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>> reporter: a setback for the white house in court, a federal judge in san francisco has ruled they cannot apply these new rules that require immigrants only pass through designated border checkpoints to a claim asylum. that is why we limit the us response, the part of homeland security says there is a criminal component to these caravans. >> the caravan has been different not only because of its size but because of the violence, the criminal elements in the caravan, the use of force. >> report...

Inspector general just came out with a report that is raising some very serious questions over whether i.c.e. has the staffing or the training to deal with the high levels of cases that they already have on their radar. those are some of the questions that are going to be asked of the secretary of homeland security and the attorney general a little bit later today. hallie, back to you. >> live for us there in san diego. thank you. and in the next hour, my colleague ali velshi talking with jeff...

And many of them crossing the border illegally and seeking a sylm. two men from yemen walked right in. they are avoiding border checkpoints and the risk of sent back to the united states. they have to apply for refugee status in the first country. >> they are well dressed and others are not. and at times have suffered from cold and exposure. canadian border officials say the number of people seeking a sylum spiked since november. 1400 people entered quebec to make the claim. that is more than th...

>> tighten border security quite like this place. bokias, mexico. one of the smallest legal border checkpoints youll find. this is the bokias and big ben national park, literally two little boats and across. bokias is a small town of 200 people. its lifeline is the tourists that venture across the rio grande for the tamales at the restaurant. >> its nice to live here. >> lilly runs the restaurant her father opened in 1973. but after 9/11, united states closed the bokias border krosing and the to...

Legal border checkpoints youre going to find. this is the crossing in big ben national park. literally two little boats and a guy who rows you across. its a small town of 200 people. its lifeline is the tourists that venture across the rio grand for the tama lays at jose falcons restaurant. >> its very nice to live here. >> reporter: lilia runs the restaurant her father opened in 1973, but after 9/11, the united states closed the border crossing and the town slowly started dying. falcons had to ...

A week after returning to work, kentucky court clerk kim davis faces a new legal challenge claiming shes interfering with marriage licenses. according to aclu, davis modified forms are raising questions about the validity of the licenses issued. liberty council, a group opposing same-sex marriage and representing davis says shes made a good faith effort to comply with the courts order. some signs of progress in the border battle between colombia and venezuela. the presidents of the two countri...

Figure out where to go next. theres a possibility that the serbian government will put on buses and bring people the croatian border but right now they are in a period of indecision, trying to figure out what to do, not face manager options. i think most likely theyll try to get on one of those buses. >> richard, as fences go up and new border checkpoints go up and trains get canceled and borders get closed obviously people -- these people in this situation dont just cease to exist and they dont...

Wasnt even their last money, they had to borrow money from the people around them to make it this far and they found the door closed. so when she was saying "we dont have the money to go back." not only do they not have the money to go back to syria, they dont have the money even to move around inside jaesh to look for another possible way out and there are a lot of people in that situation so shes stuck there, she and her husband are stuck there. shes obviously still pregnant, due in two weeks ...

Smugglers. at one point richard tried to film an interaction with some of the smugglers using a cell phone camera hidden in his pocket. but now today richard was in serbia right at one of those rapidly closing european border checkpoints in this case between serbia and hungary. and watch what happened. >> reporter: they made it this far but got here too late. hundreds of migrants and refugees are now stranded on the wrong side of the hungarian border, sealed off this week. dreams of a better lif...

Right in the thick of it today and all this past week in terms of the human consequence of that war not ending. and the people of that country having nowhere to go as they war gets more and more hopeless. last night on "nbc nightly news," richard reported on the human smugglers, the people taking money from these syrian refugees, these desperate syrian families, offering to somehow sneak them around various border controls that have sprung up over europe as syrians flee their home country and tr...