You should be impeached. all right, you are listening to several republican lawmakers threatening to impeach the homeland security secretary, alejandro mayorkas. he is facing accusations from the republican-led house judiciary committee of having lost control of the southwest border. while border crossings remain high, there have been fewer border arrests in recent weeks. still, house republicans have started to lay the groundwork for potential impeachment proceedings against by orcas. lots to discuss now with democratic congressman hakeem castro of texas. he is a member of the foreign affairs committee. thank you so much for joining me congressman. can you give me a sense, is what is happening at the southern border? what you see is that border crossings have gone down 70% in the last few months since the end of title 42. and the biden administration is tried to do if few things. first, they offered a way for people to apply for asylum in
Against him. what do you think we ll see? reporter: he will be in front of a key committee where it would originate should house republicans move forward with that. he will be drilled on all of these issues relating to the u.s./mexico border. house republicans have tried to shore up their case against majyorkas starting to roll out its report. there has been hesitation whether or not they should move forward but there will be fireworks over the handling of the u.s./mexico border. a letter was sent to be prepared with data on border arrests and deportation so already setting the tone for what will be a fiery hearing. fiery it will be. appreciate it. house speaker kevin mccarthy
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas will face House Republicans who have been making the case to potentially impeach him over his handling of the US-Mexico border in a House panel hearing Wednesday.
Some other areas and much larger. the opportunity ukraine took to encounter the withdrawal of the wagner group in that area after the four months of fighting they ve had there is going to contribute to the capability of ukrainian to push the offensive even more than they had planned. this is probably a good secondary effort. i would suggest that the primary effort of ukraine is going to come in other places. all right, general. thanks so much for those insights. we appreciate it. you re welcome, jim. call your mother tomorrow. i will. all right. we all will. thanks so much. rockets are being fired from gaza towards israel minutes after an agreed to cease fire was supposed to begin. we ll have the latest coming up. plus, officials warn there could be a spike in border arrests and overcrowding at the u.s. mexico border. later, what s next for an ex-marine charged with
10,000 migrants along the southern border monday, continuing an upward trend in border arrests in recent weeks. the federal government estimates more than 150,000 migrants are waiting in shelters and on the streets of northern mexico. cnn s david culver is on the mexican side of the border where there is a growing sense of desperation. reporter: echoing across the sandy landscape on the u.s. southern border agua! reporter: young voices. shouting for water. agua! reporter: already on texas soil, technically having already illegally crossed the rio grande. hundreds of migrants camp out between the barbed wire and the border wall, waiting to be processed for asylum. title 42 still in effect. for this group, that means they could be immediately expelled by u.s. border officials.
Orderly and humane legal immigration system. reporter: 19 months later, an explosive mix of legal policy and political disputes, left biden last week to tacitly acknowledge a work still in progress. we have a process in place to manage migrants at the border. we re working to make sure it s safe and orderly and humane. reporter: annual border arrests surpassed 2 million this month, a record set by biden s first year in office. republican governors eager to draw attention to the scale. this is a crisis now getting a little bit more attention. reporter: they ve transported thousands of migrants to liberal u.s. enclaves, drawing a sharp rebuke from democrats and biden. republicans are playing politics with human beings, using them as props. what they re doing is simply wrong. reporter: but elevating a political vulnerability for democrats less than 50 days from the midterm election, with republicans now holding a 17 point edge on immigration and a
A sharp turn from his predecessor on immigration. this is about how america is more prosperous when we have a fair, orderly, and humane legal immigration system. reporter: 19 months later, an explosive mix of legal, policy, and political disputes left biden last week to tacitly acknowledge a work still in progress. we have a process in place to manage migrants at the border. we re working to make sure it s safe and orderly and humane. reporter: annual border arrests surpassed 2 million this month, already a record in a single year. republican governors eager to draw attention to the scale of the tumult. this is a crisis now getting a little bit more attention. reporter: have transported thousands of migrants to liberal u.s. enclaves, drawing a sharp rebuke from democrats and biden. republicans are playing politics with human beings using them as props.
Crime and quality of life issues, the homeless, et cetera. this is kind of a distraction for them for their using it as that. i don t think voters are going to be distracted the same way that their mayors are trying to get them distracted, do you? the critics cite this as a gimmick by abbott produce a little bit of a gimmick on both sides. to your point i think mayor adams would prefer to talk about this and progressive theories in texas and to deal with those problems. i agree i don t think this is going to distract people for long. but what abbott is trying to do is break some of the political stalemates. border arrests, border patrol arrest hit a record high end may parts of the 220,000 people. he is making the point that why should texas, arizona, border states shoulder all of the burden for this problem? why can t we get any legislation in congress to get that done? the answer is we have stalemate