Why no post-Title 42 border surge? Shelter operators in Mexico say some migrants are rethinking how to cross the border

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Despite predictions of a migrant surge after the May 11 end of Title 42, the Covid ban that blocked more than 2 million migrant crossings, the southern border has seen the number of migrant encounters by U.S. border agents drop — down from about 11,000 the Tuesday and Wednesday before Title 42 expired to about 4,400 each day.

 

Some shelter operators on the Mexican side of the border say that while migrants continue to arrive at their shelters, there are signs that some are pausing their journeys north and rethinking their strategies for entering the U.S. 

 

According to five shelter operators and workers, many migrants are now aware that they face a five-year ban from the U.S. if they are deported under an existing rule called Title 8, and many are waiting to get official U.S. asylum appointments via cellphone rather than trying to cross the border without authorization.

 

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/post-title-42-migrants-rethinking-border-crossing-rcna85323

 

[Tug]

Good it’s working given time this will filter all the way back to the migrants home country encouraging people to apply from home 

[LosLobo]

Amazing two days after dropping Title 42 crossings drop 50%, 

 

Obviously it was Title 42 enshrined by Trump that was the problem.

 

Ironical that border crossings has been one the Fox/GOP main anti-Biden talking points for past two years and this proves that it was Trump's fault all the time.

 

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/mayorkas-border-crossings-dropped-50-title-42-lifted-rcna84354