Texas border city reports fewer migrants than expected

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🗓️ 13 May 2023

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The pandemic-era border restriction policy Title 42 has expired and U.S. Homeland Security officials were bracing for an influx of migrants. Instead, for now, some cities have reported seeing fewer people trying to enter the U.S. compared to last week. El Paso is one of those cities and Mayor Oscar Leeser joins AC360 to give an update on the situation.

Plus, former President Trump and likely GOP Presidential candidate Gov. Ron DeSantis are both heading to Iowa, where the first caucuses in the 2024 Republican race takes place. Brianne Pfannenstiel is the Chief Politics Reporter at The Des Moines Register. She tells Anderson Cooper how she sees the two politicians trying to appeal to Republican voters this weekend.

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0:00.0	Good evening.
0:01.0	There is still concern tonight that there may be a rush of migrants across the southern
0:04.7	U.S. border after a pandemic or a health policy known as Title 42 that allowed authorities
0:09.6	to quickly expel migrants seeking asylum was allowed to lapse.
0:13.5	Earlier this week, President Biden had warned it could be, quote, chaotic for a while.
0:17.7	Tens of thousands of migrants are believed to be massed in northern Mexico and two Texas
0:21.4	counties issued disaster declarations and preparations.
0:24.6	Today, however, there is no evidence of a rush, at least not an immediate one.
0:28.9	This video from the U.S. Mexican border is probably the best evidence of that.
0:31.6	On the left, you see the border as it was yesterday with migrants camped just outside it.
0:36.4	On the right, the border as it was today.
0:38.6	There's a lot of theories of where those people went will get to that in a moment.
0:42.6	A source still see an end that, according to account by Border Patrol, around 23,400
0:47.0	migrants were in custody as of this afternoon.
0:50.0	That's slightly lower than earlier this week.
0:52.8	Nevertheless, the administration is still preparing for more migrants seeking asylum, ice, for
0:57.4	instance, is adding 5,000 detention beds.
1:00.6	There's also the political chaos with Republican calls for the border to be shut down.
1:04.1	In the Biden administration, saying Republicans are trying to quote, sabotage its efforts
1:08.0	on the border after our federal judges ruling in Florida.
1:11.4	Elevator starts it off tonight from El Paso, Texas, with the latest.
1:16.6	After Title 42 ended late Thursday night, some migrants discovered they didn't make it
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