#shorts Reporter: The President said this week that the situation on the southern border is going to be chaotic for a while. Given the fact that you’ve had nearly two years to prepare for this moment, how can chaos be the expectation?

MAYORKAS: Well, I have said for months and months that the challenge at the border is and is going to be very difficult …

Reporter: But some of the — some of the measures that you have been talking about to put in place to mitigate this surge, some of those aren’t even in place yet. It was — it wasn’t until two weeks ago that you announced these plans to open these regional processing centers. As far as I’m aware, they’re not open yet. Of the 1,500 troops that the President deployed, only 550 are actually on the ground.

So, given how long you have known that Title 42 is ending on May 11th, why aren’t all these measures already in place?

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: you’ve had 2 years to prepare, why aren’t all these measures already in place?