At the start of the week, officers arrested around 11,000 migrants daily, but the number of arrests fell to 6,200 on Friday and 4,400 on Saturday after the new immigration measures were put in place.
National Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorcas said this Sunday that there has been a 50% drop in undocumented immigrants’ crossings at the United States border with Mexico since Title 42 was repealed.
In an interview with ABC, the head of immigration policy said, “We have been preparing for this change for months and months and we have consistently executed our plan.”
Following the end of the health emergency last Thursday night, the United States stopped enforcing Title 42, which deports undocumented immigrants without the possibility of requesting asylum under the pretext of the pandemic, but other restrictions at the border Installed and started deporting. Through another regulation known as Title 8.
At the start of the week, officers arrested around 11,000 migrants daily, but the number of arrests fell to 6,200 on Friday and 4,400 on Saturday after the new immigration measures were put in place.
“The United States Border Patrol has seen a nearly 50% drop in the number of people apprehended at our southern border compared to the number earlier in the week before Title 42 expired,” Mayorkas said.
The official recalled that from now on all people who cross the border without an immigration permit or without requesting asylum in the countries through which they passed will be deported quickly and if they commit the crime again , then they will be banned from entering the United States. five years.
“In fact, we have already evacuated thousands of people coming to our southern border. We are enforcing our immigration laws under Title 8,” he said.
Despite the new restrictions, Mayorkas denied that the immigration policy of President Joe Biden resembled that of his predecessor, Donald Trump (2017–2021), as he said the current administration has established legal routes for immigration. The “greatest extension” is implemented. United States in History.
The secretary said the government has a “humanitarian obligation” to respond to asylum requests, but also a “responsibility” to combat networks of people smugglers who extort money from migrants to smuggle them across the border.
Mayorkas also said the government would appeal a ruling by a Florida judge who on Thursday struck down a policy that allowed some migrants to be released from overcrowded detention centers even if they had There has not yet been a date to appear in immigration court.
“We are bound to abide by the verdict. We respect him but we do not agree with the judge. We believe this is a very harmful norm”, said the secretary, who confirmed that all administrations have released migrants when centers were saturated.
