Last week, something dramatic changed at the U.S. Mexico border.

Title 42 ended.

Title 42 was a pandemic-era policy that restricted immigration, making it much more difficult

to enter the United States.

In the days prior, thousands of migrants had amassed at border entry points along the

border wall here in Enbassaljuárez, but also all the way down to the west in Tijuana,

Diego, and to the east in Brownsville, Matamoros.

And while those numbers included record numbers of people surrendering themselves to border

patrol, those days after May 11th were quiet and uneventful, and you could even say anti-climactic.

This calm was not what Washington Post reporter Arrely Hernandez had expected.

She's been at the border all week in CU Dad Huarez in Mexico, just across the border from

El Paso, Texas.

But what is unfolding is that in these border cities in Mexico, there are still thousands

of migrants who are ambling around this city looking for work in the meantime others are

even capped out in the streets.

I met a group of five men who were among a group of folks who were released right after

Title 42 was lifted.

They had turned themselves in at the border wall and thought they were successful only to learn

that they were going back to Juarez.

What I'm asking them is whether law enforcement, CBP, or some other official had given them

an explanation as to why they were being returned to CU Dad Huarez.

And what they were saying was no, they didn't tell us anything, they didn't give us any

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