country and what this means for crucial health care. that is not the only the president visiting cellmate today to punctuate the ongoing battle over voting rights. one of democratized joins us, plus new details in the exclusive nbc news reporting of migrant minors working in dangerous conditions. the department of homeland security is now expanding its investigation. and later, congress poised to investigate george santos for ethics violations, congresswoman leading the charge to hold him accountable. is here to talk about. it this is american voices. we begin this hour with the escalating fight over reproductive freedom, shaped by the supreme court decision to overturn roe v. wade. the antiabortion movement now chomping at the bit to further restrict abortion access, even in cases where reproductive rights are protected by law. any day now, federal judges with a long history of antiabortion beliefs could rule on a lawsuit that aims to block access to abortion medicatio
he is very conservative, he has some ties to forced liberty institute which is incredibly conservative christian organization that defends religious freedom, he swore when he was confirmed that he would shift from the advocate to being a judge. but he when individuals have to file lawsuits for suing conservative causes in court they seem to find their way to amarillo, texas, where judge has merrick happens to be the only judge in the only court house in amarillo. coincidental, don t you think? there is a lot. of photo shopping there. people know what they are going to get. this is the same judge that invalidated the biden administration s care for transgender individuals, it is also the same judge that invalidated the biden administration s return to mexico policy. this is someone who has been a reliable vote for conservative causes to have national implications, so one single judge in texas is actually
country and being allowed to stay here? look for my for think the administration says when they defend their open border policy is not true. it is fiction. the people coming across the border, many are here for the right reasons, trying to find a better opportunity, but many of these people are criminals. many of these people are drug dealers. many of these people are human trafficking. nothing good is happening on the border. you know come everywhere where they were as major crossings that we saw in california, arizona, same thing in mexico is where the wall ended. why can t we finish the border wall? the border wall works and enters and buys time for the border patrol. in the people coming across the border are bringing drugs and human trafficking and nothing is good. we should implement military down there and go back to trump return to mexico policy and we should keep title 42.
the supreme court has said must happen, the biden administration is making it easy for mexico in its negotiations to say no deal or slow walk us even further because the biden administration doesn t want to return to the policy. eric: yeah, they were force thed a fresh memo at this time to find a way out of what the trump administration successfully did. eric: yeah. they were forced toot that by the court, they didn t want to do that. they were sued by texans and missouri, the administration was, so they re being forced to try and reinstitute the return to mexico policy. so finally, i mean, do you think is this going to get worse? i mean, look, do you see this getting better? i don t because just as you said, they were forced, the biden administration, to return to the policy that stopped catch and release, that that forceed
rights has staff on the border, for 40 years they ve represented asylum seekers. 20,000 people waiting for 2 to 3 months. there are criminal gangs actively preying on these families. kidnapping victims, assault victims, cases of rape. in the section of the border where he and his family tried to cross. we know that on the other side of the bridge, about 15,000 other families have finally got their number, they were subjected to return to mexico, return to mexico policy. turned around and sent back. we know there are criminal gangs who have kidnapped people at the bridge within sight of u.s. border officials who know the criminal gangs are there. this administration is serving up families to criminals and gangs on a silver platter and they know it. this is our policy. this tragedy is not an isolated incident. we ve had clients who were returned to mexico who had their