asylum seekers in the united states face tougher restrictions under new orders by president on trump and his latest proposal asylum seekers will be charged a fee to process their applications and those who enter the country illegally would be barred from even applying for such permits until their case is heard and they are cleared by immigration officials more on this from alan fischer in washington. donald trump still wants to build a physical barrier between mexico and the united states but this sure is he's also thinking about the process of immigration it's estimated one hundred three thousand people cross the border last month that's the highest in more than a decade sixty percent of them were from central america and they brought their children so donald trump has told the attorney general and the department of homeland security that things must change and they have ninety days to come up with something that fits the measures that he is a lie first of all he wants to make sure that anyone applying for asylum is charged a fee for doing so he also wants to make sure that anyone a

to not allow i think the full processh rights asylum seekers might have. and so while he may not be implementing the same exact policy of sessions, it's clear also he is willing to take the hard line immigration stance. >> and so howuch of this situation we're currently seeing at the border, how much of that beyond the u.s. government's control, and how much of it is self-inflicted due t strict detention policies that have been put in place? >> right. i think one of the misconceptions that the federal government is laboring under, at least the trump administration, is that migrati and migration control at the border is something that the united states ly stop.ater the fact is, you have central american countries, especialrn the nort triangle countries, el salvador, guatemala, honduras, at this point on the verge of being failed states, corrupt governnts, extreme violence. people are runningfrom extreme desperation. they need to travel 2,000 miles just to get to the border, some eith families. under th conditions, the number of people and families coming is

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detention these things -- enforcement-only policy isot going to deter asylum seekers. >> so the original court order ways in place. but julian,at does this mean thens for the aylum seekers who have already been se back to mexico? i understand speaking to some of the attorneys with the aclu who argued this case before the judge in california, those folks are going to be stuck in mexico until their court dates. for example, i spoke to a family last week whose court date is april 25th. they are stuck until that. but my understanding is once they appearefore the judge, they cannot be resent back to mexico. so they have to wait it out. unfortunately, some court dates are earlier than others. >> julian, the president has lepurged topership at the department of homeland security and senin sending mixed signals about whether he'll revive the family separation program. do you have any indication aat this point as to o is leading immigration policy at the white house? >> well, the esident took offense to the notion he was cleaning house and said it's all up to him. bu we haveeen him replace high-r

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we have two many asylum seekers and can't manage them at the border. it's a crisis that needs to be fixed. >> it's not easy to claim asylum or at least to get asylum. we know 90% of the people who go through the process of seeking asylum are rejected. going beyond the pardons for this moment, this whole idea of denying asylum seekers the right to even set foot in the u.s., that's against the law, period. >> well, right. i mean, again, if trump said it, which it sounds like he didn't, he's frustrated. he's looking at a full-blown crisis at the border. former obama dhs secretary jeh johnson even said that if they saw a thousand people on the border trying to cross, that would be a crisis. we're at 4,000 as of a week or so per day. so this is a crisis. i think that president trump is going, look, there isn't the political will in the congress to help solve this problem and he's trying to explore organizations. it doesn't sound like he's going down that road, he's denied it, we're talking about hypotheticals, we might as well talk about russian collusion. >

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there's a million -- a backlog of a million cases for asylum seekers. what the families are doing, they get to it the united states, they know they can apply for asylum and they know it takes a long time for their case to be processed. during that time they can find work under the table, send money back to their families back in central america. a lot of people are working the system. while we're talking about things like a wall, shutting the border, real problems are more technical nature. i think that's what those experienced dhs officials are talking about. >> has the agency offered any sort of long-term solution here? >>> they believe they have. they believe the long-term solution is to built a wall. they believe the long-term solution is to change immigration laws in terms of legal immigration and in terms of illegal immigration. and they also in the short-term have asked congress for extra authorities for more money and to be able to change the law regarding how they deal with asylum seekers from central america versus mexico. you played the clip o

