announcement today. a major announcement. a new law is to be introduced to exonerate hundreds of post office branch managers. the new legislation will apply to convictions in england and wales and downing street hopes they will be quashed by the end of the year. we learned that 95 out of more than 900 convictions have been overturned. the sub postmasters will need to sign a document confirming they believe themselves to be innocent. there ll be a new upfront payment of £75,000 - or $95,000 - for the vital group of postmasters who took action against the post office. a leading campaigner is dramatised in the tv drama with a major role. he said he is delighted with the news of swath parliamentary action but acknowledge some postmasters guilty of fraud may also be compensated news of swift
dana: texas bus population to various states according to abbott s office they ve sent 95,000 or a little more than that out of their state. they have had 1.5 million just this year cross into texas. do you have some empathy for what abbott is dealing with given that border is so wide open? i do have empathy and i don t think any one state should have to solve the problem alone or every one city. i ve offered to work together with abbott. what we want is what would help him also. a coordinated national plan where these migrants arrive and texas shouldn t have to bear the entire brunt nor denver, chicago or new york. we have 100 cities, 50 states could welcome people, have vacant jobs if we could make them arrive with work authorization, federal support and coordinated plan. i would be happy to work with abbott. you have power, you can do
a new quit from inside. instead of joining both parties speaker johnson is continuing to block president biden s proposed funding to hire thousands of new border patrol agents, hire more asylum officers and immigration juts. provide local communities hosting migrants additional funding and critical to stopping deadly fentanyl from entering the country. the texas governor has been testing the limits of the law laying that razor wire across the border which the feds want permission to cut and putting border crossers on buses and planes. greg abbott explains texas has transported over 95,000 migrants to sanctuary cities. like new york and chicago have seen only a fraction of what has overwhelmed texas border towns face daily. we ll continue our transportation mission until biden reverses course on his open border policies. white house officials say they have a big problem with that.
resources we lost during the covid pandemic. over 33,000 migrants have arrived in the windy city since august of 2022. chicago s mayor brandon johnson calls on the federal government for more aid to deal with the crisis. what we have is clearly an international and federal crisis that local governments are being asked to subsidize, and this is unsustainable. none of our local economies are positioned to be able to carry on such a mission. kelly: texas governor greg abbott taking to x to criticize the mayors of chicago and new york for complaining, saying texas has transported over 95,000 migrants to sanctuary cities. like new york city and chicago have seen only a fraction of overwhelmed texas border towns face daily. we will continue our transportation mission until biden reverses course on his open border policies.
on capitol hill, a bipartisan group of senators has been working on border security legislation. the money i need to protect the border. reporter: the battle to contain the problem also playing out in courtrooms nationwide. the justice department threatening to sue texas over its new law, allowing state and local law enforcement to arrest and deport migrants suspected of entering the u.s. illegally. in a letter obtained by nbc news, the doj calling the law unconstitutional, arguing that it would disrupt the federal government s operations texas governor greg abbott has sent some 95,000 migrants on chartered buses and planes to cities nationwide, often without notice. mayor adams accusing abbott of going around a new executive order that limits when and where those buses can arrive. after the latest group of buses stopped just short of the city, in secaucus, new jersey.