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Faith leaders working on the border are wary of what's to come. They expect tensions to keep rising if new restrictions are imposed

Far beyond. thank you so much. i really appreciate it. border cities are at the epicenter of the migrant kries i. officials in the rio grande reporting to migrants sleeping on the street as clear evidence that they dont have the resources, they dont have the space to handle the occurrence surge let alone what could happen when title 42 goes away. the city of el paso just declared a state of emergency because of this. ed lavendera is there for us and tracking this for us. ed, what are you heari...

Hello, everyone. thank you so much for joining me this saturday. im fredricka whitfield. cities along the southern border are bracing for an increase of migrants after a federal appeals court rejects a republican-led challenge to keep title 42 in place that trump-era policy allowed authorities to swiftly expel migrants who crossed into the u.s. from mexico citing health concerns over the covid-19 pandemic. the court ruling will allow the policy to end next week and sets the stage for a challenge...

Its not just human tracking tr. >> trace: if they are catching that much fence and all you got to believe theres more coming. thank you. new york city has requested emergency funding from the biden administration help deal with its relatively small influx of migrants. ashley strohmier live in new york city with more on that. ashley. >> hi, trace. when you think about, 30,000 migrants is nothing compared to what you heard kevin mentioned about border cities in texas dealing with what they do on a...

Think if that happens. >> thank god its gonna be a new life for us. >> ed lavandera joins us from el paso. can you explain the policy. what is the difference between them? >> well, the policy was called the micro protection protocol. allow the u.s. government to expel migrants coming from countries other than mexico. forcing them to wait on the other side of the border. it is highly controversial. essentially sending migrants to very dangerous border cities on the mexican side. title 42 is actua...

[ speaking non-english ] >> translator: thank god its going to be a new life for us. >> and ed lavandera joins us now from el paso. can you explain title 42 and the remain in mexico policy. what is the difference between them? >> reporter: well, the remain in mexico policy was technically called the migrant protection protocol. it essentially allowed the u.s. government to expel migrants coming from countries other than mexico and force them to wait just on the other side of the border. it was c...

Doorstep and hes worried we have to. the reality is theres too many people. >> reporter: the biden administration is projecting anywhere between 9 and 14,000 migrants could attempt to cross the u.s. southern border once title 42 is lifted next week. now there are still a number of legal challenges playing out in the court, and because of that, it is possible that title 42 is kept in place next week. in the meantime, border cities like here in el paso are bracing for whats to come next week. ed l...

People fanning across the country because they cant all live in border cities it is a ridiculous stance but i respect that you actually think that all of this is because republican governors decided to stand up and get some attention on an untenable situation. i get that. >> thats not what i said. i said we need to work together and not traffic people across the country. >> harris: obama being the deporter in chief. he was deporting people. do you want to comment on that, desirae? >> my comment ...

Put anything in place to help the policy to try to recharge some of the flow. arthel: why did governor abbott declare an invasion of the southern border? what you think hes hoping a declaration would trigger? >> all resources in texas are overwhelmed including border patrol, department of public safety of texas, they had national guard deployed but the flow continues unabated the declaring invasion allows the government to deploy resources from his national guard in a different status to help th...

Them than inconveniencing his political opponents. based on this new lawsuit we know many of the migrants felt the same way, right? >> sure. its worth pointing out differences. at least based on my reporting in del rio, what you quoted in the story, where that came from, is -- theres a process that leads from del rio to texas. people in texas before they board those buses are given an orientation. theyre told what their rights are. theyre told where theyre going. theyre told they can get off the...