The Title 42 mandate prohibits the Border Patrol from holding people in congregant settings.
The same week that border agents ejected Maribel E., who asked that her full name not be used because of her uncertain immigration status, dozens of migrant families who crossed with children in South Texas were flown up to El Paso – where some were processed for release into the USA.
Border Patrol Sector Chief Gloria Chavez told the El Paso Times that since March 8, “the El Paso Sector has been receiving a varying number of family units daily from the South Texas region” and that the agency’s “priority is to process them and expel them into Mexico under Title 42.”