"when they are being given notices to appear these days, those notices are for 2 and 3 years down the road"
"This is a very serious issue that several of you have talked about--172,000 encounters last month, 172,000 and climbing."
"We are well over 1 million people in the asylum backlog, and as I mentioned before, we are 3 years before people will actually get to a court hearing."
"At this point, for you and your organization, are you gearing up more staff? Are you gearing up more facilities?"
"Most of the individuals then coming to you have an ankle monitor or some kind of link at that point, when they come to you?"
"Let me ask Mr. Jones about how do we disrupt the flow of drugs coming across the border?"
"The individuals who are coming to you in Phoenix, are these folks that are being delivered to you by Border Patrol, or how are they coming to you?"
"But they are departing from you within 72 hours at that point?"
"It will be interesting to be able to see the decision that President Biden and his team make on how they are going to enforce the border, and what that actually looks like for them."
"I would say, in meeting with Border Patrol and CBP, they are very concerned that Title 42 authority will go away, and if that goes away, what will happen in the acceleration of additional individuals ..."
"The docket is actually very old and continues to be able to grow, and obviously with so many people that we have encountered in the last couple of months, it has accelerated dramatically."
"So they cannot make a decision on those. That has to wait."