After Hours: The Border— Worse Than Ever Before

Full Measure After Hours

Sharyl Attkisson

News, News Commentary

4.9 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2022

⏱️ 23 minutes

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0:31.0	Hi everybody, Cheryl Ackison here.
0:34.3	Welcome to another edition of Full Measure After Hours.
0:38.0	Today a disturbing trip to the US Southern border for a reality check on what's really going
0:43.7	on.
0:53.2	I have visited the US Southern border about a couple of times a year from more than a decade.
0:59.8	And the goal is always to see what's going on without a spin, just to talk to law enforcement,
1:06.2	to talk to illegal immigrants, asylum seekers, mayors, residents, it's always eye-opening.
1:12.6	Well, for my season 8 debut, a full measure, which airs Sunday, September 11th, I'm going
1:18.4	to show you what we saw while visiting Eagle Pass, Texas.
1:22.7	Probably the hottest spot right now for illegal border crossings.
1:27.1	At the present moment, it seems as though most of those coming across there who want to
1:32.0	be caught, not those who are trying to get away, but those who turn themselves in, are
1:36.4	from Venezuela and Cuba.
1:39.2	And the stories they tell are harrowing and I believe them.
1:42.9	They sound very similar from different groups who have made the same trek more on that in
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