hheading to his real december at decemdestination, mexicocity. there s no sign of the illegal camps normally seen there. emily: this comes as sources reveal to fox news the lating shock statistics from the growing crisis at the border. we have griff jenkins on the ground in eagle pass, texas. we begin with wi will cain liven el paso. good morning to you both. good morning. ggood morning,pete, good mornin. i m sitting here with joe sanchez, regional director of the dps. he will be with senators tomorrow morning who are ahead of joe biden s visit as well. i assume you ll be showing them around a little bit here, what s going on. i ll definitely be doing that tomorrow. we re excited about that. because as you all know, i think a lot of americans don t realize what s going on down here at the border and how especially how it s impacted local can communities, our tax paying dollars are going to sheltering a lot of migrants coming in. it s tying up a lot of alaw enforcement a
the national guard, that whole area that you re viewing right there was filled with over 2,000 migrants that were camped out for a very long time in that area until the government of mexico decided to go in there and give them a chance to get shelter and if they didn t, then they cleared them out. it basically cleared them out, right before that, though, border patrol had a surge of 300 that tried to rush them across the border. boborder patrol agents did a fie job of holding the line. troopers came to assist along with other law enforcement agencies. if we didn t have the coordination, it probably would have gotten out of hand. reporter: they tried to get across the border. 300 charged them. reporter: you said different places at different times the surge is coming and you just had to manage to push it back and it comes up somewhere else. right. so as you can see, when you re looking at the fence, the fence