hours away from the end of the
immigration policy known as Title 42.
It's our top story right here on the four.
I'm Heather Meyers.
I'm Carla Chichetta.
We have team coverage of the grg
crisis at the border as crowds f
migrants gather hoping to seek asylum.
CBS Eight's Richard Allen is lie
in Tijuana with the confusion ad
frustration over the policies.
Shannon Handy has more on
the weight along the wall,
but we start out with Jesse Pag.
Jesse.
Yeah, Carlo, Heather,
the moment has come right here.
We are just a few hours away
from the end of Title 42,
and we are here at the Wall whee
a lot of migrants are waiting,
hoping for their chance.
If you take a look,
you can see a lot of them are
just waiting right by the wall,
some covered under tarps,
some under trash bags,
some with cardboard,
trying to take some shade and stay warm.
Just a few minutes ago we
did some some people.
You know, just baking in the he.
We did see a teenage girl who
did faint a crowd around her
trying to help her pour some
water over her and Border Patrol
officers over here calling for
an ambulance to get out here.
That's the reality a lot of thee
people are facing right now as
they wait for their chance and
their hopes of claiming asylum.
Of course,
our coverage throughout the
entire week we've been out here
showing you all kinds of storie.
Of people,
each one in the same situation ,
but of course with their own pah
and their own situation of how y
got here and their own reasons.
Shannon Handy, one of our repor,
has been out here for several days today.
She's been talking with folks at the border.
Some have been waiting for days,
some had just getting here,
and they've been waiting for
just a couple hours.
Yeah, Jesse, I've come out hereo
the same area outside the border
wall for several days of grown .
And what I keep saying is
that every day I come here,
the desperation is growing.
You're seeing more women, more children.
You're hearing babies cry.
People are tired, they're frustrated.
You can see some people behind ,
they have gathered at the wall to get things
like water and food that's being passed out.
You know, for a lot of these pe,
they showed up to the border
thinking they would show up.
Begin their asylum clean process right away.
But that's not the case.
And even just hours before Title 42 expires,
there's still no clarity
as to what will happen.
For several days now we've watched as
this group of migrants behind a small
section of the border wall has grown from
just dozens last week to now, hundreds.
This woman is from Ecuador.
She described the conditions as difficult,
saying it gets cold here at
night like so many here.
She and her one year old daughter Daniela,
have been sleeping on the ground for days.
They're covered in dirt and have
no extra clothes to change into.
She and others expected to arrie
at the border and immediately be
transported to star, her asylum claim.
Instead, the process has been
difficult and confusing.
Many of try using an online app to get
an appointment, but can't get through.
And while we've seen Border
Patrol transport some groups,
it's unclear who gets chosen
first and where they're taken t.
In the meantime, as they wait,
people on the other side of the
fence are trying to comfort
them however they can. Since
this crisis began,
more and more volunteers have
shown up to the border to help.
And it's not just churches
or humanitarian groups.
It's regular people like this
couple from Paradise Hills who
is making lunch for hundreds.
To be warm in my house and
for them to be cold out here,
it really breaks my heart right here.
It's really sad.
Other volunteers have brought clothes,
water, and toiletries.
They're also charging phones.
It's a common request as these
migrants seek some type of
communication with the outside world,
not knowing how much longer they'll be here,
even as Title 42 expires.
The hardest part is,
is just looking at them, you kn,
waiting here in the in the hot
sun for something to happen,
which may or may not happen.
And back out here live.
I talked in that story about
the volunteer efforts.
Just a few minutes ago,
a woman got out of her car and started
unloading all of these blankets.
We asked her who she was,
where she was from.
She was just a woman from Rancho Bernardo who
said she saw the need on TV and came here.
And we're seeing a lot of that.
Here's juice boxes that today.
Earlier someone was asking me
for a toothbrush and toothpaste,
and we were able to find that
in one of these boxes and give.
Get to the migrant now.
I did speak on the phone with
the Border Patrol official just
about 45 minutes ago and I asked
him I said what is the plan for
this group of migrants?
I know they're scattered
throughout the border,
but what about
in the sporting people?
They do have 8 facilities in thn
Diego region and asked are thos?
Facilities at capacity, he said.
He could not tell me and he coud
not tell me the plan beyond tha.
So a lot of confusion still to ,
a lot of chaos. And Jesse,
even we heard President Biden sy
the other day that this situatin
will be chaotic for quite some .
Shannon Chaotic seems to be parf
the identity of the situation h,
as you've seen.
But of course, as you just showed us,
we do have people trying to do r
best they can from their humanitarian,
their charity aspect to help these folks out.
Shannon Handy continuing our coverage and
kicking it off for us this afternoon.
There along the border, Shannon, thank you.
