The end of the Title 42the immigration law allows US authorities to quickly deport migrants to their countries of origin or to Mexican border towns without accepting asylum applications. This measure was created to safeguard public health during the covid-19 pandemic, under the administration of donald trump.

Under this restriction, the Customs and Border Protection Service has the right to prohibiting access for people who are “potentially a health risk” or who legally evaded the country to avoid “medical screening measures”.

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Despite the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s assurances last April that the order was no longer necessary to maintain public health, Title 42 has remained in effect a year longer than expected. Joe Biden’s administration issued the order on Thursday, May 11, to completely repeal the measurenot without criticism from other political parties.

However, Joe Biden is no stranger to the immediate consequence that repealing Title 42 will have. The White House has already 1,500 active duty soldiers to the border between the United States and Mexicoto contain the increase in the arrival of immigrants expected from May 11.

According to Pentagon Press Secretary Brigadier General Pat Ryder, the troops will support Customs and Border Protection efforts for 90 days, starting the day the immigration measure expires.

Ryder explains that in the statement troops will not stop migrantsbut they will perform “land tracing and monitoring, data entry and additional assistance.”

Mexico is preparing for the arrival of immigrants

Meanwhile, shelters in border towns are preparing to handle an increase in the migratory flow. In Ciudad Juárez, on the border of the American city of El Paso, Texas, It is estimated that more than 35,000 migrants are being receivedwith hundreds of them sleeping on the streets, where some casually clean windows or sell sweets.

Julia Luciana, the manager of the “Tierra de Oro” reception center, hopes to receive more immigrants in the coming days. “We have had a visit from the IOM (International Organization for Migration), here we are hosting 37 migrants and we are preparing that they will tell us how the process will be when Title 42 is eliminated and between Title 8,” Luciana told EFE .

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Andres Manuel Lopez Obradorthe chairman of Mexicodenied that his country will face an increased influx of migrants before the end of Title 42. “With the information given, We think that the migration flow will not increase, because an option opens up, an alternative”, he stated in his morning press conference last Friday.

The alternative referred to by the Mexican president is the establishment of immigration processing centers in Latin America, which would advise migrants to enter the United States legally. In addition, a work plan between the United States and Mexico would allow immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela to enter the US for humanitarian purposes.

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What happens to detained immigrants

As of May 11 immigrants arriving in the United States after crossing the border into Mexico are processed under Title 8. This federal law allows immigration authorities to remove detainees without an immigration court deciding their cases, which is called an expedited removal procedure.

People removed from the United States under Title 8 are barred from re-entering the country for at least five years, and if they do, they could face criminal charges.