what's your take on ice right now i mean
there are some sources that have told me
ice has been effectively shut down by
this administration
do you see the support for ice from the
by the administration there's also a lot
of conversation on the ground according
to my sources
that there will be a lot of retirements
of
agents on the ground the border patrol
agents
and there isn't any plan to replace
those people so tell me about
the the strength that we have on the
ground
immigration enforcement within the
united states is dead
you know i i i when i retired from the
director of ice
you know i love every one of the twenty
thousand men and women that work for ice
they're american patriots they got a job
to do but they're not being allowed to
do the job
at the same time you got record number
of crossings on the on the border
you have a record number of low number
of ice arrests last month last last
month ice arresting deported
the least amount ever in the history of
the agency
90 percent of isis targets what they
would normally arrest the criminals are
coming out of jails
90 of the of the criminals they arrested
last year
can no longer be arrested this year ice
has been abolished without a boston room
so ice has been handcuffed and what's
really what people don't understand
these thousands of families coming
across
what happens to them even because 90
will lose their case get order removed
they people need to understand nothing's
going to happen to them because ice
can't arrest these family groups even if
they get an order from immigration judge
saying you must leave
you lost your case ice can arrest
non-criminals
so these people are here to stay and
they know that and the cartels are
playing that up hey we'll get you united
states
you can even lose your case and you get
to stay because ice has been crippled
well what struck me most was we've got
178 000 people apprehended at the border
in the month of april that's
178 000 in april 160
162 000 in the month of march 100
000 in february just keeps going up
these people want to get apprehended
because
they're legal i mean they get into this
country they get processed as you said
they're moving them through the
the tents pretty quickly so it never
looks overcrowded
but what about the guidaways 108 000
people
got away we don't know where they are
what their intentions are they got away
and so there's that we had congressman
elise stefanik on yesterday with me she
commented on the impact of the border
crisis and i'm told
that what happens at the border doesn't
stay at the border
narcotics reach places like new york her
state in
two days here she is on sunday morning
futures watch
border issues are not just for border
communities geographically along the
border
every town every city every state in
this country is impacted by the border
crisis
tom your thoughts well she's absolutely
right
my last trip to rio grande valley i took
a flight out of rio grande valley back
to dallas from my connecting back to dc
i counted 14 family units get on their
plane with their with their government
package
some were going to denver some were
going to washington some were going to
chicago some were going to new york
somewhere going to montana they're going
all over the country look
ms-13 alone that 1500 a day that's not
being caught a lot of them are gang
members
ms-13 is now in over 40 they're in 44
states
out of 50 states during 44 states this
is coming to a community near you
trauma center is going to be
overburdened school system is going to
be overburdened school class is going to
be bigger
these these folks coming into the
southwest border are traveling all
throughout the united states
not only to compete with americans for
for the mid
mid-level jobs they're bringing kovid to
a community near you
this administration is incompetent in
how they're handling the southern border
record number unprecedented the only
thing saving them from an all-in-one
war on the border right now just
unprecedented crisis
is title 42 because they are returning
about one-third of family earth
and and most of the single adults the
only thing saving them so title 42 is
sending them back to mexico which is a
trump policy
so thank god at least keep that policy
from trump administration
that's the only thing saving them right
now well there's
there's also this incredible amount of
narcotics sex
seven thousand or six thousand pounds of
illegal
narcotics seized at the border uh and
and
you know fentanyl is getting in here we
had 90
000 overdoses in the u.s over the last
year
largely due to fentanyl fentanyl
gets into this country into the interior
of our country and it begins right at
that border
let me bring in our panel here brian
brenberg jump in
yeah tom i want you to drill in a little
bit more on what you were just talking
about a second ago
so often this issue gets concentrated to
the southern border but i think the
story this year
is how illegal border crossings have
caused migration
into the country and throughout the
country and you know particularly
in the midwest i wonder if you could
talk a little bit about the patterns
we're seeing and connect that
specifically to some of the drug
movement that maria was just talking
about
well maria is exactly right and i've
said this many times the cartels
they use this humanitarian crisis
because the cartels of mexico they
decide where people cross and what time
they cross
and so they'll push a fam a 200 group of
family units through one area
then that that causes the bore patrol to
all send their all the resources over
there to deal with that humanitarian
crisis
then at the same time they do that the
cartels move their drugs
and their gang members the people that
don't want to be caught they move them
through the unsecured part of the border
border patrol has already said 40 40
of their manpower is no longer on the
line because they're dealing with this
humanitarian crisis
changing diapers making baby farming
making hospital runs so the cartels are
taking advantage of this and this is
when they move their uh opioids and
fentanyl through
we gotta remember it during the last
surge before this one
over 60 000 americans died from fentanyl
overdoses
because the border is not secure the
border is vulnerable
so so the humanitarian crisis and
president trump got this
the humanitarian crisis causes the
national security crisis
the problem is that by administration is
ignoring the national security crisis
they created
they created this this is by design they
could have kept trump policy and had a
secure border
not just the drugs women are being
trafficked i have a picture of a game
camera where
a a a young lady's being seen she's
handcuffed behind her back being marched
into united states
female trafficking is up child
trafficking is a gum children have died
crossing that border
i'm telling you children have died that
have not been found here i've done this
too long
so you know we've seen children abandon
the desert and thrown over the wall i
guarantee you
there will be some found that just
haven't been found yet this is a
travesty on the border
really it's a total travesty time it's
great to speak with you as always come
back soon
thanks