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>> you say that you, at the department of homeland security, you have been preparing. not everybody agrees with you, as i know you are aware. not just republicans, even some democrats, even those who represent parts of the border. arizona congressman ruben gallego said, quote, federal agencies have had time to plan, but their efforts have fallen short. how do you respondent to him and some other democrats who say that youve fallen short? >> i would respectfully disagree. we have been planning fo...

Formal plan for this surge of migrants. joining me now is seung min kim white house reporter for the associated press. great to see you. biden is heading out for an end of the year vacation and will be gone until the new year. what happens if the supreme court makes this decision today or in the next few days? >> so we have been asking and the white house has been asked repeatedly what is your plan once title 42 lifts? we thought this was going to happen last week, obviously there has been a del...

Wilmington, delaware. what is the administration doing, then torques prepare for the end of title 42 next week, that of course the pandemic era policy that allowed them to hold people out of the country due to pandemic concerns. so what are they doing? expecting the surge. >> reporter: yeah, well, listen, the administration is preparing for that anticipated surge of migrants coming to the southern border after that policy is set to end next week. an internal dhs memo this week outlined that ther...

Migrants are waiting for the lifting of title 42 and dhs knows that. the estimate that they have right now is that when title 42 lifts, if it lifts, they could expect between 9 to 14,000 migrants attempting to cross into the united states every single day. earlier this year, in the summer, when title 42 was scheduled to lift then, the estimates was 18,000 per day. and it just depends and all of these are estimates. but back to your question about what dhs is doing. they released a plan this week...

So in essence, dhs what theyve released is this six-pillar plan which starts off with the surge of resources. dhs saying more than 1,000 border patrol processing coordinators have been deployed to the border. theres also 2500 contractors. and the reason why those numbers are important is because of the following. and we hear this from politicians and other law enforcement agencies. that when law enforcement agents, i.e. border patrol agents, are taken to process migrants because of a surge then ...

On asylum or access to the u.s. border, its going to require mexicos cooperation. so were watching tore that in the coming days. title 42 does expire a week from today. >> and let me just read a part of the statement we got about the current resources there. this is coming from dhs saying we have deployed additional agents and automated processing systems automated surveillance towers, rescue beacons, mobile processing unit, medical screening personnel and nearly 1,000 processing coordinators in...

Dont work. we need something for the future of our country. >> arthel: you dont think that he is able to do exactly what you just lined up for us? >> he has not been doing it so far. that is what it comes down to. it takes people in leadership positions that are going to say that this is a problem and this is how we fix it and they stop having temper tantrums about the last administration. >> arthel: one idea coming from congresswoman escobar is to hire civilians to process the migrants. what yo...

At what point do Americans recognize that the Republican approach to deal with immigration as a border-only policy is a monumental, expensive failure?

Officers and mission support personnel. we understood that we would hear the frustrations, but got very productive feedback. in this last week, the secretary issued two memoranda focused on that trip. one was centered around making sure the department of justice prosecute anybody who are agents, and weve had 182 of those assaults. the second was making sure we got our processing coordinators into those centers so border patrol agents could get back on the front line. that was a big part of those...