en la joya hubo pÁnico porque un hotel albergaba indocumentados. reportero: angÉlica se alarmÓ cuando se enterÓ que un hotel de su vecindario estaba lleno de inmigrantes con covid—19. >> estÁn enfermos, eso estÁ mal, estÁn enfermando a la comunidad . reportero: ella y muchos habitantes de la joya, texas, estÁn asustados por los crecientes aumentos en el nÚmero de casos y los inmigrantes que cruzan por los terrenos y no paran. >> no sabÍamos que tenÍan covid. reportero: en las Últimas 24 horas, 835 inmigrantes han cruzado ilegalmente por este lugar. el incidente que detonÓ el pÁnico en esta tranquila comunidad del sur de texas ocurriÓ cuando una ciudadana llamo a la policÍa al ver que una madre con sus dos pequeÑos tosida y estornuda van constantemente en el interior de esta restauran. >> dijeron que estaban enfermos de covid, que por eso estaban en el hotel. reportero: el hotel fue rentado por caridades catÓlicas para poner en cuarentena a los positivos para covid 19. sus instalaciones estÁn saturadas desde la semana pasada. hoy

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la joya, texas remains on high alert for covid transmission as infected migrants are released into the public there. rich edson reports tonight from the border and la joya. >> hundreds of migrants packed between beneath the bridge mexico and united states. they are crossing in this week groups of 400 to 500. groups i joya, texas say all this processing and paper work is distracting from others crossing the rio grande. >> while we are doing this, there is other people crossing but those people are not here to seek asylum. >> police here say they are working overtime pursuing suspected smugglers, traffickers and murderer he is. >> they have taken people back across into mexico against their will. and then you don't see them anymore. >> in the city of la joya, officials are also addressing significant covid concerns. a charity has rented out a hotel to house covid-positive migrants. customs and border protection says officers give these migrants masks and take them to local health providers if they show symptoms. though since federal officials have paroled them into the u.s. they can go i

correspondent rich edson is in la joya, texas tonight. >> in la joya, texas town of 4500 residents. officials say their border down has experienced migrant surges before. this time there is a significant difference. >> no one told the police department that these people were here. and no one told us that these people were possibly ill. police say catholic charities has rented this hotel to house migrants who have tested positive for covid-19. they say they only found out when a customer at a burger restaurant next door flagged down a patrolling officer and told them the family inside was sneezing, coughing and unmasked. miss told them borders and custom protectioning screened them a few days earlier and they were positive for covid. >> they were walking around and the police department put out a health alert because some of them were sick. >> la joya's mayor claims there is no communication between the federal government and local charities helping these migrants. police say cbp released the migrants to catholic charities. officials issued the migrants forms to register within 60 da

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they've encountered hundreds of migrants today around la joya, texas. that's on top of the 20,000 border patrol agents say they apprehended last week alone in the broader rio grande valley. officials in nearby mcallen say they never seen this many migrants travel to their city. with covid rates rising, they say they are urging the biden administration to maintain a policy that denies certain migrants entry into the united states because of the pandemic. and authority known as title 42. >> we know that if it does, if it goes away we can expect our numbers most likely to increase dramatically. >> it administration officials have considered terminating title 42 as early as this month. the white house says the authority will remain in place as long as health officials recommend it. customs and border protection's says it has expelled more than 750,000 migrants under title 42 since october. in the rio grande valley sector, about 70 border patrol agents have tested positive for covid-19. it more than a quarter of the unaccompanied children deported this week

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they are talking about la joya, texas. they are on high alert right now after positive migrants were turned over from the feds to catholic charities. i'm sure you've heard about this story who then transported them to hotels and then they were basically let loose. they are roaming the streets. nobody has any idea who tested positive or not. now they are wandering in communities, potentially infecting a lot of innocent civilians. across the state at the fort bliss shelter another crisis there. migrant children. hundreds of them contracting covid and spreading it to many employees. a sliver of the chaos going on at the border. >> 100%. look, the biden administration just extended the travel -- the border closure to fully vaccinated canadians at the northern border. if you are a fully vaccinated canadian trying to come into the country to do business or vacation or whatever, you can't come into the country. if you're an american citizen and you go to mexico, you have to have a negative covid test to get back into your own cou

