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Everything is so confusing and so difficult, they just end up taking riskier and riskier routes to try to get here. >> reporter: those dangers came into sharp focus this week when at least 53 people died after being transported in a semi truck in the sweltering texas heat is what is being called the deadliest human smuggling incident in u.s. history. there are people who left wanting to achieve the american dream and wanting to be better people, says this gentleman who lives in honduras. the justice department says four people have been charged in connection to the incident. but human smugglin...

Dream, and wanting to be better people, he says. he lives in honduras. the justice department says four people have been charged in connection to the incident. but human smuggling remains a top concern for officials this summer with temperatures in the triple digits. and as border crossings continue to rise. in may, u.s. customs and border production stopped more than 239,000 migrants at the u.s. southern border according to the latest available data. that is up nearly 60,000 from last may. there is deep disagreement over how to handle the influx. even some democrats were not unanimous in agre...

Is hypocritical. the democrats are always telling us how they're pushing for women's rights, for example. they're up in arms about the supreme court decision, and yet they don't want to describe what a woman is, and they don't want to keep women and knowing that women have babies, they call it birthing people. i mean, it's absolutely mind-boggling. i want to take a breakment when we come back, you are at heart of america's border crisis in the rio grande area. i want to talk about crisis exploding in your backyard with the border patrol apprehending a record or 239,000 migrants just last month...

Is hypocritical. the democrats are always telling us how they're pushing for women's rights, for example. they're up in arms about the supreme court decision, and yet they don't want to describe what a woman is, and they don't want to keep women and knowing that women have babies, they call it birthing people. i mean, it's absolutely mind-boggling. i want to take a breakment when we come back, you are at heart of america's border crisis in the rio grande area. i want to talk about crisis exploding in your backyard with the border patrol apprehending a record or 239,000 migrants just last month...

Tumble-era program requiring migrants to remain in mexico while their asylum cases are heard in the united states. we have more on this. >> good morning. it is called the mpp or the migrant protection protocols and according to cbp's own data only about 1600 or so were placed into that program for the month of may and that is out of the more than 239,000 migrant encounters that were reported here. when you push it out to the fiscal year which began october 1, a little more than 4,000 have been put in mpp out of the more than 1 1/2 million recorded migrant encounters. cbp numbers also show more...