welcome to world news america on pbs and around the globe. tens of thousands of people have been gathering along this is ciudad juarez on the mexican side of the border. they ve been there for weeks, and many are expected to try to cross into the us in the coming days. that s because a temporary law introduced during the pandemic that makes it easier to remove migrants from the us is expiring later tonight. the us has been beefing up its security forces along the 2,000 mile border. that s where we start tonight. sophie long is in el paso, texas. sophie, president biden himself said this week that the border situation wil be chaotic for a while. what s the situation on the ground where you are? interestingly, at the moment, where interestingly, at the moment, where i am, in el paso, a stone s throw away from one of the crossings, it s very quiet. for many months here there has been hundreds of people who have made it across the border, sleeping on the streets of el paso, to
the us mexico border. officials have said that when title 42 is no longer in effect, tens of thousands of people could try to cross over. let s look at what the policy is. the temporary law title 42 was introduced by donald trump and meant illegal migrants could be removed quickly and it expires overnight tonight. the policy made it easier for the us to send people back to mexico using the coronavirus pandemic as justification. the winding down of covid measures means the policy no longer has any public health justification, prompting officials to announce it would end on may 11th, the same day as the official us public health emergency. and when it ends in a few hours from now, the us will return to a policy where migrants are screened to determine if they are eligible for asylum and quickly deported if they do not qualify. earlier, us homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas had this warning for those who are not eligible to seek asylum. our borders are not open. pe
the rapid support forces came to that agreementjust hours before a previous ceasefire was due to expire. despite these agreements, clashes have been reported, with gunshots heard and fighterjets seen in parts of the country. as for those who ve managed to escape, many are still coming to terms with what they ve witnessed. thousands more sudanese and foreign nationals have managed to flee to sudan by boat to saudi arabia, others by road to the borders with egypt and djibouti, and many british nations have been flying to cyprus. from there, caroline hawley has this report. at the airfield in khartoum, desperate crowds with just one hope to escape. everyone here has made a dangerous journey. a military operation described as even more complex than the evacuation from afghanistan, and no one knows when the last flight out will go. larnaca airport first stop to safety. hundreds of british nationals airlifted out of sudan have now arrived here for flights back to the uk. just a
secretary said the measures the biden administration will put in place will not work overnight, but down the road, they will be able to assess whether they have been successful. what would a successful. what would a success look like to you? what success look like to you? what success looks success look like to you? what success looks like success look like to you? what success looks like is success look like to you? what success looks like is you - success look like to you? what success looks like is you have l success looks like is you have fewer people coming to the border claiming asylum who don t qualify, and you have more people utilising the legal pathways, whether it is parole, in country refugee processing, whether it is family reunification programmes. that is the way we re going to ultimately address the along with investments in the sending countries so we give people options to stay in their own countries. it options to stay in their own countries- options to stay i