Many migrants surrendered to authorities and hoped to be released while pursuing their cases in backlogged immigration courts, which takes years.
Migrants rushed to the U.S. border Thursday in hopes of entering the country in the final hours before Title 42 expires.Migrants rushed across the Mexico border Thursday in hopes of entering the U.S. in the final hours before pandemic-related asylum restrictions are lifted - a change that many feared could make it more difficult for them to stay.
. The outgoing rules have allowed border officials since March 2020 to quickly return asylum seekers back over the border on grounds of preventing the spread of COVID-19. Agents were also told to start the releases if the average time in custody exceeded 60 hours or if 7,000 migrants were taken into custody across the entire border in any one day.
A couple from Colombia approached the concertina wire asking if they could start a fire because a 10-year-old was shaking in the desert cold. Most migrants huddled together under thin blankets. "With the changes they are making to the laws, it's now or never," said Leon, who flew to Mexico from Colombia and got past a first border wall to reach U.S. soil.
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