Headline Roundup • May 11th, 2023
Record Number of Migrants Apprehended in Single Day as Title 42 Ends
Summary from the AllSides News Team
According to Customs and Border Protection (CBP), more than 10,300 unauthorized migrants were apprehended on Tuesday, with Title 42 set to end Thursday at midnight.
Key Details: The number is a single-day record for migrant apprehensions, and well above the 7,000-8,000 arrivals seen per day last week. Total encounters with migrants for fiscal year 2023 are on pace to top 1.5 million for the third straight year.
For Context: Earlier this week, President Joe Biden acknowledged that the border would be "chaotic for a while" despite the best efforts of the authorities. On May 3, the U.S. sent 1,500 active-duty troops to the southern border to assist with operations. First implemented in 2020, Title 42 made it easier for the U.S. to expel migrants back to Mexico using the coronavirus pandemic as justification. The policy was enacted under President Donald Trump and is being lifted by President Joe Biden. Biden's administration has introduced a rule to prevent people who cross the border illegally from applying for asylum for five years in an effort to stop the flow.
How the Media Covered it: Right-rated sources focused more on the record number of apprehensions, framing it as a sign that the border crisis may worsen. Some left-rated sources focused more on root causes of mass migration, and humanitarian concerns for the migrants.
Featured Coverage of this Story
Associated Press
The long wooden boats packed with migrants in orange life jackets arrived one after another, pushed down the Tuquesa river by outboard motors. By day’s end, authorities had registered some 2,000 migrants at this remote riverside outpost on the edge of the Darien jungle that links Panama and Colombia.
Some had vague information — from relatives, social media, smugglers — about coming border policy changes by the United States government and were hustling to make it to that distant border.
Migrants ride on a boat along the Membrillo River en...
James Keivom
Border patrol agents arrested record numbers of migrants illegally trying to cross into the US on Monday and Tuesday as the end of Title 42 looms, according to a report.
Over 10,300 migrants were apprehended Tuesday after they illegally attempted to enter the country, Fox News’ Bill Melugin reported, citing Customs and Border Protection sources. Over 10,000 more were reportedly nabbed Monday.
Both mark the highest single-day totals in the agency’s recorded history, according to the report.
Over 28,000 people were in custody as of Wednesday, a Department of Homeland Security official told...
BBC News
A record number of migrants were recently apprehended at the US-Mexico border in a single day, fuelling fears over what will happen in a few hours when a controversial immigration policy expires.
The rule, known as Title 42, was first implemented in 2020 and made it easier for the US to expel migrants back to Mexico using the coronavirus pandemic as justification.
But its looming expiration at 23:59 ET on Thursday (03:59 GMT on Friday) has triggered a rush to reach the border, and cities on both sides are readying...
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