US-Mexico border towns brace for Title 42 expiration as migrant arrivals push capacity limits

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : Most U.S. Customs and Border Protection facilities were already overcapacity.
57% : Border Patrol has been holding migrants for extended periods of time between the border walls in the region since at least October.
57% : Garcia said she applied for asylum in Mexico but while the application was pending, the gang found her.
52% : Across the southern border with Mexico on Wednesday, communities, migrants and border agents braced for the long-anticipated end of Title 42 orders.
50% : And she had never heard of CBP One, the phone application migrants are required by U.S. authorities to use to make appointments to request asylum.
48% : Sandweg said that with such high numbers, it would be "impossible" for CBP not to start releasing thousands of migrants from custody with court dates.
48% : Andrea Flores, who served in the Biden administration as director for border management at the National Security Council, told The Times that "anyone looking at the situation at the border should be concerned." "The policy announcements we have seen this week, like a new home curfew pilot and the promise of regional processing centers that don't exist yet, do nothing to reduce the massive operational challenge facing border communities in the coming days," she said.
46% : A mile away, more than 200 people from countries including Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador and Turkey waited in an area between two layers of border wall that has become an open-air holding cell for Border Patrol.
39% : Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Long Beach) said he was disturbed that Border Patrol would hold migrants in such conditions.
27% : John Sandweg, a former senior DHS official in the Obama administration, theorized that the increase in apprehensions was due to migrants fearing implementation of the upcoming Biden administration policy limiting asylum for those who cross without authorization.

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