Title 42 is about to expire, and illegal aliens are literally lining up on the border to rush it the moment it is no longer policy.
Title 42 allows the US to deport illegals while awaiting their nonsense asylum hearings. Without Title 42, they are "paroled" into the country and asked to please show up for an asylum hearing in a few years' time.
Oscar Leeser, the mayor of El Paso, Texas, said on Thursday that the city, which abuts the U.S.-Mexican border, is bracing for an "unknown" illegal immigrant surge after Title 42 expires.
"We are getting prepared now for the unknown. The unknown is how many people will come here," told reporters, the New York Times reported.
"Federal immigration laws are broken, and they didn't break during this administration or the last administration," he said. "We have to figure out where we are heading. There is no light at end of the tunnel."
Title 42, the pandemic-era rule allowing the Trump administration to expel illegal immigrants to prevent the spread of communicable diseases, will end on Thursday, May 11, after a litigation battle that eventually landed at the Supreme Court. In December 2022, Chief Justice Roberts paused the expiration of Title 42, temporarily granting the emergency appeal of 20 states to extend the program.
"No one reasonably disputes that the failure to grant a stay will cause a crisis of unprecedented proportions at the border. DHS estimates that daily illegal crossings may more than double from around 7,000/day to 15,000/day once Title 42 is terminated," their petition read.
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Last week, Independent senator Kyrsten Sinema and Republican senator Thom Tillis said they planned to propose a replacement to the Title 42 program in the form of a temporary two-year authority to expel illegal aliens from the U.S. The lawmakers' rule will not rely on public health reasoning, however, and will include protections for those who have serious and legitimate asylum claims as well as individuals with acute medical needs.
Krysten Sinema blasted Biden not just for killing Title 42 -- but for having no plan in place to handle the border crisis he is manufacturing.
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) slammed President Joe Biden during an interview on Sunday for his repeated failure to secure the U.S.-Mexico border as the crisis is expected to intensify this week as Title 42 is set to end.
Sinema made the remarks during an interview with Margaret Brennan on CBS News' "Face The Nation" while discussing the ongoing crisis at the border and new legislation that she has introduced that would act as a "band-aid" to address the issue.
Brennan highlighted actions that the Biden administration says they've taken to address the situation, including deploying a small number of troops to the border and creating a phone app for migrants.
Sinema said the administration's measures "have been announced in the past week or so" despite an ongoing border crisis that erupted immediately when Biden came into office.
"Having 1,500 troops along the U.S.-Mexico border is helpful. It is a border of over 2,000 miles though," she continued. "So 1,500 troops isn't gonna get the job done. That's just the reality."
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"What's unfortunate is that I'm asking for that information and I'm not getting it," Sinema said of the Biden administration. "And so either the administration has that information and they're choosing not to share it, which is a problem since we're the ones who are going to deal with the crisis, or they don't have it and that's even more concerning, because how do you prepare for the inflow of migrants when you don't know what you're going to expect?"
Sinema said the information had not been shared with Arizona Democratic Governor Katie Hobbs.
"We've had two years to prepare for this," Sinema said of the Biden administration's window to prepare for the end of Title 42. "I think that there's a system in Washington, D.C. that is deeply disconnected from the real lives and experiences of border communities and the migrants who seek to come to this country."
Sinema said she would like those living in Washington, D.C., "to learn" what living in a state impacted by the border crisis is like.
Meanwhile, the man who put the border into crisis on Biden's orders, DHS Secretary Mayorkas, is concentrating on the most important thing: encouraging more immigration from central America.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and other Biden administration officials are working to increase migration from Central America into the U.S., even as an expected surge of illegal crossings at the southern border is expected.
Mayorkas, alongside USAID Administrator Samantha Power, met with officials from Spain and Canada to discuss increasing labor-related migration. As a result of the meeting, the U.S. committed to welcoming more migrants from Central America and providing technical support for "sending countries" to beef up their ability to facilitate migration.
"The meeting focused on specific actions each country will take on expanding labor pathways that promote safe, orderly, humane, and regular migration, as well as to create economic and social opportunities and strengthen development options for the people of northern Central America and other countries in the Americas," USAID spokeswoman Jessica Jennings said.