the prior administration. we do not resemble it at all. what we do, and by the way, we have rebuilt an asylum system that was dismantled in the prior administration. we have resumed refugee processing all around the world, and these regional processing centers are going to accelerate the refugee process in an unprecedented way. we are a nation of immigrants, and we are a nation of laws. and those laws provide that if one qualifies for humanitarian relief, then one has established a basis to remain in the united states. and if one has not, then one is to be removed. and that is exactly what is going to happen. you talk about cost, what s the rough cost to american taxpayers to the roughly 4 million people who have come into the country illegally since january of 2021, as those people show up at community hospitals, enter the school system, get other government help. let me turn that question around a little bit. i m going to turn it around to match the question that an int
Families are fleeing a Mexican town along the border with the U.S. due to violent cartel activity, including burning homes and intense battles, according to AZCentral.
mexican immigration authorities. i spoke with survivors of sexual assault and rape, people who have suffered severe violence and are at risk of further violence. while they re essentially stranded and trapped in northern mexico, unable to present themselves at a port of entry to cross and be able to access and apply for asylum without use of one of these really limited points through the app. talk about credible fear. what is the reality for those people? and i know that you ve actually reported on how mothers are and this is on the mexican side mothers are so concerned about the safety of their children, this not just by cartel members. this is also by government officials, that are so concerned that they re tying their children to themselves, why? and what s the reason for that? yes, jose. i spoke with mothers who are sleeping in open air encampments or they re sleeping out on the street wanting to stay close to the port of entry to try to seek life saving protection and
border. i spoke with a member of an ngo in southern mexico yesterday, just to get a sense of what they re seeing there, and they said to me, you know what, thousands are arriving every day, and i can tell you in the last few weeks, i saw mexican immigration ease off on the restrictions that they had, and migrants are essentially allowed to now travel north to the u.s./mexico border. i have been speak to a lot of individuals, people from vietnam, jamaica, columbia, some arrive by bus here, some of them said they walked. others took flights for whatever reason, they had to leave the countries they were in. but very few of them in their process in the last few days had any type of conversation or went through any type of check point with mexican immigration authorities. so essentially the flow of migrants at this point through mexico has become much easier according to some of the migrants that i ve spoken to and