White House gives migrants FINAL warning before Title 42 expires trends now
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Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas issued yet another stern warning Thursday to migrants considering the dangerous trek to the U.S. guided by 'ruthless smugglers' after Title 42 ends – saying they will face 'steeper' consequences after the clock strikes midnight.
Authorities at the border have been experiencing a daily crush of migrants, topping 10,000 Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.
At the White House on Thursday, Mayorkas once again tried to talk migrants of trying to cross illegally, even while touting new procedures meant to ease the path for legal migration.
'If anyone arrived at our southern border after midnight tonight, they will be presumed ineligible for asylum and subject to steeper consequences for unlawful entry, including a minimum five-year ban on reentry and potential criminal prosecution,' said Mayorkas, who faces calls to resign or even face impeachment by congressional Republicans amid chaos at the border.
Migrants who enter the country illegally after midnight are 'subject to steeper consequences,' Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas warned at the White House Thursday, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre listened
He cited administration efforts to surge 24,000 Border Patrol agents the thousands of troops and asylum officers to the border – even as he faced repeated questions about why more of the administration's policies weren't already put in place given the two years it had to prepare for the end of the Trump-era immigration authority.
'We expected to see large numbers of encounters