meet the sergeant in la joya, texas first exposed it and now calling it a crisis. get a quote today. >> if they are covid positive, it's not fair to local communities. people are being released there that might have covid-19 and we need to make sure that we communicate with each other and what i'm asking for the biden administration, do a pause, they need to prioritize border communities, they need to prioritize the men and women of dhs. it's certainly not fair for the border communities to -- to leave people that are sick and not even tell the local communities like la joya. charles: texas democrat congressman henry cuellar with me on your world this week calling out the biden administration as covid cases are surging at the border. my next guest says this is a health risk for americans, his department was the first to expose the situation in la joya. sergeant manuel, sergeant, just share your story. it's fascinating. you've met this family at a whataburger? >> yes, sir, good morning, charles. yes, that's correct. this week we ran into this family at a whataburger

griff: jonathan serrie live for us in la joya, texas. jonathan, thank you very much. for more on the latest, let's go to to the border in del rio, the national border patrol council president brandon judd joins me where the governors of florida and texas will be there. of brandon, thanks for taking time for joining us. let me build upon jonathan serrie's last part of his report there talking about the possible lifting of title 42. when i looked at these numbers, i looked in the rgv sector, particularly the hardest hit area at the other than mexican, non-unaccompanied children. that's a little technical there, but that's basically single adults that aren't from mexico, those from the northern triangle, up more than 756%. does that trend worry you when you look at the possibility of lifting title 42? >> it's one of the biggest worries that we have right now. when you talk about getting rid of title 42 and you're talking about an unprecedented crisis we've never seen before and we're dealing with so many people from around the world not just mexico, not just the northern

meanwhile, a terrifying covid alert in la joya, texas part of the rgv where they're seeing a spike among migrants i don't. outrage abbott bands anyone other than state and law enforcement official from transporting migrants to try and stop the spread of covid into texas. >> the biden administration cares more about people who are not residents of america. he has one standard trying to mask up and vaccinated our fellow americans by allowing free pass into the united states of people with a high probability of covid and then spreading that covid up in our communities. griff: this comes after news broke on a catholic charity on la joya placing covid-positive migrants into a local hotel discovered by police only after a what a burger customer notified them of a family coughing and sneezing unmasked inside a restaurant. are family said processed a few days earlier and they had tested positive for covid. finally guys, "the washington post" reporting this morning that the administration is halting plans to end title 42, which we have talked a lot about on this program. they are going to halt it

joya texas esperan 50 emigrantes en cuarentena por coronavirus pero una madre con dos niños menores rompieron el cerco y fueron a comprar una hamburguesa sin utilizar mascarilla y estornudando sin taparse la boca hecho que fue nunciado a la policía por una clienta >> sí estaban enfermos debe algo y de inmediato dijeron que si tenemos covid-19 >> una parte del hotel con 30 familias contagiadas de covid-19 es rentado por la organización caridades católica de la hmana pimentel que reconoció noticias telemundo el incidente pero descarta que haya una alerta porque los inmigrantes estén preparandol covid-19 >> tenemos guarda de seguridad que están para y estar, para ayudar que esto no ocurra porque normalmente no ocurre esto lo hacemos por dos años en diferentes partes del valle >> el alcalde prometió reforzar el hotel con la policía >> designará alguien para que esté ahí vigilando y que no salga alguien >> el incidente corrió como pólvora en el valle y algunos pobladores están temerosos >> nosotros ya estamos vacunados y pues tenemos menos probabilidad que nos dé pero no

correspondent jonathan serrie shows us tonight from la joya, texas. >> waive after wave, more than 200 men, women and children walked past an unfinished section of the u.s. border wall in la joya, texas today voluntarily turning themselves in to federal authorities on the other side. these groups of migrant families are generally peaceful. but they drain limited resources as border patrol agents also face a criminal element trying to avoid detection. just a mile from where the family groups came, in we watched a young man jump into a water filled ditch in hopes of evading border patrol agents. once he realized he was surrounded, he gave up. >> people turn themselves. in the numbers keep climbing and climbing. of the people that are running that number keeps climbing and climbing as well. we are completely overwhelmed. >> during the predawn hours today, florida congresswoman kat cammack led a delegation from her state to the border wall where a large gathered. speaking us through the wall this mother from honduras explains her reasons for walking into the u.s. with her 1-year-old child.