and refugees, but because we are a city of immigrants and asylum seekers and refugees. [applause] >> we don't respect or tolerate our differences, we embrace them. we understand that it makes us stronger as a community, more successful as a state, safer and more secure as a country. you will not purchase that security with the 2000 mile, 30 foot high, $30 billion wall which is built will not be placed on the international boundary which is the center line of the rio grande river channel. it will be miles into the interior of the united states, forcing you and me to take americans farms and ranches and homes and property to solve a problem we do not have. last year there were 400,000 apprehensions at the border, so many of them turning themselves in. in the parlance of the border patrol, arresting themselves. kids, 5, 10, 15 years old, traveling on their own for 2000 miles. if they are lucky their parents were accompanying them. on foot atop a train, what is known as the beast, fleeing the deadliest places on the planet today, doing exactly what amy and i would do if fac

asylum seekers. >>> joe biden makes his first trip to iowa today, the president repeatedly going after him despite warnings from advisers to keep quiet. >>> a murder mystery in iowa, a driver shot in the neck as she drives home. a man hunt now for the shooter is underway. >>> grab your kleenex, a man who got a heart transplant randomly meets the family of the man who saved him at a ball game. good morning, welcome to "early start," i'm dave briggs. >> good morning, i'm christine romans, it's tuesday, april 30th. it is 5:00 a.m. in the east. let's begin with the president. president trump taking direct aim at migrants seeking asylum in the united states in a new plan to overhaul the nation's immigration system. presi presilla alvarez covers immigration. she joins us with more. what does the president want to do? >> this is a plan to toughen the asylum process in the united states. it does so in a couple of ways, all of which is different than how the process goes now. adjudicating asylum applications

and idea to relocate undocumented immigrants and asylum-seekers to sanctuary cities. democrats say we are deeply troubled by the trump administration considering to releasing detained immigrants into congressional districts represented by democrats in a bizarre and unlawful attempt to score a political deck but kellyanne conway explained it like this. >> the president has been listening carefully to the mayors of some of these century cities saying they have open arms policy, they are for open borders. why doesn't it make sense to ask the help of major cities. >> no decision has been made, democrats demanded all kinds of documents from the trump administration on this topic on top of all the other documents. and it continues. shannon: brand-new information about efforts to investigate the origins of robert mueller's investigation. katherine herridge also has more about those criminal referrals devon nunez just sent to the doj. >> fox news is the eight criminal referrals include conspiracy and go well beyond eight individuals, sources familiar with the matters say as m

the president wants families separated even if they were asylum seekers at a legal port of entry. nielsen tried to explain that court rulings banned reinstating the policy. other white house staffers said it would be -- >> the separation of families, the president has said before, he does not like that. it's a horrible practice, but congress has a way to fix that so it will not be a magnet for people to come here, and use children to do it. >> about two weeks ago, the president ordered nielsen to shut down the port of el paso, texas. the next day, a person present at the oval office meeting nielsen told the president closing the port would be a bad idea, even a dangerous idea. she said it would stop legal trade and travel, and migrants would go between ports. two witnesses say the president responded, i don't care. acting chief of staff mulvaney seemed to be able to talk the president out of closing the port. >>> just last friday, the president visited calexico, california, where he told border agents to simply not let mi gran -- migrants in no matter what a judge might say. the s

our top stories: ajudge in the us blocks donald trump's policy of sending asylum seekers back into mexicowhile their cases are heard. israelis head to the polls within hours for a general election. prime minister netanyahu is fighting for his political survival. britain's parliament backs a new law requiring the prime minister to request another brexit delay, to prevent leaving the european union with no deal. lost and found. a clip of the beatles performing on the bbc more than 50 years ago surfaces in mexico. hello to you. ajudge in the us has halted the trump administration's policy of forcing some asylum seekers into mexico to wait out their deportation cases. the department of homeland security was planning to expand the programme, it began injanuary. our correspondent chris buckler is in washington. give us more on the background here, could you? yeah, the trump administration is facing real problems at the border, at the moment they are facing a spike of migrants trying to cross into the united states, particularly from central america and to deal with thatis central america and to

