NYC mayor visits border, asks for more federal help to shelter migrants
New York has offered roughly 40,000 migrants shelter, food and other services since last year in an effort city officials project will cost over $1 billion.
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New York has offered roughly 40,000 migrants shelter, food and other services since last year in an effort city officials project will cost over $1 billion.
Migrants deemed to be vulnerable, such as the elderly and pregnant women, will be allowed to enter the U.S. legally under the new Biden administration process.
President Biden is in Mexico City for the North American Leaders' Summit with his counterparts from Mexico and Canada. One of the biggest topics on the agenda will be immigration. Before the summit, Mr. Biden made his first trip to the U.S.-Mexico border since taking office.
The visit is his first to the U.S.-Mexico border as president.
President Biden is in Mexico City, where he will attend a summit with the Canadian prime minister and the Mexican president. Ahead of the summit, Mr. Biden went to the U.S.-Mexico border. CBS News senior White House correspondent Weijia Jiang joined "CBS News Mornings" with more details.
Customs and Border Protection said its Office of Professional Responsibility was "reviewing the incident."
Title 42 allows U.S. border officials to quickly expel migrants and asylum-seekers on public health grounds.
For nearly three years, the Title 42 public health law has allowed the U.S. to quickly expel hundreds of thousands of migrants to Mexico.
For the past two weeks, hundreds of migrants have been forced to sleep on the streets of El Paso because space in the city's shelters and churches has been depleted by a sharp increase in migrant arrivals.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has ordered the National Guard to block border crossings as the fate of Title 42 is still unclear. CBS News correspondent Omar Villafranca joins us from El Paso to discuss the situation the city is facing amid the rise in migrant arrivals.
In downtown El Paso, shelters are at capacity and city blocks are lined with huddled masses.
Title 42, a public health law first invoked by the Trump administration, allows U.S. border officials to expel migrants without allowing them to request asylum.
The pandemic-era rule made it easier for U.S. authorities to turn back migrants, many who are fleeing poverty and persecution.
The immediate implications of the order were not clear, as any U.S. effort to return migrants to Mexico under a formal policy has to be greenlit by the Mexican government.
Monaco said she is "concerned about the increase in illegal immigration" as well as "human smuggling" and "drug smuggling."
Officials are seeing a surge of migrants at the southern U.S. border as Title 42 is set to expire next week. Border patrol says they are overwhelmed with the influx and need immediate help. CBS News correspondent Lilia Luciano discusses from El Paso, Texas.
Expulsions of migrants under a public health authority known as Title 42 are set to end on Dec. 21 because of a court order.
Title 42, a policy that allows U.S. border officials to expel some migrants on public health grounds, is set to end on Dec. 21 because of a court order.
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One million of border encounters in fiscal year 2022 have resulted in migrants being expelled from the U.S. under Title 42, a coronavirus-era policy.
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