'Risk it all': Migrants surge US border as pandemic-era expulsion law sunsets

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : Worried about the impact of long lines of migrants coming to the port after May 11 without an appointment and impacting port operations, they're calling on people to schedule appointments through CBP One.
53% : The administration has also been increasing Immigration and Customs Enforcement flights to remove people from the country -- flights like one that took off recently from an airport in Harlingen, Texas.
52% : In the past few weeks, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials have been facilitating these expulsions three times a day as roughly 30,000 migrants, mostly from Venezuela, have entered the U.S. in this region since mid-April.
51% : They've pushed to digitize documents that at one time were filled out by hand by Border Patrol.
48% : At the Brownsville port of entry, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials say they've run drills to prepare in case there's a surge of migrants trying to cross and they need to close the bridge.
47% : All this comes as the U.S. is preparing for the end of a policy linked to the coronavirus pandemic that allowed it to quickly expel many migrants, and it spotlights concerns about whether the end of the immigration limits under Title 42 of a 1944 public health law will mean even more migrants trying to cross the southern border.
44% : The proposed rule limiting asylum is almost certain to be the subject of lawsuits.
36% : The U.S. is proposing a rule that would severely limit asylum to migrants who first travel through another country, quickly screening migrants seeking asylum at the border and deporting those deemed not qualified, and a five-year ban on reentry for those deported.
27% : A lot of these consequences have been met with harsh criticism by immigrants' rights groups who have gone so far as to compare the policies to then-President Donald Trump's and say the right to apply for asylum on U.S. soil is sacrosanct.

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