President Joe Biden’s administration has noticed a sharp decrease in encounters with migrants suspected of crossing the US-Mexico border illegally following the end of Title 42 last week, the chief of the Department of Homeland Security said on Sunday.
Alejandro Mayorkas hit the Sunday cable news circuit to tout his agency’s efforts to respond to an expected surge of migrants hoping for a chance to claim asylum by crossing into US territory without going through legal channels. According to Mr Mayorkas, the department has noticed as much as a 50 per cent drop in encounters since Thursday at midnight, when the Title 42 authority allowing DHS to expel migrants based on concerns about Covid-19 expired.