was he joke when he calllikened asylum seekers to con artists.utting aside the legality for a moment, do you think it's a good idea? do you think it's ethical for the president to try to retaliate against democrats by sending busloads of undocumented immigrants to their districts or to their cities? >> i guess i'm a little confused here because i didn't see the president say the word retaliation. you know, i've watched mayors of seattle, san francisco, portland, others talking about how they'ir sanctuary city woul accept illegal immigrants with open arms. now that the president wants to do this, he's talking about perhaps sending illegal immigrants to cities that will welcome them with open arms and care for them without limits, why that suddenly is bad. it sounds hypocritical to me that these folks who were crying out for sanctuary city status don't want the people that they're talking about. >> well, the president may not have used that word, but in emails that were seen by "the washington post" which broke this story last night, there were spe

but because we are a city of asylum seekers and refugees. >> [applause] mr.'rourke: we don't respect or tolerate differences, we respect them. we realize it makes us more safer as a state, and more secure as a country. you will not purchase that security with a 30 mile high $30 built, wall, which if will not be placed on the international boundary, which is the centerline of the rio grande river channel, but will be miles into the interior of the united states, forcing you and me to take our fellow american's farms and ranches and homes and property to solve a problem we do not have. last year there were 400,000 apprehensions at our border. so many of them turning the main. them in.ng -- turning 10, 15 years old traveling on their own. if they were looking, their parents were accompanying them. fleeing the deadliest places on the planet today, doing exactly what amy and i would do if faced with the same consequences for our kids, doing what any human being would do if faced with the same challenges. at the most desperate and vulnerable moments, as they approa

ajudge in the us blocks donald trump's policy of sending asylum seekers back into mexico, while theires are heard. britain's parliament backs a new law requiring the prime minister to request another brexit delay — to prevent leaving the european union with no deal. we meet nigerian sculptor nkwocha ernest, whose art is helping clean up the streets of lagos. hello. in one of hong kong's most politically—charged trials in years, a judge has found 9 democracy activists each guilty of at least one count of causing public nuisance, carrying a maximum punishment of 7 years jail. among the group are 3 campaigners who founded the pro—democracy occupy central movement in 2013, which a year laterjoined with the so—called umbrella movement and brought parts of the city to a standstill for months. shortly we will go to stephen the donnell and ageing, but not quite yet. we will be back to that in just a second. as i say, that news just m, a second. as i say, that news just in, ajudge a second. as i say, that news just in, a judge has found nine democracy activists guilty in hong kong on different

trump offered to pardon a top border official if he was jailed for illegally blocking asylum seekers from entering the country. it's not clear if the president was joking about that. on friday, the president said he is considering sending crowds of detained migrants to u.s. sanctuary cities, in part, to retaliate against democrats for not supporting his immigration plan. so, as you can see, there is much to unpack here. let's begin with white house correspondent abbey phillip. >> let's see if they are so happy. they have open arms. >> reporter: the proposal to send undocuments immigrants to sanctuary cities. >> we are looking at a lot of sanctuary cities. we'll give them to the sanctuary cities maybe to take care of them. >> reporter: trump, contradicting his own aides who insisted in a statement the idea was briefly and informally raised and quickly rejected. >> you have sanctuary cities, you have crime. >> reporter: the president pushed former homeland sec kir kristjen neilson to implement the plan. neilson resisted and lawyers determined the idea was likely illegal. the objective

law, which says asylum seekers and people deserve due prococess.in, it is a truly lawless and cruel move. amy: we want to thank you so much for being with us katherine , gallagher, senior staff attorneyey at the center for constitutional rights. that does it for our broadcast. you can sign up for our newsletter by sending the word 66816.cynow to we will be presenting her documentary, four days in western sahara, africa's last colony at university of california berkeley on april 27 at 6:00 p.m. check our website for details. democracy now! is looking for feedback from people who appreciate the closed captioning. e-mail your comments to outreach@democracynow.org or mail them to democracy now! p.o. box 693 new york, nenew york 10013. [captioning made possible by democracy now!w!]

