13th, impeached, indict-able, and unrepentant. as he pursues another bid for the white house, the former president in the current front runner for the 2024 republican nomination continues to tessa limits of the law even as he remains tangled up in a multitude of legal troubles. all of this on full display for the public over the past week. on tuesday, a jury found the former president liable for sexually abusing and defaming the writer and former magazine columnist ej carroll, who accused trump of raping her inside a bergdorf goodman dressing room back in the mid 1990s. yet just one day later, trump appeared on a nationally televised town hall event and mocked carroll again, and continue to claim that her allegations were quote, a fake story. now this is not an isolated incident for donald trump either. it s a pattern of behavior, he has a long history going back decades of weaponizing the legal system to his advantage. in just the last few years, we ve repeatedly witnessed
asylum in the u.s. can be turned away if they did not either first seek asylum in a country they travel through to get to the u.s., in many cases, that country would be mexico, or apply for asylum online before crossing the border, which is already proven to be a mess. many have reported issues with the online app as a try to apply for asylum, and also from migrant s craw crossing anywhere other than unofficial and they may face criminal prosecution if they try again. all week we ve seen these images of groups of migrants waiting to be let into the country. but the biden administration said on friday, quote, we continue to encounter high levels of noncitizen s at the border. but we did not see a substantial increase overnight, or an influx at midnight. this is according to the border officials. midnight on thursday night into friday was when title 42 officially expired. the number of border crossings remains at a historic high, in managing the influx will be a key challenge for the b
administration placed these additional band-aids on access to asylum which is a really big deal. is taking us back in time, not restoring the asylum system that existed before the pandemic, and as its critics have said, you know it s a violating domestic and international law. i also think that more band-aids, for instructions on the silent could likely lead to an increase in illegal crossings, because we ve seen again and again these mandates just don t work. kayla you ve been our go-to for years on this topic, like i said, i m glad again that is been recognized with your win of the 2023 pulitzer prize. please keep on doing this this issue is not going away and we haven t fixed elect you said since 1986 kayla dickinson is a staff writer for the atlantic. congressional leaders are meeting today to try and make progress towards resolving the debt ceiling crisis. but how do you gauge in a policy debate, when the other side doesn t believe in policy? i ll talk about it with a senior mem
asylum in america. but as one american restriction is lifted, the biden administration is establishing new restrictions coming into the country, cracking down on illegal crossings. thursday night, title 42 was lifted, it was an emergency health provisions that allowed the u.s. to turn away migrants on the grounds of proof venting the spread of covid-19. it was activated during the pandemic by former president donald trump. under u.s. and international law, anyone who fears persecution in their home country can come to the u.s. and seek asylum, refugee status. before title 42, migrants could cross the border as asylum and were often allowed to stay in the u.s. while their immigrate immigration cases played out. with title in place, migrants were returned to mexico immediately, and deny the right to seek asylum. but none the title 42 has come to an end, it does not mean that they go back to the way they were before. under the biden ministration s new rules, anyone seeking