The dire warning’s of mass crowds crashing the border have NOT occured with Title 42 running out…..
The number of people waiting to cross the border into El Paso declined on Friday, along with the numbers in city shelters — an indication, at least one U.S. official said, that the anticipated surge in border crossings had already passed. Shelter operators reported that it was too soon to tell, since most people who had entered the U.S. this week were still being processed. But they, too, predicted the worst might be over. “We’ll have to see what happens in the next few days,” said Ruben Garcia, director of Annunication House, a shelter that coordinates with the U.S. Border Patrol. “There are many variables.”…
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The southern border of the United States was crowded with migrants, but not chaotic, after the Title 42 pandemic-era restrictions lifted just before midnight on Friday. But officials said they continue to expect record high levels of border crossings in what they called a “difficult transition” during the days and weeks ahead.
The Biden administration’s top immigration officials also expressed dismay at court rulings early Friday morning that they predicted would hamper their ability to deal with the latest increase in arrivals and lead to dangerous overcrowding at already jammed border patrol facilities.
Alejandro Mayorkas, the secretary of homeland security, criticized an overnight ruling by a federal judge in Florida that blocked the department from releasing migrants without a notice to appear in immigration court.
“The practice of releasing individuals when our border patrol facilities, when our border patrol stations are overcrowded is something that each administration has done from administration to administration,” Mr. Mayorkas said on ABC’s “Good Morning America” program. “This is a harmful ruling, and the Department of Justice is considering our options.”
In comments to reporters on Friday morning, several top administration officials noted that it was still early in the day along most of the border, but they said that they expected large numbers of people to attempt to cross into the United States in between the official ports of entry.
About 10,000 people crossed the border on Thursday, a bit shy of the 11,000 that officials had predicted, but still a historically large number that strained the government’s network of border patrol facilities as well as the shelters run by cities, nonprofit groups and churches.
There were few scenes of large or unruly crowds at the usual crossing points…..