france, it s intensity and morocco playing in qatar. qatar is the first middle eastern arab country to host a world cup and we ve talked a lot about the down sides of that, but one of the up sides is that it s going to, it s created an ethos of arab nationalism and provided almost a home-field advantage to the moroccans. i think that s really carried them through the tournament, and morocco is, plays this style where it s able to sit back, absorb pressure. they manage to defend in a way that s actually kind of fun to watch and then they counter attack quickly, but not in 1s and 2s. they counter attack in a swarm and it s actually a fairly stylish, sophisticated form of counterattacking, but france, dear joe, i mean, i know has his special place in your, your, your your florida heart. and they really are the best,
reporter: homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas visiting el paso and facing republican calls for impeachment. a record-breaking 2.4 million illegal border crossings in the last year. critics of the biden administration say it s laxed border policies will encourage an even larger influx from title 42 is lifted. customs and borders protections tell nbc news daily border crossings could reach a record 10,000 per day. this man from ecuador says a cartel kidnapped him during his grueling journey and only survived because the mexican military rescued him and hundreds of others. secretary mayorkas says immigration is a complex issue and defending the biden administration s border policies. the department of homeland security also just announced its deploying more agents here to the border to handle this influx. mika and joe? all right. thank you so much. thank you, gabe. live from mexico.
immigrants we have in the united states. let s increase the number of refugees we allow in, but it has to be done in a humane, orderly process that s just as fair to a migrant from, from india or pakistan or sudan or poland as it is somebody from el salvador or nicaragua. this is just not fair. yeah. an issue that challenged the biden administration from the start, joe. they say they inherited it from their predecessor, from the trump administration but recognize what is happening now is not sustainable, likely to get worse. a suggestion when title 42 expires next week, remind everyone, that s a cdc policy put in place during the pandemic that sort of tracked down the asylum system here in the united states. the biden administration has looked to extend it. gone to court to extend it but it will expire and believe estimate more than 10,000 a day
reason, but also because he s not winning elections for the republicans anymore. so that much is clear. and that s why we re seeing this shift towards desantis. again, that kind of blank slate, that voters can kind of, you know, make whatever they need to make for themselves, but the question i have, and maybe this is kind of a question for you, joe, but i was always taught in college, i was a political science major that actually studied political science of the american south specifically. i mean, we were always taught that politics in the south is very local. the question is, can the desantis effect be replicated elsewhere? or is actually, is this just something beyond trump? and is it about the toxicity of trumpism and will desantis antics we just talked about play with independence anywhere else? will he play with moderate republicans anywhere else? we don t really know that yet. so that s to be determined.
i think about the kids who were their age who survived in the school that day are juniors in high school right now, thinking about college. seniors in high school getting ready to go off and do big things and how this horrific tragedy completely reshaped the town. you know, joe biden came to our vigil last week commemorating the victims in sandy hook and all across the country. introduced by one of the survivors. introduced by a pretty amazing teenager who was a second grader at the time whose classroom was just across the hall and he said introducing joe biden she s alive today only because the shooter decided to take a right instead of a left, and i think it is important on a day like today. we have this number in sandy hook. 26, 26 students and educators, but that s really not an accurate way to describe the grief. to describe the trauma. so many of those teachers, those first responders who entered the school that day, those kids, they re lives are never, ever