We begin with Breaking News on the southern border where a new surge of migrants, most of them from haiti, has grown to nearly 15,000. Right now dhs is ramping up Deportation Flights as thousands of migrants are overwhelming Del Rio, texas, many of them living under a bridge to try to escape the brutal heat. Well have an update from the scene in just minutes. Meanwhile on Capitol Hill the clock is ticking as democrats work to get a 3. 5 trillion Spending Bill and a bipartisan Infrastructure Bill to President Bidens desk. Earlier today i spoke with House Budget Committee chair John Yarmouth who had a message for his colleagues who are at odds over what that final bill should look like. You can posture all you want and say what you want, what you will and wont vote for. In the final analysis, youre going to vote for it because youre not going to vote against childcare and paid Family Leave and early Childhood Education and Community College and all these top priorities which, by the way,
reason is border is not secure is donald trump and his maga republican friends. you see millions and millions of people coming across the border illegally. we don t know where they come from. bill: you get the tale of two borders today. president biden and former president trump will be on the u.s. mexican border in different locations. dueling visits could not be more different. dana has the week off. i m bill hemmer in new york city. happy leap day to everybody. welcome back to you in new york. gillian. gillian: is it tomorrow? i don t know. bill: every four years we re here. gillian: this is america s newsroom. former president trump is heading to eagle pass in texas. that s the heart of the current iteration of this border crisis. agents have apprehended over 2,000 migrants in the past five days. bill: p president biden is going to brownsville. agents have nabbed a few dozen migrants this week. the city is protected by razor wire. gillian: the problem has
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