Title 42 is not sustainable. I get that. It is a public health authority. It is not meant to be an immigration law.

There is just so much to go over.

I will tell you what it is. It is very simple. It is the number of sponsors out there, the number of sponsors who have been denied.

There is a deep concern expressed by just about every member of this panel, Democrat and Republican, about the lack of a plan.

We provided the funding for you back in 2019 to get to that number of 40 percent, at least, of cars, 70 percent of trucks, and we should provide more.

I think we need to be straight with the American people as to what is happening here.

We do not enforce the laws in the sense that what the laws say is that we are supposed to detain people pending the process of asylum, and we do not do that.

The alternative to Title 42 is that they are going to do what they cannot do now, because of Title 42, which is apply for asylum.

This year so far, 2022, it is unprecedented. It is not a 15-year high. It is an historic high.

I appreciate your holding this hearing on the Southwest Border, which clearly is in a crisis situation now.

It is totally unacceptable for the U.S. Government to release unaccompanied kids, who are, by definition, much more vulnerable to trafficking, to unrelated sponsors and not to do more follow-up.

I think that makes a lot of sense. It is going to be expensive but it absolutely crucial to me that the last people coming in are the first people who are told, we understand that your country has issues and that the economics are a real…