due to economic hardship and because this watch party where i'm at now is hosted by the texas civil rights project they represent some of these asylum seekers they represent the private landowners who is properties are taken to build this wall they are very much invested in seeing what sorts of solutions these democratic candidates may be proposing. a lot more still ahead here on the news hour including it's the government versus his family as a rap how erupts of a former zimbabwe president robert mugabe his final resting place. let's come back . one of the all time greats of women's tennis is coming out of retirement for. his new prime minister is in south sudan for his 1st official state visit since taking power he's wanting to improve relations between the neighbors but he's also the talks with armed groups have been fighting the government in khartoum for years even more but reports from juba. in a nod to the relations between the 2 countries that were once one sudan's newly appointed prime minister abdullah have dohc to south sudan's capital juba as his 1st foreign visit accompanied by 4 mini

dissipate watch party is hosted by a group called the texas civil rights project and they are a group that. activists who look out for the interests of asylum seekers and immigrants trying to enter the united states when violence and poverty in central america and so the people here say they are particularly invested in hearing what some of these democratic presidential candidates are proposing as solutions to this migrant issue in a particularly concern to them is the u.s. supreme court ruling that came out this week which allows the trump administration to continue its very controversial policy of automatically denying u.s. asylum to anyone who shows up at this border and who hasn't applied for asylum in another country that they passed that in effect bands for decades of u.s. asylum laws and the activists here say that is simply an acceptable also there is just the every day challenges of living life here so close to the border and they say under the trumpet ministration lifestyle here has changed there's a significant amplification of the law enforcement presence there's more surv

when the watch party where i'm attending now this is hosted by a group called the texas civil rights project and they are an advocacy group that really looks out for the interests of immigrants it's one of the areas that they specialize in and here along the border one of the organizers for this watch party said it very plainly there is simply no way to escape the fact that these hard line immigration policies of the trauma of destruction has an every day impact on people's lives here the border wall is planned to be this built just kilometers from where i stand and just across the border there are thousands of central americans hoping for a chance to claim asylum here in the united states and in fact many of the people watching the debate here with the texas civil rights project they work in representing the interests of those asylum seekers and just yesterday a supreme court ruling sided with the trump administration saying that it's controversial policy of automatically denying u.s. asylum to a person who shows up on the border who did not already apply for asylum and it's not their count

seekers from central america that's because this watch party is posted by a group called the texas civil rights project and they represent the legal interest for some of those asylum seekers who once making it into the united states have ended up in squalid detention centers or had there been separated from their children even a man who committed suicide after that happened to him and so especially among these concerned voters they're hoping that these democratic presidential candidates will offer some solutions to them and they're hoping that this year might be a year that counts that they might be able to flip this very red state of texas into a democratic blue there in cancun. i want to bring in steve clemons he's washington editor at large for the hill he joins us live from washington d.c. some of the joe biden's to writing about the other candidates so far in the polls but how but he's coming under increasing pressure from all sides in this debate tonight how's he performing and can he stay out in front do you think. well we don't know how people are going to read you know seeing this performance

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