Fox News Live
January 8, 2023
1:08 p.m. Eastern
GRIFF JENKINS: Like clockwork -- all day, every day -- migrants come. Since our last trip one hour ago, we had a group of about 20 from Colombia, Nicaragua, and Ecuador -- about a dozen family units and six single adults. Let me take you up to our drone in the sky and show you Eagle Pass here, part of the Del Rio sector where officials tell me, in the last 24 hours, they've had 1,155 migrant encounters in just this sector alone. That's why you can see high in the sky the containers -- the shipping containers that Governor Greg Abbott -- Texas Governor Greg Abbott has placed here with razor wire on top to try and slow it down.
And, Mike, stunning new numbers. CBP sources giving Fox News early this morning across the entire Southwest border, we can show you nearly 170,000, and they are up more than 220 percent from this time last year. And that bottom number, Mike, more than 78,000 known got aways -- we don't know where they came from, where they're going, or why they are here. We just know that border officials observed them and were not able to bring them into custody.
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And, Mike, finally, one thing I just want to leave our viewers with because, having covered this for many years, one thing Mexico does is that they give every migrant that comes across in the southern part of Mexico. So when they cross from Guatemala, they get a temporary visa. This is a gentleman named Jonathan from Ecuador. He was stamped in from January 2 of this year, so just six days ago. He threw this and discarded it when he crossed because he didn't need it anymore. He had a 30-day visa to apply for asylum or whatever, but Mexico just facilitated the ease with which they moved north to come across.
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TOM HOMAN, FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR/FORMER ACTING ICE DIRECTOR: They want to parole 30,000 people a month. That's an abuse of the parole policy. The parole policy says you're going to parole somebody -- an individual -- on a case-by-case basis for a significant public benefit. You can't just group up 30,000 and bring them that's illegal. There's a lawsuit pending in Florida, and it's going to trial this week. So I think it's going to put a stop to this. This is smoke and mirrors.
So they're going to bring 30,000 people in, which will decrease the illegal entries by 30,000, they think. And then they'll claim victory. It's illegal, it's wrong, and it's just, again, they're legalizing illegal immigration. They should be securing the border. That's the number one thing the border patrol agents need. Secure the border first, and stop making up all these policies that are in violation of federal statute that they're going to end up losing in court.
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MIKE EMANUEL: Let's put on the screen the latest numbers from Customs and Border Protection (sic) -- 718,062 encounters; 198,071 Title 42 expulsions this fiscal year since October 1 -- 100 days. What do you make of those numbers?
HOMAN: Look, we're on a glide path to beat last year's historic numbers, which beat the first year's historic numbers. What people need to understand what no one is talking about is, based on court data, 90 percent of these people coming across the border claiming asylum don't qualify for asylum. They'll be ordered removed -- 90 percent. Look, they break the law when they enter the country illegally. That's a violation of Title 8 in the United States Code, 1325.
They commit a crime coming across the border illegally, they commit a crime by claiming asylum fraud -- which is a felony. They get ordered removed, and this administration is not even looking for them. So that sends a message to every country in the world, you can come to the United States, you'll be released, you can even lose your case, and you're going to get to stay, and you get a work authorization.
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