has not responded to our request for comment. as for what comes next, the doctor has a motions hearing coming up on july 8th. send it back to you. martha: thank you, nate. we ve got this now. an illegal immigrant out of ecuador in custody in a sickening sex attack accused of assaulting a 13-year-old girl in a new york city park in broad daylight. a lot of information. we still don t know about this. we re taking the story in right now and say hello and begin a new hour now. tough news here. i m bill hemmer, dana has the week off. welcome to martha. martha: i m martha maccallum. they say the suspect was armed with a machete when he approached a 13-year-old boy and girl and forced them into a secluded area of the park where he tied them together by the wrists and sexually assaulted the girl. this is an absolute nightmare for any parents who want to give their children enough freedom to walk around the neighborhood a bit. eric shawn has more in our newsroom. hi, eric. he
president biden circumventing congress on immigration. this time shielding half a million migrants from deportation. how will he do that? we ll tell you now. i m bill hemmer live in new york. dana has the week off today. like a ray of sunshine. martha: i m martha maccallum, this is america s newsroom. this afternoon president biden will mark the 12th anniversary of daca with a new policy rewarding some migrants who came to the united states illegally. bill: that will block deportations for half a million people married to u.s. citizens as well as 50,000 of their kids. it applies to people who have lived here for at least ten years and that excludes anyone with prior deportations. martha: the action coming less than five months before the presidential election where the border, of course, could be a deciding factor . former acting dhs secretary chad wolf thinks it s about optics. it certainly will be a challenged. the timing you indicated is really important here. ob