asylum seekers in. the u.s. faced tougher restrictions under new orders by president trump under his latest proposal asylum seekers will be charged a fee to process their applications and those who enter the country illegally will be barred from even applying for such permits until their case is heard and they're cleared by immigration officials. well the u.s. president and three of his children have filed a lawsuit against georgia bank and capital one it's an attempt to block the banks from handing over financial records as part of an investigation into donald trump's financial holdings a couple of weeks ago a democrat controlled house committee issued subpoenas for the information this is president trump second attempt to legally challenge this that the us has been using what it calls its maximum pressure campaign to try to make iran abandon its nuclear ambitions but washington's efforts to target terror arms oil industry and its economy are not welcomed by all al-jazeera state department correspondent roslyn

, but because we are a city of asylum-seekers and immigrants, and refugees.applause] mr. o'rourke: we don't respect or tolerate our differences, we embrace them, we understand that it makes us stronger as a community, more successful as a state and yet more safer and more secure as a country. you will not purchase that 2000-mile, 34a high, $30 billion wall, which if built, will not be placed on the international boundary, which is the centerline of the rio grande river channel, but will be miles into the interior of the united states, forcing you and me to take our fellow american's farms and ranches and homes and property to solve a problem we do not have. last year there wer0 apprehensions at our border. so many of them turning themselves in, and in the parlance of the border patrol, arresting themselves. 5, 10, 15 years old traveling on their own. miles, which if they were lucky, their parents were accompanying them. fleeing the deadliest places on the planet today, doing exactly what amy and i would do if faced with the same consequences for our kids, doi

from asylum seekers fleeing violence and poverty to others who make a living on the flow of trade. mexico is one of america's largest trading partners with nearly $1.7 billion worth of goods flowi e day. el paso typically sees a million cars and about 70,000 trucks cross over these bridges into el paso every single month. the chamber of commerce predicting an unmitigated, economic debacle if the president carries out his threat, claiming 5 million jobs would be in jeopardy. >> to me, trading is very important, but security is what is most important to me. i have to have security. i'm totally prepared to do it. we're going to see what happens over the next few days. >> reporter: here in el paso, the city's republican mayor is sounding the alarm. president trump is talking about shutting down this border, parts of it or all of it. is this something at that you wanted? i take that as a no. >> heck no. for your audience, heck no. otherwise i'd say something stronger. i think we're caught up in the rhetoric in washington that's polarizing on both sides. >> reporter: in the meantime, it

if that's grounds for asylum, there are hundreds of millions, if not billions of asylum seekers. one of the things that americans need to keep in mind is the disorder in central america that initially drove some of the asylum seeking is down by between half and 75% since 2013. thanks in part to the aid that president trump wants to cut off. this is very much a poll because of the american economy, people looking for work who can blame them for that but not anything like the authors of treaties in world war ii had in mind. >> so explain perhaps the most controversial line in the cover story where you say if liberals insist only borders, voters will elect fastest to do that, explain what you mean by that idea. >> one of the drivers of this story is we have seen a rise of authoritari authoritarian populist. you talked about this a lot. in hungary and poland, the rise of populast parties. a lot of these feelings drive the brexit move and helped to elect president donald trump. immigration is not the only cause of these movements. it's not the only source of the strength but often the

