the figures don't lie. i'm michael smerconish in philadelphia. more than 3.8 million. that's the number of migrant encounters that the southwest border in the last two years according to the house, the homeland security committee. that number is only goingup. officials said 10,000 migrants crossed on monday alone. the head of the union representing border patrol agents said they had arrested more than 8,000 people that day. agents after v apprehended 140 mourks migrants who crossed the border without authorization during the first 20 days of september. that's an average of about 6900 each day, that's according to the interim agency data. it represents a 60% increase from the daily average of 4300 in july. over the past two and a half years, border patrol had unpress dependented levels of migrant apprehensions, including 2.2

million in fiscal year 2022. that's a tally on track to being matched in fiscal year 2023, which ends at the end of this month. 2 50rkz 0 national guard members are already serving at the border, but it's not nearly enough to keep up with this week etc. influx. migrants in mexico were waiting in mile-long lines by the tracks in order to hitch a ride to the united states. areas being hit hardest here include lower rio and tucson. the mayor of texas declaring a state of emergency after getting hit with crowds of. it was reduce sources and overcrowded facilities. it's a concerning problem. and 55% of adults in the u.s. want president biden to be tougher on immigrants trying to cross the border. gallup found 73% of republicans

want numbers to go down. that's along with 39% of independents and 18% of democrats saying the same thing. the biden administration announced on wednesday it will be expanding humanitarian relief to venezuelas already in the united states meaning the roughly 500,000 venezuelans who crossed illegally will become eligible for work permits. this comes after eric adams criticized the administration's handling of the crisis. they have 60,000 migrants in city care and local leaders are calling for work authorizations to reduce the need for more city resources. as of right now, officials are giving no clear explanation for what's driving the latest surge. aside from the ongoing poor economies and authoritarian regimes that drive border cr crossings. one explanation is that the border crisis is driven by mexican drug cartels. a recent study in the journal science estimates 175,000 people

are employed by the mexican drug cartel. that would make the cartels the country's fifth largest employer. and they have moved far beyond just traffic and drugs into the u.s. cartels partake in other lucrative operations including extortion, kidnapping and migrant smuggling. in the last decade, 37% of people working for cartels, 37%, were either killed or incarcerate d, meaning that the cartels is have to recruit more than 300 people each week just to replenish their ranks. it's an issue the biden administration needs to address or the problem shown on a loop by television outlets will drive voters to the 2024 election. it could end up neutralizing whatever advantage the democrats had received from the overturning of roe v. wade. is the ongoing border crisis the issue that's going end to upturn ing out voters in the 2024 election, or will it be outweighed by the overturning of

roe v. wade? even in the midterms in gop-leading states like kansas, kentucky, north carolina and michigan, voters turned out in droves to support abortion access. i want to know what you think. go to smerconish.com and answer today's question. which will matter more in the 2024 election? abortion or the border? joining me to discuss is rod n knee scott. scott is the distinguished senior fellow for border security at the texas public policy foundation. chief scott, thank you for being here. i just read this morning that in mexico, people coming from south america are outpacing those from central america for the first time. as i read it, i wondered, what's their ultimate destination? >> the ultimate destination is the united states. thank you for having me on this morning.

i think it's important for people to realize that you're talking ab the big macronumbers, but cbp is arresting people from over 160 different nations around this country on a daily basis. it's not just a mexico issue or latin america or even a western hemisphere issue. it's a serious threat to this country. >> as we were preparing the introduction for today's program, i wondered whether those numbers were too much and would get lost in translation. here's what i want to ask you. we speak in terms of appreh apprehensions. it makes me wonder, how many are getting through who aren't apprehended. as bad as the numbers are that i just shared, is the reality even worse? i guess that's my question. >> the reality is much worse. thank you so much for keying that up. so right now today, a lot of the people on the video loops you just discussed, those are people that are trying to take advantage of loopholes in the system that the cartel uses that massive number of people to shape the border every single

