john holman, al jazeera plus gala mexico. now the housing market has been on a bit of a tear in many developed nations. there are many reasons the cost of borrowing has been held down by central banks, tax cars, and

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it is very complicated because there is no leadership and hey, there is nothing out there as john holman, has been following the story. he joins us live now from c o that aconia in mexico. explain to us why you are right now, john and what you've been witnessing over the past few hours. actually, it was really interesting to me to hear there for the poor patrol person because of people that we've seen coming back in across the river behind us. the real brand, they separate mexico from united states. they sort of telling us a completely different picture. so what they've been telling us is that they have to come back across the mexican side to get food, get water to get any medicine stop. because there's nothing in the time. obviously the same thing for the house. he was saying that there isn't really anything for them to check because the u. s. a sources haven't allowed us into that camp. went in yesterday for tech to try get in for me and then we also try to get across the river to get in this. and so we tried every instance, we kind of yours so sorry, things haven't let people been goi

john holman, audi ozetta plus gala mexico. now the housing market has been on a bit of a tear in many developed nations. there are many reasons the cost of borrowing has been held down by central banks, tax cars, and a desire to move out of cities. but home buyers are also having to compete for homes. again, some of the world's biggest financial institutions, j. p. morgan leonard and p s. p. investments are pouring money in just not being up family homes. financial. dr. blackstone is buying whole partners of america for $6000000000.00. the company own 17000 homes, not interestingly. the company allows tenants to buy their rentals in the u. k lloyd's banking group plans to buy 50000 homes over the next 10 years. and retailer john lewis planned to build 10000 rental homes. but there is some pushback against giant landlords. berlin will be holding a referendum in september that would allow the local government to buy 240000 properties from germany's biggest publicly listed residential landlord. while let's talk to one of those ca

john holman, has more from san salvador in el salvador, at least some people are worried. angry showing it on the street the last week a long term ban on the presidential 2nd term was lifted by the countries took cool, and congress moved to force a 3rd of the countries judges to retire to la power grabbed by the countries. president said judges on the most worried that we won't have independent institutions that will have a judicial system that's made to measure for the government that gets orders via twitter from the presidential palace. this is president i. e. kelly in another power move in february, march and soldiers in congress to get a security bill passed. it also shot some this country spent the majority of the last century and a military dictatorship. the president's response to the complaints has come on his favorite platform, twitter, his cleaning house, he says rooting out corruption and plenty of ordinary salvadorans agree with him. after years of political grid, low and institutional growth, those never got. that's for us just for those on the top. not the president's afte

as john holman reports mccone many across the back onto the mexican side of the border to avoid deportation. looked inside to make ship camper more than 8000 people, mostly haitians in del rio, texas. they crossed the river illegally and we're hoping the u. s. would let them stay most of the shelters. it just blanket plastic and even river. it's propped up by sticks together. with a lot of rubbish, but little water or food, someone inside the camp film, these images for us, us thirties, have largely blocked the media from seeing it. and now they are entering the place . irregular migration poses a significant threat to the health and welfare of the welfare of border communities and to the lives of the migrant themselves and should not be attempted. if you come to the united states illegally, you will be returned daily flights of taking off from the us, sending people back to haiti to avoid deputation some people like vicki of cross back into mexico. we found them in a park with his 20 month old son, adams, but he still hasn't given up on his drink today, and i'm 30 years old. and i don't kn

john holman, was recently in haiti following the earthquakes of a john just now from mexico city. were all this political people mean for a country, which is the reading from it, from that earthquake last month is what, as many other problems it's going to be really devastating. no, it's not difficult to sort of to work. we actually spoke to prime minister or a laundry when we were actually in haiti and asked him a few questions. what was his government doing about earthquake relief? what were they doing to try and stop the gangs from getting into wave aid getting to the actual relief? so, and he was pretty reluctant actually to take on those questions one or 2 of them. he actually diverted to his head of civil protection there. so this wasn't a leader who was king to be the front man as it were, that time in dealing with the earthquake. but of course, if you take away the figure head of the government at a point in time, which a guest mentioned that the earthquake is still having an impact on the south west of the country. it's only going to make things worse just a day. i was sp

and as john holman reports thousands more waiting to enter the u. s. from mexico. run the mexican side right now of the rio grande. they've got the river that separates this country from the united states. and we here because more than 10000 people, most of them haitian, cross the river to get to the united states and establish a suited make ship camp, wanting to be given asylum and to be able to stay in the united states. many of them travel through south and central america to get to this point. they flee poverty and years of political turmoil and natural disasters. back home. i didn't pass out the remote or not. i'm really scared. you know why haiti had enough quick . we were left with nothing, no home, no food, nothing, almost all my family died. and if we don't go across where we go to go, we don't have a home. that's why with searching for a better future was about the flow of patients crossing to united states at this point, suddenly turn into a torrent of the last week or 2. but now it's slowed again. people have heard the plans from the u. s.