here is a la joya, texas police sergeant. >> if they want to leave and get in a car we cannot stop them. we don't have no proof they're positive for covid-19 and until there is a mandate that gives us the authority to do that, we cannot stop these people from moving wherever they are going to move. >> harris: we're not testing these people before they get to walk around? do they have to wear a mask? call the cdc. meanwhile, axios is reporting that 50,000 migrants have been released without court dates while only 13% have actually shown up to meet with ice officers. republicans torching the report on twitter. tom cotton calls it lawless. another says it's a complete disaster. jason chaffetz fox news contributor former utah congressman, great lawmaker formerly all together. good to see you, jason. so how do we stop this from happening? >> it's totally preventable. first of all you can't have open borders. if you are detaining people and catching people coming across the border, you need to test them. they need to go to quarantine. what is sickening about this is if you come here illegally

take a look at the video we shot here in la joya, texas. the hot weather not stopping the migrants from coming. they come every day here all times of day. this was a family that came through, about a dozen of them. they gave themselves up to border patrol, and while they were being processed, we heard on radio that there were runners coming across elsewhere. that just goes to show, it's a mix of family units and runners trying to get away. governor greg ab9 bot recently announced texas is going to start building its own border barrier system. he said this is the beginning of that. what you're looking at is drone video out of the del rio area where he says private landowners have agreed to allow some barrier fencing to go up for the state of texas. it appears to be a chain-link fence. i'm told they're going to put no trespassing signs on those fences, if anybody crosses, they can be arrested by local authorities on those trespassing charges. former i.c.e. director tom homan spoke earlier today, he says any barrier whatsoever is better than w

la entraday se llevaron las joyas. el gerente del establecimiento dice de que está molesto porque la policía tardo mucho en acudir a la escena. si no valgo los informados dicen que llegaron lugar seño 2 después de la llamada al 9 11 >>> esta mañana un grupo de mexicanos se plantó frente al consulado de méxico en san josé para exigir atención a la inseguridad que sufre (nombre extranjero) muchos tienen seres queridos y aseguran que no los ha podido verbo ayudar dada la gravedad... >>> desde el consulado mexicano en san josé, face anuncio solicitaron un (nombre extranjero) michoacán donde la inseguridad se ha recrudecido por la disputa del territorio entre células del crimen organizado... >>> (inaudible) >>> lanzando consignas a las autoridades mexicanas, se unieron al pedido de los pobladores que dicen que llevan meses atrapados y requieren hasta de los más básicos... su sentir transmite desespero!. y desesperanza... sin embargo con movimientos como este esperan captar la atención de las autoridades feder

fox news's rich edson is in la joya with the latest. rich? reporter: david, here in la joya, say they apprehended 400 migrants in this sector this morning. that is on top of 500 just in this area last evening. customs and border protection will process them. some cases take many families, who are covid positive to a charity and then they go to a hotel room specifically in this area. that is something that the local police say is a real problem for them. >> it's a danger to everybody else. you know, sometimes we get calls these migrants are walking through people's backyards and they're concerned. sometimes they tell us they're hiding in their sheds. we have to go out there as police officers and enforce these laws. reporter: customs and border protection does hand out ppe to anyone in its custody. then will refer people with symptoms to local health system officials. here in la joya many are staying at a hotel a charity runs. that is what we're discussing. citing covid concerns, texas governor greg abbott institute ad new executive order. it

police in la joya, texas, say all this processing and paperwork is distracting border patrol agents from others crossing the rio grande. >> while we are doing this, there's other people crossing, but those people are not here to seek asylum. >> police here say they are working overtime pursuing suspected smugglers, traffickers, and murderers. >> the taking people across back into mexico against their will. and then you don't see them anymore. >> in the city of la jolla officials are also addressing significant covid concerns. a charity has rented out a host hotel to house migrants. customs and border protection says officers give these migrants masks and take them to local health providers if they show symptoms. since federal officials have paroled them into the u.s., they can go into the community or travel across the country and despite the summer heat, apprehensions here at the southwest border surgeon. >> the bike demonstration wants it to happen and they want it to happen knowing that the spread of covid will be greater. >> administers and officials have reported the also decided ag

at la joya, texas. that means huge crowds at one detention facility. tonight, a look at how that has happened. correspondent bill melugin has our update. >> for the past several weeks, fox news has reported from the rio grand valley where scenes like this play out like clockwork. every morning in la joya, texas hundreds of migrants spill across the border. most apprehended by overwhelmed and undermanned border patrol placed on the buses and taken away but to where? many of them are coming right here to the federal detention center in donna, texas. the facility was infamously overcrowded with migrants in march. 16 times over capacity at its worst. this is what the facility looked like on february 2nd shortly after it was built. essentially a small grouping of tents in a dirt field. fast forward to today, and you can see it has exploded in size as the border crisis has only gotten worse. our fox drone overhead showing the property has turned into a tent city significantly expanding with more tents, massive lots and an entire health and human services ten