day. what does that mean? that means overwhelm the law enforcement to create gaps to bring in something else. the united states border patrol has documented with evidence over 1.6 million known got aways just since this administration took over. and they report those through court documents and other things. that's 1.6 million they know about. but what america needs to understand is the border patrol reacting to these huge groups, that forces them to leave hundreds and hundreds of board miles of border open. when it was terminated, so was the technology with the cameras and the sensor systems. there's no eyes and ears on a significant part of the u.s. border with mexico and for kab da, for that matter, when agents are not out there. and right now, agents are photo out there. they are busy processing. >> chief, i hate to see this as a partisan issue. i can only imagine people will

be saying you are on fox, why are you talking about this. but i'm alarmed by the numbers indicative of a border. speak to me about solutions. thank you for bringing that up too. i worked for different administrations going back to 1992. and the thing at the end of the day is there has to be a consequence, there has to be a law and order for laws to mean anything. we are constantly working on that. not all solutions are perfect. not everybody likes them, but you need to put the judicial process in the right order. people should not be released until the judge adjudicated their case. when this administration came in and turned over that policy, they created the system called catch and release. and there's really no enforcement you can do at border to overwhelm that. because what happens when they meet a border patrol agent, the chances of that individual get

ing released into the united states is very high. their court date is years down the road. and they are never going to be seen again. that incentive is what is creating this massive wave. >> i referenced earlier in our conference the fact that now south america is accounting for more than of migration going to mexico than central america. here in the united states, the administration just said to a half million here, you can stay and work for the next 18 months. i get that there are a lot of american employers who need workers like those who will be provided. but how will that message be received back in venezuela when somebody's cousin or brother gets the word, hey, they are allowed to stay and to work. isn't that going to come pound the problem? >> it's going to compound the problem. people understand every single alien that's released into the united states does exactly what you or i would do when you get to a destination. they call home and tell the relatives how the trip went.

that message get out. not only am i in the u.s., i'm released and i don't have to show up for court for a couple years. now i have this temporary permit to work. that does expand. that's a huge draw. people need to understand we keep talking about this as a border issue. the border is a transit location. nothing stays at that border. and over 1.8 million people accounted for last year were adults single adults, it's not the families that you see border patrol overwhelm ed with. those are the ones that waited. it's the ones you talked about that are trying to get away. that's the trend. >> and look at what eric adams is dealing with in new york city. i think there's like a perception that's because greg abbott put 50 people on a bus. that may have been the theatrics. these folks are finding their way to new york city. a final subject. were you surprised. i made reference to that

peer-reviewed story that said 175,000 people apparently their ranks easily reflenished working for the mexican drug cartels. 37% of them either get incarcerated or killed within the last decade and they are automobile to fill their ranks. it makes it the fifth largest employer in mexico. quick reaction from you. >> unfortunately, it doesn't surprise me. we talk about it with mexico, but that cartel operates in the yielts as well. they were trying to bring them across theor. that's the threat to the next generation. and fentanyl deaths, that came across the border and more right now. here's some social media. what do we have for the world of youtube. sorry, i have been hearing fear mongering about illegal boarder

crossings since 1984 when i sta started pay ing attention. every year it's supposed to be a disaster. is it really? let me ask you. >> it really is. and again, people think this is a border issue. temperatures not. look at your own local community. look at the fentanyl deaths across the united states. look at the narcotics deaths. the border itself right now, the massive chaos going on, there are more boarder deaths than there have been in many, many, many years. every one of those deaths, whether it's american or a migrant, is a trap. we have solutions in place, but they are bipartisan solutions. border was get ting more and moe secure. and a secure border supports legal immigration. then we can finally get to have that conversation. but if you can't control -- >> you want that legal immigration to continue. you want people to pursue their dreams in the united states. the sort of person who leaves behind family and friends to

come here is the same risk taker who will be an entrepreneur. we need them. we need the new blood, but it's got to be orderly. thank you. i appreciate it very much. >> thank you for having me on this morning. i want to know what you think. go to smerconish.com and answer this poll question. i was going to say this week, but we have a poll question every single day. which is going to matter more. forget about trump and his indictments and biden and his age and all those other issues. as between these two, is it abortion or the border that's going to drive folks? up ahead, will the new relaxed dress code on capitol hill further damage our politician's ability to govern. it turns out there's some da that suggests that what you wear has behavioral consequences. and one football coach who is currently undefeated seems to agree with our finding. >> if it you look good, you feel

