two of the biggest challenges facing the biden administration the looming threat of default and an immigration system unable to handle an influx of migrants at the border, as title 42 has officially expired. my colleague tom jonas was at the border all day and has more. in just the last three days more than 32,000 migrants have crossed illegally. the white house says they re adding thousands of beds to detention centers. but local mayors say they need help now. i m worried about reaching overcapacity. and the issue we have now he s that a lot of the immigrants do not have the financial resources to waits to take a bus, to take an airplane repatriation flies out our landing all over latin america. with the volume of migrants outpacing the courts and the deportation systems. so, title 42 has come and gone. but the flow of migrants has not stopped. this is el paso on the other side of that border is juarez and you can see the other group of migrants being led i
week. you are mvps and they send off to the end of an era, as the 11th hour gets underway on this friday night. good evening once again. i am stephanie ruhle. we begin this friday night with two of the biggest challenges facing the biden administration the looming threat of default and an immigration system unable to handle an influx of migrants at the border, as title 42 has officially expired. my colleague tom giannis was at the border all day and has more. in just the last three days, more than 32,000 migrants have crossed illegally. the white house says they re adding thousands of beds to detention centers. but local mayor say they need help now. i m worried about reaching overcapacity. and we have now we ve got a lot of immigrants who may not have the financial resources to to take a bus, to take an airplane repatriation flies out landing all over latin america. with the volume of migrants outpacing the courts and the deportation systems. so, title 42
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administration acted indecisively and waited too long, letting the balloon float across the continental u.s. for days. president biden says the military advised him there would be less danger to the public in shooting down the balloon once it got over the ocean. lawmakers are reacting sharply and along party lines. i want to start by doing something that i don t do very often, which is commending joe biden for actually having the guts to shoot this down. that was the right thing to do. that is absolutely what the president should have done. unfortunately he didn t do that until a week after it entered u.s. airspace. they re saying we should have shot down the balloon the minute we saw it. i would use two words in answering these gop criticisms. they are premature, and they are political. presidents have the ability to go before a camera, go before the nation and basically explain these things early on, and his failure to do so, i don t understand that. i don t understan