CNN: DHS Bracing for Record Number of Border Crossings, ‘as Many as 18,000 per Day’

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WHITFIELD: “The CDC says the Biden Administration will end a Trump-era pandemic restriction next month that’s blocked migrants from entering the U.S. Now the Department of Homeland Security says it’s bracing for a record number of crossings, as many as 18,000 per day. CNN’s Polo Sandoval is near the Mexican border in Hidalgo, Texas. Polo, what are officials bracing for?”

SANDOVAL: “So far there’s absolutely no question that this predicted increase in asylum seeking families showing up in the nation’s southern border will certainly put a strain, an additional strain on resources and border communities just like this one, just up and down the border. What we can see though, are some of those numbers that have been recently shared by the Biden Administration. In fact, Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas with the Department of Homeland Security right here on CNN laying out those numbers just yesterday saying on average, you’re seeing about 7,000 of those people, of those families basically showing up at the nation’s doorstep seeking asylum.”