record numbers of migrants crossing the u.s. border, a dire humanitarian crisis. the lead starts right now. with border crossings at an all-time high, the biden administration warns times ahead will likely get even worse now that a key immigration policy that had been used to turn away migrants has expired. the scenes at the u.s.-mexico border today as we learned of two u.s. migrant children who died in u.s. custody. all this as the debt crisis intensifies. we won t in some cases be able to pay our troops. the impact as the nation gets closer to defaulting and not being able to pay its bills. plus, surrendered. a u.s. marine veteraning himself in on manslaughter charges after holding a new york street artist in a deadly choke hold on a new york city subway. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we re going to start today in our world leader with theen anxiety and uncertainty at the u.s.-mexico border. record numbers of migrants are entering the u.s. including near
that allowed the u.s. to expel migrants and two texas counties issued disaster declarations in preparation. today, however, there s no evidencef a rush at least not an immediate one. this video from the u.s.-mexico border is probably the besteds of that. on the left you saw the it was yesterday with migrants camped outside it, on the right the border as it was today. there s a lot of theories where those people went. we ll get to that in a moment. a source tells cnn according to a count by border patrol around 2,300 migrants were in custody this afternoon. that s slightly lower than earlier this week. nevertheless the administration is still preparing for more migrants seeking asylum. i.c.e. is adding 5,000 detention beds. there s also political chaos and the biden administration saying it s trying to sabotage its effort on the border after a federal judge s ruling in florida. reporter: after title 42 ended late thursday night some migrants discovered they didn t make it in
children back. what s the reason? what s the motivation to keep that allowed authorities to them as your nationals with your passport, teach them a foreign quickly expel migrants seeking asylum was allowed to lapse. language? why not give them back to their families, give them to a third state, as required by the geneva a tweet warned it could be chaotic for a while. tens of thousands of migrants conventions, let that state return them back to their are believed to be massed in homeland? they re not doing that, and it northern mexico and two counties begs the question why. issued disaster declarations in you re in new york to brief preparation. the security council on the today there s no evidence of a human rights situation in libya. rush, at least not an immediate a lot of people have not paid it one. this video is probably the best evidence. much attention since gadhafi was on the left you see the border killed. as it was yesterday with but it is a broken state. migrants
have expired. henry cueller of texas will give us an update from his border district and share his concerns about the president s policies. also, a u.s. marine veteran is arraigned on the charge of second degree manslaughter in the choke hold death of a man on a new york city subway train. prosecutors revealing new details about danny penny s fatal encounter with a homeless street artist. and large explosions are reported in a russian held area of ukraine. this as we re learning more about russia s attempts on a crucial air defense system the united states sent to ukraine. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin with major efforts to prevent a major new immigration crisis along the southern border less than 24 hours after the end of pandemic era rules for expelling migrants. cnn s ed lavandera is on the scene in el paso, texas. ed, what s the status of the anticipated migrant sur
be open. they are lying. to people who are thinking of making the journey to our southern border. bill: this comes as a federal judge has blocked the mass release of migrants already in custody. new york post with a front page on the biden border policy it says surrender. dana: matt finn live in el paso with the latest. what is it like there today, matt? within the past couple minutes we walked right up to the edge of this border gate or wall and saw a group of a few dozen migrants, as we have seen so often, they are lined up systematically, placed on a bus for processing. the group of migrants we saw this morning appear to be all single adult men. there were no family units or women or children in that group. cbp tells me in the el paso sector it is seeing 2,000 migrants per day crossing into the united states. so far from where we re standing this morning we aren t seeing any major rush or uptick which might make sense as perhaps migrants try to make it into the u.s