Seemingly tens of thousands of migrants are waiting for President Joe Biden’s administration to end the public health authority known as Title 42 at the United States-Mexico border, reports indicate.
In 2020, in the midst of the Chinese coronavirus crisis, former President Donald Trump invoked Title 42 at the border to ensure that federal immigration officials could quickly return illegal aliens to Mexico for the sake of public health.
Now, likely thousands of migrants are waiting in tents in Mexico to rush the border in the hopes of getting into the U.S. interior when Title 42 ends, according to Julian Resendiz at Border Report:
On Tuesday, Juarez officials estimated the number of tents next to the National Migration Institute (INM) building and City Hall had grown from a handful last week to 93 by mid-afternoon. [Emphasis added]
Migrants like Janeicy, a Venezuelan mom, said their intent was to wait for the announced May 11 rollback of Title 42 expulsions at the U.S. border. But she said life is so hard on the streets of Juarez she does not know if she can hold out two more weeks. [Emphasis added]
At the same time, officials in U.S. border communities are prepping for the end of Title 42. The cities are being forced to strain public resources by opening new shelters and tent cities. El Paso, Texas, for instance, expects up to 8,000 migrants to arrive in the city every single day.
“Yesterday we got some intel that there’s almost 30,000 migrants already waiting,” one El Paso official told local media. “The majority are from Venezuela who are the ones most affected by Title 42.”
The figures indicate that in El Paso, alone, the city could see almost a quarter of a million migrants arriving every month.
Another estimate from non-governmental organizations (NGOs) suggests that 35,000 migrants in Juarez, Mexico, alone, are waiting for Title 42 to rush the border.
As Breitbart News reported, the Biden administration is expecting some 400,000 migrants to arrive at the border every month after Title 42 ends. Such a monthly illegal immigration inflow would be larger than the resident population of New Orleans.