it is the top of the hour. i m katy tur and we re starting again on capitol hill with the question: deadlock or a deal? what will happen today is anyone s guess. the house reconvenes in one hour. will the seventh vote be the charm for kevin mccarthy. he s made even more concessions. what they are and will they help? earlier they said they think negotiations could drag on until next week. i think we re making progress. i think people are talking and that s i think that very good. look, we re all working together. find a solution. do you have the votes today? we will see. also this hour, president biden will take on one of the issues that s motivating these republican holdouts. the southern border. he s announcing new border enforcement measures. we got a peek at the details. what they are in a moment. and after teasing a trip to the border yesterday, he s expected to make that visit official. we will go right to the white house for his live remarks when they b
mexico and attempting to enter the united states without going through our legal processes. we responded by using and ensuring there are two safe and lawful ways for someone leaving the country to come to america. that was one of the reasons you were proposing. first, if they are seeking asylum, they can use an app on their phone called cbpone. that s to spell it out. not the number 1. to schedule an appointment at a port of entry and make their asylum claim there without crossing the border unlawfully and have a decision determined by an asylum officer, do they qualify? second, in october we worked with the mexican government to launch a new parole program. there s another program you know it but the public may not. it immediately showed results by reducing the number of people crossing the border unlawfully. the way this parole program works, one must have a lawful sponsor here in the united states who agrees to sponsor you to get here. then that person has to go good
in the meantime, my administration will use that authority as the supreme court has required. until congress passes the funds, a comprehensive immigration plan to fix the system completely, my administration is going to work to make things better at the border using tools we have available to us now. today, my administration is taking several steps to stiffen enforcement for those who try to come without a legal right to stay and to put in place a faster process to decide a claim of asylum. someone says i m coming because i m escaping oppression. there has to be a way to determine that quicker for people who are credibly seeking protection from persecution. the secretary of homeland security will detail these actions shortly after i finish. here is one significant step we are taking. over the summer, we saw a huge spike in the number of venezuelans traveling through
there is one cage that had children who young boys who were being lined up for food. and they started with the smallest in front you. had a little toddler, he must have been 4 or 5 years old up through youth that are 16 or 17. d they some of those may have been unaccompanied. others were undoubtedly taken way from their families, for families that are seeking asylum. so these are families that are coming to the u.s., having gone through horrific circumstances abroad, having this vision of the statue of liberty and the fact that americans, virtually all of us have some member of our family tree at some point who came here escaping oppression, expecting that they finally mad to it the shores of the u.s., and now they ll get a fair chance to present their case for asylum. and instead, they go through a new trauma with their children ripped out of their arms, sent away until they have no idea where, no idea where they are going, no idea how to contact their children. it s hugely stress
children who young boys who were being lined up for food. and they started with the smallest in front you. had a little toddler, he must have been 4 or 5 years old up through youth that are 16 or 17. and they some of those may have been unaccompanied. others were undoubtedly take way from their families, for families that are seeking asylum. so these are families that are coming to the u.s., having gone through horrific circumstances abroad, having this vision of the statue of liberty and the fact that americans, virtually all of us have some member of our family tree at some point who came here escaping oppression, expecting that they finally made to it the shores of the u.s., and now they ll get a fair chance to present their case for asylum. and instead, they go through a new trauma with their children ripped out of their arms, sent away until they have no idea where, no idea where they are going, no idea how to contact their children. it s hugely stressful for the