International Esports World Cup in Paris

Coming up, some of the reported victims in the Venezuela earthquake had just been deported from the United States Congresswoman, Adelita Grahalva weigh in on the president's immigration policies when morning Joe comes right back One of the other actions we got from the Supreme Court yesterday was actually no action at all, declining to review Donald Trump's appeal in a civil case involving writer Eugene Carol. In twenty twenty three, a federal jury in New York decided in favor of Carol, who said Trump had sexually abused her in the mid nineteen nineties in the dressing room of a New York City department store And then later defamed her The jury awarded Carol five million dollars in damages And today, the Supreme Court is set to rule on President Trump's effort to limit birthright citizenship. It's a key provision of the fourourteenth Amendment that has stood for nearly one hundred and sixty years President Trump signed an executive order on the first day of The second term directing U. S. agencies not to recognize that citizenship children born in the United States if neither parent is an American citizen or legal permanent resident A federal judge blocked that order weeks after it was signed. It comes after other immigration rulings by the justices last week, including allowing officials to end temporary protected status for hundreds of thousands of migrants and restricting claims for asylum seekers arriving at the southern border Joining us now, Democratic Congresswoman Adita Grahalva of Arizona Congresswoman, you've been You've been covering every angle, trying to attack every angle and push back against terrible things that have been happening to people, whether it be prolonged detainment, conditions inside detention centers. And of course, we are awaiting this outcome on birthright citizenship Just tell us what you've seen, what you've heard from your constituents and some of the cases that you're dealing with right now as it pertains to migrants Literally seventy five percent of the cases that are in our office have to do with immigration, whether they are doCA recipients waiting for their appointment and permission to stay in this country, even though they've been in this country for thirty one years people who are worried that they have permanent status, but they're not They're worried that this administration is going to come back and say, just kidding, we're going to take you home. There are senior citizens who've lived in this country for forty years that are calling me saying but I'm nervous. I don't want to go to the store. It is this entire environment of making people feel like they don't belong in this country. And that's what I'm fighting against You know, we're trying to make sure that people know what their rights are and that there is a process. But this administration continues to sort of push back on this idea that we have any process at all in this country. It is not somethingomething that we've ever seen in my lifetime And it's very scary for so many people Um You know, I'm profoundly moved by what is happening here in this realm and disturbed by it in a way that keeps me up at night Um, for those who It's just all too much. What's happening? I mean, I know a lot of people who just block out the news because it's just too much U couldould you please share some of the more pressing issues that you are either demanding answers on or trying to protect people from One as it pertains to deportations Well we're trying to understand what who they're looking for. I mean, we just had a case in Tucson with a r of leting Yeah exactly right. She's been in this country thirty one years. We had an active A status and she was told to her face that DACA is not any kind of permission, any kind of permission that keeps you in this country. And now this administration, even though their case was dismissed, her case was dismissed, now they've started again because it's a black eye when something doesn't work out to this administration's advantage, even if it's illegal, so now they're going to try to make it legal And you know we have people all over this country that are worried. I had a room full of students in my office last week talking about the fact that their parents are naturalized citizens, their siblings are citizens, and they're having to leave this country because of the status that they have in this weird hodgepodge of visas There is no clear pathway for legalization for half a million people that are DACA recipients right now and so many more. You know, among the casualties of the twin earthquakes and earthquakes in Venezuela last week are believed to be as many as one hundred and forty people who were deported from the United States just hours before the earthquake struck They were staying at a hotel that was toppled and then you have Patience being sent back to an extremely violent port of Prince. Again, it feels like the rules keep changing. You have people showing up for asylum hearings, getting nabbed. so even though Even though a judge might have ruled against getting people at courthouses, Are they stopping? Number one, number two, has the damage been done? Are people who are here legally or going through the legal process, by the way, paying lots of money, their life savings in some cases to just be here are too scared to show up to continue with being legal What we're missing is like the real human aspect And so when I hear from people who are like, well, you know, I'm a Republican and I believe everyone should come here through a legal process, but now my son's teacher is saying that she no longer can work in this country, that her that she's going to have to leave to a country that she's never known. But that's not right for her. She's a good person There are millions of people that are good people that are part of our communities and have been here for decades. and we have to I feel it's our job to be able to show the face of the person who's being directly impacted by these inhumane policies and treatment. And then once they are detained, there was a gentleman that now is a legal permanent resident was during his process in the application process And he was detained for four months. He came up to me at church and said, They let me out and now I'm a legal permanent resident and I didn't even recognize him Because the person that I saw detention at Florence, was a shell of the person that I saw it is causing so much stress to families and people all over this country. And there is no legal pathway Unless you're going to buy one of Trump's