CLAY: This is from the Wall Street Journal. Headline: “Biden Administration to Lift Title 42 Border Policy — The pandemic era policy allowing migrants to be turned away at the border will end May 23rd.” So we know already, Buck, a million “interactions,” effectively, have occurred at the border already in basically halfway through the year.

BUCK: Apprehensions, just to be clear.

CLAY: Yes.

BUCK: Apprehensions, right, ’cause interactions could be the legal stuff too. These are people that are being taken into custody for violation of U.S. federal law.

CLAY: So once this comes to an end, “the government will need to consider any asylum claims made at the border, which requires,” I’m reading from the Wall Street Journal, “a brief detention before they can be released into the U.S. or deported. Under Title 42, any migrant asking for humanitarian protection could still be sent back to Mexico, though in practice Mexico has limited how many people it’s willing to take back.”

So they are afraid at the border that they are going to be rapidly overwhelmed, and this seems very likely to happen, Buck, sooner rather than later. Again, the date, according to this, just in time for the weather conditions being good enough, right, for people to start to cross — so you can start to travel all over Latin America through April into May to make your way up to the border — it will officially end May 23rd.

BUCK: And let’s remember what the incentive is here for the Biden Department of Homeland Security under Mayorkas and the Biden regime at this stage. What they’re going to care about — and their concern here is a replay at some level of what we had at the border of months back where the Haitian — what was it, about 20,000 or so mostly Haitian migrants in Texas —

CLAY: Del Rio Texas, right.

BUCK: — had all gathered in one place because that was a visual manifesting of the exploitation at our border of our own laws and the lawlessness that was underway, and people, they can’t hide that. They tried. Remember when they tried to ban drone footage in the area or something?

CLAY: Yes. Oh yes.

BUCK: They didn’t want people to see the full-scale. So they tried to hide it, and then they made the story about the horseback whipping, which wasn’t whipping. It was split reins, and they’re, as you pointed out, still investigating that to get to the bottom of it.

CLAY: Six months later.

BUCK: So they can say, “Oh, we’re still investigating so just…” That’s just to run out the clock and so everyone forgets about what they tried to do. But the Biden administration’s primary concern here is gonna be optics. If there is a massive surge of illegals to try to come across the border what they will first and foremost want to make sure is that they process them quickly and get them into the U.S.

They’re fine with that. They just don’t want a mass of people at the border who are coming in illegally because the American people — in an election year — will see that and will know what is going on. The numbers hit home. The visual of 10, 15, 20, maybe 20,000-plus people all the one place, Clay? That really sticks in people’s memories about what’s going on at our southern border.