out there is john holman, is in del rio and texas. we have now just right next, really to the camp where more than $10000.00 haitians all we just seeing now that it's being close us army personnel that are outside of the gate to be encouraged to the time. now on the other side of it, all, lots of people from haiti that have traveled up from many of them from south america through central america to get this fall. a lot of them would have left quite a long time ago from hate to be able to get off that roof and pandemic troubles in the country that they were in chile, brazil. ecuador would have caused them to try to get the united states, the really dangerous group, especially at erica, the study in gap, which is jungle between columbia and panama, where there's a lot of right, a lot of murder. so these people have really suffered a lot of them to get this fall to try and get united states. and now where information in the united states is going to be doing flights to send them back to haiti to deport them starting from tomorrow. so for

we can talk to john holman, who is live in a corner in mexico. that's on the mexican side. i was a john of the border. i can see lots of migrants gathered around you. now what, what's the situation today? yeah, we were on the mexican side, the bank just as you mentioned. and if you look this way, people are buying the drinks and biscuits, and that's because they say there's nothing really to them to the camp. a couple of people have told us that us authorities are giving them a bit of bread a day and a little bit of water. but when you've got a family, obviously, that doesn't go round enough to feed everyone or people basically census of office . i've been going back and forth across the river that you'd probably be able to see. just about it right now, though, you know, people are impacted across the rio grande river that separate mexico from the you know, i see that raked up a rope. get pretty big here, especially in the afternoon that going to come from the united states. and obviously from that time, like all going out to back to have these people have really been here i

john holman, has this report mixed goes president is looking to get some of the countries, 220000 prisoners out of jail with a new decree about 680 is scheduled to be set free in the 1st batch proposal. so they live in the midst of free. whoever is sick or old and whoever shows they've been tortured. he's one jonathan. he got out 7 days ago after being inside for over 10 years. falsely convicted of kidnapping his then go, friend, a law regional. the police made one of the real kidnappers implicate me. the detectives told him if he named me, one of them would go free. and if not that pen for more kidnappings on the legs, he went through hell imprison, cancel tuberculosis. but jonathan could already have been released under existing laws which allow wrongly convicted prisoners to get out. so could others who are set to be freed under the new decrees, though, suffering, it will help torture who speak indigenous languages weren't allowed to translate through the trial. they're all covered by existing legislation. if the affordable no this resolution doesn't give anyone any more rights, nothing

use of horses by us or the gods that to threaten migrants trying to cross from mexico as seen in john holman's report. he has been following the story from sir that aconia, which is on the mexican border with the us. mary. this is how one us border patrol officer receive patient migrant crossing the rio grande, coming back with food to camp. they've set up in texas. women. why is the the oh. 6 no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. i mean we've got our families inside dying of hunger. you've had to go out to buy the, you can see this one is getting back into the camp. so they went across the street to get food. they said, because there isn't enough food for them to be there in the camp. there's more than $12000.00 migrants. mostly haitians in the kansas sprung up in the real texas over the last 2 weeks. they want asylum. the us authorities were overwhelmed. this is just the latest splash point in a month long surge of people illegally crossing the border. and there's little in the camp for them. that course i found the sanitary product was, there aren't any food there isn't any either. they d

john holman, joins a slide from the aconia, mexico homeland security. secretary has just been visiting del rio on the other side of the border in texas. what information did you provide? the yes, a 100 miles because there was no peace. who's the head of the us border patrol? and basically the message was pretty much we think that people have got mistaken information about whether i bought a rope. no, not that. no. you shouldn't be illegally trying to cross the river. the river that we've got behind us and please don't come basically, that's the same message that this biden administration has been given for quite some time. because they've seen a huge to search and migration. we've been talking to people on the very 1st months now. a lot of them the said, the same thing off, the president trump, and that really uncompromising starts against any sort of migration. they thought the things would soften up on the president biden, but of course, when enough people get the idea, it means a bit of a search on the border. so now they're really trying to hammer home the message that's not the ca

john holman, al jazeera, aconia, mexico. joining us now by skype from san antonio, texas is nicole morgan. she's a lawyer with the refugee and everything center for education and legal services, which provides free legal services for vulnerable immigrant families. madam, thank you so much for being with us on al jazeera. i mean, i guess before we get into the legal details of this, what was your initial reaction when you saw those very shocking images. all of these guards on, on, mounted on horseback, effectively whipping the immigrants that were trying to cross i was horrified, it harkins back to a very dark time in american history during slavery, in terms of slave patrols, as well as a quick plan using horseback and things like that to terrorize black people. and the fact that during that time it was also state sponsored government sanctioned terrorism. and the fact that in 20 and 2021 that this type of behavior is still going on, oppressive behavior and disheartening and devastating. do you get the sense that this is a con? don't you know that this is perhaps a one off, or are we seei

