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Behind us, we have migrants who are asylum seekers who some of whom have been here for six days, seven days. Some of them just arrived last night and they are in squalored conditions.

Don't have access to food or to water.

The Trumpier Title 42 policy has come to an end that the Biden administration has instituted what critics say is a new asylum ban.

We'll go to San Diego to look at what's happening at the border. This comes as a group of House Democrats are urging the Biden administration to lift sanctions on Venezuela and Cuba, which they say are driving people to leave their homes out of economic desperation.

Then we look at the political crisis in Pakistan.

Pakistan's former prime minister, Imran Khan, has been freed on bail three days after his arrest sparked mass protests.

And we go to Bill Grade's Serbia, which is reeling after 17 people were shot dead in two massacres last week, including Serbia's first-ever school shooting where the shooter was a 13-year-old.

The government has proposed very stringent measures to us, the president put it to disarm Serbia. All that and more coming up.

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Title 42, the Trump-era pandemic policy that was used to expel nearly three million asylum seekers at the US-Mexico border without due process, was lifted Thursday just before midnight after three years of enforcement.

Thousands of migrants have been stranded across the southern border, hoping to be processed and allowed into the United States.

But many will likely be blocked, as the Biden administration begins implementing what immigration rights advocates have denounced as another ban on the right to seek asylum under domestic and international law.

A new policy announced this week would force the majority of asylum seekers to request refugee status in another country before reaching the US or face quick deportation.

The ACLU and others are suing over the rule. Another directive requires asylum applicants to make their appointments on a customs and border protection smartphone app that asylum applicants say is riddled with software bugs and raises serious concerns over privacy.

At the San Isidro border crossing in California, hundreds of asylum seekers have been sleeping on the ground under trash bags and foil blankets with many reporting they've not eaten in days.

This is Hashmatullah Habibi, an asylum seeker from Afghanistan who said Thursday he and his family have nowhere else to go.

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