what are migrants saying along the way? because some of the migrants we ve been speaking to, rather, at the bbc, have said they want to head directly to the us. so are you confident that they are going to be willing to go to these centres and file these claims for asylum ? sumi, i really think people want to be in the region. they say they want to enter through the puerta grande. they want to enter the us in a way that s regular. and so if given the consequence regime that is now in place at the border, we are trying to give people options so that they can, if they really do want to come to the united states, that they access the united states through a legal pathway. i was talking to a foreign ministerfrom the region who had mentioned to me that he had taken his fourth trip, and he hadn t been foreign minister that long, to another country in the region to pick up the remains of migrants from his own country who had perished along the way.
chaos at the border. and right now there are, of course, tens of thousands of people waiting to cross into the us. is the state department concerned about the situation at the border? thanks so much, sumi. so, obviously, we are concerned with the situation at the border. however, we ve known for some time title 42 would be lifted. and so the state department really has been focused on a plan to work with the region, throughout the region, on a series of initiatives to help decongest the border and to help provide people protection in the region and along the way. so let s talk about some of those policies that were unveiled by the biden administration that work, as you said, with the region. and the biden administration s new asylum policies are, of course, predicated upon working with countries where some of these processing centres are going to be
why would anyone wait until today to make that decision? they knew that was coming and it s too late. so, secretary, she is talking about yuma county on the border there. did the biden administration falter in the run up to title 42 expiring? no, i don t think so. i know senator sinema very well and i don t want to get into a tit for tat with her. i think the key now is that the situation is what it is. i think we can anticipate that there will be an increase, perhaps, for a while. how long and how much is hard to tell. immigration patterns change over time, all the time. you have to be able to evolve and adjust to the situation as it s occurring. janet napolitano, former us secretary of homeland security under the 0bama administration, speaking to my colleague sumi somaskanda, who also spoke with dr victor trevino. he s the mayor of the city
role in tackling climate change, my colleague sumi somaskanda spoke to two experts samantha gross from the brookings institution, and dr kim cobb from brown university. you seem to agree, i saw you nodding. you do not see this as a setback but rather a trade off? i don t and an important thing to think about is you hear people talk about this project and they talk about the overall emissions that will come from this project approved in alaska. but those emissions are not necessarily additive. oil is plentiful in the world. there is plenty of oil and gas in the world and as long as there is oil demand, someone is going to produce that oil. when i see the emissions associated with that project, i do not necessarily see them as emissions that would not have happened at all if the project was not built, i see them as emissions that might have happened somewhere else if the project wasn t built. i am not sure it makes much of a difference from the climate perspective. what we need to do i