Title 42 ends: Migrants near Jacumba lack food, water, shelter

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : Her partner said he asked Border Patrol to call an ambulance after she started experiencing contractions, but one never came.
48% : Critics say the policy has driven repeated crossing attempts, as well as deaths among those who try to climb the border wall, cross through the open desert along the border or sail up the coast in their attempt to enter the U.S.Immigration experts predicted a surge of attempts to cross the border after the policy expired Thursday night.
47% : As many as 700 migrants are seeking shelter in a remote stretch of desert near Jacumba Hot Springs in East County, about half a mile from the U.S.-Mexico border, where the border wall stops and mountains begin.
42% : The policy was first implemented by the Trump administration at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic to prevent spread of the virus and allowed immigration officials to expel migrants from the United States border without assessing their claim to asylum.
33% : One Turkish migrant who is seeking asylum told inewsource that his 5-year-old son became sick from the chilly overnight temperatures.

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