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
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
endangering our democracy. plus, crickets from the republican field who should want to defeat donald trump. and fox news fires up the outrage machine over a human crisis invented by trump republicans. you can t survive with the money one makes even to have food. one day, one day we will be able to see each other again. when all in starts, right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. last night, let s talk about last night. last night at this time, the man that led the insurrection against our democracy was spewing vile nonsense on another network. of course, i was here hosting this very television show, hopefully with many of you watching. i did not see the whole thing play out live. but i ve seen enough. i ve seen enough to have to have the same visceral reaction as many others. that it was disgraceful, despicable, gross. if you had that reaction as well, i will just say i think that is the correct response. i don t think you really need to second gues
surge. fewer and fewer asylum seekers are trying to cross in, but the officials warn that it may not last. what is maybe a telling setback for russia with four military aircraft down over russian territory, and what it is saying about the ukrainian capabilities. a florida teacher is showing a disney movie to her students, and now she is under investigation by the state. these stories and more are coming into cnn news central. the intense surge of migrants at the u.s./mexican border at the end of the covid era title 42 has not happened. the secretary of homeland security warned of the surge, but the surge was in the days before title 42 ended when the crossings were topping 10,000 a day, and now just over 4,000. what has not slowed down is the bitter politics surrounding immigration. the texas governor did it again, sending migrants to be dropped off out of vice president s kamala harris s home. we go to pablo sandoval who is live outside of the vice president presiden
highlights. we are not going to analyze the former president of the united states repeating lies, smears, and bigotry. we ve all heard it many, many times before. however, but we need to do tonight is solve for how news organizations will cover donald j trump, the twice impeached, indicted, liable for sex abuse private citizen. if he doesn t fact when the republican nomination. it has nothing to do with what he did tonight. he did what he has done countless times before. the question we need to answer is what we are going to do next. let s get right to it. my nbc news washington correspondent colleague emulsion centers here, liam cold will of the washington post, and andrew weissmann, former fbi general counsel and nbc news legal analyst. coming, this is the first and we ve seen trump outside of the cocoon of conservative media for a long time. where was he? in a thunderdome stacked with his sister borders cheering him on and he steamroll through his greatest hits of lies. if