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Midnight change to US migrant rules spells border confusion

El Paso (United States) (AFP) - Pandemic-era controls barring migrants from claiming US asylum expire at midnight Thursday amid fears of chaos at the Mexican border, with a tough new policy spelling uncertainty for thousands seeking refuge in America.

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Title 42 is about to expire in US. Here’s what you need to know

Expiry of contentious US policy will bring little relief to asylum seekers facing many other border curbs, experts say.

Al Jazeera

Title 42, a COVID-era halt on asylum applications, has ended. Here's what to expect

The pandemic restrictions allowed for the quick expulsion of migrants at the border. Now that it's been lifted, some officials are expecting a record influx and an impending humanitarian crisis.

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US readies for asylum surge as Covid border rules expire

El Paso (United States) (AFP) - Pandemic-era rules that have prevented migrants from claiming asylum at the United States' southern border will expire Thursday, with tens of thousands of people expected to make their case over the coming weeks, further inflaming America's already heated immigration debate.

AFP

Thousands of Venezuelans face desperate gamble at US border

El Paso (United States) (AFP) - Before turning himself in to US border officials in El Paso on Tuesday, Juan Fernandez sent a farewell text message to his wife in Venezuela.

AFP

'Chaotic for a while' at US border as rules change: Biden

El Paso (United States) (AFP) - The US border with Mexico will be "chaotic for a while," President Joe Biden acknowledged Tuesday, days before the lifting of pandemic-era rules that have made claiming asylum at the frontier all but impossible.

AFP

Migrants waiting to cross the border say government’s app for asylum-seekers is a mess

Hundreds of migrants have waited on the U.S. bank of the Rio Grande for days to be apprehended. Others say they want to follow the rules to enter legally — if they could just get the government phone app to work.

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Migrants amass along US-Mexico border as COVID-era restrictions near end

U.S. border agents in El Paso, Texas, on Tuesday urged hundreds of migrants amassing on city streets to surrender to authorities as illegal crossings rose in the run-up to the end of COVID-19 border restrictions known as Title 42 later this week.

Reuters

Texas governor orders national guard to border ahead of rule change

El Paso (United States) (AFP) - The Republican governor of Texas on Monday ordered hundreds of National Guard soldiers to the US-Mexico border, in what he said was a bid to stem an expected surge of migration when Covid-era rules lapse this week.

AFP

Gov. Greg Abbott focuses on border security in first address since Allen and Brownsville tragedies

Abbott announced the deployment of new “Texas Tactical Border Force” units to El Paso and the Rio Grande Valley on Monday and Tuesday.

The Texas Tribune

'Risk it all': Migrant surge as US prepares for Title 42 end

A recent surge of migrants in the Brownsville, Texas, area of the U.S.-Mexico border is highlighting immigration challenges as the U.S. prepares for the end of a policy linked to the coronavirus pandemic that allowed it to quickly expel many migrants

The Independent UK

Progressive causes lose big in San Antonio and El Paso charter elections

San Antonio voters rejected by wide margins an effort to decriminalize abortion and require police to issue citations rather than make arrests for some nonviolent offenses. In El Paso, an effort to wean the city from fossil fuels fared similarly poorly.

The Texas Tribune

As U.S. prepares to end rapid expulsions of migrants, a Venezuelan family decides to risk crossing the border

A Venezuelan couple with two children waited in Mexico for weeks for a chance to claim asylum. They decided to cross the border after a relative died in a detention center fire and other family members successfully made it across.

The Texas Tribune

Texas likely will spend billions fixing its water systems. Will it reach these forgotten colonias?

An estimated 500,000 people live in thousands of colonias along the Texas-Mexico border. Largely built between the 1950s and 1980s, these communities have been promised water — but it has never come.

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As Title 42 comes to an end, El Paso declares state of emergency

El Paso Mayor Oscar Leeser said asylum-seekers are camping out on the sidewalks and staying at shelters in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, under the false notion that they will be allowed to enter the U.S. once Title 42 expires.

Ballotpedia

Abortion, marijuana decriminalization, the climate, and law enforcement featured on local ballots in Texas on May 6

Ballotpedia is covering 47 ballot measures in seven counties in Texas on May 6. Five of the 47 are citizen initiatives, and the remaining 42 were referred to the ballot by a vote of a local governing board, such as a county board or city council.

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Watch An Enduro Champ Gymkhana His Africa Twin Down A Volcano

Enduro ace Kirian Mirabet takes on the La Palma volcano, as well as the streets of the nearby city of El Paso in the Canary Islands, all on his Africa Twin.

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Foo Fighters add six more headline shows to ever-growing list of 2023 dates

Late Tahoe! Salt Lake City! El Paso! And more! The Foo Fighters are coming to you later this year

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This game about 'confronting relationship trauma' perfectly illustrates why it's a bad idea to date Draculae, lord of the vampires

Hands-on with El Paso, Elsewhere, a Max Payne-inspired game from the maker of Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator.

The Guardian - US

Virtual wall: how the US plans to boost surveillance at the southern border

AI-enhanced cameras can detect ‘objects of interest’ miles away, which critics say will drive migrants deeper into dangerous desert

Reuters

Survivor of Mexico detention fire and his family cross into U.S.

After her husband survived a fire which killed dozens of migrants at a detention center in northern Mexico, Venezuelan Viangly Infante crossed into the United States on Saturday, in search of new opportunities for her three children.

Reuters

Over 1,000 migrants, angered by asylum policies, rush to U.S.-Mexico border

More than a thousand migrants in northern Mexico surrendered to U.S. border authorities, frustrated by recent asylum policies, and shaken by a fire at a nearby migrant detention center that killed dozens this week.

Daily Mirror

Inside horror immigration centre fire that killed 39 as ‘guards REFUSED to open door’

The fire at the detention centre of Instituto Nacional de Migración (INM) in Ciudad Juarez, near the US-Mexico border and El Paso, Texas, reportedly started during a riot against deportations

The Texas Tribune

Fire at migrant center in Mexico near El Paso kills at least 39

Mexico’s president said the fire started in the Ciudad Juárez center when migrants learned they would be deported and set fire to mattresses in protest. Twenty-nine injured migrants were sent to local hospitals.

The Texas Tribune

El Paso charter fight tests whether a Texas city will move away from fossil fuels

As global efforts to combat climate change falter, climate activists have turned to local initiatives to rein in carbon emissions. A May vote on a city charter amendment has thrust El Paso into the fray.

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