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outside the sacred heart shelter, doesn't if not more migrants sleeping on the ground outside city streets inside the shelter, 140 migrants, mostly women and children. it is a very active area as far as migrants in el paso. this shelter and church bear the brunt of the immigration crisis in el paso. we spoke with the director, the court documents and immigration paperwork. we can't confirm how many were processed or how many got across the border. cvp sources tell fox news 83,000 migrants crossed into the us border at the southern border. the border wall, hundreds of migrants arrived on the first
and republicans say the debt limit hike needs to be paired with major domestic spending cuts. did the president tell you that there were any spending cuts that he would be open to? >> well, i asked him numerous times, are there some places we could find savings? he wouldn't give me any, so i'm hopeful that we will be able to find them. >> reporter: top aides from both sides are going to keep talking, but there is not much time left to work this out. congress only has 12 working days between now and june 1st, norah. >> norah: quite a stalemate. nancy cordes, thank you. well, in another deadline facing the biden administration, border cities have declared states of emergency as thousands of migrants await the ending of the pandemic-era rule known as title 42. cbs's manuel bojorquez reports president biden spoke with mexico's president by phone today to try to work on some possible solutions to this ing cr >> reporter: hundreds of migrants continue to arrive in
>> agua! >> reporter: already on texas soil, technically having already illegally crossed the rio grande, hundreds of migrants camp out between the barbed wire and 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. the pandemic-era policy offering no geuarantees for their asylum claims to be heard if it expires thursday, title 8 takes over, requiring asylum officers to process each claim, potentially overwhelming border officials, already trained. strained. worsening this humanitarian crisis, the heat. some 90 degrees at midday. you see people bundled up in winter coats and blankets, useful for the night chill and to shield themselves from the scorching sun. we want some mexican locals to
title 42. so here at the border, we've had this camp here for days with more migrants arriving. yesterday we were in tijuana to see what the shelters were like. in fact, we were at that port of entry where the legal way to seek asylum takes place, and as you saw yesterday, it was quite empty because there isn't very many appointments given. behind me, you can see hundreds of migrants, a camp that continues to grow, of individuals that come across the first border wall to then turn themselves in to border patrol and seek asylum. they say they're forced to do this after trying to use the app, some say for weeks, some say for months, which has not worked for them. this is what they do. last night for the first time in the last few days, it rained, so a lot of them spent the night in the cold and also getting wet. here's a conversation i had with a migrant just minutes ago. >> it was terrible because all my things and with the rain wet -- >> are you wet right now? are you wet? >> yes.
♪ >> bret: hundreds of migrants are just south of the u.s.-mexico border tonight. they're hoping to get across the boundary legally. but it's a long and frustrating effort. once title 42 ends, they may try another way. national correspondent william la jeunesse is in imperial beach, california this evening. >> we have border patrol will come and make contact. >> they wait when n. what is called no mad's land migrants under tarps ordering food delivery from the mexico side as they wait to seek asylum. the migrants scale the primary fence with a ladder but not the second higher fence. some have waited for days for customs and border protection to open the gates. but sources tell us they are out of agents and processing centers
river. that fencing and then on the other side, that's the u.s. though camped out between the barbed wire and border fencing, you see hundreds of migrants. this is only a very small portion of the tens of thousands that have come here waiting to try to figure out how they can get over. we should point out title 42, while it's still in effect, what that means for these migrants here is that in the next hour, days, pretty scorching heat without much access to food or water, they will hope to be processed up there at that enter i point and little by little, they're being allowed in to start their processing for claiming asylum. under title 42, they can be deported to places like right across the river. then they can hours later, try again. what's going to change when it expires is title 8 will take effect and that means the
mexican cartel claiming the border was open, saying the u.s. was rolling out the welcome mat, all that not true. bill melugin live for more on this today. hello, bill. >> bill: bill, good morning, that is right. fox news spoke to the migrants involved in the ush are at the border and they told us it stemmed from a facebook post that went viral among the migrants that promised them they would be let into the country if they showed up at the bridge. show this video, exclusive fox news video from juarez, you see hundreds of migrants pushing past border guards and running to the bridge. a lot of them are cheering and sound excited and jubilent. they think they will run across that bridge and get into the united states. they were blocked by cbp and the
hi, matt. >> hi, gillian. today alone here in eagle pass, texas, we're along the border. our crew has seen four didn't migrant crews cross in to the united states totalling hundreds of migrants. the flow is not slowing down here in eagle pass, texas. it did not slow down over the christmas holiday weekend. cbp sources say from december 23 through december 25, there were 16,476 encounters at the southern border. 2,150 migrants were expelled under title 42 there were 14,326 migrants that were released here in to the united states. here's the vice president for the national border patrol council responding. >> the cartels, the human smuggling organizations, they don't care what side of the aisle you vote on or stand on. this is a problem that needs to be done and taken care of. it's affecting everybody. you send more troops down there, you try to redirect the traffic.
into private property near a pecan orchard then waited for border patrol processing as title 4 # remains in place for now. at the same time, on the other side of town, another group of well over 100 had crossed illegally, while hours beforehand this group of roughly 200 migrants had crossed, with law enforcement escorting them down a local highway into border patrol custody. in el paso, hundreds of migrants camped on the rio grande in frigid temperatures last night after crossing illegally onto the u.s. side of the river. many of them trying to stay warm with camp fires. coils of razor wire continue to separate texas national guard soldiers and the migrants who hope to be let into the u.s. >> we want to know what will happen to us. and it's sad because, honestly, they don't let us through and we are here freezing to death. >> texas governor greg abbott says the biden administration has failed at the border. >> they have handled the border crisis and created the border crisis in the jacket same way