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day to all those who are irish and everyone else who wish they were. we are monitoring texas right now with the drone view you will see only here on fox. meanwhile, 400 miles north in dallas, the governor getting ready to give an update on the migrant kids the state is holding and overflow facilities there. >> sandra: president biden told those migrants, do not come over to the u.s. but in cities like war as mexico, that is not stopping thousands from making the dangerous journey, cartels and smugglers also taking advantage of this situation. "the new york post" slamming the bite adm...

Biggest campaign promise, the wall. how much of it is actually being built? nbc shows us what is happening with it. marianna? >> reporter: so what is the state of the president's wall? as of last thursday, only 83 miles of mostly replacement wall has been built. the president now asking for almost 500 miles, by 2020. is it going upping up or not? when we got on the ground to do the story, i personally saw a portion of the wall going up in arizona. but it is more complicated than it seems and everything that has been built so far has mostly been replacement wall. does that constitute a campaign...

Barriers but working with the government letting them lease her land during construction for a say in the process. >> we will never say we wanted it, but that's where we turned around and we went and said, okay. if it's going to happen then we're going to be involved. >> reporter: involved in the future of the wall. for the next generation of ranchers. >> seeing a border wall fragment the landscape is a heartbreak but i know roots run deeper than politics and my family heritage will outstand whatever issues we face here and i'm excited to keep thatay. >> reporter: as of last thursday only 83 m...

Figures, but nearly all of that is classified as replacement wall. it's not new wall. the white house declined to comment on the report, and the paper notes kushner's defenders in the administration say he is bringing a private sector approach to the project. that brings us to steve ratner's chart. it's not just "the washington post" reporting, it's also the commissioner of customs and border protection who said from the podium at the white house, 83 miles of wall, all of it just renovation of existing wall. there has been no new wall. there is no new wall. >> not quite, but let me come to tha...

That would be replaced as part of his thousand miles. and as you said earlier, 83 miles of replacement wall has actually been built so far. but there has been some new wall started. there are eight miles of new wall that has been started. would anyone like to hazard a guess on how much of the eight miles of new wall that has been started has actually been finished? >> susan del percio? >> how about none? >> close, 32 feet. they have actually completed 32 feet of new wall. so let's take a look at what trump is up against or what jared kushner is up against. as you heard, they want to have 450 f...