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encounters just in the first three months of fiscal year 2023. but the biden administration continues to maintain that the border is secure. we're looking live at eagle pass, texas. that's where griff jenkins joins us with the late from there. hey, griff. >> reporter: hey, good afternoon, eric. and if you weren't just watching that drone, we can take you back up to it. the border patrol air boats just passing underneath the bridge here in eagle pass. it is ground zero here in the del rio sector for this crisis is. these agents in texas dps troopers and national guard here are absolut...

Really come back like maybe the gotaways don't? >> reporter: that's the a great question, and people have forgotten they are given, essentially, a address for the i.c.e. office nearest to wherever their destination is going to go, and if they're going to claim asylum, it's on their own volition that they'll have to do it. when you and i and arthel first started talking about this crisis in the spring of 2021, the agents were still processing them, giving them a court order to have appear for a hearing. now that has gone all the door. the policy the administration has been doing for the better ...

The numbers appear to be for 2017 under 10%. so the argument the administration seems to be making is come in through legal channels, apply as immigrants in the normal pattern. these are countries where the gdp per cap paw, this is the percentages by the way from guatemala, honduras and el salvador, the number of eye asylum claims granted, 8.8% in guatemala, 7.6 in honduras and 7.9 in el salvador. there's no logical way people are going to try to do it through the legal system because the pathway, as julia says, has always been narrower and is becoming narrower. >> i listened to the segments o...