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Deported to haiti. earlier today homeland security secretary defended the administrations decision to deport migrants to haiti while also acknowledging u.s. imdprags laws need to be restructured. >> with the decision to send 2000 haitian migrants back to haiti in these circumstances, in hindsight, was a mistake? >> no. thats the exercise of a public health imperative. were in the midst of a pandemic. the cdc has a title 42 authority that we exercise to protect the migrants themselves. to protect...

Pandemic. the delta variant caused a setback. more than 600,000 americans have died, more than 40 u.s. customs and border protection front line personnel have lost their lives. this is a public health imperative to protect migrants themselves, local communities, our personnel and the american public. >> right. its called title 42. top democrats in congress want the biden administration to stop invoking it and stop using it. would you be open to that? >> well, it is a public health authority that...

Immigration system and that is why president biden on day one sent a bill to congress to once and for all fix what everyone agrees is a broken system. >> so, mr. secretary, did i just hear you say if title 42 i believe its called, which is the health initiative, health imperative, that allows dhs to expel individuals because of covid, did i hear -- you said you wouldnt welcome that. so if the biden administration rescinded it, hhs or whoevers in charge of issuing that, that would be fine with yo...

Authority of the centers for disease control. there are about 13,000 that are in immigration court proceedings. when we do not expel an individual by reason of the public health imperative, those individuals are actually placed in immigration court proceedings. they go before a judge. they can make a claim of asylum, or other claim to remain in the united states. if the judge approves that claim, they are under the law able to remain. if the judge denies it, then they are removed from the united...

Expelling thousands of migrants from that texas border encampment. >> that is a public health authority. it is not an immigration policy. it is exercised as the cdc, the centers for disease control, has ordered in light of the arc of the pandemic. this is a public health imperative to protect migrants themselves, local communities, our personnel, and the american public. >> and on the covid front, a booster shot rollout is under way, but theres some mixed messages from federal agencies about exa...

Release everything the committee wants. theyre going to take a look at these individually. in this case, there is precedent. after 9/11, the 9/11 commission asked for and eventually got access to documents and testimony from the bush white house. it was key information for them as they produced their reports. so there have been moments in history where the interest in understanding what happened was so overwhelming, so imperative that it basically created a desire on the part of even a president...

Raising questions about his broader immigration policy. joining me is homeland security secretary alessandro may yar cass. thanks for joining us. weve been trying to track the 30,000 or so mostly haitian migrants who came to the u.s. border in the last two weeks. you said about 2,000 sent to haiti, 8,000 voluntarily returned to mexico. so where are the other 20,000 now and how many of them do you expect will ultimately be deported from the united states? >> jake, good morning. about 4,000 actual...

Imperative, that allows dhs to expel individuals because of covid, did i hear you said you wouldnt welcome that. so if the biden administration rescinded it, hhs or whoevers in charge of issuing that, that would be fine with you? >> what is fine -- >> cdc. >> that, yes. so the cdc makes its determination as experts on behalf of the publics well-being from a health perspective. if they determine that the public health imperative no longer exists, and title 42, which is a statute, is a law. >> rig...

Themselves, local communities, our personnel and the american public. >> right. its called title 42. top democrats in congress want the biden administration to stop invoking it and stop using it. would you be open to that? >> well, it is a public health authority that is determined to be an imperative for the public health reasons that i just expressed. we made one important exception at the very outset, and that was to not apply it to unaccompanied children. there are exceptions to the applicat...

Or other claim to remain in the united states. if the judge approves that claim, they are under the law able to remain. if the judge can heize it, then they are removed from the united states. >> and you are referring to the public health rule, having to do with covid, the one that the trump administration put into effect? >> indeed that is the case. remember, that is a public health authority. it is not an immigration policy. it is exercised as the cdc, the centers for disease control, has orde...