Texas border updates: What happens when Title 42 expires tonight?

HOUSTON — The end of coronavirus restrictions on asylum that have allowed the U. S. to quickly expel migrants at the southern border for the last three years is just hours away from expiring.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Title 42 health order expires at 10:59 p. m. CT.

After that, the U. S. will return to fully enforcing Title 8.

People hoping to gain entry into the U. S. were rushing over the U.

S. -Mexico border in the waning hours before Title 42 expired fearing that stricter new policies would make it far more difficult. May 11, 7:53 p.

m. — With just over three hours to go until Title 42 expires, the border patrol union president says his agents feel defeated. KHOU 11’s Anayeli Ruiz is at the border, covering the end of Title 42.

Now that Title 42 is set to expire in a few hours. . .

@BPUnion president tells me his agents feel defeated. He says they’re worried they’ll be tied up processing the people crossing the river and won’t be able to catch the drug smuggling. @KHOU pic.

twitter. com/Sr4A4WSoV4 “The City of Houston is considering options to provide support, but lacks sufficient resources to meet the overwhelming needs of the migrant community. Currently, we are waiting to see what resources the federal government will provide before determining how and if we can assist.

In the meantime, we are grateful for our nonprofit community and partners like Catholic Charities and Casa Juan Diego that are receiving a limited number of buses, but are also equally under-resourced and overwhelmed. We hope the federal government can provide the needed resources for us to create a structured plan to fully assist. ” According to the U.

S. Department of Homeland Security , the coronavirus restrictions on asylum are often referred to as Title 42 , because the authority comes from Title 42 of a 1944 public health law that allows curbs on migration in the name of protecting public health. In March 2020, the Trump administration invoked the law to cut down on border crossings as the COVID-19 pandemic got underway.

Basically, Title 42 was used to override the immigration law that allows people to ask for asylum after crossing the border illegally. The administration argued taking asylum seekers into custody at federal facilities would help spread COVID. After Title 42 ends the U.

S. goes back to its previous policy, Title 8. That means people who try to cross the border multiple times will be penalized, facing up to two years in prison if they have already been removed or deported from the United States.

Under Title 42, experts say there was an increase in people making multiple attempts. Now, migrants are being asked to not cross the border and instead use an app, CBP One , to apply for asylum. However, users report that the app is filled with glitches, causing lots of frustration.

According to the VERIFY team, under Title 42, many asylum seekers were returned back to Mexico or their home country without having their case heard, the National Immigration Forum explains . Now, with its expiration, the federal government will resume regularly processing legal claims for asylum at ports of entry beginning Friday, May 12. Asylum status is a form of protection available to people who meet the definition of a refugee , and are already in the United States or are seeking admission at a point of entry.

A person seeking asylum protection must apply for it within one year of their arrival to the U. S. The federal government will also reimpose stricter penalties for illegally crossing the border under Title 8.

Those penalties can include deportation, at least a five-year ban on reentry and criminal prosecution, DHS and the State Department say. These penalties were not enforced under Title 42, according to the National Immigration Forum. Next up in 5 Example video title will go here for this video.