because of what immigration experts call a perfect storm of catastrophes, the pandemic, the ensuing recession, and the war in ukraine, which choked off grain exports, in other words, food. almost nowhere has been hit harder than latin america, pushing millions to flee in search of not just a better life, but life period. couple that with what smugglers are doing to take advantage, and a fire hose of misinformation on social media, telling people that now is the time to come. and you get what we are seeing right now, a crisis at the border, but not just the border in cities like el paso, interior cities, including new york, say they are at capacity. what exactly does that mean? what exactly is being done, and what exactly is being blocked by lawmakers who arguably benefit from using immigration as a campaign talking point? joining me now is nbc news homeland security correspondent julia ainsley who s in el paso, texas, for us. so julia, you know this story, this subject in and
fergtsorget bracing for a s it s already here. we re live on the border with thousands of migrants where they are gathering, desperate to cross into the u.s. three years later, the covid public health emergency officially ends today. what this means for testing, treatments, and crucially, are we better prepared for the next one? plus, did former president trump just open himself up to even more legal jeopardy? why his comments at a cnn town hall are raising new questions. we re following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central. we start at the border where the dhs secretary just said, it is about to get a whole lot worse. they re just hours now until the end of title 42. that is the public health rule that the u.s. used nearly 3 million times to immediately expel undocumented people to help control covid. ahead of this policy change, resources at the border communities have been strained, trying to respond to the arr
begins right after this. less than eight hours left on that u.s. policy used to turn away migrants at the border. what s going to happen after midnight? the lead starts right now. crisis at the border and it s about to get worse. cnn rides along as migrants climb on top of a train. others crawling through barbed wire trying desperately to get into the united states. what s gonna happen when that key title 42 immigration policy runs out at 11:59 this evening? well, top biden administration official is here and we will seek answers. also, trump s 2024 campaign playbook seems to be a repeat of falsehoods and decency from 2020. how not only democrats such as president biden and also republicans today are expressions revulsion at things that he said at the cnn town hall. plus, 18 years after disappearing, today movement towards justice in the tragic vanishing and murder of natalee holloway. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with a huge story in our world
the prior administration. we do not resemble it at all. what we do, and by the way, we have rebuilt an asylum system that was dismantled in the prior administration. we have resumed refugee processing all around the world, and these regional processing centers are going to accelerate the refugee process in an unprecedented way. we are a nation of immigrants, and we are a nation of laws. and those laws provide that if one qualifies for humanitarian relief, then one has established a basis to remain in the united states. and if one has not, then one is to be removed. and that is exactly what is going to happen. you talk about cost, what s the rough cost to american taxpayers to the roughly 4 million people who have come into the country illegally since january of 2021, as those people show up at community hospitals, enter the school system, get other government help. let me turn that question around a little bit. i m going to turn it around to match the question that an int
politicsnation. tonight s lead, enough is enough. right now, at least nine people, including two children are dead after a gunman opened fire at an outlet mall in allen, texas on saturday. the authorities have identified the gunman as 33-year-old mauricio garcia. two senior law officials are telling nbc news today that he interacted heavily with white supremacist content online. nbc news has not yet seen any of the suspects. investigators say it is still too early to determine a motive for the shootings. at least seven people ages 5 to 61 remain hospitalized for injuries tonight. some of them are still in critical condition. president biden weighed in earlier today, offering condolences. but also calling on congress to deliver a bill that bans assault weapons and enacts universal background checks. while americans real from yet another bloodbath caught on video, the response from most republican politicians have been their usual call for thoughts and prayers. and the insist