CNN takes “train of death” with migrants hoping to get into the U.S.

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🗓️ 12 May 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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U.S. Homeland Security officials arebracing for an influx of migrants at the border with Mexico as Title 42, a Trump-era immigration policy, is set to end at 11:59 p.m. ET. One official tells CNN the days ahead on the border “will get worse.” Over just the last two days, authorities have taken more than 10,000 migrants into custody daily, a record for daily encounters. CNN Correspondent David Culver joins AC360 from Ciudad Juárez, Mexico where he rode with dozens of migrants who were traveling towards the border on the top of freight train cars or the “train of death,” hoping to seek asylum in the United States.

Plus, the main suspect, Joran van der Sloot, in the 2005 disappearance of Natalee Holloway is being extradited to the U.S. where he faces charges of extortion and wire fraud. He has been serving time in a Peruvian prison for murder in a separate case. CNN Correspondent Jean Casarez tells Anderson Cooper if she thinks van der Sloot will be surprised by the difference in prison conditions.

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0:00.0	Good evening. Before we begin with tonight's broadcast, I want to say something about what
0:04.7	we witnessed the last night's town hall. Many of you have expressed deep anger and disappointment.
0:09.9	Many of you are upset that someone who attempted to destroy our democracy was invited to sit
0:13.9	on the stage in front of a crowd of Republican voters to answer questions and predictably
0:18.4	continued to spew lie after lie after lie. And I get it. It was disturbing. It was disturbing
0:25.3	to see and hear that person refer to a black law enforcement officer as a thug.
0:29.2	An adjective he used many times describe black men and called Kaelin Collins the moderator
0:33.7	Nasty, which is what he calls any woman who stands up to him. It was disturbing to hear him
0:38.5	speak so highly of QAnon conspirators and insurrectionists who assaulted police officers
0:43.4	in our democracy on January 6th. And it was awful to hear him spread ridiculous lies
0:47.9	about the election. And it was certainly disturbing to hear that audience young and old, our
0:52.6	fellow citizens, people who loved their kids and go to church, laugh and applaud his lies,
0:58.4	and his continued defamation of a woman who, according to a jury of his peers, he sexually
1:02.2	views and defends. As good a job as Kaelin Collins did trying to fact check him, it is impossible
1:08.1	to fact check fully because he lies so shamelessly. Now, many of you think CNN shouldn't have
1:13.5	given him any platform to speak. And I understand the anger about that, giving him the audience,
1:18.4	the time I get that. But this is what I also get. The man you were so disturbed to see
1:24.1	and hear from last night, that man is the front runner for the Republican nomination
1:28.5	for president. And according to polling, no other Republican is even close. That man
1:34.0	you were so upset to hear from last night, he may be president of the United States in
1:37.9	less than two years. And that audience that upset you, that's a sampling of about half
1:43.2	the country. They are your family members, your neighbors, and they are voting. And many
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