migrants are waiting for the lifting of title 42 and dhs knows that. the estimate that they have right now is that when title 42 lifts, if it lifts, they could expect between 9 to 14,000 migrants attempting to cross into the united states every single day. earlier this year, in the summer, when title 42 was scheduled to lift then, the estimates was 18,000 per day. and it just depends and all of these are estimates. but back to your question about what dhs is doing. they released a plan this week as to what they have been doing to prepare for the lifting of title 42. dhs said that they have been shoring up resources along the border. they ve hired about a thousand border patrol processing coordinators and also 2500 contractors. now that is important because those are civilian positions that then can process migrants. like those images, the thousands of people in line, those civilian positions could process those migrants so that border
so in essence, dhs what they ve released is this six-pillar plan which starts off with the surge of resources. dhs saying more than 1,000 border patrol processing coordinators have been deployed to the border. there s also 2500 contractors. and the reason why those numbers are important is because of the following. and we hear this from politicians and other law enforcement agencies. that when law enforcement agents, i.e. border patrol agents, are taken to process migrants because of a surge then there s a problem with national security because there are gaps on the southern border. well, what this plan says, that when these thousands of resources sent to the border then border patrol agents can actually do their jobs and keep the border safe. according to this plan, in the past year dhs has also put up ten soft-sided facilities that has increased the number of holding capacity by cbp by a third and they ve also doubled
on asylum or access to the u.s. border, it s going to require mexico s cooperation. so we re watching tore that in the coming days. title 42 does expire a week from today. and let me just read a part of the statement we got about the current resources there. this is coming from dhs saying we have deployed additional agents and automated processing systems automated surveillance towers, rescue beacons, mobile processing unit, medical screening personnel and nearly 1,000 processing coordinators in place for processing and border security. based on what we just heard from lauren, based on this statement, blake, are you confident in the plan? moving forward? no, i mean, thank you for the help. they re doing what they can. but the influx of migrants is absolutely overwhelming. i don t see an end in sight and
don t work. we need something for the future of our country. arthel: you don t think that he is able to do exactly what you just lined up for us? he has not been doing it so far. that is what it comes down to. it takes people in leadership positions that are going to say that this is a problem and this is how we fix it and they stop having temper tantrums about the last administration. arthel: one idea coming from congresswoman escobar is to hire civilians to process the migrants. what you think about that? you can do something similar as a lot of counties have done. they have individuals that are the corrections officers that take care of the intake and they do something similar so agents can go out and do their job. there is something in place. they ve been doing the processing coordinators but the problem is where they have been spreading them. i have detention facilities in