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so there more at stake in the debate over a senate dress code than just hoodies and hem lines? might a dressed down body politic have a negative impact on the way they view themselves and the way they are perceived by the public. this week majority leader chuck schumer said the sergeant at arms will no longer be tasked with enforcing a drus dres code opt the floor of the chamber. it seems mostly to accommodate john fedor man, who after wearing a suit for the first few months, reverted to his hoody and baggy shorts. he presided over the senate chamber in shorts and a casual

shirt. previously to skirt the regulation, he had been using the work around of voting from the doorways. but i should point out there was no such fear when jim jordan presided over a house hearing in short sleeves. my first thought about that relaxing of standards was that it would most likely further diminish decorum and decently in congress and at a time it's already suffering from deficits in those departments. it turns out there's academic data to back me up. in one peer reviewed study for the publication, public personnel management, researchers focused on employees and their perceptions regarding the importance of dress and appearance in the public sector workplace. they found this. our results suggest that you are what you wear. respondents full more competent when wearing formal business or business casual more trust worth write when wearing business casual and least friendly when wearing formal business afttire.

respondents believe that uniforms had a positive impact on customer perceptions of overall service quality. and that tattoos, athletic wear and hair slor, sweat pants, facial piercings and clothing with tears, rips or holes had a negative impact. joining me now is rhonda, a professor of english and journalism at smrks u. she writes "the new york times" face forward column about the intersection of fashion and politics. her latest just published. what we lose when we loosen dress codes. she's the author of three books and is currently writing another book call ed "why fashion matters." it occurs to me that it's much more difficult subject for women than men in so far as i'm a guy. i just change my tie and my shirt and i can can have on the same navy blazer and you'd be none the wiser.

>> you're absolutely right. aggender is a huge consideratio here. because for one thing, the business standard, business attire, which is the former senatorial standard is actually based on a male pattern of clothing. the dark suit, the simple shirt. women, as you suggest, have about a million decisions they have to make from head to toe in order to present themselves in public. and each one of those decisions risks tipping you over somehow into inappropriateness. so it's actually much easier for women to have some sort of dress code. it need not be a formal uniform, but standards that at least restrict the very vast number of problematic decisions. so i think this is a agendaer decision. >> i thought you made an excellent point in your latest "new york times" essay. i'm going to put part of it on the screen and read it aloud. i want you to amplify on this.

you say finally dress codes are a marker of social national, philosophical commonality. this is why sports teams and the military wear uniforms. then you go on to say a sea of 100 adults all dressed in some kind of instantly recognizable manner, a suit and tie, creates a unified visualen entity, a group in which individuals have agreed to subsume their differences into an overarching hole. talk to me about that. >> yeah, i think it's very important to remember that something like the senate is itself a body. it's a collective cultural body. and we dress bodies collect you havely not just individually. and when we can see similarity among a large group of people who represent something larger than themselves, that enhances the idea of unity. militaries, sports teams,

certain school teams, when we look at them, we perceive them as a body. i always say that fashion is very intimate in that is the place where the culture touches us, touches our bodies. and it's where we integrate ourselves into the larger society. something like the senate is not your average workplace. it's a body still that represents our nation to not only ourselves and the country, but to the world at large. and while i don't believe it needs to be a strict uniform of exact identical clothing, i do think we want to enhance the perception for ourselves for the senators, for the world at large that this is a selectivity that works together for larger goals than just individuals. >> i love that observation. i like the optics of some form of uniformity because of all the desengs and polarization that exists in that body and across the country. one other thought on this.

