gabe gutierrez is the only journalist allowed inside today and he joins us momentarily. what he captured was an intake facility with tables with clothes and shoes lined up, staff and children moving about the site. the staff is near capacity, and this focus on the border comes as president biden is facing his own version of the immigration challenge. over 9,000 unaccompanied children detained on the border. on a month to month basis this is up 63% from last month. today the new president tapping the vice president to oversee solutions. i think the best thing to do is to put someone who when he or she speaks they don t have to wonder about, is that where the president is? when she speaks rs she speaks for me. if this all feels familiar, it is for many reasons. number one, some of the international issues from central america up to mexico with immigration have been going on for many years. number two, of course there is recent history. immigration being a key fault line in
spreader events and hot spots for college students. we re covering it all, and also, my special report this hour, thousands of immigrants still waiting to be reunited with families even after donald trump s muslim immigration ban has, in fact, been lifted. i m going to take a deeper look at that later on this hour. but we first want to start in atlanta where a rally organized by stop aapi hate is in full swing. marchers, they re calling for an end to anti-asian-american violence in the wake of this week s shooting. deepa is in atlanta for us with all this. good to see you this afternoon. thanks for joining us on this. talk us through what you re seeing on the ground here and what you re hearing from folks, what changes, what real changes do they want to see? reporter: yasmin, that s right. it s been an emotional week in atlanta in the area and today as well, about a thousand rally goers here gathering at the steps of the capitol, now marching towards further into downtown
this is american voices. thank you so much for being with us. i m alicia menendez. my first guest this hour is congressman joaquin castro. he just led a congressional delegation on a tour of the office of refugee resettlement in texas where migrant children and migrant families are being held as they await their day in court. judge just a moment we ll talk to him about what he witnessed inside that facility and at the border and we ll discuss how we as a country can do right by those seeking refuge and a better life here in the united states. but we can t talk about progress without talking about what has held us back from progress for decades. in fact, this week gave us a full smattering of many of the challenge that s this country is currently up against and how it remains politically impossible to address these issues because one political party s refusal to face hard truths. relying on fear to win and side shows to legislate. case in point. georgia s brand new law targe
all, with high stakes. voting rights. immigration. and gun control. first, voting. in georgia, tensions remain high over voting restrictions. today, hundreds of people gathered to protest an overhaul of the state s election rules. on thursday, governor brian kemp signed the republican-led bill into law. it sets new rules for absentee voting, and bans giving food or water to voters, who are in line near a polling station. civil-rights groups have already filed lawsuits, challenging this law. democratic state representative, bee nguyen, will join us in just a moment. as for immigration, yesterday, congressional democrats and republicans took dueling trips to the border. the influx of people seeking asylum shows no signs of slowing down. congressman joaquin castro of texas led a democratic delegation to a facility in carrizo springs. that s about 30 miles from the mexican border. the lawmakers seemed satisfy with the conditions they saw. about four hours south of them, in the ri
examine both the prosecution and the defense in this case in addition to the tremendous stakes of this trial represents. not just for derek chauvin but racial justice, policing, and civil rights in this country. more than anything, the trial of derek chauvin and the death of george floyd will end up being far more than the trial of one police officer and the death of one black man. this is a test of the system. black people have, for years, pointed out the killings by police are merely contemporary lynches. the first-hand knowledge of the interactions, it sounded unlikely. video started to appear and we watched people snuff the life out of black people suspected committing petty crimes or no crimes at all. they were dead and there s evidence. i m not a lawyer and i m not the jury, what i know is what the entire world knows. after his arrest, with derek chauvin s knee on his neck, he complained about being unable to breathe. despite telling police what has been documented as m