It's October 28th, you're listening to the President's Daily Brief.

I'm your host and former CIA officer, Brian Dean Wright.

Your morning intel starts now.

First up, the midterm elections are approaching and the issue of illegal migration is driving

part of the conversation of who we ought to vote for.

We are going to talk about the costs of that illegal migration based on a shocking $1 billion

claim from New York City's mayor.

As always, I'm keeping an eye out for developing stories, put these two on your radar.

First, a wind farm in Germany is actually being torn down to expand a coal mine.

We'll discuss that.

Second, lights are going out all across Ukraine and so too are people joining protests

all across Europe.

I'll give you both of those updates related to the war of attrition in Ukraine.

And as always, we've got a listener question today.

It's about the prospect of electoral fraud in Pennsylvania.

But first, let's get started with today's main brief.

For the past six months, we've been talking a lot on the PDB about illegal migration and

how it's overwhelmed our southern border.

We are seeing record numbers of illegal crossing over about 2.3 million this year.

That's according to the U.S. government's latest numbers released a week ago today.

As you likely know, that 2.3 million number doesn't include the hundreds of thousands

of war legals who are called Godaways or those folks who stuck across the border without

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