i m dana perino. this is america s newsroom. it was a great weekend but there was a lot of news and a lot of troubling news as well across the board. we ll have it all for you this hour. border patrol records show nearly two dozen known or suspected terrorists were caught at the sourn border last year. that s a small snapshot of the surge. bill: border agents encountered more than 221,000 migrants in the month of march alone. a 24% increase from last year. the most encounters in any month since february of 2000. dana: half of them were expelled under the title 42 border policy it allowed them to turn away over a million migrants during the pandemic but it is set to expire next month. they project up the 18,000 migrants will try to cross the border every day. bill: a grow list of of democrats. texas democrat henry cuellar. he can t say we have a public health issue here and say everything is is fine at t border and then lift the title 42, which is the health order. 2
in lipstick and mascara. harvesting the wax from palm trees in brazil is an industry in which, according to brazilian authorities, companies are failing last year, more than 3,000 workers across all industries were rescued from situations including forced labour and degrading work last year, more than 3,000 workers across all industries were rescued from situations including forced labour and degrading work conditions a ill year high. the bbc was given exclusive access to a raid with the federal police on a carnauba wax plantation. katy watson has this report from the state of piaui in north eastern brazil. we re heading to a farm where authorities suspect workers are being exploited. nobody knows we re coming. they want to catch the culprits red handed. we find the workers sheltering from the midday sun. who s in charge here? , the lead investigator asks. one by one, the men are interviewed. the boss is nowhere to be seen. it s so hot. we stop for a bit because otherwise
for the national living wage. previously you had to be 23 years old to qualify, but that s been reduced to 21. it has been just over £10 an hour just over £12. it s going up to just over £11 an hour. our business correspondent marc ashdown has the details. barista sam loves hisjob, but after paying his essential bills he s often left with just a few hundred pounds a month to live on. pay rises just help him stay afloat. i think they balance, because obviously everything else goes up in price so it sort of evens out every single year. maybe for, like, a month you ll be like, ooh, i ve got money this month! and then it lljust be, like the next month will be a bit of a rough one. workers across the uk in some of the lowest paid jobs are about to get a boost in their pay. from tomorrow, the national living wage is going up from £10.42 an hour to £11.44 an hour. that s an increase of 9.8%. the age at which a worker qualifies has also been reduced from 23 to 21 years old
the king is to make his first formal public appearance since being diagnosed with cancer. he s due to attend the easter sunday service at st george s chapel in windsor, along with other royals. but prince william and his wife, the princess of wales who s also receiving treatment for cancer will not be there. here s our royal correspondentjonny dymond. to the family church and that of many monarchs, the king is expected to walk today, in what will be his first public sighting since the announcement of his cancer diagnosis. it was after a procedure in january that cancer was found. since then, the king has continued with constitutional duties, but avoided all public engagements. messages and images there have been a plenty, most recently an audio message on maundy thursday. may god bless ou all message on maundy thursday. may god bless you all this message on maundy thursday. may god bless you all this easter. message on maundy thursday. may god bless you all this easte