group with the very latest polling numbers with now 48 hours until election day. then, the senate contest that the everybody is watching, two of the most competitive races right here with football great and georgia peach senate candidate herschel walker closing in on his democrat opponent and north carolina senate story y all candidate and current congressman ted budd with closing arguments, coming up live. all of this as desperate democrats get personal and bring out the big guns in the final days to try and convince voters inflation and spiking crime are not really impacting american families after all. herschel walker was a heck of a football player. i mean, some of you are a too young to remember, but in college, he was amazing. one of the best running backs of all tile. all time. but here s the question, does that make him the best person to represent you? they don t care about keeping you safe, they want to keep you scared. and the thing about kathy hochul is sh
united states/mexico border illegally waving the venezuelan flag, and then they started attacking border patrol agents in just the latest example of president biden s lax border policy and these stunning numbers, take a look, for the just-completed fiscal year. nearly 2.4 million migrants were encountered by border agent, at least 599,000 evaded apprehension. that s part of the 1 million who got away that we know of in the last year and a half. the trek is a dangerous one through the rio grande and some 856 migrants are dead, they died while making the dangerous trek crossing the border. while more than 14,000 pounds of fentanyl have been seized in the last first fiscal year fiscal year. joining me now to examine the devastating results is texas republican congressional candidate monika de la cruz who switched parties and virginia congressional candidate yesli vega.
agents on our border. we re having to have local law enforcement support border patrol agents because the amount of illegal immigrants crossing through our border is just so big for our brave border patrolmen and women. and it is dangerous. there are several stories where not just do they have a rock hit on their arm, but have actually died. in the last year we had a border patrol agent who actually drowned in the rio grande river saving an illegal immigrant. it is a dangerous job, and border patrol agents are putting their lives on the line for our community, and it has been devastating for our local communities. maria: ladies, tell me about your opponents because, monika, it s really hard to, you know, ignore this at this point. i mean, we know that fentanyl poisoning s going on across the country. and while it comes through the
women and hispanics moving toward the gop amid shocking new footage from el paso of migrants crossing the southern border illegally waving the venezuelan flag and attacking the brave men and women of border patrol. texas congressional candidate monika de la cruz and virginia congressional candidate yesli vega are here on why hispanics and voting republicans and why even legal immigration has been impacted by biden s border policy. that s next.
maria: monika, we have pictures, one of my border sources in el paso sent me a shot of one of the border patrol agents actually having his arm impacted because the migrants from venezuela were throwing rocks at them, and he s going to be okay, he s fine. but a rock hit him, and, you know, he was trying to defend the border. and, you know, we see, what, 2.5-5 million people having crossed on joe biden s watch. how has that changed the neighborhoods and the border town that you represent? the biden-pelosi border agenda has been horrific for specifically border patrol agents and local law enforcement. the biden administration is not funding the border patrol. in fact, what they re doing is funding 87,000 irs agents when we need 87,000 border patrol