decided to postpone tomorrow s proceedings. we re praying for all those in the path. we start tonight with a major political battle taking place across the country. as of today, we are just six weeks out from this year s midterms. despite economical and historical trends that should favor republicans, this election is shaping up to be closer than anyone expected, thanks in part to republican extremism to states across the country. from roe v. wade to state abortion bans to election denial to political stunts to silence asylum seekers, the republicans are executing on april radical agenda. red state governors like texas greg abbott and florida s ron desantis. men pushing the extremism while they raise their own political profiles and jockey to raise
officials at southern border calling out the hypocrisy. jackie ibanez join us with the latest. jacky. new york city mayor eric adams ordering tents to be put up in the bronx to house 1000 migrants for four days. after screening, they will enter the strained shelter system. mayor adams hasn t been shy about blaming the influx on the migrant buses sent from texas governor greg abbott. he said 13,000 processed since spring, but according to texas governor data 2700 migrants have been sent from the lone star state in that period, meaning one in five migrants in new york city is from texas, despite this, democrats arguing bussing migrants is evidence of red state governors playing politics. listen. obviously there are issues with the border and migration,
taking advantage of that system. according to our government, its compassion toward minors, and yet only it hurts them. kayleigh: meanwhile, guy, 60% of likely voters told crc research that they don t think board estate should be the only ones to shoulder this burden, but it seems sometimes they are. guy: these jurisdictions like to pound their chests and virtue-signal. they are in favor of century policies, but when red state governors are sending a fraction of the problem to their doorste, they aren t terribly excited about it, and they are off in martha s vineyard in less than two days. lori lightfoot in chicago is sending them to the suburbs instantly. the sound bite from the vice president, it is just fundamentally wrong. it is shocking for her to use the term dereliction of duty. the dereliction is hers and this administration s. to say the last guy did it, that it was decimated under the trump administration, it is true that across multiple demonstrations we ve had huge bo
the white house admits as much and there is a report showing 2 million arrests at the border over the last 11 months. that is a record. so there is a problem, but it is highly problematic how some of these red-state governors are going about solving it. that is a question we want to get into now. i m joined by raul reyes, immigration lawyer and john avlon and former chief of staff to the homeland security secretary under then-president trump, myles taylor myles, i want to start with you. with this kind of political gamemanship with people who are scared, who are desperate, who are legally in the country because they are seeking asylum, did the trump administration ever think of doing something like this, and if not, what do you think about these two republicans who have decided that that s what they re going to do, particularly desantis who went into another state and sent people from another state somewhere that they say they had no idea where they were going? well, sarah, not only
administration and these republican red state governors? the answer is no. what happens in the meantime? republicans believe this issue plays to their advantage, otherwise mitch mcconnell would not be talking about it. the leader chooses his words carefully. the republicans since the dobbs decision on abortion rights, it s been a democratic political period. republicans believe in the last few days things have stabilized and it s more in their favor. the fed meeting today allows them to get back on inflation. they think they re getting back to better territory for them and this is part of it. david axelrod was saying the problem for democrats here is to attack the politics of what desantis and others are doing, but you can t ignore the issue of immigration altogether. you can t say it s not a problem. how hard will that be for democrats to thread that needle?