#shorts Reporter: And can I just follow up? Our teams in El Paso say that there are hundreds of migrants now in the open, in shelter with very limited access to food and water and bathrooms for days. Why aren’t they being processed? Is that what we can expect?

MAYORKAS: So, we are working very closely with nonprofit organizations, with community groups to really deli- — deliver a community response to the challenge. I cannot understate — I’m sorry, I cannot overstate how much of a challenge it is going to be and how we all have to deal with it as one administration and one country. Fundamentally — fundamentally, we need Congress to act.

On 5/11/2023, at a White House press briefing, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas took questions for almost an hour from reporters on the occasion of the border with Mexico being overrun by migrants as the Title 42 exclusion rule is set to expire nationwide at midnight EDT Thursday.

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Mayorkas Says He “Cannot Overstate” Southern Border Challenge — 27 Months After Biden Took Office