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Immigration reform. there's been a hunger for it across the united states. we need to deal with these questions, the border crossing questions, and they're not being addressed. >> let's talk about the asylum question. no better person to have than joyce vance. give us the legal ramifications of what the efforts are that are being made right now by this administration to change the way we handle asylum applications in that they would stay at someplace potentially on the mexico side as opposed to potentially being allowed into the u.s. as a decision is being made. >> so everything that's going o...

>> and you spoke with a public defender. give me their feelings on all of this. are they equally overburdened, do they have just too much on their docket? >> they are extremely overwhelmed. i sat down with assistant public defender richard gold who is located in mcallen, texas where so much of this is going down and he is seeing on average 75 people that he is representing in a morning hearing and then another 75 in the afternoon. on top of that, he has tons of felony cases, completely unrelateto what is happening on our borders, that he is responsible for. he gets about five minutes tops to t...

From them. so the apprehending agent's information, coordinates of where this person was arrested at. we take down their basic buy graphicical information, name date of birth, sex, age. >> reporter: agents say their role is just to detain migrants for a short period. in cells like this one in the tucson border sector before sending migrants on to other's like i.c.e. immigration and customs enforcement. but before that happens, the migrants are asked to abc three questions. >> yes i would like to -- they can answer to this yes, i would like to see an immigration judge and, you know please my ca...

And the question is the question is whether president bashar assad has taken the final decision to as he once said live and die in syria. if he does die, it's most likely to be, of course, at the hands of the rebels when they make their final push into the center of damascus, a push which most experts believe is coming. all whether president assad might now be willing to or trying to seek asylum in some friendly country. that would probably boil down to cuba, ecuador venezuela or russia. u.n. secretary general was asked about the asylum question today he did not seem to favor the idea. listen....

Clear to president bashar assad. >> we have sent an unmistakable message that this would cross a red line and those responsible would be held to account. >> activists saying at least 40,000 people have died in the antigovernment uprising that began last year. now evidence the blood shed is again seeping across another border into lebanon. gunmen loyal to the syrian regime and rebels fought it out on the streets in the northern part of that country. dozens reported dead in two days of fighting there. similar clashes have erupted more than a dozen times before in lebanon. more violence and death...