Hi, my name is D.A. here in San Francisco, California, where I am currently doing my morning ritual that is staring blankly out the window at the rolling hills,

fruckled with colorful houses, sipping on my morning coffee, and taking in some sun rays with my cat Charlie as we wait for the first meeting of the day to start.

This podcast was recorded at 9.38 a.m. Eastern time on Wednesday, May 3rd of 2023.

Things may have changed by the time you hear this, but one thing certainly won't.

Charlie will still be laying lazily around, soaking up the sun, but my quiet morning of blank stairs will have given way to a busy day of Zoom meetings and floor plan reviews.

Oh, gotta go!

I does sound like a lovely way that it began your morning.

I'd like to hang out with Charlie.

Well hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. I'm Usma Khaled, I cover the White House.

I'm Frank Ordonia, I also cover the White House.

And I'm Mara Liyasen, National Political Correspondent.

And today on the show, US Border Policy and why President Biden is sending 1500 more troops to the southern border.

That brings the total number of service members to 4,000.

And they're there at the border because Title 42 is ending.

I'm sure you all have heard us talk about Title 42 a lot on this show.

But that is a pandemic era rule that the administration has been using to reject asylum seekers without a hearing.

It's gonna end on May 11th, and the flow of migrants is expected to reach as many as 10,000 a day after that.

Franco, I want to actually begin with a policy question, which is, this certainly poses challenges to the White House.

I don't have a clear sense of what the White House is planning to do from a policy perspective on immigration once Title 42 comes to an end.

I mean, there's a lot of questions about what the administration is gonna do.

This is gonna be a huge, huge challenge for the White House.

And they know that you just talked about the 10,000 a day, some say 13,000 a day.

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