aimed at improving relations. and another colourful night at the eurovision song contest as the last ten acts head into the grand final. hello. i m victoria valentine. let s start with breaking news, and a controversial immigration policy in the us has just expired, and officials are warning about a potential surge in migrants at the border. this is the us mexico border. officials have said that when title 42 is no longer in effect, tens of thousands of people could try to cross over. let s remind ourselves what the policy is. the temporary law introduced by donald trump, known as title 42, meant illegal migrants could be removed quickly, and it expired at midnight washington time. the policy made it easier for the us to send people back to mexico using the coronavirus pandemic as justification. the winding down of covid measures means the policy no longer has any public health justification, and it prompted officials to announce it would end on may 11, the same day as the of
laying out a welcome mat for illegal immigrants to come into the country. others, though, everyone s rights organisations say they are so harsh that they are actually worse than the policies we saw introduced into the trump administration. this isn tjust a humanitarian isn t just a humanitarian situation isn tjust a humanitarian situation confronting president biden, but a political issue as well as he thinks election next year. never happens in el paso and other border communities, they will be subjected to some intense gross scrutiny. live now to the immigration defence attorney alexis lucero who joins us from el paso, texas. alexis, your office is just a couple of blocks from the border. how many cases are you dealing with? that is correct. i received certain calls, at least maybe 30 a day, and i am just one practitioner. my office is two blocks away from the southern border with mexico. as a result, most of the people i speak to our right across the rio grande eye and most of th