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Former Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson says Biden must admit border emergency

In The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman delve into U.S. immigration policy.

Situation is just going to get worse. arthel: it is definitely a problem for this is an american problem. its not a party problem. but since politics are everywhere i went to ask you how can republican lawmakers from counties to congress to fix this border emergency? >> well, as you say its not a red issue and it is not a blue issue it is a red, white, and blue issue. both sides need to stand up and do whats right for the american people. this bickering back and forth, i mean we have had both pa...

More than 60% of flights canceled. also tonight the water crisis. more than 100,000 without water. new reporting from jackson, mississippi where the system has failed again. border emergency. the bitter chill colliding with the crush at the border. many forced to sleep on the streets. plus the bus of migrants dropped off at vice president kamala harriss home on one of the coldest nights of the year. plane down. the crash landing into an icy creek. the kayaker who jumped into action to pull...

Considered a serious threat to public safety. texas and louisiana sue the government, arguing federal law originating in congress requires mandatory arrest and deportation for those in the u.s. illegally. >> it is our job to say what the law is, not whether or not there are difficulties there, and i dont think we should change that responsibility just because they cannot agree. >> there are 11 million people illegally in the united states. they argue they do not have the resources to arrest and ...

Breaking news. a border emergency in texas, as more than 9,500 migrants that have arrived are living under a bridge and thousands more expected in the coming days. the migrants, many haitian, are camped out in del rio, texas, fleeing a country thats been torn apart by a coup and a major earthquake. our reporter has just returned from an aerial tour of the area. rosa, youre talking about nearly 10,000 migrant, thousands more expected in 48 hours here. border officials are calling this situation u...

In the Mexican border town of Piedras Negras, the Hotel Santa Rosa sits just three and a half blocks from the crossing into the United States. But the promise of a better life in the U.S. may seem miles away for the migrants filling the 25 rooms at the hotel. Enrique Acevedo traveled to Piedras Negras for his new 60 Minutes+ report on the recent rise in immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border. He met Donley and Esley Boden at Hotel Santa Rosa, where they and their two children had stayed for a mo...

The deadline at the end of this month. and well placed republicans for the hill told fox news today president trump may actually want a shutdown and use it as politically damaging for the democrats, who will not support that border wall. we will see how this plays out, back to you. >> mike: david savard, live in washington, thanks a lot. majority of republicans in the senate facing a squeeze for minority leader chuck schumer, trying to push a vote on president trumps border emergency and senate ...

Democrats are putting pressure on republicans to take a vote on the senate floor to terminate the national emergency use to fund the border wall with mexico. the white house announced last week $3.6 billion will be moved from 127 military project to construct the wall. >> the presidents national emergency declaration wasnt is an outrageous power grab by a president who refuses to respect the constitutional separation of powers. >> reporter: congress is up against the clock to fund the government...

Are going to have to take responsibility. this is the schumer-pelosi border emergency. they are refusing to make the changes that are necessary and to fund the resources necessary to deal with this. this is on them. ed: mark, to your point, we are showing video next to you a second ago of something just over a thousand immigrants crossing the border in one point. the video we saw just this week alone, one spot on the border. you can see it there. yet we played a clip earlier in the show in 2006....