Migrants race to US border as Title 42 pandemic restrictions expire, straining US immigration system
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That is the scenario U.S. officials are hoping for. But many migrants and the advocates who help them say those who have fled their home countries for a myriad of reasons are at such a risk they cannot wait. “There’s no other way to get in,” said Venezuelan Carolina Ortiz, accompanied by her husband and children, ages 1 and 4. Others in the camp had the same plan: keep trying the app., has been in place since March 2020. It allowed border officials to quickly return asylum seekers back over the border on grounds of preventing the spread of COVID-19. The U.S. has declared the national emergency over, and with it, the restrictions end.
Border Patrol chief Raul Ortiz said in a Tweet Friday morning that the agency had apprehended 67,759 people in the last week. That averages out to 9,679 per day — nearly twice the average daily level of 5,200 from March. It's slightly below the 11,000 figure that authorities have said is the upper limit of what they expect after Title 42 ends, but it wasn't clear how much the numbers peaked in the days and hours Title 42 expired Thursday night.
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