bill joins us from la joya, texas. what are you seeing on the ground so far today? >> good morning to you. what i at the border just because it was the holiday weekend. we witnessed quite a bit of activity and we'll show that to you now. look at this video the drone crew shot on the fourth of july right here. a group of about 80 migrants apprehended by border patrol after crossing the rio grande and illegally entered the united states. the family units and border patrol is telling us ever since we got here late last week that more and more migrants are showing up with positive covid-19 infections. many of them coming from nicaragua but it is not all family units. look at the mug shot out of tucson sector. this guy was caught on friday. he is from guatemala and he has a second degree murder conviction on his record. thankfully border patrol able to apprehend these and these photos out of texas big bend sector. border patrol arrested these three illegal immigrants after burglarizing a ranchers house. two loaded firearms from this ranchers house as well as ammo, clothe

bill melugin for us in la joya, texas. one other thing for our viewers, i want to highlight when i was down there this past week, we exclusively spoke to an agent, jorge alvarado, who was doing the same work with the families surrender oring and then, of course, the people trying to get away. but then sometimes dangers happen. you see a migrant that nearly drowned. but for agent jorge alvarado, went in the water toes rescue this migrant. here is a little more of what he told the us as we look at the video shot from the helicopter. >> as the helicopter passes over, it's really quite shocking that maybe they're surveilling us. but the use of the helicopter the find these remote areas because a lot of people see that helicopter footage x they just think this was actually the rio grande river. but this is actually a pond nearby, and there's a lot of these little water areas. makes this whole area pretty dangerous for migrants. >> yes, sir. there's a lot of, there's a lot of environmental challenges. it's real rough terrain tha

we have a story this morning in la joya, texas a cop was waived over, the family of migrants over at the table, they are coughing and sneezing and can you talk to them because you shouldn't be in here. hey, what's the deal. well, we were just processed by border patrol, we got covid. so they are in a restaurant. they said, we came over here to get something to eat. we are staying across the street at the texas inn. rachel: catholic relief services which -- brian: catholic charities. steve: the cop went over and you have a bunch of migrants staying in here that have covid and apparently the in-keeper said, you know what, we don't know exactly who is here because catholic charities has rented the whole place out and they are assigning groups to the migrants until they can figure out how to transport all across the country. so there are people in hotels in texas with covid as the federal government arranges to fly them all over the country. rachel: they are restricting americans and not restricting the border. i just want to say i believe this is the biggest threat to america right now

here in la joya, they came past the gap in the border wall and gave themselves up in the ballpark. these are the family units from el salvador' and honduras who are not trying to run away. but it's not just these family coming across. take a look at this photo released by the border patrol. they apprehended a guatemalan national with a murder charge. former trump advisor stephen miller he the biden policies are the cause. >> it's the sole cow of the border -- it's the sole cause for the border crisis. the most effective and robust border security re jeep this --e has had. reporter: you are taking a look at our fox drone. we can see groups of migrants as they are being processed by border patrol. again earlier a state trooper did tell us it was a group of 80 that came across the rio grande. they are getting ready to process these folks. it's incredibly hot and humid. the question is, will the surge slow down. so far what we have seen the answer is no. the 4th of july holiday, these border agents don't get the day off. alicia: youd said there are 8 people beneath the trees. how long

joining us now is sergeant men will cost us without la joya, texas, police. so when these migrants were released to catholic charities, was the catholic charity told that the people were covid positive? >> that's what we have. the information that we have is they were positive for the covid-19 virus and we don't know the extent of or how many there is. but the ones that came across told us themselves that they were positive for covid. >> dana: here's congressman cuellar from your district. >> when border patrol drops folks off gets overloaded and then they dropped them off at a hotel without even telling the local officials that that's not right. they need to tell the local officials especially if they are covid positive. what i'm asking for the biden administration is to do a pause. >> dana: would you like to see them pause as well? >> that sounds about right to me, i mean that's what we are looking for, transparency and for us to be able to know what's going on. if this is happening, how do we let the community know if we are in the dark about this? if so i

here is la joya, texas sergeant. listen to this. call for two. it reads like we did not know this. no one told the city of la jolla, no one told the police department these people were here and no one told us these people were possibly ill. a group of families gathered at a local restaurant. tom, if you are covid positive you can't fly here from london, england. if you're covid positive you can walk into the united states of america across the southwestern border. >> look, it's ridiculous. the northern border is still closed to covid. they ask americans to mask up again and go door-to-door on vaccination checks. southern border is wide open. 166,000 that have been released so far under president biden, how many of them are positive covid? we know for a fact dhs has released hundreds of people with covid cases. we know that the border patrol is not testing. 95% of the border there is no testing by the federal government. so covid cases are coming across that border. ice alone has had over 7500 positive covid cases run through their system. today they have over 1200 positive cases in

