After staying in a hospital, the family has had a hard time finding a place to sleep. El Paso has declared a state of emergency in anticipation of the end of Title 42.įlores said it’s mostly men sleeping on the street and that families with children are crowding shelters that have been set up in the city.įrom border towns, asylum-seekers hope to get a ride closer to relatives or acquaintances who live in the country.ĬNN recently talked to a Haitian family – 28-year-old Dieuvena, her husband Banel and their 4-year-old son Matéo Sebastien – struggling to find a place to stay in Boston.
There are also asylum-seekers already inside the US.ĬNN’s Rosa Flores recently reported from the streets of El Paso, Texas, where crowds of people had been moved from sleeping on the street to make way for a twice-daily run-through by the city’s sanitation services. The government has pledged to increase the number of refugees allowed into the US and is pushing applicants to use those regional centers rather than travel all the way to the border. Immigration advocates are confounded since the Trump administration proposed a similar plan. Once Title 42 lapses, the US will return to using what’s known as Title 8 authority to remove anyone who arrives at the border unlawfully and bar them from reentering the US for at least five years, a more punitive approach.Ī major difference after Title 42 lapses is that asylum-seekers who cross the border without first applying for asylum will be removed under that Title 8 authority, along with a newly proposed regulation, according to the State Department. The State Department and DHS have urged those people to use a mobile app to make an appointment at a port of entry rather than trying to cross the border. “The whole idea of regional processing centers is to give people a lawful, safe, regular way to enter the United States.”īut there are already more than 36,000 migrants, according to estimates, camped along the border in northern Mexico waiting for the end of Title 42. “The idea is, of course, that people will not continue their journey over land,” a senior administration official told CNN’s Priscilla Alvarez recently.
The US is working with Colombia and Guatemala to set up regional processing centers to allow migrants to apply to come to the US before they attempt the grueling journey through Central America and Mexico. The administration has tried to discourage migrants from simply crossing the border and promised that people apprehended will be turned away and potentially barred from reentry. These deployments are not unprecedented in recent years, but this one is notable since it coincides with an expected surge of border encounters.īiden administration’s plan to discourage border crossings They are meant to act in strictly administrative roles and not to aid in law enforcement, according to CNN’s report. The additional 1,500 active-duty troops being dispatched for 90 days by the Pentagon will join around 2,500 National Guard troops already on the border. US troops will not be in a law enforcement role They are at around 7,000 per day at the moment and are expected to rise dramatically, despite a warning from the State Department and DHS about a new, more punitive policy related to border crossings. Title 42 officially ends on May 11, when the Covid-19 public health emergency lapses.Įncounters between US border agents and undocumented immigrants had fallen early this year but have recently increased. It was kept in place by courts and used by the Biden administration. The surge of migrants is expected because Title 42, the Trump-era policy that allowed the government to quickly turn away certain migrants at the border during the Covid-19 pandemic, is expiring. Big city mayors up north are complaining they are overburdened by migrants already bused from Texas and want action from the federal government.
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