BRONSVILLE: Tens of thousands of US law enforcement personnel have been deployed to the border with Mexico, officials said on Wednesday (May 10), as waiting migrants voiced confusion and anger over a looming change to entry rules. The United States is girding for a
BRONSVILLE: Tens of thousands of US law enforcement personnel have been deployed to the border with Mexico, officials said on Wednesday , as waiting migrants voiced confusion and anger over a looming change to entry rules.from political persecution, climate-related disaster and poverty when pandemic-era restrictions expire overnight on Thursday into Friday.
About 24,000 border police and 1,100 processing personnel have been activated - double the number a year ago, and the Pentagon hasAlejandro Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, said the US government was"clear eyed" about the challenges of ending the COVID-19 restrictions known as Title 42. Trump as president used Title 42, officially a public health measure, as a blunt tool to block migrants, but both the United States and World Health Organization say the emergency phase of the pandemic is over.
The White House has also insisted that it will take a more humane approach, including not taking children away from their parents - one of the most controversial measures under Trump. Those fleeing the dysfunctional South American country previously had a carve-out from the Title 42 rules, and were still able to claim asylum.
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