Title 42 EXPIRES: Migrants try to evade from Border Patrol

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : Migrants can legally present themselves at the border if they used a mobile app, CBP One, to register in advance.
59% : On Thursday morning, hundreds of migrants could be seen lining up to be processed by CBP after stepping on to U.S. territory.
53% : It is a public health measure that allows border authorities to immediately expel arrivals before they could even claim asylum.
51% : 'Any good leader that was facing this kind of situation would have stood up Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), got emergency funding for ICE, put up shelters in their temporary buildings to accommodate all this, so proper processing could be done,' he said.
49% : He and his county are in the frontline of the border crisisHours before Title 42 was lifted, hundreds of migrants lined up on U.S. soil in Yuma to begin the process of applying for asylum.
45% : Border cities braced this week for the end of Title 42 - a pandemic-era regulation that allowed migrants to be sent straight back to Mexico without even applying for asylum.
38% : One slowed to a trot to shout a question: 'Where's Border Patrol?'
37% : And Mayor Douglas Nicholls said CBP would release 141 illegal migrants on to the streets on Friday, the first such release in two years.
22% : 'If anyone arrives at our southern border after midnight tonight, they will be presumed ineligible for asylum and subject to steeper consequences for unlawful entry, including a minimum five-year ban on reentry and potential criminal prosecution.'
19% : The Biden administration has rushed through new restrictions, effectively restoring Trump's 'transit ban,' which allows for the deportation of arrivals who did not seek asylum in countries through which they traveled.

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