john holman, has more from mexico city men of del rio has said that this could be a historic crisis, is saying that they need more help to deal with this huge camp that sprung up so quickly under the bridge on the us techs inside of this crossing the governor of texas has called for the board to be closed at 6 different points to stop people getting a cross. and we've been speaking to local journalists on the mexican side who said that basically this has been a point in the river in which people have been crossing for some time because it's so low, so they can get across. but lately, over the last 2 or 3 weeks, they've been a sort of massing of haitians on the mexican side of the border. and then going across to then try and off the asylum in the united states. what we've been told by those local journalists as people are going across, getting a ticket that means with a number on it, which means that they put their place in the line to be processed by american authorities. and then heading back across to mexico because there is no food in much of the camp and sort of using the river

john holman reports from a launch a stuffing town where bitcoin pilot project could full cost for head. this is where i saw with those big quint experiment again, it was on a small side with 3 years ago, an anonymous donor, a local people digital. well, it was a bit the crypto currency. now the country is expanding the experiment nationwide. and so with those about to become the 1st country in the world, to use big coin as legal tender, it will run. it's another option alongside the current currency, us solar. we travel twelves on tape to find out how the pilot program has gone. and what it could mean the rest of the country. we found plenty of. infuse just that each, like 70 percent of people in el salvador doesn't have a bank account. he's big coin. well, it's a way for him to put some money aside. but i have a low income, i don't move much money a little i have, i spend on food. so with bitcoin, i can save up and that's the big coins. growing up in value is seen as smooth savings going to the problem is the big point swings down as well at times heavily . other people here are set u

as john holman reports not from l zante assessing town where a bitcoin pilot project could forecast. what's ahead. this is where some of those big coin experiment began. it was on a small surf with 3 years ago and anonymous stoner a local people. digital bullets with the crypto currency. now the countries expanding the experiment nationwide. and so with those about to become the 1st country in the world to use big coin as legal tender, it will run. it's another option alongside the current currency, us dollar. we travel 12 on tape to find out how the pilot program is gone and what it could mean the rest of the country. we found plenty of. infuse just that each, like 70 percent of people in el salvador doesn't have a bank account. he's big coin. well, it's a way for him to put some money aside. there. i have a low income. i don't move much money a little i have, i spend on food. so with bitcoin, i can save up and that's the big coin is going up in value. he's seen it's more savings, great to the problem is the big point swings down as well at times heavily of the people here are set u

thousands of haitians who had been hoping to find refuge in the us are being sent home and fed algae as john holman, has this report from aconia and mexico's border with the us where many migrant they've been through too much to be deported now on the river the much the border points between mexico, where we are on the united states on the opposite bank, is still full of people. we're seeing people going across the river. you can see that that they put in place because the water is pretty high. it's up to chest high . now, coming back to mexico from the united states where there's make shift time for moving. 12000 people is because they're looking for food and water for their families. you can actually see the right here by the side, the river selling that food of water. and that's because they say that very little for them. they're in the camp in terms of, in terms of nappies, if they've got children in terms of medical supplies for those of them that are real. now, what the united states is saying is the moment is that the people that are in that make shift a going to a going to be processed. and

. >> john: we kick off hour one of "america reports" with former acting ice director tom holman. i wanted to play from yesterday, there's a little bit of sound from the dhs secretary and get you respond to it. let's listen. >> borders are not open and people should not make the dangerous journey. >> john: he says there, tom, that the borders are not open. what do you say to that based on what we have seen in del rio texas in the last couple of weeks? >> it's a lie. it's a lie. the borders are wide open. i have never seen a border so vulnerable in my entire career. thousands of being released every day into the united states, many with covid. 350,000 got away. that's not a closed border. when they redeployed asset to rio grande valley to cover this latest piece of crisis, they left 224 miles of border unguarded. that's not a secure border. 224 miles of no border patrol? criminal cartel is having a field day. they're trafficking women, fentanyl coming across. if you're a terrorist, you got 200 miles of open border. you see those haitians going back and forth from mexico to get food

. >> john: this is before the court, federal courts, it will be up to the third branch of government to make determination if this is constitutionally sound or not. "wall street journal" holmanabout this yesterday saying the good news about the joe biden vaccine mandate, lawyers and judges will have both insentive and duty to apply clear thinking about covid, which has been lacking. the question is not whether vaccines are good or bad, but whether the government has sufficient authority and grounds to overrule personal choice and whether to take them. too, attorney general brnovich, the trend line for joe biden is going in the wrong direction. the new quinnipiac poll, 48% of respondents approve of how he is handling it, well within the margin of error, the trend line going in the wrong direction. your thoughts? >> john, i have a public school kid, i didn't go to ivy league school, but i understand the importance, my family fled communism, making sure there is rule of law in a government, especially president that respects the constitution. this is one of those issues, if you allow the biden administration to get away with this, it is unfettered amount of power in the hands o