police in la joya, texas, this week saying this -- positive migrants are being dumped, positive tested migrants are being dumped into their town and the mayor of westlake said a covert positive group was found staying in his hotel in his town. the biden administration once you and me to mask up but they are ignoring the chaos at the border. they're coming from countries for the most part that have vaccination rates in the sigel digits, how can both exist on the same planet? >> they can't, the hypocrisy is stupefying. how in the world can the biden administration be leaning so heavily on americans who are hesitant to get vaccinated when they are bringing in knowingly, bringing into the interior of our country tens of thousands of migrants. they have admitted they have the covert virus and they aren't giving us any administration. the evidence is stacking up, as you pointed out, also earlier this week information leaked from the rio grande valley, there was a 900% increase, a tenfold increase in the data they have been sampling smaller subgroups of illegal aliens come again, tenfold incr

griff: jonathan serrie live for us in la joya, texas, thank you very much. and again to our viewers, we will bring you this governor abbott press briefing this hour. it's going to be very important. thanks, jonathan. jacqui: day two of cpac's in full swing in dallas where speakers are looking ahead to the midterm elections. casey stegall is live in dallas with the latest on that for us. hey, casey. >> reporter: good to see you. you know, this is billed right here as the largest and the most influential gathering of conservatives in the whole world, and this is a rare summer convention. and you hit the nail on the held, it's perfectly timed as it's a little bit closer to the upcoming midterm elections. as you well know, cpac is traditionally held months earlier, typically in february, and it was this year. but the american conservative union chair picked texas for a second conference largely because it's ruby red. donald trump jr. held a speech last night drawing a pretty large crowd speaking about cancel culture which is the theme of this whole conference. b

jonathan serrie on duty in la joya, texas today. good morning there. >> hi. scenes like that are becoming common in the rio grande valley. in this particular area border patrol says it has encountered roughly 70 large groups of migrants coming over the border just in this fiscal year so far. these larger groups are generally families fleeing poverty and crime in their home countries and as soon as they cross the border they look for the border patrol agents to voluntarily turn themselves in. here in la joya, texas we saw a group of 150 migrants, more than half children, do just that. clayton newhouse whose family owns 1300 acres of farmland along the rio grande he sees 15 to 300 migrants arrive each day. he says changes in immigration policy in washington are behind the increasing numbers. >> as soon as they heard that the catch and return policy was going to be stopped and the catch and release into the american public, they heard that policy would be in effect and they just -- it was day and night. >> these large family groups are not dangerous they distrac

joya, texas, investigative reporter fox news contributor sara carter. it seems quite contradictory. >> it is quite contradictory. here in the rio grande valley sector which encompasses this area, they have seen over 20,000 people just this past week entering through the border, many of which have never been vaccinated for covid, come in contact with our border patrol agents and then are released. we have seen those numbers rise among 46 states, the numbers on the rise, and the number of hospitalizations, but listen to chris cabrera, he is the vice president of the national border patrol council and they have been fighting both the dhs as well as the border patrol for the actual facts on the number of people that i've actually enter the united states with covid and they are not getting those numbers. >> what is exacerbating this crisis? >> right now, the policies that were put in place by the new administration has just made it an open door to the united states so everybody that can get here is coming here. it is not just the essential american or south

that's his response to the growing chaos but first we go to rich edson who joins us live in la joya, texas. rich? >> and julie, they are seeing four to 500 migrants are printed in large groups here and this is all part of the rio grande valley where last week the larger sector thought 20,000 apprehensions here. we are walking up to border patrol and they also say there is a much different group crossing. they are using these large families as a distraction. >> there are other people crossing, but those people are not here to seek asylum, they are not here to get water, not here to get fed, not here to go to a hotel to be safe, they are here for something else. these are the ones that they go after because they are smuggling these people and taking them to unknown areas to do things that we don't -- they mostly will probably be criminal the majority of the time. >> there are also covid concerns with covert positive migrants staying at a hotel just up the road from here. because of that texas governor greg abbott has issued an executive order authorizing texas law enforcement to stop v

. >> bill is live at the border in la joya, texas. what is going on there today? >> we've talked to a lot of border patrol agents over the last several weeks. they are growing frustrated and their morale is at rock bottom. some told us they feel like a welcoming committee than border patrol and they were busy over the weekend. they didn't get a break because it was the holiday. we'll show you some of the activity we saw yesterday afternoon. late afternoon. it was a group of about 80 migrants who came across the rio grande and walked into the united states illegally and gave themselves up to border patrol. most of these were family units and border agents are telling us more and more folks in recent weeks are testing positive for covid-19 and a lot coming from nicaragua. not all family units. this was released on friday by border patrol in tucson, arizona. they arrested this guatemala national, convicted murderer in the state of north carolina. there are criminals in the groups. photos here. late last week border patrol in big bend sector arrested these three immig