pronounced branded earlier this week after reportedly suffering blood poisoning from the court the asylum seeker was flown from an asylum to brisbane last week scott morrison says the immigration department would review the medical treatment for. myself in two of my colleagues very explicitly about medical concerns. in particular infection starting in the state. then a couple months later hominick is a still died of an infection starting in his foot and we had already told them months before and that's documented day time when everything what we had said is transcribed we had a senate inquiry into the death of reza berati and i don't see anything changing. i don't know what can help the man in man is sound. all the people in mary. we are telling the paper what's happening that nothing's changing. on put up a strong minister for immigration and border protection i've recorded this message to provide some important information you will know by now the plans are well underway for the first group of refugees to travel and settle in cambodia cambodian settlement presents a great opportunity for refug

in another blow to asylum-seekers, the trump administration is also reportedly resuming its remaining lexical policy, which would force asylum-seekers in central america to wait in mexico while their cases are processed in the united states. the administration calls the policy migrant protection protocols and the justice department spokesman said today the statute explicitly authorizing the use of the migrant protection protocol has been on the books for more than two decades and the department of justice will robustly defend our ability to use it. all of this is happening is the debate rages on for about another proposal from the president, an idea to relocate undocumented immigrants and asylum-seekers to sanctuary cities. democrats say "we are deeply troubled that the trump administration is considering releasing detained immigrants into congressional districts represented by democrats in a bizarre and unlawful attempt to score political points." but kellyanne conway explained it like this. >> the president has been listening very carefully to the mayors of some of these sanctuary c

he continues to take aim at immigrants and asylum seekers. meanwhile democrats hoping to unseat the president are criss-crossing pivotal states this weekend. here's more. >> reporter: a day after declaring the country full to undocumented immigrants and asylum seekers president trump continued stoking america's fear of them trying to enter the country. >> some of the roughest people you have seen. people that look like they should be fighting for the ufc. they read a little page from lawyers. you know, lawyers. i am very fearful for my life. i am very worried that i will be accosted if i am sent back home. >> reporter: in the president's remarks saturday he renewed threats to close the southern border despite backing down from the threat friday. >> you know, close the border we stop $500 billion worth of drugs pouring into our country. there are a lot of advantages. >> reporter: in las vegas the democrats hoping to unseat him were spread out across pivotal states. >> first thank my family for allowing me to do this. >> reporter: now there is

president, however, was insistent that his administration begin taking another action, just denying asylum seekers entry into the united states. secretary nielsen tried to explain to the president many times that the asylum laws allow migrants from central america to come to the u.s. and gain entry. she even talked to the white house counsel about it to see if there were any exceptions and he told her that her reading of the law was correct. now, on friday, in calexico, california, the president publicly said this. >> the system is full. can't take you anymore. whether it's asylum, whether it's anything you want, illegal immigration, can't take you anymore. we can't take you. our country is full. >> behind the scenes, according to two witnesses, president trump told border agents to simply stop letting migrants in. tell them we don't have the capacity, he said. if judges give you trouble, say, sorry, judge, i can't do it, we don't have the room. after the president left that room, border agents sought further advice from their leaders who told them they were not going to give them that direction.

sanctuary cities from "coast to coast" as a federal appeals court makes another big ruling on asylum seekers. where will they say? >>> under fire. one word from bill barr raising the stakes ahead of his release of the mueller report. >>> plus out of the embassy and locked up. what's next for julian assange and could a look at wikileaks and the 2016 election make things uncomfortable for president trump? >>> developing this hour, growing political and legal backlash as the president gives

eewe areg unprecedented numbers of asylum-seekers.numbers from 100,000 potentially this month. aover 60% of th parents with their children as the u.s. .as faced numbers like this in the past, howev in the early 2000 we would ever an1.5 million people -- apprehend 1.5 mnulion people ly. we have 5000 agents compared with a 20,000 we have today. the differen with this crisis compared to the past is they are claiming asylum. the frustrating thing for someone like me who was spent a lot of time working border issues is that we're are not seeing the influx of immigration judges the process the asylum claims. i have no doubt that dhs is heavily strain in terms of doing the initial processing and registering these individuals when they come across them but the real crisis is that we are not moving -- we need to adjudicate claims quickly and we arnot moving to hire the immigration judges to adjudicate claims. people are staying in the united states for years and it is incentivizing even more of them to come. sandweg on the situation at the bor

