It is Tuesday, September 21st. I'm Gideon Resnick.

And I'm Josie Defi Rice, and this is What a Day, where we are anxiously guzzling maple

syrup as we await the result of Canada's election.

I had to tap all of this myself, and I just want to say it was tough. It was challenging.

You're welcome, Canada. On Today's show, President Biden lifts a travel ban so that fully vaccinated

foreign nationals can enter the U.S. plus Russia recently held a national election,

and you probably won't be too surprised at whose party won.

Truly, truly shocking. But first, in a bloated immigrant rights activist, Senate parliamentarian

Elizabeth McDonough, the, quote, impartial referee of the Senate and its rules, said on Sunday

that Democrats could not use the $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill to create a pathway to citizenship.

Millions of undocumented people living in America had been waiting on something really

anything that would have moved the needle on immigration reform since so little has changed

in years.

Yeah, and at the same time, as we talked about yesterday, over 14,000 Haitian migrants

began to arrive at the Texas Mexico border in recent days in order to seek asylum from

the U.S. Some of them had fled the country following a devastating earthquake and the recent

assassination of the country's president. However, the U.S. has already begun to clear out

where they have taken shelter. As of last night, the AP reported that more than 6,000

Haitians and other migrants had been removed. Several hundreds of them at least have been

deported back to Haiti using a pandemic-related policy adopted by the Trump administration, with

officials saying that the size and pace of flights is set to increase.

And there's at least one well-documented disturbing instance of border patrol behavior.

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