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Four months, it's a shocking number. >> no question, gillian, and we should point out we are trying to reestablish a connection with a former d.e.a. agent in charge who will be able to talk with much more facility about this than i. but there's no question that this is an epidemic that has been building for years and it continues unabated and likely only worse as more and more people flood across the border following the rescission of title 42 at the end of this month. when you take a look at the number of people who came across in march, 221,000, that eclipse the high water mark from july of ...

Administration the right thing by the american people and by this country. we just had since march 221000 illegal immigrants that were cut at the border, literally just this past month. this is a 331% increase with one year ago. this is the most we have seen actually caught in this country and the integrity of this administration. when you think about these numbers, it is actually devastating, and the taxpaying americans, absolutely it must stop. when i think about the people at the border that would fix this issue, fix this problem, you know what, we owe them that too. and congress right now ...

>> morgan: in-depth process. come from somewhere central america, south america can often be processed in roughly 45 minutes. when people are being processed under title 8. that takes days just to do the processing alone. so when you have a surgeon of immigrants, when you have last month 221,000, dhs said be prepared for as many as 18,000 a day. 18,000 a day over 30 days would equate to over half a million immigrants a month. we are not prepared to deal with the potential surge that we're expected to see once title 42 expires. >> and border patrol are so overwhelmed already. the numbers more t...

The border so you can report to us. second time for you going down to the border this year alone. why are you going? >> i had the opportunity today to join leader mccarthy, elise stefanik and half a dozen other republicans we are going to be going to eagle pass. one of the ports of entry there along the southwest border. we are going to be meeting with frontline customs and border patrol agents. we are actually going to be meeting with the chief of the border patrol. we are going to be meeting with community officials, with elected officials. with ranchers, with farmers to see firsthand the im...

Base. and that is what is going wrong, honestly, in this country. because we've gotten away with doing what's just makes good common sense. it's not helping us to have this kind of debt, especially when we're trying to look at the fact that we're still not paying her teachers as we should be paying our teachers. and we're losing teachers and record fashion. so, why would you do something like this? >> your state is still staying in the focus of our country, because representative, i have learned, and the reporting is, house minority leader kevin mccarthy is set to lead a group of fellow republ...