Federal agents 'are placed on standby for riots' along southern border

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : Agents of the Border Patrol and the US National Guard are seen while conducting a drill, from the Mexican side of the border at the San Ysidro Gate in Tijuana, Baja California, MexicoAerial view of United States Customs and Border Protection officers running a drill at San Ysidro crossing port on the US-Mexico border seen from Tijuana, Baja California state, Mexico, on May 10Migrant try to get to the US through the Rio Grande as seen from Matamoros, state of Tamaulipas, Mexico, as US federal agents and barbed wire block their wayDrone footage showed scores of Haitian migrants sheltering in a sea of tents inside a migrant camp in Mexico close to the US border
47% :Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said smugglers were massing in large numbers at the southern border of his country, offering to take migrants to the United States and telling them the border was open starting Thursday.
45% : In the hours before the pandemic-era measure expired on Thursday, 24,000 heavily armed agents of the Border Patrol and National Guard began patrolling the southern border, with many reinforcing the barbed-wire fences along the Rio Grande River in Texas.
44% : 'Starting tonight, people who arrive at the border without using a lawful pathway will be presumed ineligible for asylum,' he tweeted.'We are ready to humanely process and remove people without a legal basis to remain in the U.S.'People who do not use available lawful pathways to enter the U.S. now face tougher consequences, including a minimum five-year ban on re-entry and potential criminal prosecution.'Together with our partners throughout the federal government and Western Hemisphere, we are prepared for this transition.'
43% : Immigrants seeking asylum, who were apprehended at the time Title 42 expired are processed by U.S. Border Patrol agents, after crossing into Arizona from Mexico, on May 11 in Yuma, Arizona
42% : For more than three years, Title 42 had allowed the government to quickly expel millions of migrants who illegally crossed the border before they could apply for asylum during the pandemic.
39% : He said now illegal migrants face being barred from entering the U.S. for five years and possible criminal prosecution.
38% : Tens of thousands of migrants are hoping to cross border in the coming daysFederal agents in tactical gear are preparing for riots across the southern border amid fears tens of thousands of illegal migrants may descend en masse to reach U.S. soil.
32% : Migrants cross the Rio Grande River as they try to get to the US, as seen from Matamoros, state of Tamaulipas, Mexico, on May 11Ted Cruz slammed President Joe Biden for the 'humanitarian crisis' at the southern border and urged him to 'stop hiding in the basement' and see the tens of thousands of migrants massing there.
18% : But now that Biden's administration are lifting Covid-19 protocols, they are also lifting the rule that restricted migration - a move that has seen tens of thousands of migrants massing on the southern border that many have called a 'disaster'.
16% : Migrants wait at night along the border wall to surrender to US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Border Patrol agents for immigration and asylum claim processing before the expiration of Title 42 upon crossing the Rio Grande river from Ciudad Juarez into the United States on the US-Mexico border in El Paso, Texas on May 11'The people who are killed crossing illegally, that's your fault.

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