the tate of the union this coming the State Of The Union this coming week hes going to have to address address the border, and perhaps youll see some announcements there. And i think what President Biden is alluding to is there was a bipartisan bill that was negotiated in the senate. I think its a good bill. Its not the end of this, but it is a good start. It gets needed resources to our border and customs folks down there. And we also have a Fentanyl Crisis there. Weve got to have better scanning and stop fentanyl at the border. Molly all right. Congressman berra, a little foreshadowing for us, we appreciate that. Thank you for giving us your time on this saturday afternoon. Great, thank you. Be well. Mike from the same state but the other side of the aisle, member of House Foreign Affairs and judiciary committees, congressman darrell issa. Welcome. I was thrilled to go second in this case because my democratic colleague said one thing that was accurate which is democrats have to join the Enforcement Effort because its their president who, in fact, deliberately reversed policies in order to welcome in the arsonists that now have burned down the house, speaking metaphorically. The reality is that it was a Policy Change that a did this, its a Policy Change that turns it back around. And that negotiation in the senate, i just want to speak to it because my colleague alluded that it was good but not perfect. No, it was imperfect and flawedded from the beginning. The idea that 1. A 5 Million People 1. 5 Million People would be the additional illegals coming in as the socalled cap of 5,000 a day is ridiculous. The fact is the president , since the 1950s, has had the authority to cease bringing in people that are claiming asylum, mostly falsely, at any time for a National Security basis. We have decades worth of backlogs, 79 Million People right now who will be decades before they could even be add jawed candidated. The list of just 1. 5 million goes out 4 years, and they havent even given dates to people beyond that. So the idea that you need more people to greet and bring people in at the border goes back to the same problem. No, we need Border Patrol to be able to do their job which is to stop people from coming in. Right now they have an open border by policy, they need to close the border by policy. The president has the authority to do so. I look forward to his State Of The Union. I do not expect him to say is, yes, im going to close the border, an authority aye always had, im going to reverse the policies of three years that have brought in 7 plus million if people that are not going home anytime if soon, that were not evented that, in fact, are displacing the people standing in line waiting to get into this country legally. Mike so we saw President Biden at the texas border this week. Texas Governor Greg Abbott mocked the location saying he picked some sanitized location in brownsville, texas, didnt see the full impact. Southern california has really heated up in terms of the Migrant Crisis. Whats the impact on your district, and should the president visit Southern California and arizona to get a full picture . He should visit the 40,000squarefoot Fentanyl Locker that Just Services a portion of the border, my 100 or so miles of the Mexican Border in my district and realize the amount of killing drugs, drugs that killed over 100,000 people last year, that are coming in because of his open policy. You cant have an open border and then try to protect against drugs. You cant have an open border and try to protect against gangs and criminals coming in. The reality is we can do immigration reform. We can take the 1. 3 or 1. 4 million legal immigrants every year, we could raise it to 1. 5. What we cant do is have millions of people every year come in unvetted without exactly what happened in georgia and around the country which is these people include a large amount of people who are fleeing where they were criminals to be criminals here. It includes the ms13, it includes all of that. And, by the way, it includes the drugs and the Drug Smugglers that are killing people. And, by the way, the idea that its Climate Change, Climate Change may be coming, but these people are coming for jobs. They dont even pretend anymore if to be coming for asylum. When im inter ive interviewed people in chinese, russian, portuguese and spanish through the translator that i hold up, the reality is they all say theyre coming here for jobs. They know what cities theyre going to, and they have a general idea what kind of jobs theyre going to do. I appreciate people coming for a better life, but it should be orderly and legal, and its not. And that is the president and the president alone who can change that. No law is going to change a president who doesnt enforce the law. Thats what we need to change. Thats what youre going to hear us say, you know, monday night which is we need to have border enforcement. We dont have it now, and the president has neutered the Border Patrol. And that senate bill would only have socially legalized essentially legalized and maybe capped at. 1. 5 million. Were not prepared to bring in 1. 5 million unfiltered people every year, or and my if colleague in sacramento e is a long way from the border, but the fact is the president s policies mean there is no border. And as a result, my district isnt suffering that much more than other districts, the reality is all of americas suffering from it, and theyre suffering from it because the president poland to do it, and he planned to do it planned to do it because it changes the demographics for elections in this country, i believe wholeheartedly that is his reason. Mike congressman dale issa of the great state of california, thank you so much for your time. Thank you, mike. Molly well, michigan gop holding a nominating Convention Today to allocate its 39 remaining delegates despite major internal divisions, disputes, State Republicans are expected the to unite behind President Trump. Grady trimble is in grand rapids, michigan, with the latest updates. Grady. Reporter and thats what were seeing so far, molly, two the big updates today both here in michigan and also in missouri. Both in favor of former President Trump. Ill start the with missouri where the caucuses have been called for President Trump, and that starts a monthslong process of allocating the states delegates. And here in michigan were at a state Gop Convention where the representatives here are trying to figure out how to divvy up their delegates and so far former President Trump has nearly achieved a sweep. Not quite. So the way this is working is that representatives from each of michigans 13 congressional a districts, theyve been holding individual meetings to pick their e preferred candidate. So far 11 districts results are in, all of them voting overwhelmingly for trump, securing him 33 delegates. Two districts have yet to make a decision, so that means 6 delegates are left for a total of 39. Michigan gop chair Pete Hoekstra has