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https://www.texastribune.org/2023/05/15 ... e-42-drop/
Border migrant encounters have dropped by half since Title 42 ended, federal official saysFederal officials had about 10,000 encounters with migrants per day at the U.S.-Mexico border before the emergency health order ended late Thursday. Since Friday they have had about 5,000 encounters per day.By
Uriel J. García
May 15, 202312 PM CentralShare
A migrant family from Peru walks on the Mexico side of the Rio Grande after crossing the river late last week shortly after Title 42 ended and being turned away by the National Guard in El Paso. Credit: Ivan Pierre Aguirre for The Texas Tribune
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news.The number of encounters between U.S. agents and migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border has dropped by half compared with the days leading up to the expiration of Title 42, the emergency public health order used to quickly expel people from the country, a top Biden administration official said Monday.“It is still early, though, and we are mindful that smugglers will continue to look for ways to take advantage of the change in border policies,” Blas Nuñez-Neto, an assistant secretary for border and immigration policy at the Department of Homeland Security, told reporters in a morning press conference. “It is important to note that while Title 42 has ended, the conditions that are causing hemispheric migration at unprecedented levels have not changed.”In the days before Title 42 ended late Thursday night, immigration agents had about 10,000 encounters a day with migrants at the southern border. Since Friday, that number has dropped to about 5,000 a day.