the headline of mother jones read donald trump wants to dump asylum seekers on the streets of american cities, democratic cities. bussing people read the "washington post" greg miller, to dump them in cities. just do punish political rivals. in the view of harley sigel of the daly beast, the white house wanted to dump refugees in sanctuary cities. he called that idea nasty. almost simultaneously, a different concert, both cnn and

the president renewed the fight for immigration and floated the idea of sending asylum seekers to sanctuary cities. is this practical or political? >> well, i think the way he did it is political. the irony is if we're going to deal with this crisis, refugee crisis at the border, ironically this is actually part of the temporary solution. it's notten like the one in miami. we asked other cities and states to help out as you relocate folks. somalis were relocated to minneapolis, things like that. ironically, it is part of a temporary solution. but it is sort of the way the president went about it made it seem as if it's being weaponized and done in some odd punishment kind of way. if he means it as part of a large solution, i think there will be a bunch of states and governors and mayors willing to help out on this. >> big picture question, which you can. chuck. senate republicans seem to be drifting away from president trump. think about the national declaration emergency, refusal to appeal obamacare, rejection of nominees. what is it? is this more about questionable policies or fears about

. >>2 did nile bail to some asylum. seekers and the reversal from a prior ruling comes as the trump administration tries to stem the number of border crossers and immigrant rights advocates have vowed to fight that move in court karin caifa reports now from washington. >>in order by attorney general bill barr could keep thousands of asylum. seekers jailed indefinitely. barr's decision to reverse a previous ruling means some asylum seekers apprehended while crossing the southern border will no longer be able to be released on bond while their cases are considered the move criticized by some as a deterrent and is of further construction of the rights of people who are seeking asylum. >>to get into our country. >>fleeing all of the authoritarian regimes around the world that are discriminating against people based on their religion their race their ethnicity their political party and so on. >>others pointing to the urgency of a sharp rise in asylum claims and a need for stricter standards. >>the it she will go over policy should b

but there are more than 3000 arriving every day illegally, many of them asylum-seekers who have comecentral america. some people feel that that sort of rhetoric and perhaps those kinds of images are designed to bolster the president's case for building a wall. that is his solution to this crisis. but it also highlights how vive and difficult this issue is, because america cannot agree on how to protect this border or d what with the people who are crossing it. laura: dan johnson for more on the situation at the rder, my colleagues katty kay and christian fraser spoke with nde former acting director of u.s. immigrationustoms enforcement. that was for the bbc's "beyond 100 days" ogram. give us some sense of the sort of disruption that would oullow apart from the fact that america would ruof avocados and it would be a national crisis if the by der were reautdown. >> it would be dramatic consequences. we have hundreds of thousands of people who live in mexico and work in the united states. truck after talk of not just ode an avocados, but manufactured goods. plus in tradeion- largely ben

and asylum seekers have a right under international law 4841 1980 to seek asylum.that he's going to flout or ignore that law. >> i just want to add a sentence i previewed recently, there's no form of optimism for asylum seekers. there are optional protocol. there's federal u.s. law that defines rights of refugees as well. and it is unclear whether the president just thinks that he can abodicate those laws but wht is clear he's signaling to everyone around the world that he's going to do everything possible to limit the ability of asylum seekers to come into the kungts. and refugees of other classes. secretary of state mike pompeo said they're champions of personalities around the world. if you look at the statistics from the world relief organization, others, the number of people, and those around the world, those numbers are drastically lower. it's clear he's trying to undermine international law. >> you mentioned secretary of state mike pompeo. he's acknowledging, this is in a different sector here, he's acknowledging the threat that was posed by china after the

