#shorts Reporter: Following up on the Emergency Food and Shelter Program that you just mentioned. Groups in El Paso that are helping to feed and house this influx of migrants, they say this program has a problem in that the funding can only be used to help migrants who have encountered DHS and been processed. Is that requirement realistic to the situation that these communities are facing?

MAYORKAS: It is — it is necessary. And I should say, this past Friday, under the Emergency Food and Shelter Program, we distributed $332 million, primarily to border communities. We now have — under the new structure that the omnibus that Congress equipped us with, we now have the Shelter and Services Program that we in the Department of Homeland Security will control. That will prove, I think, more nimble. And we, I think, have 363 —

Reporter: But that still will have that same restriction, that it has to be — can only be used for migrants who have been processed. So what about those that have not been processed? Is that not — is there no way to help with addressing the humanitarian need there?

MAYORKAS: So, to — just to finish my thought, I think we have about $363 million to distribute through the Shelter and Services Program. And I believe that nongovernmental organizations in the cities address the needs of individuals who have not been processed.

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/qrKTJnWS4y8
Q: Emergency Food and Shelter Program A: last Friday we distributed $332 million