countdown to the lifting of title 42. at 11:59 p.m. eastern, that s 9:59 p.m. here in el paso, the pandemic era border restrictions that allowed the u.s. to expel millions of migrants without allowing them to make asylum claims will go away. i am right here in the central part of el paso, on oregon street, sacred heart church is right beside me. i want to kind of give you perspective using our drone and this extraordinary team we have here on msnbc just where and how close we are to the mexican side. this is the church. this is oregon street. this goes right into downtown el paso and take a look at just maybe a block from where we are. that s the bridge, the international bridge that connects el paso to juarez where for generations thousands and thousands of people have used that bridge to cross through el paso and juarez. it s almost like one city divided by the border. people come and go to school on one side. they do their shopping on the other. they live in the other. it
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have a family, a growing family. yes. here in el paso. what do you see when you see these men, women and children that are here? what do you see in them? it s really hard for us because, you know, i do, i do immigration defense so i do a lot of removal work when people have come here seeking asylum, it s really hard for us because we see how difficult the system is, how broken the system is. so we see a lot of desperation and a lot of people really desperate situation, dangerous desperate situations so a little frustrating with us for the system we work in. i think, you know, nobody is necessarily advocating open borders. what we want is a system that works and it s frustrating because congress has to act and so a lot of times our hands are tied in the cases where there s not a lot we can do and under title 42 it was incredibly frustrating because people weren t even allowed to present their cases or make their claims. that s the good thing about it ending but new restrictions