welcome to world news america on pbs and around the globe. tens of thousands of people have been gathering along this is ciudad juarez on the mexican side of the border. they ve been there for weeks, and many are expected to try to cross into the us in the coming days. that s because a temporary law introduced during the pandemic that makes it easier to remove migrants from the us is expiring later tonight. the us has been beefing up its security forces along the 2,000 mile border. that s where we start tonight. sophie long is in el paso, texas. sophie, president biden himself said this week that the border situation wil be chaotic for a while. what s the situation on the ground where you are? interestingly, at the moment, where interestingly, at the moment, where i am, in el paso, a stone s throw away from one of the crossings, it s very quiet. for many months here there has been hundreds of people who have made it across the border, sleeping on the streets of el paso, to
dump them in another state, so-called sanctuary cities so that they can figure it out. what i just described is exactly the strategy of some republicans governors on the far right of this divide, governors like you see on the screen, governor greg abbott of texas and ron desantis of florida. the latter declaring quote, every community in america should be sharing in the burdens. it shouldn t fall on a handful of red states. the real question is, for many americans out there, do you think desantis is right? we re going to hash that out in moment here. buz was it right for he and abbott to do the following? texas governor sent two buses of asylum seekers to the home of vice president kamala harris. it happened today. and then drove away, left them there. they apparently had no idea where they were or why they were at that particular location, let alone, perhaps, its significance politically speaking. and last night, florida s governor flew two planes with an estimated 50 migran
back up. back up. so that, jim, is the incident right there. but we have some details from a detective who has been investigating this quoted in the affidavit that is part of the arrest charges here, he says, quote, the defendants, we re talking about the officers, were not in clear danger of death or seriously bodily injury at the time they used deadly force. he goes on to say the detective writing this does not believe a reasonable officer in light of the same facts and circumstances at the time would have felt compelled to use deadly force. so i was combing through the after the and one of the officers wrote to police that he thought the victim here could have thrown the hammer through a glass window.