for the world. much more on that on cnn news central ahead. we will see you tomorrow. an unexpected slowdown at the border, but will it last? dhs says it s too early to know. that s not stopping immigration politics, though, from heating up once again. hours ago a new bus of migrants arrived at the vice president s residence. four russian aircraft down inside russian territory. what this tells us about what the ukrainians can do now and in a much discussed spring offensive. the travel forecast is in, more than 42 million americans will be on the move this memorial day. are the roads and airlines ready? these major stories and more all coming in right here to cnn news central. so this morning there s a surprising quiet at the southern border as federal officials report a dramatic drop in border crossings, which is the opposite of what so many had predicted would happen after title 42 ended. they warned it would be chaotic for a while, remember? well, instead this was
at every single stop now, reporters are looking, is he interacting with the crowd? is he take shaking hands, tae staying long enough? if you re advanced staff, you have to stay at least an extra 30 minutes to show, hey, he likes people. i saw tweets, what pizza is he having? is he talking to voters? do we have a timetable as to when other candidates will jump in? rumors about tim scott, mike pence and others. i think tim scott will come in. may 22nd is the date where they re circling. you ll see his super pac get bolstered. mike pence also in the next month. those are the two main candidates. national political correspondent for axios, alex thompson covering a lot of ground. thank you for being here. thank you for all of you for getting up way too early on this monday morning. morning joe starts right now. we must reject the culture of losing that has infected our party in recent year. the time for excuses is over. if we get distracted, focus the election on
not open, that is the imran khan singh his arrest was illegal. saying. our borders are not open, that is the warning imran khan singh his arrest was illegal. saying. our borders are not open, that is the warning from america s homeland security secretary as the title 42 as its notable end in the next few hours at one minute to midnight eastern time, they said the us was already seeing what he called a high number of border encounters. it was first implemented in 2020 under the trump administration. it made it easier for the us to send people back to mexico using the coronavirus pandemic as justification. mexico using the coronavirus pandemic asjustification. but mexico using the coronavirus pandemic as justification. but it s looming expiration is treated something of a rush to reach the border with cities on both sides waiting for an increase in the attempted crossing once it lapses. a record number of my prints were recently apprehended from the us mexico border and a
washington. doug. doug: warning about a tidal wave and chaos at the border and numbers keep climbing. we are in excess of 10,000 immigrants per day crossing the border illegally. the surge is already underway and fox learned the administration has organized mass release of immigrants into communitieses once shelters are overcapacity. president biden is bracing for what we are likely to see ahead. president biden: we ve had chaos at the border for years. we are making real immigration more streamlined and the direction people know there is a legal way to get here and not a legal way. doug: the secretary of homeland security continues to claim the border is closed and secure. we are taking this approach within the constraints of a broken immigration system that congress has not fixed for more than two decades. when we release individuals, we release them on conditions. the vast majority will be addressed in our border patrol facilities and our ice detention facilities.
the refugee process in an unprecedented way. we are a nation of immigrants and we are a nation of laws. and those laws provide that if one qualifies for humanitarian relief, then one has established the basis to remain in the united states, and if one has not, then one is to be removed. and that is exactly what is going to happen. we have to go, we are out of time. what is the rough cost to american taxpayers since the roughly 4 million people have come into the country illegally since january of 2021, as those people show up at community hospitals, as they enter the school system, get other government help. do you have a taxpayer cost? let me turn that questionp around a little bit. i m going to turn it around to match the question that an international partner asked of me. and the question that the international partner asked of me is what is the economic cost of your broken immigration system? since there are businesses around this country that are desperate for work