Live—from the campus of Hillsdale College in beautiful Hillsdale Michigan— this is Scot Bertram in for Steve on the Steve Gruber Show for
–Thursday October 21st 2021—
—Here are 3 big things you need to know—
Three— It looks like fewer students are going to school. New census data shows enrollment fell by almost three-million last year. That’s the lowest level in more than two decades. The biggest drop was in preschool, with only 40-percent of three-to-four-year-olds enrolled.
Two—The fireball in the sky visible in metro Detroit Wednesday morning was a satellite. The American Meteor Society had 81 reports of the lights from Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, and Ontario. A Harvard astrophysicist believes it was a Russian spy satellite that had a failed launch in September and had been orbiting Earth.
And number one— U.S. authorities detained more than 1.7 million migrants along the Mexico border during the 2021 fiscal year that ended in September. Arrests by the Border Patrol soared to the highest levels ever recorded, according to unpublished U.S. Customs and Border Protection data obtained by The Washington Post.