point size 5% immigration rates. we have farms that don t have workers that even republicans want filled with some of these workers. why can t we, we are talking about settling people on mars why can t we find a solution to this. this is a gary very very cynical debate. let me just try to break down with the dynamics are. so on the. hard right republican side it is a winning talking point to say that the democrats and say that president biden is soft on the border. so you re going to hear that made whether we see 100,000 people across that border are not or 1 million. it just works, it is just like calling a democrat president, we call crime. and so democrats then in response have just sort of played chess here and said okay, well we always are gonna say on we can we are crime as congressman are going to push me forward anyway? are we just going to quell those concerns? but as you and i were just talking about before that segment started, it is a fools errand for a democratic
through what they call it the legal channels. migrants from those four countries currently make a majority of illegal border crossings in november alone they were stopped at the border more than 82, 000, 280 times according to the associated press. the u.s. will now accept 30,000 people from the affected regions per month allowing them to stay in the united states for two years as long as they arrive and they come in through legal channels, have eligible sponsors and pass background checks. which might be a tall order for folks who are fleeing immediate persecution and harm, according to immigration advocates, but if margaret are caught crossing illegally, they will be immediately expelled. the new policy will replace the anticipated lifting of trunks title 42 policy, that is the covid era public health law that critics say it was a pretext for sealing off the border. biden s version of the plan is being rolled out even as the administration has argue that the trump era policy is no lo
statement to say that at least some of those migrants had not properly identified themselves or applied for asylum and we re availing capture essential. so this was a part of the increase of force of the part of the administration, today however, president biden set to arrive in el paso, and he will have a tour of entry in terms of a migrant process set up. but does this mean that republicans have been calling for since he took office and, now republicans have criticized about the administration for what they seek as last immigration policies that show a record number of border crossings over the past year. however, the biden administration points out that congress is actually gotten in the way of increasing funding for the border, and so that battle over immigration, one that has taken administrations from both political parties for decades, that is not playing
happened yesterday in the courtroom in just a moment. plus russian president vladimir putin gives a rare national address announcing significant moves in the war with ukraine. the russian president also talked about a plan that kyiv is calling a desperate sham. and president biden will surely have something to say about all of that when he takes the podium later this morning at the united nations general assembly. we ll preview that and the other topics he will likely focus on in his speech. good morning, welcome to way too early on this wednesday, september 21st. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we begin with major moves from russia this morning claiming that the west is, quote, trying to destroy us. vladimir putin announced overnight he s partially mobilizing the military in