the staffers will still be subject to a dress code. correct me if i'm wrong. how do you see that dynamic playing itself out? >> you're absolutely right. i did write about this in my column. the new dress code relaxation applies only to the senators themselves. there are a lot of other people who work in the senate. staffers, intern, they will be required to wear formal business attire. that will create a disjunction, which will will oddly only exacerbate the kind of class strats iification. since clothes only mean things in relation to other clothes, what we're going to have is potentially a bunch of senators in different states of leisure wear being waited on, served, worked for by people in formal wear, which will start looking potentially like waiters staff

garb. i do not think that was the impetus behind the relaxing of codes. there's really no sufficient thing as complete freedom in dress anymore than there is complete freedom in how we speak. it's all in relation to other people's speech, other people's garments. fashion is a language. >> professor, thank you for your expertise. i appreciate it. >> thank you, michael. pleasure. social media reaction. what do we have on the subject of the dress code? i like the senator very much, yet it seems absurd that as bright as he is, he doesn't understand the standard. in the house who cares, in the senate, decorum. it's benefitted him. i think it benefitted him during the campaign. 100% sympathetic of his very public battle with mental health issues. aapplaud him to no end in that regard in bringing that to the surface and handling the walter

reid admission the way he did. having said that, this is a totally different issue. everybody needs to up their gaim. have you flown recently? have you taken a look at a the american populous? i'm with deion sanders. what was that quote? dress good, you'll feel good, you'll play good. same for the united states senate. i want to remind you to answer this week's poll question at smerconish.com. which will matter more in the 2024 election, abortion or the border? up ahead, the biggest football game of this weekend isn't an nfl match, at least in my opinion. it's because of a coach. coach prime, former pro football and baseball star deion sanders took over for the colorado buffalos. and he's turned thesm into a team that so far is undefeated and a merchandising group. i'm about to ask a sharp-dressed man himself, legendary broadcaster steven a. smith.

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it's coach prime mania as two undefeated college football teams facing off today in a highly anticipated game. much of our attention may veer off to the sidelines. now that football regd deion sanders is coaching colorado buffalos through record-breaking victories, sanders, as known as coach prime, signed on last year and revamped a team this last season had had 11 losses. now rank ing in the top 20. the university of colorado announced back in april it had already sold out its season ticks for the first time in 27 years. sanders' drive for excellence inspired nike to produce buffalo's merchandise with shirts that say prime. and according to the university, sales are up by just 819%. at the start of the season,

sanders flipped the roster upside down by replacing most of its players and some of whom transferred from black colleges and universities. in his coaching debut, they pulled off a stunning win against number 17 tcu. it was the most watched season opener in fox sports history. the following week the city of boulder brought in an estimated $18 million in revenue from the buffalos' first season home game beating the nebraska cornhuskers and last week the team smashed an espn report by druing in millions of viewers against colorado state making it the network's most watched late night college football game ever. but sanders' success didn't come overnight. he coach ed ats jackson state fr three seasons, where his sons also played and followed their dad to boulder, colorado torks play for the buffalos. sanders is one of the most versatile athletes in sports history. the now 56-year-old is a retired

nfl and mlb player, the only athlete to play in both a super bowl and a world series game. back in 1989 he became the first athlete to score a touchdown for the falcons and hit a home run for the yankees in the same week. his biggest impact so far is best explained in an axios piece titled "coach prime's making colorado black america's team." the fab five and how they captivated hip hop cull just like the buffalos are doing now. big names like the rock, snoop dogg, lil wayne and a host of nfl superstars praising coach prime's hard work and joining me to discuss all this is legendary broadcaster steven a. smith, the host of espn's first take and author of "straight shooter." if you said to me six months ago that i would be clearing my saturday afternoon to make sure i was in front of a tv to watch

colorado at gob, i would never have believed. you what explains all this? >> prime, deion sanders. he's one of one. there's no other way to slice it. the reality is that when you think about deion sanders, he's, without question,est cornerback in the history of the national football league. he was an all american. he was an all-state basketball player when he was in high school. he succeeded on every level. then when you take into account his charisma, the way he art tic lates his thoughts, his believes, the inspirational impact that he has on an abundance of kids, you're talking to somebody who has been a friend of his for the last quarter century. we are extremely close and talk all the time. when he was in this business doing color commentating and working for the nfl network, working for cbs, garnering

