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.
May 12, 2023 at 9:52 amMigrants wait in the cold at a gate in the border fence after crossing from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico into El Paso, Texas, in the early hours of May 11, 2023.
That is the scenario U.S. officials are hoping for. But many migrants and the advocates who help them say those who have fled their home countries for a myriad of reasons are at such a risk they cannot wait. “There’s no other way to get in,” said Venezuelan Carolina Ortiz, accompanied by her husband and children, ages 1 and 4. Others in the camp had the same plan: keep trying the app.
Border Patrol chief Raul Ortiz said in a Tweet Friday morning that the agency had apprehended 67,759 people in the last week. That averages out to 9,679 per day — nearly twice the average daily level of 5,200 from March. It’s slightly below the 11,000 figure that authorities have said is the upper limit of what they expect after Title 42 ends, but it wasn’t clear how much the numbers peaked in the days and hours Title 42 expired Thursday night.
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