Migrants waiting to cross the border say government's app for asylum-...

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58% : CBP announced Monday night that agents would conduct a "targeted enforcement operation" in El Paso starting Tuesday.
58% : Some carried bags of ice, gallons of water and boxes filled with food.
54% : One cellphone app, which is supposed to allow migrants to make an appointment to legally enter the country through a port of entry and request asylum.
54% : U.S. officials are expecting up to 13,000 migrants to cross the southern border every day once Title 42 lifts -- more than double the current average.
50% : Trying to avoid a rush of migrants across the border when Title 42 lifts late Thursday night, the government has urged them to apply for asylum from their home countries or through the CBP
47% : The family is among thousands of migrants who have waited in Mexican border cities for a chance to legally enter the U.S. as the federal government prepares to end the use of Title 42, the pandemic public health order that immigration officials have used 2.7 million times since March 2020 to quickly expel migrants at the southern border without allowing them to request asylum.
44% : Meanwhile, an untold number of migrants have already crossed the Rio Grande at El Paso in recent days and decided to take their chances with Border Patrol.
44% : Others said they got tired of waiting for Border Patrol to apprehend them and returned to the Juárez migrant camp, where children run among tents and makeshift shelters made of blankets and towels.
42% : They have been waiting in this no man's land between the border fence and the river to surrender to Border Patrol agents in hopes that they'll be allowed to claim asylum rather than be returned to Mexico under Title 42.
34% : He said he bought a bus ticket back to Juárez and does not want to try requesting asylum again because he's worried he'll get deported.

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