correspondent rich headson reports tonight from la joya, texas. >> border agents say they have run out of water and bought water themselves. la jolla texas on top of the 20,000 border patrol agents say they apprehended last week alone in the broader rio grande valley. officials in nearby mcallen say they have never seen this many migrants travel through their city. with covid rates rising, they say they're urging the biden administration to maintain a policy that denies certain migrants entry into the united states because of the pandemic. an authority known as title 42. >> we just know that it if it does we can expect our numbers most like lion to crease dramatically. >> officials have considered terminating title 42 as early as this month. the white house says the authority will remain in place as long as health officials recommend it. customs and border protection says it has expelled more than 750,000 migrants under title 42 since october. in the rio grande valley sector, about 70 border patrol agents have tested positive for covid-19. more than a quarter of the unaccompanied child

jonathan serrie is live for us in the border town of la joya, texas. >> you can see some activity behind me. the border patrol vehicles including a bus. right now they are processing the remainder of those migrants who came over earlier this morning approximately 150 migrants walking down this road voluntarily turning themselves in to border patrol agents. more than half of them were children. some of the migrants were so tired from their journey they were sitting in the street. groups represent the humanitarian crisis on the border, increasing numbers of men, women and children fleeing poverty and crime in honduras, el salvador and other parts of central america. the border patrol is also dealing with a criminal element coming over the border. u.s. and mexican authorities identified 10 most wanted criminals, individuals accused of homicide, narcotics trafficking or human smuggling along the border. border patrol and mexican counterparts say they're interested in apprehending the man in photo number two because he repeatedly puts migrants at risk taking them through dangerous areas. >> t

. >> a la joya, texas, resident flagged down police to tell them that people inside a restaurant were taking zero precautions, turns out it was a group of migrants turned over to catholic charities by the border patrol because they had covid-19. the migrants were supposed to quarantine in a local hotel but when police checked out the hotel they found dozens of other migrants also ignoring quarantine guidelines. police immediately issued a public health warning and a county judge tweeted faced with multiple reports that migrants are being released in hidalgo county infected with covid-19, i am calling on federal administration officials to stop releasing these migrants into our community. title 42 already mandates that migrants be deported during a pandemic but the by the administration has made exceptions for kids and families. remember, migrants allowed into the u.s. with covid are on their own, there is no oversight, hence the restaurant incidents. here is la jolla police just moments ago. >> we did not know this, no one told the city of la jolla, no one told the police department t

. >> reporter: today near the border in la joya, texas, we saw six young men wearing black running across the brush. two stayed hidden, four continued running. this immediately raised suspicions of border patrol agents who pursued and apprehended the men. these men were taken to a van separate from migrant families who usually turn themselves in voluntarily. this really illustrates the dilemma, eric, for law enforcement; local, state and federal. they try the show compassion for these families who are coming from poverty and legitimately seeking a better in life in the u.s., trying to go through the process turning themselves into authorities and then trying to prevent this very real threat, hardened criminals trying to sneak over the border and evade capture. eric, back to you. eric yeah, that video. thank you, jonathan. arthel? arthel: conservatives from across the country gathering for cpac, the three-day political call action conference which is building to a big speech tomorrow by former president trump. right now oklahoma governor kevin stitt and tennessee governor bill lee, they're

rich edson at the texas border town of la joya. they were able up to this week to deny migrants entry because of the pandemic. is that coming to an end? >> there is a procedure, stuart, title 42. there is awful lot of talk about it. that is something the trump administration put in place and the biden administration maintained allowing the certain number of migrants back over the u.s.-mexico border because of covid-19 protocols. there had been discussions of homeland security whether or not to end that at the end of this month, which is at the end of this week. officials say there is consideration still of that because you have got issues now with covid spikes domestically and around the world. the white house has no timeline when they will end it. border patrol officials here are anticipating that may be the case. since october the u.s. government has expelled 750,000 migrants as a result of this program. here we are in la joya, texas. this is the rio grande valley sector. this is the busiest sector in the united states for migran

i want to show you live fox drone in la joya, texas right now where our team is telling us a massive grouch at least 150 just showed up fox news just confirmed 900 percent surge in covid-19 case the first two weeks of july with migrants down there. on top of this fox news confirming with an ice official today that 30% of ice detainees have detained the covid-19 vaccine while in ice custody. the latest agency data shows that ice currently has 1182 inmate detainees who have tested positive for covid. things not slowing down here down here at the border. we will send it back to you. >> bret: bill melugin live along the southern border in texas. bill, thank you. the national football league is warning teams that a covid outbreak among non-vaccinated players that forces the cancellation of a game could forfeit -- could result in a forfeit, rather. that might mean the players do not receive pay for that week as well. a memo from the commissioner's office says the forfeit would count against the team's record for purposes of playoff, seeding, playoffs and drafting. the league says more than

