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>> steve: the parole program illegal. that means up to 360,000 migrants could be flown into the country eve year remember that coming fly them in. >> brian: get them frequent flier numbers so they can compile points. lucas tomlinson is live in washington with the latest on the border battle and the legal case, lucas? >> good morning, guys. thats right. 20 states thats approaching half the country suing the biden administration right now over its new border policy. they say violates the law. lets...

Florida and other states sued the Biden administration over a program intended to curb irregular migration by granting paroles to Cubans, Haitians, Venezuelans and Nicaraguans.

Than making our brave men and women pay back a bonus. texas one of 20 states suing the biden administration a parole program welcomes 30,000 migrants into the state each month. you and other republicans are calling on president biden to reimburse the state along with a meeting to discuss the crisis. it seems like the biden administration likes to say it has full authority to handle the border until the bill comes due, isnt that right, congressman? its cost the stay state of takes literally billi...

Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans and family members eligible for safe passage into United States for up to two years as parolees if they have a financial supporter. This program is like the Uniting for Ukraine program. Organizations provide the financial support.

So under asylum rules someone does not need a sponsor to save their lives or be covered under the asylum laws, which the u.n. basically said yesterday. >> so the fact is under this program only the people who have someone here in the united states, with money, can even dream of asking for asylum. >> thats exactly right. its parole, so understand this parole program lasts for two years and then these individuals become like daca, the way fair of congress to decide if they have a pathway to citize...

Piece of legislation i introduced was to reform the immigration process, to make it more orderly, to make it more -- to make sure people have access under the law. and so what we found out and not just in my visit to el paso, but before that, we found out is that our republican friends and a few democrats are very critical of whats going on at the border, but yet refuse to even look at the detail document i submitted for the congress to consider to reform the process completely. and so number on...

The border, but, yet, refuse to even look at the detailed document i submitted for the congress to consider to reform the process completely. and so, number one, right now, a majority of our migrants are coming from four countries, venezuela, cuba, haiti, and nicaragua. and were expanding the very successful parole program we had with regard to venezuela to cuba, and to nicaragua and to haiti. to provide safe or orderly and humane processing people coming to the united states and claiming under ...

The administrations recent surge of money and manpower to the border helping reduce that number to about 700 a day. the president and top dhs officials touring a migrant facility while talking with field agents and meeting with local leaders. dhs secretary alejandro mayorkas blaming congress for the broken immigration system on this week. >> we want individuals who qualify for relief under our laws to come to the united states in a safe and orderly way. and that is why we are building lawful pat...

President would be to help and to perhaps let them stay. my final question to her is -- [speaking non-english] >> [speaking non-english] >> she described a difficult economic conditions and columbia. this is the face of the humanitarian crisis here. this is what we have been seeing. not just from columbia. but a lot of the migrants that weve been talking to our from venezuela. some have told us that if they decided to come to the u.s. because of their parole program -- that was limited in spoke ...

Policies that the biden administration has rolled out. under this new plan, asylum seekers are being asked in some respects to apply for asylum from their home countries. there is this parole program modeled off of a venezuelan program that gave -- it requires folks to pass a background checks, prove a have a financial supporter in america. talk about the practical implications of that. is this realistic for folks who are trying to come to america? >> unfortunately, it is not realistic. it will ...