that does it for me. thanks for watching. i ll see you back here tomorrow at 5:00 p.m. eastern for another live hour of politics nation. my colleague, alicia menendez, picks up our news coverage now for a special hour on the vice president s trip to central american including what is causing the crisis at the border and what the united states can do about it. alicia. thank you, reverend sharpton. i m alicia menendez. as we come on the air the president is england furthering his policy agenda at the g7. it is his first appearance as president on the world stage, today unveiling an infrastructure plan to help the developing world compete with china. biden s build back better world initiative helps to narrow the
circumstances migrants face on their journey to america. here is nbc s tom giannis. reporter: off the cost of san diego, custom and border protection agents taking no chances. this 31-foot pleasure cruiser stopped at a local marina. inside the cabin dozens of undocumented immigrants. every time we come across maritime smuggling vessel, it is overloaded, it is overcrowded, the vessel is hardly sea worthy. reporter: and now happening more often and just steps from the beach. in the last month alone, four migrants have died including three who drowned when their ship lost power, hit a reef and spashd into pieces. this video showing how some had to jump for their lives into the surf. border agents saying smugglers are becoming more reckless. we rode with the air operations
indigenous communities in these countries. they re working with them to further repress the populations. that will continue to cause people to be displaced and to continue to come here. it is just, you know, the united states sort of shooting itself in the foot. new york congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez tweeted after harris s comments in part that seeking asylum at any u.s. border is a 100% legal method of arrival. i worry, jean, that sometimes gets lost in these conversations. it is lost. you know, so many times i think that u.s. politicians, and the way that the right wing media in particular frames this issue, is to cast all of the asylum seekers as, you know, illegals, dehumanizing terms, dehumanizing perspective about immigrants who are simply seeking asylum as is their right under both the united states immigration laws and international refugee laws as well. jean guerrero, thank you as always. now to a look at the extreme
most people do not want to leave the place where they grew up, their grandmother, the place where they play, the place where their language is spoken and the culture is familiar. when they do leave, it usually has to do with one of two reasons, either because they re fleeing some harm, or because they simply cannot satisfy their basic needs by staying at home. with me now, tyler moran, special assistant to the president for immigration at the white house domestic policy council. tyler, a lot of ground work laid during this trip. what do you do next? so let me start out by saying that the president and the vice president are deeply committed to rebuilding our immigration system after four years of chaos and mismanagement. the reason why the president asked the vice president to go down to the region is because we re taking a more comprehensive approach to the border. this trip was incredibly important to demonstrate that we are trying to create legal
america s standing on the world stalg, vice president kamala harris carries on her charge of addressing an infliction of migration from central america, a topic we will be devoting the entire hour to covering. not just problems, but solutions made harder, of course, by republicans who follow in donald trump s lead, refuse to see it as the humanitarian crisis it is. instead, another opportunity to play politics. one thing we know, and that is a border crisis is plaguing the farmers, the ranchers, the residents of the entire border region. we have a border crisis on the southern border. come to texas, come to the rio grande valley, come to mcallen. more importantly, stand up and be willing to enforce our laws to fix it, because that s not what they re doing right now. but if you want to get serious and be serious about this issue, then you have to look at the very reasons that migrants are coming here like violent crime and the effects of climate change, which is why the vice presi