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As Title 42 ends in US, asylum seekers wait for relief on border

Advocates fear the US-Mexico border will become a ‘deportation mill’ as new policies narrow avenues for seeking asylum.

Al Jazeera

U.S. Rep. Dan Crenshaw tapped to lead GOP response on Mexican drug cartels

The Houston Republican has alarmed Mexico and Democrats with previous calls for a military response to the criminal organizations.

The Texas Tribune

AP PHOTOS: Crowds of migrants wait at the border as Title 42 gives way to new rules

At points all along the U.S.-Mexico border on Friday, crowds of migrants clutching sacks of belongings or holding the hands of children waited to apply for asylum as new immigration rules took effect. And more people kept arriving.

The Independent UK

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Mexico slams US Republican bill tightening border security

Mexico's foreign minister on Friday slammed a bill approved a day earlier by U.S. Republican lawmakers that would tighten immigration policy and restart work on a southwestern border wall, accusing backers of peddling racism against Mexicans.

Reuters

Faced with tougher U.S. policy, migrants in Mexico pin hopes on asylum app

Oriana Silva, a 30-year-old Venezuelan mother of two, was so determined to make it to the United States that she entered illegally and was expelled back to Mexico five times in seven months. Now, she is trying another way she hopes will be easier: the U.S. asylum app.

Reuters

A Women’s Wrestling Pioneer Makes a Rare Return to the Ring

At 58, Chigusa Nagayo will look to remind audiences of the hard-hitting, intense style that made her famous in Japan.

Sports Illustrated

Is Biden Replacing Bad Border Policy With Worse Border Policy?

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Migrants cross US-Mexico border as Title 42 restrictions end

‘Be careful with the children,’ an official shouted through a megaphone.

Evening Standard

What is Title 42? The strict Covid border rules that have come to an end on the US border

A Covid pandemic policy that restricted the right to claim asylum at the US-Mexico border has expired, with significant implications for American politics – and for the flow of migrants from South and Central America.

The Week

Amid confusion along US-Mexico border, El Paso pastors provide migrants with shelter and counsel

As confusion pervades El Paso, one of the busiest illegal crossings points for migrants fleeing poverty and strife, faith leaders strive to provide shelter, legal advice and prayer

The Independent UK

Title 42: Biden officials press on with deportation plans and warn those crossing unlawfully face tougher consequences – as it happened

Officials stress hardline approach as American Civil Liberties Union files lawsuit, saying new rules close off safe routes for people seeking asylum

The Guardian - US

Title 42 expiration – latest: Child migrant dies in US custody as Biden under fire over immigration policy

More than 2.8m people have been turned away from Mexico border since Title 42 was enacted during the pandemic

The Independent UK

First Thing: Strict rules come into force at US-Mexico border as Title 42 expires

‘Border is not open,’ warns secretary of homeland security after thousands of migrants cross on to US soil, hoping to be processed before midnight. Plus, five ways AI will change work

The Guardian - UK

Inside a migrant family's treacherous journey to the U.S.-Mexico border

Some who've crossed into the U.S. are telling harrowing tales of their struggles.

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Strict new rules come into force at US-Mexico border as Title 42 immigration ban expires

Secretary of homeland security warns ‘the border is not open’ after thousands of migrants had crossed onto US soil, hoping to be processed before midnight

Reuters

Uncertainty clouds US transition at Mexico border as new rules take effect

The Biden administration began implementing a sweeping policy shift at the U.S.-Mexico border on Friday as a COVID-era order that had allowed the swift expulsion of many migrants expired and new asylum restrictions took effect amid confusion and uncertainty.

Al Jazeera

Confusion, resolve at US-Mexico border as Title 42 formally ends

Experts say new restrictions at US-Mexico border will continue to impede access to asylum as contentious policy expires.

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Migrants rush to cross US border before rule changes

Migrants have poured across the Mexico border in a last-minute rush to enter the US before new rules that will make it more difficult to gain asylum.

Chicago Sun-Times

Migrants rush across U.S. border in final hours before Title 42 expires

More than 27,000 people are in federal custody. And an official says daily encounters hit 10,000, slightly below the upper limit of 11,000 expected after Title 42 ends.

France 24

Migrants stuck at US gates as Covid-era immigration policy expires

As pandemic-era asylum restrictions ended early Friday, migrants in northern Mexico faced more uncertainties about a new online system for appointments to seek asylum in the U.S. Some migrants still waded apprehensively into the Rio Grande, defying officials who shouted for them to turn back, while elsewhere along the U.S.-Mexico…

Reuters

Mexico to launch database of over 100,000 'disappeared' people

Mexico will launch a new tool later this month to help record information on the tens of thousands of people who have gone missing, the country's federal prosecutors office (FGR) said on Thursday.

The Texas Tribune

Title 42 ends with migrants lined up and border cities braced for the unknown

Long lines formed again next to the border wall in El Paso — a scene repeated in other parts of the southern border — as migrants anticipated the end of a policy that has allowed immigration agents to quickly expel them.

The Texas Tribune

U.S. House passes border bill shaped by Texas Republicans as Title 42 ends

The Secure the Border Act would resume construction of the border wall, limit asylum eligibility and require asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico. It faces tough going in the Senate.

The Texas Tribune

Texas sends more buses with migrants to Washington, D.C., the day before Title 42 is set to end at the border

As the Biden administration prepares to end the Trump policy that quickly expels migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border, Gov. Greg Abbott orders two more buses to take migrants to Vice President Kamala Harris’ residence.

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