If we do not make changes quickly to provide for an alternative to Title 42 we will be even more overwhelmed.

There is no plan to substitute for Title 42.

This is a shock to all of us, and I think to your people as well.

Most of them have claims under the asylum system, a system where, at the end of the process, once their claims are adjudicated, more than 80 percent are denied.

Unfortunately, decisions to deemphasize internal enforcement... do nothing to actually deter unlawful migration.

When the Title 42 public health order is lifted, we anticipate migration levels will increase, as smugglers will seek to take advantage of and profit from vulnerable migrants.

Would you go back to a policy where you are actually removing people who do not qualify, who have had a full adjudication?

It is clear to all that losing Title 42 will turn this border crisis into a catastrophe.

You are saying you cannot tell us today whether any of them were released into the United States.

more than two decades after September 11, 2001 (9/11) our borders can still be breached by those who mean us harm.

It is just not accurate to mislead the American people.