Cities on guard despite end of Title 42 not producing migrant surge as expected – By Matt Bernardini (UPI) / May 12, 2023
May 12 (UPI) — A day after the end of Title 42, migrants have not surged across the border as expected, but U.S. officials and immigration authorities remain wary.
The COVID-era policy, which allowed the U.S. to turn away migrants immediately based on pandemic health concerns, ended on Thursday night. Officials had said that they were prepared to deal with a marked increase in migrants, but as of Friday evening that had not materialized as feared.
“Overnight, we saw similar patterns to what we’ve seen over the past several days,” Blas Nuñez-Neto, chief operating officer at U.S. Customs and Border Protection, said Friday, according to The Hill. “We continue to encounter high levels of non-citizens at the border but we did not see a substantial increase overnight or an influx at midnight.”
Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas warned people to enter the border through legal channels.
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