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
menendez tonight, we are barrelin towards one of the mos consequential weeks fo abortion access since the farr of roe v. wade the government has less than a week to intervene after trum appointed antiabortion federal judge in texas matthew has merrick suspended a proven o mifepristone, one of the mos widely used abortion medications in this country. the justice department immediately filed an appea today. health and human services said - for the millions who need it well, they certainly have access today and we intend to do everything to make sure it is because o viewable to them not just in a week but moving forward. we have already filed an appea of this court s ruling one judge and one quarter an one state turned upside down the fda s approval process for safe and effective medications we have to go to court and see an appeal. this is not america. what we saw by that one judg in that one court in that on state. that is not america. adding to the uncertainty and to th
thanks for watching. i will see you back here nex weekend at 5 pm eastern. american voices with a latiu undoes starts right now on msnbc. thank you reverend sharpton and happy easter to you. hello very one i am alicia menendez tonight, we are barrelin towards one of the mos consequential weeks fo abortion rights from the fal of roe v. wade the government has less than a week to intervene after trum appointed and i abortion federal suspended fda approval of suppressed own, in this country. the justice department immediately filed an appea today. health and human services said all options are on th table to keep this medicatio available for the millions who need it. well, they certainly have access today and we intend to do everything to make sure it is available t them not just in a week, but moving forward. we have already filed an appea of this court s ruling one judge in one court and one state 50s approval process for saf and effective medications. we have to s
the former president himself? anything is possible. all of that, plus the financial world bombshell, 11 musk dropping this last night, trying to get out of buying twitter, and the latest in to free brittney griner from russia. i will talk to the father of trevor reed who was just released from russia few months ago. right now though, across this country, americans are taking to the streets once again to stand up for their beliefs on abortion. in washington, d.c., a rally organized by the women s march organization is underway. organizations are attempting to put to protect abortion nationwide. what they re calling the summer of rage, marchers gathered this morning at franklin square before heading to the white house for a sudden. that event was given a permit for 10,000 people. in chicago, the march for life rally, described as the midwest s largest pro-life went, is that to happen this afternoon. rights relating to abortion are not guaranteed by the state constitutio
lexi, it s such a powerful statement, and the little girl, the little girl who survived by bathing herself in the blood of her best friend who had been shot already to survive. garrett haake, what are your thoughts? reporter: i mean, calling it gut-wrenching doesn t do it justice. miah, the girl who survived, participating remotely from texas having made the decision not to travel here to testify, to me it s the little details of each of those witnesses that kind of caught in my throat, whether it s miah talking about hiding behind the backpacks in the classroom, as though that would do anything, and the doctor talking about treating a girl in a lilo & stitch shirt covered in blood. and lexi won the good citizenship award on the morning she was shot in her classroom. for many people it s too easy to think about these issues in these very broad ways. hearing parents talk about those kinds of specific details, the doctor talking in those specific details, i think that s what