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♪ ♪ i want to focus first on the u.s.-mexico border where an already kay on the being situation is at risk of being exacerbated. on thursday night at 11:59 u.s. officials lost the power to swiftly expel migrants from the border after it was granted in march of 2020. authorities had used the power almost three million times to return migrants to their home countries or to mexico. so what happens now? joining me is former secretary of homeland security jeh johnson. pleasure to have you on, s...

We also heard other dhs officials say expect 14,000 daily in the coming weeks. why are we seeing fewer migrants arriving now? >> in part uncertainty, uncertainty in the system of what crossing the border means today versus what it meant a week ago or month ago. when theres been policy changes in the past, over the course of the last four or four years, youve seen similar pauses. this is a dynamic system and as it sorts out what is going on and what is the likelihood of remaining in the united st...

James lankford and texas congressman tony gonzales, welcome to you both, gentlemen. senator, we served together, youre a man of conviction, character and compassion but you also dont suffer fraud. what is it about our asylum process that leads to what we have now? >> well, the basics of this process is we have a simple process to claim asylum and what youre doing is screened, when someone crosses the border i have fear in my country and are trained by the cartels and low threshold of i have fear...

They hope this behooves them politically, right? the lifting of title 42. because it allows them to sell that false narrative that you outlined for me at the beginning. i wonder, given that i think you and i agree the solution here has to be legislative, the solution has to go through congress if there is any appetite on their part to actually sit down and get this done, or if they feel they would benefit politically from what is happening at our border right now. >> i have not seen widespread a...

They receive the news of some of the deportations were seeing. >> a huge challenge for those bo border cities and towns as well as for the biden administration. >> here with me now with more perspective on this is raoul reyes, an immigration attorney. i want to ask you first about the change in policy. title 42 has expired. title 8 has now taken effect. that does impose harsher penalties for migrants who try to cross into the u.s. illegally. but the process for migrants to seek asylum can be qui...

That title 42 is not an immigration policy it was actually implemented as a public health measure to try to stop the spread of communicable disease. the ending of title 42 is appropriate because we are now beyond the pandemic and it has officially ended. the biden administration does have challenges at the border because all that title 42 did was effectively dismantle our asylum process and create a bottleneck at the southern border. the lifting of that, obviously, means that we are going to see...

42. here in el paso they have been processed by border patrol agents and have permits to into into the united states. the question is, how long will they be able to be here in the united states? theyll be going through the asylum process. not everyone is granted that. this is a dramatically different scene. were seeing it here outside one of these shelters. a few days ago this area was packed with hundreds and hundreds of people. dhs warning them if they did not have the proper paper work they w...

In new york that -- gives them orientation. 32 of them that we were sitting in front of me. and i asked them, what is your main priority? and everybody said, we just want to work on the books. >> but what happens if they dont find jobs? >> they continue to, basically, be a burden on the system. and i have heard from many of these asylum seekers who tell me, until my hands -- >> but for how long? how long could they be -- >> it could be years. you are looking at 2 million pending asylum cases in ...

Title 42. here in el paso these are people who have been processed by border patrol agents and they have permits to stay here, to enter into united states. the question is, how will they be able to go, to be here in the united states? theyll be going through the asylum process. not everyone is granted at. but this is a very dramatically different scene we are seeing here outside of one of the shelters. just a few days ago. this area was packed with hundreds and hundreds of people. dhs officers c...

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