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Crisis, and the rgv sector. i'll be there, i leave at 6:00 a.m. tomorrow morning and yet here we go again, you're going to have former president trump saying look at this. look at this out of control border that's on fire, and she wouldn't even come and look at it. it comes, by the way, when you have a lot of leadership changes as well and the border patrol and i expect we'll hear a little bit from president trump about that and he'll put it on the administration. >> griff, i will never forget when you were in the rio grande river, like literally in the middle of the river i was like oh, my go...

Agents on the river means more illegals and possibly more contraband and drug coming into the u.s., guys. emily: can you speak to the that fatigue the level of hose agents? how are they holding up during this, as you said, extreme stressful situation? >> reporter: it's a great question, emily. listen, these guys are working around the clock, they're on 12 the-hour shifts, and they're doing this all day long. i've been here for three days and, you know, it's exhausting work. this is a massive, massive, porous board. in the rgv sector, this busiest sector, it's only 277 miles of river to cover, ...

Well, here to react, chief border patrol officer in rio grande situation, manuel pa dix a or jr. whom the white house plans to select as the new director of the joint task force west. chief, thank you for joining us, and congratulations on the assignment. >> thank you for having me, guys. griff: now, i had the fortune to spend some time with you a few months ago down in the rgv sector, as it's known. it appears it may be even worse than ever. what is the situation? >> yeah. so we're -- it's still a chaotic situation. we're nearing 162 the ,000 apprehensions, and that reflects a 50% increase ov...

The family unit and the uac population and the impact that it has on our operations. so statistically, the southwest border is 2,000 miles of border. we have nine sectors throughout those 2,000 miles of border. our gv sector currently accounts for 44% of all the marijuana that is seized all cross the southwest border. 40% of the apprehensions that are made across the southwest border, and 38% of all the cocaine seized along the southwest border. and that is from a border patrol perspective only. that does that include ports of entry about that so when you have these high levels of activity and...

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