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Heaviest as you mentioned trafficked area and the reason why that caravan and others are charging our borders are because of what they perceive as loopholes in the laws here. their ultimate destination is right where i'm standing. yesterday we spoke with a deputy chief here in this sector raúl ortiz. and he talked about the number of family units they are seeing and overall problem. >> we are definitely seeing a lot of family units. we have seen that increase over the last three or four months. certainly this month is the highest numbers of family units that we have experienced in a while. on...

Patrol continues its efforts there. hi, griff. >> hi, leland, they're overwhelmed here already without that caravan up here in this rio grande valley sector, 641 illegal crossings a day. the two agents behind me, agents sterna and gaza, in the last hour had four different groups come their way, a total of 35 illegal crossers, they believe. they got 27 of them. let me show you where we are on this railroad track. if you look down this road, it's where most of the activity happened. and it's in this brush, this is actually ranch property, but a mile, maybe less than a mile right to my south is t...

That's what will happen is coming up on midterms. people will focus on other things in congress is out and will not get day three of the story until november. kristin: well, leave it there. james, thank you for coming on. leland: i can't wait. >> i will come back to my promise. [laughter] kristin: meanwhile, groups of migrants and asylum singles from central america stop right next to please at the guatemala border. officials are close watching our own border we wait to see what happens with this caravan. we've got griff jenkins on the ground with border control in texas. griff, what is happen...

U.s.-mexico border. this day, it has an overwhelming spike of numbers before the caravan gets here. that i have on average, neil, more than 641 illegal arrests a day. it's overwhelming. about half of them are made up of family units of which they're seeing in this area 300% increase from last year. overall, we had more than 16,000 family members units arrested just last month. that is an 80% increase from july when the administration reverses zero tolerance policy. the reason being is that the cartels see our detention centers are full as a driver, as an incentive for them to come. it's the sa...

Years away f they don't have lawful permission to stay in the u.s. the way the system is working, allowing them to remain in the u.s. >> the number of families now accounts for a majority of those crossing. more than 16,000 members of family units were apprehended last month. 80% increase since july, when the administration reversed its zero tolerance policy. on average, about 373 family units every day, and then we see about 75 unaccompanied children every day. >> in all, more than 107,000 members of family units were taken into custody during fiscal year 2018. shattering the previous record ...