birds are staggering as of sunday 565
unaccompanied children reportedly
crossing the border
an average per day up from 313 per day
last
month 4 200 children were told now in
custody
2904 of them held beyond
the 72-hour limit placed on the border
patrol
homeland security says the u.s could
soon reach the highest
number of people apprehended at the
border in more than 20
years immigration lawyers say migrants
are sending their children over the
border alone illegally
so they won't be sent back democrats are
blaming former president trump for the
overwhelming surge
at the border he and his successor
president joe biden
are speaking out tonight though the
biden administration still refuses to
call what's happening
a crisis people are coming in by the
hundreds of thousands
young children are coming in and they
leave their homes and they come up
because they think it's going to be
so wonderful and frankly our country
can't handle it
it is a crisis like we've rarely had
and certainly we've never had on the
border but it's going to get much worse
hello and welcome to fox news at night
i'm shannon bremen washington
white house correspondent kevin cork is
tracking what both presidents trump
invited are saying
about the border tonight good evening
kevin good evening
shannon from the sharp rise in gas
prices to
encouraging all americans frankly to
take that covet 19 vaccine if you can
president trump obviously had plenty to
say tonight about the state of the
country and most notably perhaps
about the job that joe biden is doing
and while he said he wasn't
quite sure if or when he might announce
another
run for perhaps office in the future he
certainly didn't have any shyness about
talking about
the things that he is seeing happening
on the border with respect to illegal
crossings
they're coming in from everywhere
they're dropping them off and they're
pouring into our country
it's a disgrace former president trump
holding nothing back in his assessment
of the devastating crisis on the
southern border
with illegal migration exploding on mr
biden's watch
and he says because of his lacks
policies
well my policies were working better
than they've ever seen on the southern
border the wall is almost complete
they should finish it but they're
destroying our country the pointed
comments
part of a wide-ranging conversation with
maria bartiromo on fox news prime time
and coming amid reports that there are
now upwards of 13
000 illegal migrant minors in u.s
custody along the border
a problem that the former president says
his successor is responsible for
but biden is pushing back on the idea
that he's somehow thrown down a welcome
mat for illegal migration
the idea that joe biden said come
because i heard the other day that
they're they're coming because they know
i'm a nice guy and i won't they're
streaming this
yeah well here's the deal they're not do
you have to say
quite clearly don't come yes i can say
quite clearly don't come
a message of don't come but policies say
critics
that won't turn them away if they do
with thousands of migrants now being
released into the interior of the
country
with no family match dna tests no covet
19 tests
and no guarantees they'll show up for
court dates once processed
in sharp contrast to his predecessors
border wall
and remain in mexico policies the former
president
also took a bit of a victory lap for his
administration's operation warped speed
which delivered multiple vaccines in
record time
and he encouraged all americans to get
the shot as soon as possible
we got the vaccine done in nine months
instead of five years unfortunately
that's not only going to save our
country it's going to save the world i
would
i would recommend it and i would
recommend it to
a lot of people that don't want to get
it
as for the possible 2024 white house run
the former president was a bit more
cautious as i mentioned earlier
he noted the quote excellent chance that
the gop has of flipping both the house
and the senate
and he said he'd like to see how that
all plays out before he makes any public
announcements about his intentions
though he did acknowledge shannon
he has plenty of support among gop
voters and i should also point this out
very quickly
march the 25th is when we will finally
get
a news conference from mr bite shannon
it is coming we know you will cover it
for us that night yes
thank you you bet