interest from various other networks throughout the years, one of the things that he religiously stipulated was that he was going to have time to coach his kids. i'm not talking about just his kids meaning his two sons, but others as well. the guy who loves coaching. he loves having an impact on the lives of young men. that's always been what he's been about. he would make sure to carve it out. it was just an absolute mission of his. to see him doing what he is doing, it's sensational to watch with. i'm so happy for him. but i would be lying if i told you i was surprised. wherever he goes, he's going to be able to recruit. and i know that he knows what he's doing from an x's and o's perspective. >> is it a black thing? i was kind of bummed when i read that axios piece because i'm a suburban white guy and i'm loving it. i ordered my coach prime t-shirt and i'm hoping it's going to show it on when i sit in front

of my tv today. >> i would say it's a black thing because the reality is that i don't see too many folks that are not black that are can do what he's been able to do. to walk into a room that was 1-11 to get 86 new players know ing about their existence of the transfer portal, knowing the main image and likeness issue and how that's come into fruition and the focus and reality is you have to be able to walk into living rooms, talking to kids and convincing them, hey, this is what we're going to bring to the table. i'm trying to throw shade. nick saveban is phenomenal. there's an abundance of coaches in college football that are exceptional minds and exceptional football minds who have obviously recruited exceptionally well. we get all of that. but it's hard to imagine that they could warrant a program

like colorado in the pac-12, which by the way is on the verge of dissolving. and do what they have done in their first year. so it remains to be seen if this is going to continue, but think about the spring game. georgia is back to back national champions. and when deion sanders i arrived for spring football, it was nationally televised. more people were interested in him and that program than they were interested in an s.e.c. program, which is clearly the best conference in college football, with the reigning defending two-time national champions. there was more interest in him and that program than there was in the national champion. that's prime time. when you hear people, you don't see too many black folks in colorado. >> you don't see too many of the one-two punch of having both a black head coach and a black

cornerback, which have been two of the whitest positions. let me ask you this. i have colorado in the 21 points. does the fun end today? you're a guy who knows the x's and o's. talk to me about that. >> oregon is lethal. they put up points in bunches. they are a top ten nationally ranked team. not to mention the fact that they see colorado come ing now. colorado has had some issues defensively. prime time will tell you. they are hot garbage on offense. and they can't seem to bring it together. thsz one of those situations with opening weekend when they upset the national runner up in tcu, with the exception of that, you see them coming now. so when you look at that perspective, they have their work cut out for for them.

>> stephen, is the influence all positive? i know you have already spoken eloquently in support of deion sanders. i told you i'm on this train. but you know there are some who say the way he walked in that first day and said get on the portal and explore your transfer operation was too harsh and they don't like the commercialization and open discussion of get ting paid good. you would say what to that? >> what i'd say is those people can go to hell. we have to stop this nonsense. college football has been making money for decades on the backs of kids who were not being supported. what he did was name, image and likeness, his son who is a star quarterback, he's worth over $5.1 million right now. and he's exceeded almost even his father at $5.5 million. we're looking at programs getting money, we're looking at coaches getting money. what prime time walked into colorado and said these are the rules and we all know that i can't give you progress, i'm

prime time. they are going to judge me immediately. if i don't succeed immediately, i'm going to be out of there. even though i'm back to back champions when i was at jackson state, even though i helped put hbcus on the map by giving them a level of notoriety that was lacking, people are going to judge me harshly. this is my situation. i'm inheriting a 1-11 program. nobody cares about this program. nobody is thinking about this program. i've got to come here and win now. what is he supposed to do? serve everybody cookies and milk. let's stop the nonsense. you have to recruit and make shoour you're getting marquee players and you have to instill in them a belief that this program is something you can uplift so they can galvanize themselves and draw additional interest so folks will want to come to the university of colorado because they weren't looking to come there beforehand. so we all know everybody, you can get paid too. he represents that.