million dollar passes, you are you're doing exactly what this administration and this country has told you what to do Still, the rules keep changing, so there is no clear path Congresswoman, I'm going to assume that in the recent past couple of years Most of the constituents who visited your office in Arizona would come in For social security questions, Medicare questions, things like that But now there's no more TPS, temporary protected status. That's gone What has that done to the daily routine of your office, your home office in Arizona? Well, I've only been in Congress for eight months. so I'm going to go with yes for my dad when he is in office that those aren correct. that you have a lot of, you still have immigration questions because I represent the southern Arizona border. All of the ports of entry with Mexico are in our district. So immigration was always a question, but it was more like questions you know, how to make sure that I fill out the paperwork correctly for DAA or temporary visas, What we're seeing now is I am afraid to go out to my mailbox in a house that I have lived in for over two decades because I'm afraid that IC is going to be waiting outside to take me That's what we're dealing with right now. Democratic Congresswoman Adelita Graalva of Arizona, thank you so much for updating us and please come back as you continue to Give voice to the voiceless. I appreciate it Thank you so much for having me. Thank you so much Is it Critics say a law in Tennessee that's set to go into effect tomorrow will force undocumented immigrant parents to choose between getting critical medical care for their sick and disabled children or face being reported to immigration authorities Noticer on a mas Univigion reporter Lydia Terazzas has been covering this story and she joins us now, Lydia, I know you're andpple of all these angles. tellell us more about this controversial new law Good morning. Although there is now a temporary restraining order on this law for further debate, it is temporary Which means that the parents of these sick children in Tennessee are still worried sick So basically in the last few weeks, about four hundred families started to receive these letters from the Department of Health asking these immigrant parents to make an impossible choice. They have to choose between critical, lifeif saving medical care for their children who have critical illnesses or be reported to immigration authorities. We are talking about children who suffer from spina bifida Cerebral palsy and even cancer. And so a lot of these parents have already disenrolled from the program. But now there is a pause on this law. And actually on Thursday, there will be the beginning of a debate. This comes after a lawsuit from physicians in the state I' asking for a pause on this law because it is affecting hundreds of families in the state Heart wrenching and hard to believe. And Lydia, you've also been following the story of a twenty year old Texas immigrant who's also a musician. He was taken into custody by IC last week, and you say immigration officers then told him they might release him If He sang them A Mariachi song So I believe if I recall your reporting, he was detained and he was actually in his mariachi uniform because of the performing he does and they were They were goading him and making fun of himact a Yes, he was actually going back home after playing in his local mariachi group. So he was wearing his mariachi attire. Again, this information I'm getting directly from him and directly from his family He was pulled over and eventually immigration authorities were called. I do want to make it clear that Eber Ivara does have an adjustment of status pending through marriage. He was wearing his mariachi attire and what he tells me is that immigration officers actually We started laughing, asked him to sing a song. and if he sang, they would possibly let him go you know, he knew that it wasn't going to happen. He knew that they were taunting him. And, you know, I think this is this is something that is deffinitely an issue because we know that in the last few months, there was this push to hire ag to hire immigration agents. and we still don't know exactly what's the training process that they go through because it was this push to hire thousands of agents. and now we're seeing cases like Ebb where he was humiliated. He felt humiliated by these agents, you know, when they offered to let him go if he sang a song You know, this they were trying to strip him of his dignity, it looks like Um I have no words. Noticiero, Anemas, Univision reporter Lydia Terazas Thank you Please continue your work and come back and tell us all about it. We appreciate it. We'll always have a place for you here. We appreciate your work think you Still ahead, we'll bring you an update on a closely watched race for November's midterm elections. The showdown in Texas for a U. S Senate seat, Morning Joe will be right back The earlier comment that you put up about Talo Rico, that is like a Hillary Clinton deplorable moment. He was referencing the majority of Texans who have voted the way Texans have voted for decades now. And apparently he thinks that those majority of Texans are deplorable. And it's just it seems like every time Tal Rico opens his mouth. He's saying some other crazy comment. What I can tell you for a fact, and that is what Tal Rico stands for, what the Democrats on the entire party tickets stand for are antagonistic to the values of the state of Texas And Ken Paxton, Okay. Texas Governor Greg Abbott, responding to a clip of Democratic State Representative James Tellerico, speaking Friday at the Texas Democratic Convention. Tellarico's remarks largely focused on the importance of unity by highlighting the ongoing efforts to divide Texans The current political landscape is too small for Texas. politics of this state is narrow minded. and short sighted. Our state is being taken over by a new kind of tyrant Billionaire mega donors They're not invading with an army. They're just buying the system. The billionaires who own the social media algorithms who own the cable news networks who own the politicians fighting on our screens. They are turning Neighbor against neighbor. weakening That spirit of friendship that makes Texas so great They divide us by party by race byy gender byy religion So we don't notice that they're picking our pockets It is the oldest strategy in the world divide. and conquer The race for a U. S Senate seat between Telo Rico and the Trump backed state attttorney General Ken Paxton is receiving a lot of attention