WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. border patrol brokers have seen a 50% drop within the variety of migrants crossing the border because the pandemic-era immigration coverage generally known as Title 42 expired at midnight on Thursday, Homeland Safety Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas mentioned on CNN’s “State of the Union” program on Sunday.
“Over the previous two days, america Border Patrol has skilled a 50% drop within the variety of encounters versus what we had been experiencing earlier within the week earlier than Title 42 ended at midnight on Thursday,” Mayorkas mentioned.
“It’s nonetheless early. We’re in day three. However we have now been planning for this transition for months and months.”
Mayorkas mentioned that U.S. Border Patrol brokers had about 6,300 encounters with border-crossers on Friday and one other 4,200 on Saturday, in contrast with greater than 10,000 shortly earlier than Title 42’s expiration.
(Reporting by Sarah N. Lynch in Washington; Modifying by Matthew Lewis)