reimbursements for previous dollars we spent this year. this year i believe we spent $9.5 million in migrant relief. as a community, that s a lot of money. so we re making sure that we are submitting our reimbursements through the federal government. so you talked about funding for the current problem, but long term this is going to continue being a serious issue. what is your message, mario, to congress and to the white house? we ve said it. we ve said it repeatedly. there is not enough funding to buy our way out of this. there is not enough shelter space here in el paso. there is not enough transportation out of el paso. it s any of these border communities that are going to see this influx in the next few days. so with that we ask to look at other ways to colontry and just meaning how if you take it from a asylum seeker to maybe a refugee status, can we offer the
publicet. it allowed the government to expel asylum seekers faster. now some republican-led states seeking to keep title 42 in place are signaling they could appeal to the supreme court before the policy is set to expire on wednesday. officials in epidemic say that border patrol is apprehending as many as 2,500 people every single day and that numbers expected to double if title 42 is lifted. w mario, thank you for sharing part of your saturday with us. you were quoted, of course, you were quoted as saying that the city s infrastructure already can t keep up with the number of migrants entering your city. what happens if title 42 is lifted? title 42, we don t know what the true numbers will be. we know that number of returns right now under title 42 in the el paso sector isn t that high even. a few hundred per day. you could imagine they won t be