come to the united states. this is a positive development. the president also announced tripling of refugee numbers. more people seeking protection can take advantage of the refugee program. he also talked about more money for cities of el paso and other cities receiving migrants to help them process people and bring them to their end destination while they re awaiting their court date. the two policies that were just mentioned that were very controversial and received a lot of blow back from both humanitarian groups and democrats on the hill, the first is title 42 which, as you know is a public health authority used by the trump administration to turn people back at the border. saying to prevent the spread of covid. the administration is forced to implement that program as a matter of course. they did try to ended last year. the supreme court said they needed to keep it in place. what is different is they expanded the people that are subjected to title 42 to expanded to nicaragua and
out the criticism. i think it s important that you pointed out the humanitarian efforts in the refugee numbers on the money for the cities because the criticism about the administration is that they don t have a plan they re not doing anything. i think support for the president to have done this because we see pieces of the plan. but this criticism from members of congress, first of all it s nothing new because you worked at the white house at the same time. we know how difficult it is to get everyone in congress behind an immigration plan. but for the four democratic senators who came out against the presidents plan talking about the city expands title 42, they noted that in the meeting where they were detailing this plan they like handed to trump era policies. what are your thoughts on some of that criticism? obviously, the presidents this president is dramatically different from trump. but the policies are what people are responding to. yes, and i just want to, as
cities receiving migrants to help them process people and bring them to their end destination while they re awaiting their court date. the two policies that were just mentioned that were very controversial and received a lot of blow back from both humanitarian groups and democrats on the hill, the first is title 42 which, as you know is a public health authority used by the trump administration to turn people back at the border. saying to prevent the spread of covid. the administration is forced to implement that program as a matter of course. they did try to ended last year. the supreme court said they needed to keep it in place. what is different is they expanded the people that are subjected to title 42 to expanded to nicaragua and to cuba. one more thing i want to mention is yes. tyler, i just wanna point out the criticism. i think it s important that you pointed out the humanitarian efforts in the refugee numbers on the money for the cities because the criticism about the admi
understand is that america can meet this challenge as poland did to meet the challenge of the ukrainians. we can accept a lot more people than we have and in the future. we are way down in refugee numbers. these are individuals looking for help. these are people, not things, and they should be treated as such. as the greatest power in the world, we re able to meet in need and organize around the problem. we need the willpower to do and maybe the courage. i ask that the president looks in his toolbelt and potentially look at other remedies such as going through the administrative procedure act for ending title 42 and extending tps to other classes of individuals because this is a humanitarian disaster. sure every claim may not be valid at the southern border, but every person should get due process. we have the capability to meet this need and address it. we don t have all the other borders closed, the southern border isn t closed, people are still allowed to apply for asylum. we need e
asylum decisions as that. as a result you have a big increase in the backlog and that has caused problems. and of course we need much stronger action to prevent these dangerous boat crossings in the first place. in dangerous boat crossings in the first place- dangerous boat crossings in the firstlace. . , . first place. in nearby dover police are investigating first place. in nearby dover police are investigating a first place. in nearby dover police are investigating a fire first place. in nearby dover police are investigating a fire bomb - first place. in nearby dover police i are investigating a fire bomb attack on immigration detention centre. it is not clear what is behind it but it highlights further the strain caused by a record number of migrant crossings. people, among them young children, keep coming on small, flimsy boats. some of almost 40,000 who have come this year so far are plucked from the water. whether the problem is pull factors on this site orfailing in fran