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That turned people out of there. and also, lawrence, there is a very sophisticated immigrant population, highly, skilled highly trained that is leaving the industrial part. that's compared to all of these other countries around there, they kind of raced into. the unemployment in russia is hostile, a saw along with the inflation. basically, putin has destroyed the economic value of russia. russia is no longer economic lee a superpower. we are not of said that era. go suppose people say that the economy is smaller than that, not to disparage generally. not to dismiss chilly, but neither of them ...

Effect. the 1924 law, the national origins act, was meant to suppress immigration from entire regions of the globe. and it expressly and intentionally part asian immigrants from the country, including japanese immigrants, who had not been blocked by previous u.s. immigration laws. so that was the law of the land for decades. right up until the moment president johnson signed that new law on liberty island. and johnson's new law was largely affective. look at this graph issue for us from the migration policy institute. look at that purple block to see how small a share of the u. s. population t...

Look at this graph issue for us from the migration policy institute. look at that purple block to see how small a share of the u.s. population the u.s. immigrant population -- and asian immigrants were in the 1960s. and then look at how that share expands after the 1960s, after president johnson ended the national origins quota system. that moment in 1965 changed the face of this country, literally. but that change was not universally celebrated. particularly on the west coast. many asian immigrants entered through age -- angel island, through san francisco bay. california already had a histor...

Illegally. but it is a humanitarian crisis at this time because we simply don't have capacity for this large number of folks. >> if you don't have capacity, i guess what's the backup plan? what are you doing as a result then? >> well, we're working with a number of what we call either hospitality sites or local shelterers. the difference between the two, the hospitality sites are focused on the migrant population whereas shelters tend to focus on the local homeless and so but many of those shelters, many of those hospital salt sites are operating at or over capacity such as ourselves. we've no...

Re babs there are all kinds of people here. >> reporter: el paso extended an emergency declaration over the weekend as it struggles to accommodate the growing migrant population, while the u.s. immigration system is being overwhelmed. amid all that uncertainty... >> we just go one week or one day at a time and giving it our best to be ready. >> reporter: the biden administration moved to end title 42,s which allows border officials to deny asylum seekers. but that policy remains in place as the supreme court considers a lawsuit from republican governors. and that decision could come any day. j...