rich edison is live at the border in la joya, texas, rich, i know the fear of it spreading in the community in texas is one thing but i think others could spread beyond that. reporter: local officials are really asking the federal government to stop paroling migrants into the country. border patrol officials says they are testing but you can't test everyone. with the pandemic, if you got covid-19, it doesn't mean that you're showing symptoms. local officials are trying to get the texas government to allow mask mandates here. meanwhile you have continued migration coming, sometimes in groups of 4 to 500 in this spot in the broader rio grande valley. officials say they are looking at anywhere from 2 to 3,000 migrants coming a day here. some days that's more than that. border agents give migrants masking and agents say officials will take them to the hospital if they have covid symptoms though local police they are released and u.s. department of justice is suing texas over the order authorizing state police to stop vehicles carrying migrants, the fed say that's interfering with federal operat

jonathan serrie live in la joya, texas, on the border with more on the doings there. hey, jonathan. >> reporter: hi, eric. in fact, it is the anticipation of more lenient policies under the biden administration that is driving many of these migrants to come over the southwest land border. in many locations they can simply walk around incomplete sections of the border wall, and when they come in, many families and children are so confident they'll be able to stay in the country, they actually seek out border patrol agents to turn themselves in voluntarily. while these family groups of migrants are peaceful, texas authorities say they still contribute indirectly to a criminal element. >> there's a reality that people need to come to grips with, and that is almost everyone who comes across the border does so having to work with cartels and traffickers. almost everyone across the border is going to have a price extracted from them. >> reporter: the large family groups also distract officers from smaller groups, usually young men, who try to stay under the radar. state tro

every single person i have talked to from former director homan down in la joya, texas, to ranchers local law enforcement and regular residents. i have always asked them did you notice an immediate difference after january 20th? they said yes and they will tell you it's a crisis. covid is one aspect. humanitarian aspect is another. but this is something that is still ongoing unfortunately. >> brian: real quick, tom, how much is it costing us to house these illegal immigrants to enter our country illegally. >> talking about billions of dollars. let me talk about one quick thing, brian, it's just not covid. it's fentanyl. 90,000 overdose deaths in these united states. guarantee you there is fentanyl overdose death in chicago, new york, philadelphia, 95% chance that fentanyl came across the southern border because this president tied the hands ever the border patrol agents that's creating a national security crisis. >> brian: he knows better and now he wants to put immigration reform into infrastructure palooza in september on a single party system. and that's just legalizing, that's not sec

bill is back at his huffpost and la joya, texas. bill, good morning. >> good morning to you. this is my fourth trip back to the border. this morning has been the busiest i have ever personally witnessed. more than 150 apprehensions in this spot in the last couple of hours. you take a look at where we are. this is part of the fruit left over. believe it or not, their two border patrol buses here. one of them just laughed. it has been raining and thunder storming out here. nothing is slowing down. take a look at this video we shot here. within seconds of arriving, we saw numerous groups of migrants who have crossed illegally and are looking for border patrol. i had a chance to talk with some of them. all of them are telling you from honduras or guatemala, many moms with little kids. again, thunderstorms and floods out here. it is not slamming anything down. another group came right after that first group. this was a group of about 30 or so. we saw groups coming every 10 minutes or so over and over and over. border officials have been telling us that more and more of these folks

la joya, texas police got a call from a family member in new york. they have someone stuck in the brush saying he is injured and can see the border wall and now you have local police and border patrol out looking trying to perform a rescue mission to save this guy somewhere. they aren't quite sure where he is. this is also just a couple of miles away from that hotel that a local charity is holding a number of migrants. those are the ones covid positive and this has created this fight where you have local officials telling federal officials stop sending covid positive migrants into our community. earlier the white house addressed what federal officials are doing to combat covid. >> cbp provides migrants with ppe from the moment they are taken into custody and migrants are required to keep masks on at all times. including when they are transferred or in the process of being released. >> now the issue here they're saying is that they are being released into the community but even with ppe once released they can go into the community and eat at local bur

another active morning here in la joya, texas. let's show you what we shall find us a short time ago. this is a group of at least 100 mostly women and children. these family units. i had a chance to talk with some of them as they were being processed by border patrol, many telling me they were from nicaragua, and honduras. i can tell you personally this is the biggest single group i have ever seen apprehended by border patrol. it was thought maybe things would slow down in the summer months, we have a summer storm rolling through the area right now. what we see on the ground, nothing is slowing down just yet. we heard texas governor greg abbott putting out a call for help, that health has finally arrived. take a look at some of these photos that texas state trooper sent me. florida and nebraska have already responded and sent to state police up to the del rio area where they are currently helping texas dps with their operations up there. they sent florida nomadic photos of those troopers helping out. but they are saying is they he

