Migrant crossings at the US border drop 50%

The crossings of undocumented migrants on the United States border with Mexico have fallen 50% after the lifting of Title 42, the expulsion policy in force during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, said this Sunday.

The crossings of undocumented migrants on the United States border with Mexico have fallen 50% after the lifting of Title 42, the expulsion policy in force during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, said this Sunday.

“We have prepared for this transition for months and months, and we have executed our plan consistently,” said the head of immigration policy in an interview with ABC.

After the end of the health emergency on Thursday night, the United States stopped applying Title 42, which allowed undocumented migrants to be expelled without the possibility of requesting asylum under the pretext of the pandemic, but it established other restrictions at the border and began deporting through another regulation known as Title 8.

At the beginning of the week, the authorities arrested some 11,000 migrants daily, but with the implementation of the new immigration measures the numbers fell to 6,200 arrests on Friday and 4,400 on Saturday.

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