Mass migrant crossings in Texas border towns, cities reach breaking point;
Military checks Villarrica Volcano as alert raised to orange;
GOP Candidates, ready for their second debate Wednesday at Ronald Reagan Library in Simi Valley, CA
Military checks Villarrica Volcano as alert raised to orange;
GOP Candidates, ready for their second debate Wednesday at Ronald Reagan Library in Simi Valley, CA
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00:00 Good day, I am William Theo and this is PTV News Now.
00:15 Migrants wait across the Rio Grande from Mexico and cross through barbed wire to reach Eagle
00:21 Pass, Texas, where they are met by border patrol agents.
00:25 Mass migrant crossing has reached crisis level with approximately 2,000 arrivals per day
00:31 since late last week, prompting the border town of Eagle Pass, Texas, to declare a state
00:36 of emergency.
00:38 El Paso Mayor Oscar Elisir warned that the influx could strain what the city is capable
00:44 of handling.
00:45 The influx of migration is also putting pressure on the administration of United States President
00:50 Joe Biden, which has reached out to Mexico for help confronting the spike.
00:56 In the last 11 months, at least 1.8 million people have reached the southern U.S. border.
01:04 Meanwhile, Chile's military fly over the Villarica volcano as authorities raise the alert level
01:10 from yellow to orange after a gradual increase in activity.
01:15 Orange alerts mean it has a greater chance of erupting in the coming days or weeks.
01:19 Villarica last erupted in 2015 when thousands of people evacuated.
01:25 Villarica is one of South America's most active volcanoes and has a 200-meter wide open crater.
01:34 Republican presidential candidates will spar in their second debate.
01:39 VOA senior Washington correspondent Carolyn Prosutti brings us this debate preview.
01:46 Here, in what is hallowed ground for many Republicans, top GOP presidential candidates
01:52 will face off for a second time.
01:55 This is the library of the 40th President of the United States, Ronald Reagan, who remains
02:01 an icon for conservative Republicans.
02:04 Part of living better electrically.
02:06 He began life in the public eye as an actor and liberal Democrat before switching to the
02:10 Republican Party.
02:12 As a popular two-term president of the 1980s, he held up conservative values, pushing for
02:17 small government, low taxes, and more money for defense.
02:22 Known as the great communicator, some of his simple, direct words changed history.
02:27 Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.
02:31 Reagan has supplanted Abraham Lincoln as the most popular Republican in American history.
02:39 Craig Shirley works for the Reagan campaign and in the Reagan White House.
02:43 He's also written six books on him.
02:45 He says the current Republican candidates will likely compare themselves to Reagan during
02:49 the debate.
02:50 They include former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, South
02:55 Carolina Senator Tim Scott, former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, biotech investor Vivek
03:00 Ramaswamy, and former Vice President Mike Pence.
03:04 Mike Pence certainly evokes Reagan-esque positions on issues, as does Nikki Haley, as does Ramaswamy.
03:15 Ramaswamy argued in the first debate that China is more concerning than Russia's invasion
03:19 of Ukraine.
03:21 Former U.N. Ambassador Haley questioned the younger candidate's lack of foreign policy
03:25 experience.
03:26 Reagan, who was the oldest president in history at the time, quipped about age during a debate.
03:31 I am not going to exploit for political purposes my opponent's youth and inexperience.
03:39 Again, the Republican frontrunner, former President Donald Trump, will skip this debate.
03:44 In August, Haley called him the most disliked politician in America, and Christie and Pence
03:49 called for his disqualification.
03:51 But Ramaswamy called Trump the best president of the 21st century.
03:55 Author Ian Morgan says Reagan would be uncomfortable with that type of discord and with the current
04:00 tone of politics.
04:01 He was a very modest man, very personable man, and boasting did not come naturally to
04:08 him.
04:09 And that's something that isn't quite fitting into the current Republican mold.
04:15 But Reagan's memorable one-liners still work.
04:18 Are you better off than you were four years ago?
04:22 That question remains a staple of U.S. presidential campaigns.
04:26 So we'll see which candidate asks it first here on Wednesday night.
04:30 As they try to convince voters to return Republicans to the White House.
04:34 Carolyn Persutti, VOA News, Simi Valley, California.
04:41 This is William Theoh.
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