#shorts Reporter: You said that it would be a fraction of migrants that this happens with. How many is a fraction when you’ve had almost 6 million illegal crossings under this administration?

MAYORKAS: We, last year, removed, returned, and expelled approximately 1.4 million individuals. That is the most in any one year.
Reporter: Will you be on shaky legal ground though with mass releases?
MAYORKAS: Well, first of all —
Reporter: Or will this be on a case-by-case basis?

MAYORKAS: First of all, your — your question has a factual predicate with which I would disagree about mass releases, number one. But releases of individuals subject to immigration enforcement proceedings is not something particular to this administration.
Reporter: (Inaudible) on a case-by-case —
KJP: We got to keep — we got to —
Reporter: — basis, and this would not be on a case-by-case basis.

MAYORKAS: We — we implement our operations in conjunction with the Department of Justice, and we have confidence in the lawfulness of our actions.

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:How many is a fraction? 6 million illegal crossings? shaky legal ground with mass releases?