. >> what you are looking at right now is on my pictures down in la joya, texas, and the rio grande valley. griff jenkins breaking a major story today. according to border patrol, covid-19 cases in the rio grande valley have exploded by 900% with migrants just in the last two weeks alone. the surge not slowing down. rio grande valley had more than 15,000 apprehensions in one single week, so those cova numbers are going to be a major concern. >> sandra: just remarkable. john. >> john: sandra, the texas governor also slamming democrats and state lawmakers who fled his state to block a republican voting bill. >> the democrats who remain in texas, working in the texas senate, they were able to work to make amendments to that bill that would be more to their liking. that is exactly what the texas house democrats could have done, how they remained in austin, texas, as opposed to wasting their time in washington, d.c. their constituents are getting mighty upset about the fact that their house member is not in texas, doing the job they were elected to do. >> john: this comes as the number of covid

jonathan serrie is on the border in la joya, texas. good morning, jonathan. >> this initiative is called that translates is look for information. that's exactly what u.s. and mexican authorities do once a year as they meet identifying some of the most hardened criminals wanted on both sides of the border for crimes ranging from human smuggling to murder. crime is a serious concern along the u.s. southern border. over weekend we saw a border patrol agent apprehend young men trying to evade capture by hiding in the brush and running. the suspected criminals sometimes get away. they followed a path of footprints a group of other men left in a wide, muddy field. suspects made it to a nearby highway where they were able to disappear into the community and authorities say that's when the problems occur. on saturday troopers with the texas department of public safety engaged in a high-speed chase with a suspected human smuggler who crashed into one car before losing control of his vehicle and striking a pole. the driver was carrying seven und

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this is the incomplete trump border wall that was being built during his presidency in la joya, texas. it stopped as soon as joe biden took over as the president. there are still piles and sheets of metal sitting in the open texas sun going unused and one of the hot spots where the migrants are coming through every single morning. take a look at this video we shot here yesterday morning. a large group of migrants who came through the gap. a very large gap. this is one of the biggest areas where they come through. all this happening as we learn that five texas sheriffs as well as some ice officers are now suing the biden administration accusing biden of not upholding federal law by not allowing ice to arrest or deport criminal illegals. according to that lawsuit ice agents have one arre two months and cited an incident where his policies kept ice from arresting him. the sheriffs out here are very upset by this. biden's policies enticing illegals to come here. here is what the kinney county sheriff had to say. >> we had to release one from our detention center. we notified ice. they sai

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what you doing right now is taking a live look at our fox drone down in la joya, texas, down in the rio grande valley where fox broke a major story late yesterday. griff jenkins reporting that we can confirm down in the rio grande valley there has been a 900% increase in the amount of migrants testing positive for covid within the first two weeks of july. the border patrol sector chief reporting down there more than 40 of his agents have tested positive for covid, five of them currently hospitalized. we will send it back to you. >> julie: bill melugin, thank you very much. bill? >> bill: thank you, julie. are we heading to a return of widespread lockdowns? the delta variant is highly contagious but hospital rates are still low, that's very good news. what you need to know about the variant, coming up in a moment here. plus there is this, check it out. >> a network that is dedicated to not creating new schools or be imaginary schools, but destroying schools that have done nothing but harm black and brown children. >> julie: the biden administration pushing for teaching critical race theo

it has been a very busy morning here in la joya, texas, part of that rio grande valley sector ground zero for the border crisis. we have our drone in the air now. along the fenceline 30 minutes ago a large group of 65 migrants, many from honduras, came up from the river a mile behind me to this location and were trying to find -- they are working another group, helicopters has been passing behind me they tell me there is 20 to 25 in that group. two hours ago when we got here a group of 15 migrants walked out of the bushes and we had to call the border patrol to get them. they are that busy. so many groups out. in this sector alone they've had 2,629 apprehensions so far in the last 24 hours. up 548%. not just humans that you are seeing the increase. also drugs, narcotics. yesterday governor abbott at the round table briefing says fentanyl seizures are up 2,000 percent. we were able to speak with a sheriff from ft. worth, texas, a county 500 miles from where i'm standing. he says the problem is exacerbated in the last few years. >> just a few weeks ago we seized 5,000 fentanyl pills at