![]() President Joe Biden spoke with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador Tuesday about “the importance of enhancing cooperation” between the two countries to manage the “unprecedented migration in the region,” the White House said in a readout of the call. The government also is “surging resources” to “effect a greater number of removals every week,” Mayorkas said last week The Biden administration is deploying 1,500 active-duty troops to the border – to support border agents in administrative roles, not law enforcement – for 90 days, sources familiar with the planning told CNN. US Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has stressed federal officials are prepared for Title 42 to expire, and made a direct appeal Friday to migrants traveling to the border: “The border is not open, it has not been open, and it will not be open subsequent to May 11.” The federal government estimates about 155,000 migrants are waiting in shelters and on the streets of northern Mexican states bordering the US, a source familiar with the estimates told CNN. More than 150,000 migrants waiting in northern Mexico ![]() “There are some migrants that are being taken advantage of, purchasing fake documentation and that is a concern for us because we cannot provide support if they’re getting fake documentation,” El Paso spokesperson Laura Cruz-Acosta told CNN. When he was asked what he would do if he were to be deported, he broke down in tears.Įl Paso city officials told CNN many immigrants, desperate for documentation and answers, have fallen victim to scams. “I want to be here legally, and I want to know if this paperwork is legal,” Caceres said. He also clutched a document he bought for $50 from a man who promised him the paper guaranteed Caceres the ability to travel freely within the US. Authorities encountered nearly 9,900 migrants along the southern border Monday, according to a Homeland Security official, continuing an upward trend in border arrests with two days left before Title 42 lifts.Įrick Mendoza Caceres, who came from Honduras, held the CBP flyer in his hands as he waited to turn himself in. Officials have warned its expiration could lead to a surge in the number of migrants trying to cross into the US and exacerbate an already challenging humanitarian crisis at the southern border, which is already seeing an increase in migrant arrivals. The policy has been controversial in part because immigrant rights advocates argued officials were using public health as a pretext to keep as many migrants out of the country as possible. The official tally has not been released. Hundreds of migrants turned themselves in for immigration processing, a source familiar with the data told CNN. It’s set to lapse on Thursday, along with the nation’s coronavirus public health emergency. The enforcement action by federal officials here comes as the United States braces for the lifting of Title 42, a 2020 policy to curb the spread of Covid-19 that allowed US authorities to swiftly expel migrants encountered at the southern border, with some exceptions. “That they give me asylum to be able to work in this country.” “(I ask) that they hear me, that they help me,” he said, referring to immigration authorities. ![]() “What hurts the most is that they don’t have enough to eat,” he told CNN in a quivering voice, just hours before he joined the line. There, Franco made about $5 per day, and told CNN a carton of milk cost between $15 and $18 – making many of the necessities for his 12-year-old daughter and aging parents unaffordable. ![]() Just hours later, hundreds of people lined up outside a US Customs and Border Protection enforcement center under the scorching sun with plans to turn themselves in, some holding pieces of cardboard to shield themselves from the heat.Īmong them was Beckenbauer Franco, 42, who came to the US from Venezuela, where he sold food and fruit after being unable to find work as an attorney, the profession he studied. There, the flyer said, they would be “processed by CBP officers and placed on the correct immigration path.” Worry spread throughout the makeshift encampment as migrants read the document, which urged those who skirted authorities on the way into the US to visit the nearest processing station a few minutes walk from the church. What is Title 42, why is it ending and what's happening now at the border? (AP Photo/Christian Chavez) Christian Chavez/AP The Biden administration has requested 1,500 troops for the U.S.-Mexico border amid an expected migrant surge following the end of pandemic-era restrictions. Migrants camp out next to the border barrier between El Paso, Texas and Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, Wednesday, May 3, 2023. ![]()
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