in the state and nationally. The latest polling from the University of Texas at Austin shows Paxson with a one point lead. We'll be watching that one. Meanwhile, new polling shows a couple of tight races playing out in Ohio. An AARP survey of voters age fifty and older in the Buckeye state finds Democrat Amy Acton narrowly leading Republican Vivek Ramaswami forty seven percent to forty four percent. That's within the survey's margin of error and in the state's closely watched Senate race, former Democratic Senator Shared Brown is ahead of Republican Senator John Houstad forty eight percent to forty five percent That's also within the margin of error Mike Barnacle, what's the challenge for Democrats to get these leads to get to make these thin margins wider? Um And there's some big issues obviously pertaining to affordability and housing that are usually the focus of most of their campaigns. Where could they fall short Well, I don't think could I don't think they can fall short by concentrating on groceries, gas and their children. Talk about those three things. The cost of groceries, the cost of gasoline, the inflation, the affordability issues, and the fact that what kind of a country do you want your children to grow up in? It's going to impact voters in Texas, in Ohio, in every state in the Union, Miica. The Texas race is going to be interesting, but really ugly. The Ohio race for the Senate is going to feature a Democratic candidate who really knows and understands working class people And I think I think Ohio is going to go Democratic on that one. We shall see and we will be right back with much more Morning Joe. Starting next week, more than two thousand players from more than one hundred countries will gather in Paris for the largest international celebration of competitive gaming Millions of people around the globe are expected to tune in win the Eastports World Cup Kicks off on july eighth july sixth, I'm sorry. Don't get that too late july sixth, as gamers vie for their share of a record breaking seventy five million dollars prize pool For more, let's bring in the CEO of the ESports Foundation, Ralph Reichert, Ralph, good morning. how are you? And tell us for the uninitiated exactly what eesSports is Good morning, Great to have to be here. ESports is very similar to any other traditional sports because basically in sports you compete against each other And it becomes a fan that when people watch. This is the same just with video games. and video games are the definition of a game, right? So If you play chess, this is a perfect example of somewhere in between traditional sports and esports So my understanding is that in terms of the of this gathering taking place in Paris, you have already met with President Macron in Paris. Is that accurate hundredundred hundred percent correct. he welcomed us. The move rightit originally the East W World Cup happened in Ryad, Saudi Arabia for the last two years. This is the first year we go international. And we were welcomomeed by the president who has, you, officially announced that it's going to happen there just like you know, the other bigorts sports events like the Olympics or so, right? We We would work with the government to make it happen at that scale So is Macron a gamer? Does he play I think he is. I mean, you wouldn't need to ask himself, but it's actually know it's actually publicly known that he's a big supporter of eesports. France has an eesports strategy around it. And if you look, he's pretty young, right? He's you forty five or something like this. And actually all of these younger world leaders are gamers, if you look at it. So everyone who's know below the age of fifteen grown up with video games and therefore has a strong affiliation and therefore this will be much more regular in the future You know, the participants in this eesports competition is going to take place. What do you figure the average age might be? Is there an average age for the gamers who are going to play and compete against one another Actually, it's very interesting because I mean historically, you know ten, fifteen years ago, they were all super young, right? And now they're growing with their career, like it's a traditional sport. So you know there's some of them well beyond their thirties. but the average age I think is twenty three of competitors. So compared to some of the traditional sports, not the super youngest, but much older than you know, I don't know, like swimming or even you know like gymnastics So that is slowly growing. If you look at fans, very interesting last year Our average fan was twenty seven. now that we're in France, right? The average ticket buy is actually thirty four So you know, it's not a young sport anymore, to be honest. And my understanding again is that this and I think you just referenced it, it was supposed to the games were supposed to be held in Riadh, but they were transferred to Paris because of Obviously war conditions in the Middle East So my question to you is in terms of participants from various countries around the globe. Do have is Iran? Do they have a group coming to compete? Good question. So actually, I'm not aware that there is a player from Iran, to be honest, but they could qualify like in any other sports, right? We're non political. So for us, it's not super relevant from where a player comes from. We have players from all over the world and a little bit like in the football World Cup, which is going on in the US right now. U you know, there would absolutely be an option for Iranian players to participate if they would qualify, but I don't think they did Last question, what does the winner get Look, so there's two competitions the same, right? This is a little bit like you know from the Olympics. many disciplines. So the winners of most of these disciplines get between one and two million dollars, but then there's a big other prize, which is for the biggest club. Think about this as the New York Kicks and so on, which have multiple disciplines beyond them. There's many American U teeams participating as well, like one hundred Thieves, team liiquid Optic and they get the first price seven million dollars. For a total of seventy five million dollars, this all adds up It does. That's pretty good in that edition The twenty twenty six ESports World Cup kicks off on july sixth in Paris, CEO of the ESports Foundation, Ralph Reichard. Thanks very much for joining us, Ralph. We appreciate it. Thank you so much for having me That does it for us this morning. Money power politics with Steph Rule is up next after a short break