The new facilities could process up to 6,000 migrants a month at first, and eventually handle larger numbers of crowds applying for asylum from violence, persecution and failed governments. Mayorkas reaffirmed plans to open new migrant processing facilities in Central and South America and implement new policies that will allow officials to quickly expel asylum seekers who bypass them and pass through another country, like Mexico, on their way to the American border. He noted that Mexico last week agreed to to continue taking back Venezuelans who enter the US illegally after the restrictions end - along with Cubans, Haitians and Nicaraguans. A massive line of migrants were captured by a Fox News drone as they made their way from Mexico to Texas. US Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said last week that authorities face “extremely challenging” circumstances along the border days before the pandemic-related asylum restrictions end. The Department of Homeland Security requested the Pentagon’s assistance to clamp down on illegal border crossings that are expected to also increase. Last week, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin agreed to send 1,500 US troops to the Mexico border at the Biden administration’s request to perform administrative tasks amid the surge of asylum seekers caused by Title 42’s lapse. Officials expected that number to soar to as many as 14,000 a day when the pandemic-era emergency measure that allowed for the rapid expulsion of some 2.8 million asylum seekers since March 2020 expires on Thursday. In the first four days of May, more than 8,000 asylum seekers have already made their way into the US from Mexico along the entire southern border, the news outlet reported, citing Customs and Border Protection sources. The aerial footage captured by Fox News’ Flight Team shows the massive line snaking its way late Sunday from Matamoros to Brownsville, where US agents are reportedly seeing 2,000 migrants entering each day. Migrant camps seen taking over Chicago police precinct in shocking videoĭrone footage showed the steady stream of hundreds of migrants walking from Mexico to Texas days before Title 42 is set to expire. The surprising ways ‘migrant buses’ are transforming US politics Mom of autistic 20-year-old who was allegedly killed by MS-13 gang member sends fiery message to Biden Texas sues Biden admin over immigration app, saying it allows migrants to ‘go where they please’
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