![]() border illegally, had set up camp as of Monday around a Catholic church in the downtown area and on the sidewalks outside a homeless shelter. More than 3,300 migrants, many of whom crossed the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the only community to report such a situation to the USA TODAY Network. In El Paso, a haven for migrants long before the formal expiration of Title 42, migrants were navigating a threat of "targeted enforcement" from U.S. 'Targeted enforcement' leads to confusion in El Paso “Wherever I go, migrants just keep going, and I think the Biden administration just doesn’t know what to do.” “I travel to Arizona and west Texas, and recently have been to south Texas,” said Tony Payan, a professor at Rice University in Houston. All the while, the governor of Texas has been mobilizing a tactical border force to intercept migrants. Without proper documents, migrant families have been sleeping on cardboard and under makeshift lean-tos, unable to travel. Record numbers of Cuban, Venezuelan and Central American migrants are crossing the border illegally. And the first waves in a group of 1,500 military service members with the Army and Marines were due to arrive Wednesday. States are taking the crisis into their own hands, with a combination of militaristic and humanitarian methods. Hundreds of migrants turned themselves in for immigration processing in El Paso, Texas, after learning federal authorities would begin “targeted enforcement" to round them up. And it is essential that we all take this into account.” ![]() "Our plan will deliver results, but it will take time for those results to be fully realized. “Even after nearly two years of preparation, we expect to see large numbers of encounters at our southern border in the days and weeks after May 11," Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said. The administration, despite criticism from its own party of a perceived lack of preparation and three months of lead time into Title 42’s expiration, doubled down Wednesday in defense of its plan to solve the complex border crisis. More than two years after Biden started a court battle to end Title 42 − a law that has kept thousands of migrants out of the country − the border is at an inflection point. President Joe Biden warned this week that the southern border would be “chaotic for awhile” after a 3-year-old pandemic-era immigration law lifts Thursday. Watch Video: Migrants respond to pandemic-era immigration policy expiration ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |