![]() ![]() Texas Governor Greg Abbott expanded his ongoing campaign to use National Guard troops to secure the border, announcing a new tactical force that will be "deployed to hotspots" to "intercept and repel" migrants. The Texas cities of Brownsville, El Paso and Laredo have issued emergency declarations.Įl Paso is opening emergency shelters in two vacant schools because existing shelters have been at capacity this week, according to local news reports. policy are amassing on both sides of the border. Migrants confused by all the changes in U.S. border cities are grappling with the recent spike in migrant arrivals and bracing for the possibility of even more when Title 42 ends. CITIES RESPONDING TO THE END OF TITLE 42? A similar measure proposed by Trump was blocked in court. The rule is also expected to face legal challenges. ![]() And the administration may also struggle to hold migrants at the border and quickly deport them without additional funds from Congress. At the same time, the Pentagon will send 1,500 troops to support the Border Patrol on a temporary basis.īut it is unclear if it will run smoothly, with asylum officers only recently receiving training on the new process. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) personnel will temporarily be assigned to help with the interviews. authorities aim to process migrants under the new asylum rule within days of their arrival and swiftly deport them if they fail an initial asylum screening. HOW DO THE NEW MIGRATION RESTRICTIONS WORK? And border detention facilities are filling up fast. Border agents apprehended more than 10,000 each day this week, surpassing a scenario outlined by a top U.S. Some migrants have scrambled to cross into the United States before the new asylum rule takes effect. The new asylum regulation bars anyone who has passed through another country without seeking refuge there first or who has failed to access legal pathways to enter the United States. Under Title 8, migrants who express fear of returning to their home countries can request asylum but now - under the new rule - most will not qualify. WHAT HAPPENS AFTER TITLE 42 IS LIFTED?Īfter Title 42 ends, all migrants will be subject to standard immigration processing known as Title 8. Simultaneously, a new Biden regulation finalized this week will go into effect, which could deny asylum to almost all illegal border crossers. The Biden administration intends to lift Title 42 on Thursday at 11:59 p.m. Those who are unable to be expelled to Mexico - around 2.8 million migrants in the same period - have been allowed into the United States under a process known as Title 8 to pursue their immigration claims in court, a process that can take months or years. Since its inception, migrants have been expelled more than 2.7 million times under Title 42, although the total includes many repeat crossers and Mexico has generally only accepted certain nationalities. President Joe Biden, a Democrat, took office in 2021 vowing to reverse Trump's restrictive approach, but kept Title 42 in place and expanded it as his administration grappled with record migrant arrests at the U.S.-Mexico border. Some public health experts, Democrats, and advocates criticized its health justification, saying it was part of Trump's goal of curbing legal and illegal immigration. Title 42 allowed border agents to rapidly turn back many migrants to Mexico without a chance to ask for asylum. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said at the time the order was needed to stem the spread of the coronavirus in crowded detention settings. The Title 42 COVID restrictions were first implemented under Republican then-President Donald Trump in March 2020 at the beginning of the pandemic. ![]() Immigration processing will revert to a pre-existing system, known as Title 8, but with new, much more stringent rules for asylum seekers attached. WASHINGTON, May 11 (Reuters) - The United States is set to lift COVID-19 restrictions on Thursday night, known as Title 42, which have been in place for three years and allow border agents to quickly expel many migrants caught crossing the border back to Mexico. ![]()
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