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that we have finalized by may 11th. thank you. just have a question for you, mr. secretary and a quick one for chief ortiz. we ve heard from mayors in the rio grande valley and across texas that they re not equipped to handle the number of migrants entering their streets. dhs just allocated $300 million to ngos and border communities. does the federal government have a real in standing up housing and medical care especially when hospitals and ngos and churches are at capacity and migrants are sleeping on the sidewalks and quickly to chief ortiz, can you explain geographically where troops will be located, which sectors are they staying? nicole, we are working very, very closely with city and local officials as i have expressed earlier. we re working with nonprofit organizations. this requires a community response. we are providing funding through our emergency food and shelter program. congress allocated $800 million to this program last year. we only had $150 milli ....
Secretary alejandro mayorkas who paid a visit to the southern border days before title 42, which had covid restrictions. so you see these people coming across the border, 1.2 million in this fiscal year, right? it would be a lot more if title 42 weren t still in existence from covid. they turned away 400,000 people roughly under that co rid restriction. so add 400,000 to that number if it wasn t in place. so republicans though have warned that when this lifted, you re likely to see a tsunami of migrants waiting to cross. we know there s thousands of people positioned ready to come across. you can see these ariel shots, extraordinarily from brownsville, texas. that will expire thursday. we bring in brian kilmeade, co host of fox and friends and host of one nation and mark pen, clinton adviser and pollster and chairman of the harris poll. look at the numbers, brian. 1.2 million over the course of ....