is enabling the cartels, emboldening the child traffickers and incentivizing human devastation. when i worked in washington as press secretary, my boss former president trump had a clear plan to secure our border. remain in mexico for example, that required my grants to stay in mexico during immigration hearings instead of released into the interior. the safe third country agreement flying asylum applicants out of the border to a safe third party country. but president biden he did away with trump s policies, dismantled the entire system and now we are on the cusp of biden doing another trump era policy, just tossing it out the window. title 42, it s a pandemic era order that allows for the rapid expulsion of migrant the. the numbers tell the story of biden s border failure, 6,000,000 migrants crossed the border. that doesn t count the 1.2 million got aways. as we approach tonight s lifting of title 42, 11:59 p.m. this evening, more than 10,000 migrants are crossing our borde
immigration restrictions expire. the white house is taking unprecedented measures as federal and local officials are preparing for the worst. also this hour, high-stakes debt limit negotiations between president biden and congressional leaders have been called off for tomorrow. we re going to tell you what we re learning about the postponement as the country is another day closer to a potential default. and new republican reaction to donald trump s controversial positions and brazen lies at cnn s town hall in new hampshire. the state s governor, a republican, chris sununu, weighs in as a prominent trump critic and potential 2024 rival. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you are in the situation room. the countdown is on at the southern border. the trump-era immigration policy known as title 42 ends in less than six hours. we have correspondents on both sides of the border. rosa flores in texas. david culver is in
in a chokehold for several minutes on a new york subway on may 1st now stands accused of second-degree manslaughter for recklessly causing his death. the manhattan district attorney s office bringing the charge after numerous witness interviews, a review of photo and video footage and discussions with the medical examiner. the prosecutor telling the court witnesses observed neely making threats and scaring passengers, adding penny approached neely from behind and placed him in the chokehold, taking him down to the ground. when the train arrived at the next stop, penny continued to hold neely in the chokehold for several minutes. two other men helping to restrain his arms. at some point mr. neely stopped moving. the defendant continued to hold mr. neely for a period and then released him. penny s lawyers argue he risked his own life and safety to protect himself and fellow new yorkers, resulting in the unintended and unforeseen death of mr. neely. adding they are confident pen