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Average new asylum policy now implemented along the southern border at the want did of homeland security has begun sending some io sigh lem seekers back to mexico while their diss are are being processed. now this pilot program starting at the border cross in the nation. jeff paul is live from los angeles to give us more details so jeff whats changing? >> the trump administration announcing some asylum seekers will be sent become or have to wait in mexico while their claim is being processed at ...

Eric. eric: as the political battle plays out in washington, u.s. officials at the southern border are starting to send some of the asylum a applicants back to mexico and the trump administration has begun to implement a new poll circumstance requiring migrants to wait in mexico while the cases are processed here. the pilot program starting at the busiest border crossing in the nation, just south of san diego. jeff paul live in los angeles with more on those developments. hi, jeff. >> reporter: ...

Well talk about that portion of it as well. christine romans is here to explain. >> how would this work. >> would you pay a penny and a half a mile or 30 cents a gallon. >> depends on what kind of car you drive. >> exactly. this is a pilot program starting in two years. it will be voluntary. they want to test to see if this is a way for the state to raise more money for tex revenue to fix bridges, roads and the like. 30 cents gas tax. it would work out if you use a mileage tax of 49.2 cents a ga...