US border communities declare disasters as Title 42's expiration sets the stage for a migration rush | News Channel 3-12

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : Under it, authorities expelled migrants at the US-Mexico border more than 2.8 million times, according to US Customs and Border Protection data.
49% : With migrants said to be crowded at the border, leaders of US border towns continue to plead for help meeting the migrants' needs as makeshift encampments proliferate and social services are pushed to the brink.
49% : Title 8 allows for migrants to seek asylum, which can be a lengthy and drawn-out process that begins with what's called a credible-fear screening by asylum officers before migrants' cases wend through immigration courts.
44% : A federal judge in Florida temporarily blocked the administration from releasing migrants from border patrol without court notices; the administration is expected to appeal.
44% : As Title 42 let border authorities swiftly turn away migrants at the US-Mexico border -- often depriving them of the chance to claim asylum and dramatically cutting down on border processing time -- it also carried almost no legal consequences for migrants crossing, meaning if they were pushed back, they could try to cross again and again.
44% : A new regulation going into effect this week would largely ban migrants who traveled through other countries on their way to the US-Mexico border from applying for asylum in the United States -- with some exceptions.
41% : The South Texas counties of Cameron and Hidalgo issued disaster declarations ahead of the order's expiration at 11:59 p.m. ET Thursday to help free up state and federal resources as US troops, agents and other federal workers surged this week toward the southern border to help handle a possible crush.
39% : Customs and Border Protection will comply with the order, it said early Friday, but called it a "harmful ruling that will result in unsafe overcrowding at CBP facilities and undercut our ability to efficiently process and remove migrants, and risks creating dangerous conditions for border patrol agents and migrants."
38% : The rule, proposed earlier this year, will presume migrants are ineligible for asylum in the US if they didn't first seek refuge in a country they transited through, like Mexico, on the way to the border.
29% : Still, officials hit a roadblock late Thursday as a federal judge temporarily blocked the Biden administration from releasing screened and vetted migrants from border patrol without court notices -- a method it had planned to use to alleviate immense strain on border facilities.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.