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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 you've fallen short? >> i would respectfully disagree. we have been planning for months and months, over a year and a half. we have surged resources, asylum officers, border patr...

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 delay put in place by the supreme court, but as you said a ruling could come as early as today, any day...

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 there will likely be increased, quote, migration flows into the u.s. immediately following the end of th...

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 as to what they have been doing to prepare for the lifting of title 42. dhs said that they have bee...

So in essence, dhs what they've 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. there's 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 there's a problem with national security because there are gaps on the southern border. well, what...