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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : CBP has space to temporarily hold 2,000 migrants in Laredo and is already nearing a 1,500 headcount.
53% : The influx resulted in the Border Patrol sending migrants to its facilities in Laredo, Texas to help out.
51% : On April 29 an official said there were 20,500 migrants in CBP custody across the southern border, according to CNN.
50% : The surge in migrants is related to the end of Title 42 -- the pandemic-era policy which allows US Border Patrol to send asylum-seekers from certain countries back to Mexico -- on May 11.
49% : Customs and Border Protection said usually they deal with less than 2,000 migrants attempting to cross at Brownsville per week.
39% : Before migrants can be ejected they have to be processed and recorded, which takes a few days and is causing huge problems for border patrol.

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