IN-DEPTH: Thousands of Migrants Released Into Southern California as Title 42 Expires

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

66% : The report (pdf) pegs combined federal, state, and local costs for K-12 education, indigent medical care, housing, and nutrition assistance associated with illegal immigration at $182 billion annually.
58% :Bianco told The Epoch Times the border patrol is overwhelmed.
54% : "The border patrol ... brings the people to us, otherwise they were going to be in the streets."
48% : The federal government is also considering a new rule which would deny asylum to migrants at the border who travel through another country before Mexico.
40% : While people caught illegally crossing the border will be told they can't claim asylum under the new rule, they will still have the right to appeal, and because the border patrol can't hold them until their appeal hearings, they will be released into the United States.
40% :Aside from arrests, thousands of "got-aways" cross the southern border illegally every day, Judd said.
39% : Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco wrote on Facebook on May 10 that he had spent the day with the border patrol in the El Centro Sector "to see firsthand the disaster at our border.""We need to be extremely grateful for our dedicated Border Patrol officers because our government is failing them," he said.
35% : Detention facilities are already three times over capacity, leaving the border patrol no choice but to release illegal immigrants.
35% :More than two years of lax border policies have led to this massive influx of illegal migrants and strained the system, turning agents who once patrolled the southern border into desk clerks who process asylum claims, he said.
34% :Manny Bayon, who represents the National Border Patrol Council in San Diego, told The Epoch Times that border patrol dropped off hundreds of illegal migrants at the Crowne Plaza hotel, in San Diego on May 11.
30% : Meanwhile, the power of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to do anything about the immigration problem has been curtailed with sanctuary cities and state policies.
26% : Once the asylum seekers cross and surrender to the border patrol, the agents "are forced by the Biden administration to process them and give them papers," Bianco said in a text message.
24% :Mayorkas halted repairs to the border wall, leaving "huge gaps" that act as funnels for illegal border crossings, he said.
23% : Mayorkas said it migrants who cross the border illegally without being properly processed will be ineligible for asylum.
16% : President Joe Biden told reporters on May 9 the southern border is "going to be chaotic for a while," and Mayorkas warned migrants headed to the border that the lifting of Title 42 doesn't mean an "open border," but "tougher consequences" for anyone who crosses the border illegally."

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