FOX News Rundown Extra: An Eyewitness Account Of America's Drug Smuggling Surge

The Fox News Rundown

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Politics, Daily News, News

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🗓️ 4 July 2021

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Former President Trump and Texas Governor Greg Abbott visited the Southern border earlier this week to survey the unfinished border wall and highlight what they say are the failures of the new administration's immigration policy. While President Biden has redirected funding and suspended the previous administration's efforts to construct a wall between the U.S. and Mexico, Governor Abbott recently announced that the state of Texas will provide $250 million to continue building the border wall. One of the governor's motivations behind the move is drugs and how they continue to flow in to the country from Mexico. Before President Trump and Gov. Abbott's trip, Fox Business Network Correspondent Grady Trimble joined host Dave Anthony on the Rundown from the border to detail the influx of migrant activity at the border, the personal accounts of border control officials who say they're not getting enough help from the federal government and the growing concerns about drug smuggling, The conversation was too long and we could not include all of it in our original conversation. On the FOX News Rundown Extra, you will hear our entire conversation with FOX Business' Grady Trimble and get even an clearer understanding of the border surge and how cartels continue to traffic illegal drugs in to our country. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's time to take the quiz.
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0:14.0	Fox.
0:15.0	This is the Fox News rundown, Extra.
0:19.0	I'm Dave Anthony. Today we take you to the border to the same area former
0:28.7	President Trump went on Wednesday as he keeps blaming President Biden undoing his policies for a surge of migrants
0:35.8	that he and Republicans have for months called a crisis.
0:39.4	Of course, Democrats say the new president is cleaning up a mess calling those
0:44.2	Trump policies cruel and damaging to immigration. Well regardless of whose
0:48.9	side you are on in that debate it is true that for months, four straight months, more than 100,000 migrants
0:56.6	were apprehended trying to cross the border into the US, 180,000 in May.
1:03.2	Now right before the Trump Texas trip, we caught up with Fox Business Network correspondent
1:07.8	Grady Trimble in La Hoya, getting a firsthand look at the situation amid a new push from GOP Governor Greg Abbott to resume
1:16.4	wall construction that President Biden had stopped.
1:19.6	Now our conversation with Grady Trimble the other day was too long for the regular rundown podcast, but we have it here in today's extra.
1:28.0	So thank you for listening and we hope you have a great 4th of July weekend and now Grady Trimble on the Fox News
1:35.4	rundown extra. Joining us on the Fox News rundown is Grady Trimble. He is a Fox business
1:46.0	correspondent who is now deep in the heart of Texas in an area that has been at the forefront of what Republicans have been calling a
1:56.6	crisis for months since President Biden took office with a big surge of migrants coming
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