he's per sonified that from the time he was a player to now. >> i'll tell you what brought it home for me is i. awayed the johnny football documentary on netflix. he built that stadium, and to think he had to go off and do signings for $20,000 when he shouldn't have done it, those folks should have gotten paid. when you come back, don't hold back. tell us what you really think next time, okay? >> i will do best. >> thank you. social media reaction. what do we have from the world of youtube. what do we got? >> coach prime may say the household name. proud of what he did. a lot of folks say they wish they hadn't left. he achieved what he set out to achieve. we'll see if it continues i'm loving it. don't call my house when that game is on. go to the website and answer today's poll question. which is going to matter more in

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not with this. tide. tide can tackle any pile. that a tackle pun? just clean the pile, ron. okay. this too. that was easy. when stains and odors pile up, it's got to be tide. here's some of what you're saying. typical smerconish. first, awe tack president biden, then attack john fetterman on the dress code. john, you have outed me. how dare you do that. this is what i'm talking about. 3.8 million, i think that was the statistic i began the program with, 3.8 million interactions on the border in the last two years. we're breaking all records. now am i not supposed to talk

about that? is that supposed to be relaegatd only to the world of fox? i don't think so. i think it's a legitimate issue. plenty of criticism to go around for every president during my entire lifetime. but we have to deal with it. the numbers are off the charts. the pressure being put on other areas of the country and the fact that now according to today's report, more coming from south america to mexico than central america, so that funnel is about to change and not in a good way for all of us. what do you think their ultimate destination is? you think they are leaving south america because i don't think so. we need to have that conversation. as for fetterman, there was no greater defender of fetterman ask his mental health challenges than yours truly, but it's time to up our game and act appropriately. what an elite club. 100 members of the senate, dress like it. next. sorry, i told you i was going to move quickly and i didn't. can can you imagine the supreme

court in session wearing casual sports attire, no robes, maybe even a hawaiian shirt? do you respect their decision? it was intuitive to me to think people take you more seriously depending on how you're awe tired. we found an academic study that was from the university of tennessee. i cited it earlier. it actually looked at public employees who were in uniform. they feel better about themselves and perceive the public as holding them in it higher regard for the way they are attired. so the data backs it up. what's next? the techen giants have proven the dress code da inaccurate. it goes with what your particular gig is. i would say that the dress code, if that's going to be your line of employment, is exact ly how e all remember admiringly steve jobs. in a black turtle neck. if that's what you're doing, that's great. but if you're going to be a

public servant, if you're a member of congress or school board or whatever, no, you have to dress the part. time for one more. let's see what it is. make it a winner. you can't blame all those entering our country illegally on the fentanyl crisis. where is mexico's responsibility on allowing a drug cartel to take over their country. i wasn't blaming it on the fentanyl crisis. i read about that study in "the l.a. times" and then i went and read the study. i by the way, let me acknowledge that some people challenge the methodology and say how could they come up with such a precise number. decide for yourself. but the conclusion was that 175,000 people are employed by the mexican drug cartels, which would make it the fifth largest employer in mexico. 37% in the last decade were either incarcerated or died, probably in the line of duty, and yet they are able to

replenish their ranks. why, because of the money. unless we get to that, we're not going to get ahead of the curve. i have had had my peace. i read all your social media or try to. keep them coming. still to come, the final results of the poll question from smer kcon ish.com. how about this question? which is going to matter more as these two issues in the election, abortion or the border? by the way, when you vote, sign up for the free daily newsletter. you'll get exclusive content from cartoonists. look at that. that's like the cartoon of the week. biden and biden his time. she takes robitussin. so, she can have those one on ones again. hey jim! hey! can we talk about your yoga breaks? sure. get fast, popowerful cough relief with robitussin, and find your voice. ♪ robitussin ♪

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okay, there it is. that's the result thus far in today's poll question. wow. more than 30,000 votes. it doesn't warrant that kind of a lopsided result. which will matter more in the 2024 election, as between these two issues, 72% say abortion as compared to the border. i'm not positive as to the correct answer. i just know that it is a much closer decision than that result would suggest. but united states, obviously i'm -- but as usual, i'm in the minority on that one. >> no social media? >> sorry about that. >> i will say one last thing then about abortion. and the residence of it. it was two months after the overturning of roe v. wade that kanz rekansas rejected the

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