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Many of them who are covid positive, our own bill malugen has the latest on how elected officials are struggling with the sheer numbers of people crossing the border, good afternoon, bill. bill: griff, good afternoon to you. that's exactly right. thousands of migrants are apprehended every single day here in the rio grande valley as the surge shows absolutely no sign of slowing down. we are now in august and clearly the summer heat hasn't stopped anything and now we are learning of a recent incident where a border agent was short -- reportedly shot at. according to press release, early friday ...

Thankfully fox has done that. back in april. we put together a bipartisan border solutions act. one of the things it called for is to add 300 i.c.e. agents to the equation. after months the administration has finally done that. there are 300 i.c.e. agents headed to the del rio sector. but that's just the start. katie: the cartels are loving this distraction in the rio grande valley of thousands of people flooding into the country pulling border patrol agents off the front line. a border agent was fired on from the mexican side of the border. talk about that aspect of it.

Thankfully fox has done that. back in april. we put together a bipartisan border solutions act. one of the things it called for is to add 300 i.c.e. agents to the equation. after months the administration has finally done that. there are 300 i.c.e. agents headed to the del rio sector. but that's just the start. katie: the cartels are loving this distraction in the rio grande valley of thousands of people flooding into the country pulling border patrol agents off the front line. a border agent was fired on from the mexican side of the border. talk about that aspect of it.

Before that happens. it's not just the migrants, heroic border agent, earlier we had -- he said 80 other border agents have tested positive for covid, 1150 of our brave border agents right now are quarantined because they have covid. here is the situation. >> the vast majority of people trying to get away you get right because we don't have the manpower to cover. we have very few people in the field because we are all babysitting or sick. eric: we are all babysitting or sick. a final reaction to the. >> we put great strain and i applaud the efforts of the men and women on border patrol, they a...

I want to thank the activist class with this. >> the black lives matter alliance talked the laws being a mandate from stopping cops from violating our rights and killing people. they tweeted their support for communist cuba beating the daylights out of people in the streets of havana three weeks ago. >> what will stop to your point, it will stop proactive officers and it is leading officers to have a state of confusion so they don't know how to conduct their professional business from a day-to-day basis. it is going to lead to, sadly, more crime as we already mentioned in the stats that you pr...