government lifts Title 42, an emergency health order the government has used since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic to quickly expel migrants - including asylum-seekers - at the U.S.-Mexico border without allowing them to request asylum. Thousands of migrants either have recently crossed the Rio Grande into El Paso or are waiting to cross the border when the U.S. “I have always insisted that any assistance from the state has to be part of our overall strategy and in lockstep with our own enforcement strategy.” “I am very confident that it was not coordinated with Border Patrol,” he said. “Average daily encounters have also dropped 40 percent - from roughly 2,500 a day to roughly 1,500 a day - over the last three days as we continue to work with partners in Mexico to discourage disorderly migration and disrupt criminal smuggling operations,” the statement said.Įl Paso County Judge Ricardo Samaniego told CNN on Tuesday that installing razor wire at the border isn’t the National Guard’s role. Agents have also moved 6,000 migrants from the area to other sectors where immigration officials processed them, according to the statement. The Department of Homeland Security said in a statement on Tuesday that over the past week, agents have moved more than 3,400 migrants by expelling them to Mexico under Title 42 or flying them back to their home countries. The Texas Military Department, which oversees the state National Guard, and state Department of Public Safety didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment from The Texas Tribune. Greg Abbott demanded Tuesday that the Biden administration “ immediately deploy federal assets” to El Paso and other border cities ahead of the arctic weather. The state sent more than 400 Texas National Guard personnel to El Paso on Monday “as part of the Governor’s enhanced border security effort,” according to a statement, and Gov. Starting Monday night, National Guard and state troopers set up a line of about 1,000 yards of razor wire to block what has become a popular crossing point between Mexico and this border city, and positioned Humvees and Texas Department of Public Safety patrol vehicles on the banks of the river where more than 1,000 migrants crossed in a four-hour period earlier this month. Under Title 42, the pandemic-era emergency health order that immigration officials have used to immediately expel migrants, ports of entry are closed to migrants seeking asylum. A Border Patrol spokesperson on site said Border Patrol agents would not process the migrants. EL PASO - National Guard members and state troopers formed a line on the banks of the Rio Grande on Tuesday and blocked dozens of migrants who had already crossed the river from surrendering to nearby Border Patrol agents.Ībout 75 men, women and children stood on a narrow strip of concrete between the river and the guard members, facing coils of razor wire, seven National Guard members holding rifles and two state troopers as a National Guard member holding a bullhorn told them in Spanish that they would not be able to enter the country here and directed them to a port of entry.īorder Patrol agents positioned behind the National Guard and state troopers watched the standoff.
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