title 42. according to two sources familiar with this plan. title 42 you know is this pandemic-era policy put in place under former president trump, a policy that will officially end in late may. nbc s julia ainsley has that reporting from her sources. talk to us about what you re hearing. title 42 was put in place by the trump administration and had long thought to be lifted early on in the biden administration, that it wasn t necessary to stop the spread of covid, to keep kim grants from coming across the southern border. it s been in court battles for a long time now, and now we re und understanding the cdc has said they believe title 42, their authority to implement, can lift at the end of may. that means families coming across the border with young children. that means even single adults can cross the southern border and claim asylum. a return to the status quo of the asylum system that existed precovid. what that means for officials at dhs is there may be some
federalist society district judge, that guy right there named matthew kaczmarek. remember that name. oh, yeah, he was appointed by donald trump. and in an act of some of the most breathtaking judicial activism i have to say i ve seen in my lifetime that judge told the duly elected government it had to restart a program it had ended with another sovereign nation. that s not just legislating from the bench. that s american foreign policy from the bench. this district judge ordered the u.s. to engage in foreign policy because he wanted it to. the order was appealed all the way to the supreme court. lo and behold the republican justices there left it in place in one of their late-night single-page orders. and so now here we are. if you saw this news today you saw those on the right taking a victory lap saying things to the effect of oh, biden s doing the same thing as trump. people on the left criticizing democrats, biden s doing the same thing as trump. just to be very clear here, this is
that guy right there named matthew kacsmaryk. remember that name. oh yeah he was appointed by donald trump. and in an act of some of the most breathtaking judicial activism i have seen in my lifetime, that judge, told the newly elected government had to restart a program it had ended with another sovereign nation. that is not just legislating from the bench, that is american foreign policy from the bench. this district has ordered the u.s. to engage in foreign policy because he wanted it to. the order was appealed all the way to the supreme court, lo and behold the republican justices they re left in place, and one of their late night single page orders. and so now here we are. if you saw this news today, you saw those on the right taking a victory lap saying things to the effect of oh biden is doing the same thing as trump, people on the left criticizing democrats doing the same thing as. trump just being very clear here, this is an important policy put in place by donald trump advoca
getting the job done and they haven t changed their strategy. he said it is not working down here. take a listen. what needs to change is the enforcement posture. what we seen over the last 9 - 10 months is the biden administration tore down very effective policy put under the trump administration but they haven t replaced them with anything. they continue to have a crisis month after month. take a look at the photos, yesterday north of the mcallen dps pulling over a suspected human smuggler. take a look at the back of the vehicle, to mexican nationals being smuggled behind the stereo system, speaker system. the human smuggler told troopers he was being paid $1500 each had to smuggle those two guys and they were in the process of trying to get to the city of houston. he was arrested for human smuggling. back out here we talk about what a busy week not just for the
significant but they ll lookly vary across families. the wall street journal reported the federal government is considering $450,000 per individual. now a source tells me that number has been raised but different figures have been raised over the course of this negotiation. and that is what these are. ongoing negotiations. it s still unclear, for example, how many families and who would be eligible for these payments. and all of this dates back to 2018 when the trump administration separated thousands of families at the u.s./mexico border. outside groups called it torture. government watchdog groups detailed drama among children. the biden administration coming in, providing services and engaging in settlement talks. also another attempt to do away with the remain in mexico policy. remind us what that is and where does this stand? that s a policy put in place in 2019. it required non-mexican migrants to wait in mexico until their