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Messaging in the public today too is they think this is just mexico or south america. border patrol caught over -- caught people from 150 different countries coming through mexico into the united states this last year before i retired. bret: 150 different countries? >> different countries. bret: coming through the border? >> correct. basically just think like football. they fake a play over here and the real play is going to the left. so when we get distracted with 15 to 20,000 haitians under a bridge, that resulted in several hundred miles of border having no border patrol agents on it at all...

Was -- it was -- i was outraged that all of a sudden due process goes out the window. border security protects legal immigration. and those guys know it and that's what they have been doing. and all of a sudden now due process applies to everybody else and not them and all of a sudden our horse patrol doing what they are supposed to do prevent freedom illegally entering our home are now the villain. bret: so it's frustrating. >> it's very frustrating. bret: do you hear that from guys. >> i have taken quite a few phone calls. it's very frustrating. the early retirements are going through the ro...

Bret: they skip court, they are not allowed to go after them just for that. >> correct. that is accurate. and 90% don't ever get deported. bret: how about big a national security threat is it that border. >> i think it's a real, real big issue. so knowing that we have 400,000 documented got aways when we have less situational awareness than we have ever had before, but we know about every single one of those is they did not want to meet a law enforcement officer. they were not surrendering. they were not claiming asylum. they were doing everything they could -- they probably paid extra to be a...

Common sense steps to secure the border. bret: can you, for the average viewer at home, articulate kind of the difference about what would happen if an illegal immigrant came when you were border patl chief before january 20, 2021 and what happened after. >> with title 42 and that was a health and human services regulation for covid, you got to carve that part of it out if you will. they would be met at the border immediately fingerprinted, photographed for records checks quickly and then expelled back to the country they came through. so, during that time, the vast majority of people were qui...

Implications of the illegal immigration surge. bret will speak with former border patrol chief rodney scott but first correspondent bill melugin. >> bill: it's late monday night in mission, texas. and fox news is cruising the rio grande with texas dps and a v.i.p. guest. arkansas governor asa hutchinson who came to the rio grande valley to see the border crisis firsthand. while texas troopers with night vision scanned the mexican shoreline in the dark of night, governor hutchinson was given a tour of some of the smuggling hot spots all along the river. eventually coming ashore in one area wher...