i'm sure the department is going to slow -- i hear this from my sources within cbp who pull these numbers for these reports together. but the reason -- when we had the humanitarian crisis, we talked about this before and the border patrol agents surged suro this area, the criminal cartels decide where the large groups go, what time they go because they know the border patrol will respond to the humanitarian crisis, that leaves the border empty and that's when they move the fentanyl across. it's a public health crisis. it's a national security crisis. when we have the border unguarded, how many people on terrorist watch lists got through with the 350,000. they arrested 11 this year on the terrorist watch list. these are people that don't want to get caught. they don't want to turn themselves in. maria: it's likely, because they don't want to get caught. so yeah, the gentleman who came on and said 100,000 was talking about the last few months. so it jives with what you're saying. you're saying 350,000 got-aways so far this year. let's talk about enforcement. the department of homeland secur

they suffered many covid deaths at cbp and border be patrol. they were at work this last year and-a-half. they weren't shut down. they didn't do their job by zoom. they were out there, protecting us each and every day. they deserve our support and having them put in this impossible situation where this unprecedented surge at the border, they don't deserve it. they deserve our praise, not our condemnation. dagen: the united states president, lying, lying, about what happened with those agents honorsback. lying about it. that's where we are -- horseback. that's where we are. always a pleasure, sir. thank you so much for being here. >> thank you. good morning. dagen: coming up, captain kirk heading to space for real. next, we'll take you live to texas ahead of the blue origin flight with william shatner on board. don't forget to tube into fox business prime time tonight, american gold starts at 8:00 p.m. eastern, followed by the pursuit with john rich. that's at 9:00. you're watching "mornings with maria" live on fox business. you founded your kay

del rio, i was under the bridge the day they had 18,000 migrant and the one thing they told me, the cbp officers, the border patrol officers, if you this this is bad just wait and here we are and, again, one of those things where what is the administration doing? they are leading us back into the crisis again and even worse crisis, an even worse situation where there are literally thousands of migrants who are coming up, many reporters have been covering this. at what point in time does the administration say enough is enough around apparently they ad apparently they are doing this themselves. maria: it's been fox news and fox business, this program. i went to the border three times. there are others at this network bill is doing an incredible job, sarah carter has done a great job so we are trying to put a spotlight on this situation because we recognize 1.7 million people were apprehended at the border year to date, that's 2021. we took a helicopter ride to see what is going on. that does not include the got-aways, where do you believe the people that don't want to get apprehended and