A record set, a record number of arrests at the U.S.-Mexico border, 2 million, and less

than 12 months.

The lead starts right now.

The border crisis continues as do the political maneuvering surrounding the crisis this time

it's Delaware, preparing for a possible influx of immigrants shipped from Texas via Florida

to, maybe, Biden's home state.

Plus, Hurricane Fion is trail of destruction, CNN on the ground in Puerto Rico with the

National Guard has cruised trying to get the U.S.-Island back online, and President

Biden this hour headed to one of the largest gatherings of world leaders while the White

House.

Once again, trying to explain the President's comments about China and Taiwan, and more.

Welcome to the lead-on-Jake Tapper, and we start today with our National Lead, the

Growing Immigration Crisis in the Southwestern United States, right now, officials and volunteers.

In Delaware, our making preparations after reports and flight plans suggested a plane

full of migrants could be heading their way from Texas and a stop in Florida.

This all comes less than one week after Florida's Republican Governor Ron DeSantis arranged

to have nearly 50 migrants flown from Texas to Martha's Vineyard, a liberal enclave in

Massachusetts where former President Obama has a home.

DeSantis accused DeSantis and his Texas counterpart, Governor Greg Abbott, of using human beings,

including children as young as one month old, in a crash and inhumane political stunt.

While the Republicans say they are just trying to highlight a border crisis exacerbated by

President Biden's policies.

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