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Andrea Mitchell Reports

correspondent ryan nobles. the biden administration is also asking the supreme court to allow border patrol to cut or move the razor wire at the texas border. what's the latest from the courts? you've got greg abbott, the governor, up against not only the big cities, sending migrants to them, but up against the justice department now. >> reporter: yes, and andrea, this is the third ongoing lawsuit between the biden administration and governor greg abbott's administration over those policies he's put in place where texas is trying to take stands on the border by putting up buoys along the rio grande valley while sending buses of migrants into u.s. cities, while trying to allow state judges to deport migrants. the razor wire issue is now being sent back -- well, they have told -- they've asked the supreme court to tell the fifth circuit that they should be allowed to cut the razor wire. just today the solicitor general said while they are deciding this, they should know that

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Americas Newsroom

and removed, he said. that's not the reality of what we're seeing on the ground here in the rio grande valley where we continue to see mass releases of migrants from the federal government. our team shooting this video in just a few hours in mcallen outside of catholic charities of the rio grande valley, we witnessed bus load after bus load of migrants dropped off by the feds. family units mostly. once they get to the charity they get helped with travel paperwork and going across the united states. some will have court dates several years into the future. border patrol agents telling us migrant families when they encounter them don't hope for release, they expect it and they have little to no fear of deportation when they turn themselves into agents in the field. this is just one location like this. there are many of them all across the southern border where these mass releases take place. take a look at this video here in the rio grande valley in mission. our team embedded with texas dps had their eye on a human smuggler guiding a group of

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America Reports

mission, texas. what's the story where you are there now? >> john, good afternoon to you. our viewers might remember the day before title 42 ended back in may, dhs secretary mayorkas held a press conference at the white house where he promised there would be stiffer consequences for anybody caught crossing the border illegally after the end of title 42. what he had to say back then. >> i want to be very clear. our borders are not open. people who cross our border unlawfully and without a legal basis to remain will be promptly processed and removed. >> will be promptly removed, he said at the time. well, that is not reality what we are seeing on the ground here in the rio grande valley, we see mass releases of migrants taking place from the federal government. our team shooting this video, catholic charities of rio grande valley here in the mcallen area, we watched bus load of bus load

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something for migrants. bill melugin is in mission, texas. >> a major update to a cartel story we brought to our viewers last week. let's get into the photos which we showed last week showing several armed cartel gunmen crossing illegally here into the rio grande valley in the texas area. texas dps confirms to fox news two of those gunmen have been arrested crossing illegally in the same area while armed with guns again. right into the new photos courtesy of law enforcement sources showing two of the cartel gunmen in handcuffs after a joint operation between texas dps and federal government. they had six magazines full of 556 ammo on them including one magazine with military-green green tip ammo for extra armor penetration. who rifles were found. one an m-four, other ak-47 ditched in the rio grande.

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Fox News Live

texas with more of that. hi bill. >> a large majority of what we are seeing crossing here in the rio grande valley our families and unaccompanied minors as you just mentioned were to take a look at these photos we just got from texas dps. this is an sullivan city about five minutes away from them senate right now for the came across a group of 10 of these unaccompanied minors traveling completely alone there between ages 10 and 16 all from guatemala and honduras for the told troopers and border patrol they came across the river on rafts from human smugglers and to put this in perspective listen to this project since joe biden took office, there have now been over 300,000 of these unaccompanied minors at our border according to cbp records. we'll take you out to el paso a human smuggling stash house busted by border patrol out there but take a look at these photos, 50 illegal immigrants found being kept in the single stash house but what happens is they cross illegally then the cartels and smugglers seem to hold them some refer they tried to move them further into the u.s. that is with the stash houses

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Jesse Watters Primetime

crying in the middle of the night and border patrol says most of the family units are being released into the united states with a future court date. they know that that's why they turn themselves into border patrol and not afraid to be removed that's not the only group but just one hour later another large group family units in the middle of the night as the biden administration promises of consequences have fallen on deaf ears then not afraid of being deported or removed and looking for the patrol to read remove themselves in that it has been very busy that yesterday alone border patrol made more than 6000 arrests at the southern border. the number one sector right here in the rio grande valley with more than 1800 illegal crossings in a single day. >> jesse: fox news alert the death toll has gone up again and the wildfires. 67 people confirmed dead. terrifying new footage emerges showing the people of maui jumping into the ocean as flames

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Jesse Watters Primetime

that wasn't the only group, though. crf the st look at this. just an hour later, 4 a.m. near sullivan city, anotherte.y large group of migrants crossed illegally. again, family unitr later s, well over 100 of them in the middle of the night as they administration's promises of fallequences apparently are falling on deaf ears with these migrants. they are not afraid of being deported or removed,ot and they are looking for border patrol to turn themselves in, expectindeportedlooking g relea. and it's been very busy. cbp sources telling me thatrdaya alone the border patrol madelo more than 6000 arrests of illegal immigrants at our southern border, the number one sector being right here in the rio grande valley with more than the southe nu 18l crossings in a single day. we'll send it back to you. y. >> fox news alert. the death toll in the maui wildfires has gone up again. 67 people now confirmed dead as terrifying new footage emerges. merges >> the people of maui jumping into the ocean as the flames ui

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Cavuto Live

seeing is it's the cartels who call the shots down here. they are the ones who decide who does or does not cross this border. in this video, it is a reflection of that. take a look. images courtesy of a texas dps drone down in brownsville. you will see armed cartel members with machetes who are threatening and extorting migrants at the edge of the river telling them you better pay us or you're not crossing. one of the migrants get smacked in the back with a machete before he gets his bags emptied out. you will see a big group of migrants going running all over the place as cartel members with machetes approach them and start threatening them. now, some of the migrants who made it across the river told texas dps yeah these guys were threatening us, but once we paid them, they did allow us to cross. that is why you often see people coming across the border with those cartel wristbands on indicating that they have paid the cartel. busy out here in the rio grande valley, take a look at this video. mass illegal crossings beginning out here once again. this was early in the morning 3:00 a.m. in texas, a huge group of several hundred migrants that

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when the feds use razor wire, nobody complains but when we do it we are called barbaric and cruel towards migrants. back out here live, very busy in the rio grande valley, sources telling me that yesterday there were more than 1500 illegal crossings in the sector. earlier this week, we had a few days where there were more than 6,000 illegal crossings per day across the country. back to you. >> charles: thank you very much. as i mentioned, my next guest testified at a border hearing this week. he says the challenges there are far from over. he is joining us now. that was very powerful testimony that you gave, and i think one of the things that's so alarming about it, sheriff, is how quickly the narrative has changed, from being able to rappel these folks and protect americans to almost losing this battle or maybe losing this battle. >> thanks for having me, charles. good to see you again. the testimony is the reality of

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texas, with more. bill. >> reporter: molly, good afternoon. the rio grande valley sector is back to being number one in terms of illegal crossings. i'm told by sources yesterday alone there were more than 1,500 illegal crossings just here in the rgv sector. we'll show you what we saw last night. right here where i'm standing after the sun went down, groups of migrants starting to cross illegally, predominantly family units, parents with their kids, little toddlers, unaccompanied young children, that sort of thing as we're starting to see a return of families crossing in big numbers here at the border. then as you take a look at this video of migrant buses that texas has been ebb sending to sanctuary cities, confirming that a young migrant child passed away on one of their migrant with buses to chicago. they point out, the state of texas does, that everybody signs a voluntary consent waiver, they get water, food, air-conditioning and when the child started getting sick or whatever happened, they called 911, and they had a translator

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