Good evening everyone, I'm Allison Camarada, welcome to CNN Tonight.

The U.S. is bracing for tens of thousands of desperate migrants to try to cross the southern

border in a few days.

That's when the Trump-era policy expires that allowed some migrants to be quickly turned

away.

Already, men, women and children are lining up for food, sleeping on the streets.

More than 150,000 people are reportedly just across the border waiting to cross.

But it's the responsibility of Congress to pass new immigration laws, so what can the

Biden administration actually do?

Our panel has ideas.

Plus, nobody wants to live in fear that we're only a day or two away from the next mass shooting.

This past weekend saw another one, eight people killed, this time at a mall in Alan

Texas.

The shooter was a 33-year-old who served in the military for three months.

But a defense official says he was terminated years ago because of a mental health condition.

The shooter appears to have posted a photo of a patch on his clothing that represents

a white supremacy group.

Of course, these mass shootings make us all feel helpless, so tonight we'll look at a

bill in the Texas House that could be getting some unexpected support.

And there's a plan to pay reparations to African-Americans in California.

John Avlon is here with the debut of CNN Tonight's Reality Check.

But let's start with what we know about the looming immigration deadline.

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