despite the fact that central american asylum seekers are allowed by law to cross the border and seek not that they will be granted it necessarily, but that is a legal right. that's the way this country operates. i see you, samantha, shaking your head. >> i do that way too much when talking about this topic. president trump's broadcasting of ignorance of u.s. law is nothing new. he's done this on a campaign finance violation. he knows what asylum laws say. he has to be briefed on this by white house counsel. what he said is not surprising to me. it's really part of a at what point is the president going to take a step back and say maybe it's me, maybe it's not them? he has blamed everybody else, secretary nielsen reportedly, mexico, central america, democrats. he's blamed so many other people for the fact that he has not been able to secure our border, and he's not been able to be president and to witness a decrease in illegal immigration numbers at our border. hardly a day goes by where he doesn't find another scapegoat for increasing numbers of migrants at certain times, as well as

the judge in san francisco blocking the administration's remain in mexico policy of returning asylum seekers to mexico as they wait for their claims to play out. nielsen is named as a defendant. it was under her leadership that they implementedded the policy, began four months ago at the border crossing between san diego and tijuana. the judge ruled the policy, quote, lacks sufficient protections against aliens being returned to places where they face unyou due risk to their lives or freedom. the ruling doesn't immediately take effect. the court has given the administration until friday, a allowing time for them to appeal. no word yet, though, from the doj on that. but the president is weighing in on twitter, writing a ninth circuit judge ruled mexico is too dangerous for migrants. so unfair to the u.s., out of control. the ruling comes as secretary nielsen speaks out for the first time since her resignation sunday. >> i just want to a thank the president again for the

while 32% say the administration's treatment of asylum seekers is about right. a smaller number, 27%, say the same of its treatment of illegal immigrants. interesting poll numbers out. while the aclu is vowing to sue the administration over this latest immigration policy shift it is important to point out the white house feels bold following the ninth circuit court appealers where they can send some seekers back to mexico while they await their immigration hearings. >> bret: president trump has vetoed a congressional resolution to end the u.s. assistance in the war in yemen. first time congress challenged the president who called it an unnecessary and dangerous attempt to weaken his constitutional authorities. new information tonight about the effort to combat monday's fire at the notre dame cathedral in paris. the situation may have been even more dire than we realized at the time. senior foreign affairs correspondent greg palkot is in paris tonight. >> a beautiful wednesday in paris except for the badly-damaged notre dame cathedral in the heart of the french c

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expand the remain in mexico program which is very controversial because rather than allowing asylum seekers to wait the months or years that it takes for these. cases to be decided by a u.s. immigration judge they've been staying in the united states during this wait but now the trouble ministration is sending them to mexico a place that could be dangerous according to advocates for immigrants as well as possibly illegal international asylum laws says that these asylum seekers must be protected as their process continues. to venezuela now where the political and economic turmoil has forced more than three million people to look for a better life abroad but for some it's been their final journey there are reports from the town a city of. well one woman is ensuring that the dead and given a proper burial sonja been moved this is bearing the body of a lot of us who fled venezuela but passed away just days after arriving in colombia . she's a retired forensic doctor with a lifelong mission caring for the destitute dead in this area of northern colombia saving them from a communal grave. i think

has mexico help the united states by offering shelter or in a sense offering a place for these asylum seekers to stay during the months if not years long process of having that asylum claim wind through the immigration courts and there is a massive backlog of these cases which means the wait for the day where they can actually see a judge and be either granted or denied asylum can be of two years and the current policy has been that these families are waiting in the united states with family members with sponsors who are already in the country and trump says that many simply disappear into the woodwork never show up for their court appointments and in this sense remain in the country illegally and so his policy which is very controversial has been to send people immediately back across the border to mexico once they've submitted their asylum claim and wait out those months or years is there a problem there with people or immigration activists advocates is that the conditions in mexico can be dangerous and international asylum laws says that these asylum seekers must be protected as this proce

