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At the US-Mexico border, Title 42 ended at 4am GMT. The US authorities sent thousands of security forces: members of the Texas National Guard, as well as 1,500 soldiers deployed by the Biden administration. In El Paso, on the border, the feared wave of thousands of migrants did not occur.
With Cristóbal Vásquez and Thomas Harmscorrespondent and special envoy to El Paso
Title 42, which allowed immigration officials to deport migrants who crossed the border illegally, expired Thursday night. As of today, Title 8 will operate, which had been operating before the pandemic and which allowed migrants to apply for asylum through legal channels.
CBP One
The United States now refuses to accept any migrant who has not obtained an appointment on the CBP One application or who has not first applied for asylum in a country through before reaching the US border, except for unaccompanied minors or seriously injured persons. or sick.
Thus, the borders are not closed, but neither are they open. On this final day of Title 42, some 400 people, men, women and children, poured into El Paso in groups. They were picked up by border guards. Smaller parties also crossed the Rio Grande at other places like Brownsville. Local media report that authorities in Texas have dumped thousands of liters of water into the Rio Grande to scare migrants.
But this is a far cry from the 1,000 to 2,500 people that border guards have been receiving daily in recent days. It is also far from the surge feared by US authorities. Even as Texas Republican elected representatives warn that, according to them, this crisis is far from over.
According to a source familiar with federal estimates, an estimated 155,000 migrants are in shelters and on streets in northern Mexican states that border the United States.
A border under high security
The military presence on the bridges is significant. But keep in mind that Title 8, which replaces Title 42, prohibits anyone detained without an appointment from entering the United States for five years. This measure means that many migrants have to wait in Mexico to get an appointment at CBP One.
Border guards are currently holding 6,000 asylum seekers, who are being registered. Many will be deported, but some, like nearly 800 in El Paso Thursday, will be released and allowed to go wherever they want in the United States with a summons to appear before a judge at a later date.
However, progressives in Texas condemn a measure described as worse than Title 42, despite the fact that the Biden administration has promised to accept 30,000 people a month from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela in exchange.
