U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said border patrol agents have seen a 50% drop in the number of migrants crossing the border since Thursday
, when President Joe Biden’s administration shifted to a sweeping new asylum regulation meant to deter illegal crossings.
Under the Biden plan, migrants must first schedule an immigration appointment through an app or seek protection from countries they passed through on their way to the U.S. border. If they do not follow the process and are caught entering the U.S. illegally, they are not allowed to try again, even through legal means, for five years. There are prison terms for other violations.
“The amount of migrants we were expecting initially – the big flow – is not here yet,” Victor Trevino, mayor of Laredo, Texas, told CBS News’ “Face the Nation.” Rep. Mark Green, Republican chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, told CNN: “What the secretary failed to say is, this week has seen more crossings than any time, any week, in our history.”
With U.S. immigration policy in disarray, holding facilities, hospitals and towns have been left to struggle after tens of thousands of migrants waded through rivers and climbed walls and embankments onto U.S. territory last week in the days before Title 42 expired.
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