Jean-Pierre [White House press conference]: [Biden] will visit a federally-funded migrant services center [El Paso]…meet with local officials, faith leaders, and NGOs, who have been critical supporting migrants fleeing political oppression and economic collapse in their home countries.
Mayorkas [White House press conference]: What we're trying to do is draw people [to the United States] in a safe and orderly way [via the 'asylum phone app'], which is not the case now.
Reporter: How closely will [Biden] actually see some of the crowding that's taking place in El Paso? Will he see any people in the streets in the downtown area?
Mayorkas: I'm not that close to what exactly the details of the trip are.
Mayorkas: In the area of humanitarian relief, one of the announcements Thursday was to process twenty thousand refugees in the western hemisphere, in fiscal year '23 and fiscal year '24. That is an unprecedented number.
Jean-Pierre: The number of people attempting to cross the border unlawfully in El Paso is now down by over seventy percent, and that has been since mid-December.
[streamers showing long lines of illegals flooding in would seem to counter that]
Jean-Pierre: Congress is going to need to raise the debt limit without, without condition. It's just that simple.