Title 42 ends: U.S. sees a record migration influx of more than 10,000 people a DAY

Migrants gathered on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border on Thursday hours before immigration restrictions known as Title 42 expired, with some rushing to cross ahead of tough new asylum rules that will replace the COVID-era order. Here immigrants lined up to be processed to make asylum claims at a makeshift migrant camp in El Paso Migrants cross the Rio Grande River as they try to get to the US, as seen from Matamoros, state of Tamaulipas, Mexico before the pandemic-era controls barring migrants from claiming US asylum expired Migrants gathered on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border on Thursday hours before immigration restrictions known as Title 42 expire, with some rushing to cross ahead of tough new asylum rules that will replace a COVID-era order On Thursday night, a federal judge in Florida blocked such releases, saying they were similar to a policy previously enjoined in March due to a failure to follow proper regulatory procedures. Numbers have surged in recent days Security forces watched on as migrants tried to enter the U.S. after crossing the Rio Grande River, in Matamoros, Mexico ahead of the end of Title 42 A U.S. Border Patrol agent was seen helping a woman who had fainted as she waited with other migrants to apply for asylum between two border walls in San Diego ahead of the end of Title 42 The measure will bar anyone who has passed through another country without seeking refuge elsewhere or who failed to use legal pathways to enter the United States. Border Patrol brought water and snacks to the large group of migrants in the no man's land between the Rio Grande river and the border wall ahead of Title 42's expiration Migrants cross from Ciudad Juárez to El Paso, Texas, ahead of the end of Title 42 A Reuters/Ipsos poll released this week showed that only 26 percent approved of Biden's handling of immigration.