asylum-seekers will no longer need to wait in mexico for hearings in the us. a federal judge blocking the white house policy as homeland security secretary kirsten nielsen speaks out for the first time since resigning. griff jenkins joins us with more on the security shakeup. lots going on in terms of homeland security. >> a lot going on. the president's border battle, the ninth circuit court of appeals in san francisco blocking the administration's remain in mexico policy overturning asylum-seekers to mexico as they wait for claims to play out. it was under her leadership at dhs the policy known as migrant protection protocol, at the border crossing between san diego and tijuana, the policy, quote, lacks sufficient protections against aliens being returned to places where they face risks to their lives or freedom. the ruling does not immediately take effect, the court is waiting until friday allowing the administration time to appeal but the president is weighing in on twitter saying ninth circuit judge just ruled mexico is too dangerous for migrants, so unfa

if that's grounds for asylum, there are hundreds of millions, if not billions of asylum-seekers. of the things that americans need to keep in mind is the disorder in central america that initially drove some of the asylum-seeking is down by between half and 75% since its peak in 2013, thanks in part to the aid that president trump wants to cut off. this is very much a pull because of the dynamism of the american economy, people looking for work. and who can blame them for that? but it's nothing like the authors of the treaties after world war ii had in mind. >> explain, perhaps, the most controversial line in your cover story, where you say, if liberals insist that only fascists enforce borders -- i'm paraphrasing -- then voters will elect fascists to do just that, enforce borders. explain what you mean by that idea. >> well, one of the drivers of this story is that we have seen a rise of authoritarian populist parties and rulers across the developed world. you've talked about this a lot. in hungary and in poland. the rise of authoritarian populist parties in germany, france. ther

a new proposal to put up more roadblocks for asylum seekers. >>> joe biden makes his first campaign trips to iowa today. the president repeatedly going after him. despite warnings from the president's advisers to be quiet. >>> a murder mystery in iowa, a driver shot in the neck as she drives home. a man hunt for the shooter now on the way. >>> a man who got a heart transplant randomly meets the family who saved him at a baseball game. good morning, and welcome to "early start," i'm christine romans. >> good morning, everyone, i'm dave briggs. my nuggets got a win, if you're wondering in the nba playoffs. we start with the ongoing immigration battle in this country. president trump taking direct aim at migrants seeking asylum in the united states in a new plan to overhaul the nation's immigration system in a memo to the attorney general and homeland security, the president calls for asylum applications to be adjudicated within 180 days of filings. the president also wants a fee imposed for all work permit and asylum applications. he wants migrants barred if they have attempted to enter the

the trump administration argues asylum-seekers from the northern triangle, guatemala, honduras and el salvador, rarely win their cases and skip out on court dates. this ruling claims the same day the department of homeland security shot down multiple reports donald trump offered 2 pardons are now acting secretary of homeland security over a similar issue. at no time has the president indicated, asked, directed or pressured the acting secretary to do anything illegal, nor with the acting secretary take actions not in accordance with our responsibilities to enforce the law. a strongly worded statement because of explosive claims by the new york times that donald trump talk to kevin last week at the border. and and the new york times noted during their recording, and those opposed to the president, those were the appeals next week. and it is great to have you with us. >> janet napolitano said this week about the detention of people over the border and what happened next. >> we need to get away from this concept that everybody has to be detained. we can release people into the country, th

bush described asylum seekers like the one mr.ts to see jailed indefinitely as people coming here as an act of love for their families. it's an extraordinary turn from the republican party that william barr served when he served several republican presidents ago. >> i think you know this, there are democrats, there are republicans, there are people who disagree with each other on policy but at the end of the day they try to respect the bounds of law. and what's concerning and it ties to this immigration issue and the russia investigation issue, here we have a president who according to some senior national security officials i've spoken to in recent weeks, the president said do it, i know it's illegal, i'll pardon you. that's the way he operates. >> break the law. >> and i will pardon you. >> because i'm above the law. >> that's right. his view is essentially that of an authoritarian regime, a dictatorship. there should be no checks and balances, there should be no constraints because i was elected president. i think it's the job