#shorts Reporter: On the memo that the U.S. Border Patrol chief sent to sector chiefs last night allowing for parole releases if overcrowding becomes an issue — that’s not Title 8, like you said would happen. I mean, these migrants don’t get an alien registration number that would be used to track them. They don’t get a court date. They’re instead asked to self-report to ICE within 60 days. You said at the beginning that you’ve prepared for this moment for almost two years. So why is part of that plan an honor system?

MAYORKAS: Oh, it is — it is not an honor system. What we — what we do is we use the resources that we have to meet the challenges that we confront … When we — when we encounter a volume of individuals for which we need to address in a different way, we do so. If those individuals do not honor their commitment to surrender to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement Officer to be able to be placed in enforcement proceedings, they are a subject of our apprehension efforts.

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.

other clips of this published longer video is here: https://youtu.be/4xECY-l6ygQ
Q: prepared for 2 years, why is part of that plan an honor system? A: it is not an honor system