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while of course we are preparing for the
end of title 42 based on the centers for
disease control and prevention's
decision that it will end on may 23rd
that does not mean that the border is
open beginning on may 23rd we continue
to enforce the laws of this country
well that was secretary of homeland
security alejandra mayorkas on tuesday
insisting that the administration is
following the laws of this country and
yet there have been seven thousand
encounters of illegals every day most of
them released back into the country many
people have told us on this program the
administration in fact did not
reimplement the remaining mexico policy
fully despite a federal court order to
do so so are they really following the
laws of this country now a federal judge
has temporarily blocked the
administration from ending title 42
tomorrow as it has planned
the white house says this weekend it
will appeal the ruling so will they blow
off the court ruling again and what
about the thousands of people who had
planned to flood the border
ahead of monday's deadline to overturn
title 42 my next guest says it is too
late for the ruling and is he he is
expecting 18 000 apprehensions tomorrow
at the border and every day after
senator roger marshall is at the border
in mcallen texas this morning he sits on
the senate help committee and is also a
medical doctor himself senator it's good
to see you thanks very much for being
here i know you have done humanitarian
work all around the world
haiti you were in poland just a few
weeks ago how would you assess the
southern border today
well maria this is a human tragedy here
at night time it looks like a war zone
there's a sea of
humanitarian crisis here every evening
and every day it's lived out as well and
i want to just shout out the border
patrol officers are doing an incredible
job the department of public safety here
in texas all those people are doing the
best but they're just simply overwhelmed
this is an unsustainable crisis it's a
war zone every night i'm calling on joe
biden to come down here and see this for
himself and i don't mean do a fly by
stop at the airport here in mcallen he
needs to come down and spend some time
on the river he needs to fish people out
of this rio grande river behind me after
they've traveled thousands of miles he
needs to go
up the interstate here 60 miles and pick
up people that have been traveling for
two or three days without water in in
the in the desert here as well he needs
to go with those farmers and ranchers
who are finding dead bodies on their on
their ranches now most most every day
now they're finding dead bodies
unbelievable and i have a shot of one
dead dead body found by christopher
oliveira's this is the department of
public safety and christopher oliveira's
pointed out that this woman is from
honduras she was found dead
in the brush he says that in april there
was a record high in the department of
homeland security history 234 000
encounters
uh over 118 000 released into the
country
this is a record number of people coming
over fentanyl seized by cpb officers
nearly 1400 pounds seized of fentanyl in
the month of april tell me what you're
expecting and do you think that they
will pause lifting title 42 after the
federal judge order to do so tomorrow
well maria nobody told the migrants that
are stacked up like cordwood on the
other side of the river that title 42 is
not ending tomorrow joe biden has to
stop sending this signal to everybody he
needs to stop making this a magnet
so this when he said when he announced
he was ending title 42 that was the bang
for the rest of the world and like you
said there's been about 8 000 encounters
per day we expect that to go to 18 000
starting tonight and that's already what
double from what was a year ago and i
just want to circle back on one point
the ranchers i visited with yesterday on
their ranches when president trump was
president they would see one or two dead
bodies per year they've already found a
hundred bodies on one ranch on
year-to-date right now so this is
exploding the fentanyl all those issues
you talked about is why this is a war
zone this is why this is important to
kansas this is why kansas is no longer a
border state
i've got numbers here from the
department of public safety that the
mexican drug cartels are making 200
million dollars a week
i went down to the border the last time
i was there a few months ago was my
fourth time at the border and they told
me that it was a hundred million a week
then the other day christopher oliveiras
told me they're making 200 million a
week and the charge in terms of the
heads they charge four thousand dollars
ahead if you're from
uh the northern triangle but up to
twenty to thirty thousand dollars if
you're from the middle east and they're
actually charging fifty thousand dollars
ahead if you're from china we know that
migrants are coming from 160 countries
overall
uh what what is the word when you speak
with uh my orcis or or this
administration when you put these facts
in front of them this is obviously a
national security risk
right well they're derelict in their
duties our president's derelict and his
duties so is our secretary
who's who's supposedly visited down here
as well i don't know what they're seeing
that i'm not but you're right those
numbers sound very accurate to me if you
figure there's 8 000 people crossing a
day that we're apprehending twice that
number getting across the border let's
just call it 25 000 people every day and
we're and we're paying the cartel we uh
through our ngos all these people down
in in the in the triangle are paying
three thousand four thousand seven
thousand dollars a person joe biden is
making the cartel rich and he's
threatening our national security maria
this is the greatest national security
crisis that's immediately facing this
nation right now
well it's incredible that we don't have
anything uh stopping it from the is this
intentional that the administration
wants all of these people eighteen
thousand people coming across in one day
we we don't have the border agents to
actually police
that right that's why this crisis is
unsustainable and again i just can't
tell you even over the last year uh
operation lone star what governor abbott
is down here done down here putting
layer after layer putting state troopers
on boats on the river behind me yeah
interacting the direct department of
public safety with the national guard
with the border patrol the sheriff's
officers layer after layer just like you
would do in wartime trying to slow down
this enemy the human trafficking the
human smuggling is exploding as well no
week it's unsustainable this is
completely unsustainable we're in the
middle of a great migrant crisis right
now
well the other thing is that it's
emotional because you're seeing these
people dying in front of you i mean how
many people do they jam into one car
when you find these migrants they're
dehydrated and starving right
right maria like you mentioned i've done
humanitarian work all over the world
and i'm not bothered by a lot of things
but just get going to the detention
center the first night and again the
border patrol doing everything
humanitarian possible but before they
get their shower before they brush their
teeth for the first time in two weeks
before they've had food before they get
hydrated
it is absolutely a crisis to see two
beautiful little girls ages six and
eight on the river by themselves with uh
with their parents that paid the cartel
to get them get them to this country
they gave them a phone number to call
when they got here uh being up about 100
miles north of here past a a certain
checkpoint
we found a young lady that was dying as
well
dehydrated so it is absolutely just just
riveting to see the uh what what people
are going through it's a heartbreak it's
certainly a heartbreak senator thanks
for going down there and waiting until
tomorrow to see what takes place and if
they do blow off the federal ruling
again senator roger marshall we will
talk soon thanks very much sir