across the southwest border. >> it requires the implementation of appropriate covid-19 mitigation protocols, also scaling up capacity and scaling up, you know, resources needed. and so it was always going to be important to have an implementation period and the timeline reflects that. >> reporter: multiple border patrol officials have told position news that -- fox news that ending title 42 will lead to a surge on top of a surge as word spreads among migrants they will not be deportedded. there are believed to be a considerable number of migrants waiting in mexican cities for title 42 to drop. >> it seems to me the biden administration is intent on driving an agenda that can only be described as open borders. the american people aren't having it. they want secure borders, they want an end to the cry sitz of illegal immigration -- crisis of illegal immigration. this will only make it worse. >> reporter: arizona democrat