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Arellas Hernandez and Nick Miroff from the Washington Post report overnight that some 10,000 Haitian immigrants have congregated under a border bridge in South Texas.

The influx state right presents quote, the Biden administration with a new border emergency.

At a time when illegal crossings have reached a 20-year high, and Department of Homeland Security

officials are straining to accommodate and resettle more than 60,000 evacuees.

Administration officials are using the controversial Title 42 law to

rapidly return or expel migrants. But they're hemmed in by recent court rulings, including

a significant one Thursday, as well as Mexico's refusal to take back Asians. President

Joe Biden announced in April that Jill Biden, his community college professor

wife, would lead the administration's efforts on new education initiatives, including her

longtime mission to make two years of community college tuition free.

But with Congress wrestling over what will and will make it into their multi-trillion dollar

reconciliation package.

Hillades say that they've been surprised, but they haven't heard from the First Lady or

her office.

Progressives and Free College advocates say they need her help now to fight for the $11 billion

plan, especially since Senator Joe Manchin has floated slimming it down with means testing

and grade requirements.

If it makes the cut at all, at a Senate appropriations meeting in June, Mention declared,

I disagree on free.

For what it's worth, the White House's plan has already been paired back in Congress.

House Democrats would end the program after five years.

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