US Border Patrol agents were told this week to begin releasing migrants from overwhelmed holding facilities — as surges of asylum seekers rushed across the border ahead of the expiration of pandemic-related immigration policy Thursday.
Agents were ordered on Wednesday to release migrants from any border sector that reached 125% capacity and give them instructions to appear at an immigration office within 60 days, a US official said.
They were also instructed to facilitate releases if the average time in custody exceeded 60 hours or if 7,000 migrants were taken into custody across the border in just one day.
The move comes as migrants continue to flood the US southern border ahead of the demise of Title 42, which expires at midnight Thursday.
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