Now, Shannon did talk about the
chaotic nature of this and the
here and there nature of this.
And of course the people waiting for asylum
are the first ones to encounter all of that.
We have been reporting about the
process of going through all of this.
As you see, people are sitting ,
but they're not just sitting.
Many are on their phones trying to go through
the legal process through the CBP app.
You can see some of them
are asking the people.
Charge our phones so we can communicate
and try to go through the process and
do the things that we need to d.
Get on this app,
the C BP1 app that we've heard
quite a lot about.
However, even for those folks,
it has not been an easy process.
We have been talking about the issues
that have been there and also fr
folks who are waiting in Tijuana or in
Mexico and other parts of the country
go trying to go through that prs
as it's been laid out the legal.
CBS Eight's Richard Allen has bn
in Tijuana reporting on this ast
of the of the story for days no.
Richard is there now,
continuing that part of the
coverage of some people, Richar.
They wait days to try to
get through an appointment.
Some do and some don't.
And if there's really no way to
figure out who will be lucky enh
to get that appointment, Richar.
And Jesse, that's right.
So many of the migrants here in
Tijuana who we have been speakig
with over the past few days and weeks,
they tell us that after making
the dangerous journey here,
some of them have been attacked,
some of them robbed of
all the money they had.
Now they found their way to
a shelter here in Tijuana.
They just want to be able to try
to enter the United States lega.
But at this point,
they say they are increasingly unclear
exactly what that legal process means.
See, I'm much a convocion
other Sally Funk journeyed here
to Tijuana from her home country
of Guatemala with her partner ad
their little girl three months
ago to escape the homophobia and
discrimination they faced their
fearing for her life back home,
she hopes to claim asylum
in the United States.
She says it was a dangerous jouy
just to get here to this shelte.
Movin miento whoven to Dos Mill robbed of
all of her money by criminals during the.
Rip. And while she feels safe he
in the shelter for the time bei,
trying to navigate the
process to request asylum
has been exceedingly frustratin,
she tells us. Especially when
trying to use the CBP One app,
now required in most cases
to book an appointment to
begin the process for asylum.
She tries every day,
nearly all the time to.
Ply so far with no luck.
Meanwhile, at another migrant
shelter just around the corner,
good news for F Nayeem Martinez
Reyes from El Salvador,
who just learned he passed the
first step and is now waiting fr
an appointment with immigration
officials in the next two weeks.
Spero polomeno
jamma Push it on the import
like while your teno ques per
army. Hopeful now that he at let
has made some progress in trying
to cross the border legally,
he says criminal gangs back home attacked
him with a machete and threatend
the lives of his entire family.
Honduras es about or Guatemala.
Celia Ardone is the shelter coordinator
here, where they have migrants
staying from all over the world,
and while there is technically m
for 150 people, they now have 1.
Oh generally Capacita Rita
than the most Satura de Lugar,
she says. There's not only no.
More space here,
but no room currently at any of
the migrant shelters in Tijuana.
In the meantime,
more migrants continue to arrive
as nonprofit migrant rights gros
like Al Altodo Lado try to help
provide them with proper guidan.
But essentially the government
has provided no information to e
migrant community, and what we'e
seeing is mass confusion.
And that was Nicole Ramos from
that nonprofit Al Otrolado.
That's one of many
nonprofits here in Tijuana.
They are working to provide legl
guidance to the thousands of migrants
here who are desperate to seek asylum,
especially, she says,
in the face of the misinformatin
a lot of these migrants
are now receiving. Jesse
Yeah, Richard. Misinformation is also a
big part of all of this happening here.
We've reported on that before.
But how prevalent have you found out that is?
Well, these migrant rights
groups we're talking with,
they say it is extremely preval.
It's especially especially being used by
human smugglers who are using misinformation.
To prey on these desperate migrs
and a lot of times that has dangerous,
even deadly consequences.
And Nicole Ramos from El Ultra .
She fears that these new restrictions
that the US is imposing on tryig
to get asylum such as the C BP1.
Also this new rule that's being
finalized requiring migrants to.
Prove that they have sought asym
in a third country such as Mexio
before being able to apply for
asylum in the United States.
She worries that these new restrictions will.
Frustrate some of these migrants so much,
making them so desperate that ty
will resort to human smugglers
to try to get across the border.
And of course that can have some
very dangerous consequences.
In fact, we spoke earlier with
Customs and Border Protection.
They tell us that in the weeks and months
leading up to the end of Title ,
they've actually seen an increae
in human smuggling attempts.
Jesse.
Changing information,
misinformation on top of that all on a layer
on top of quite a dangerous situation.
Jalen, live for us from Tijuana, Mexico.
Richard, thank you, Heather.
Carlo, as we've been talking about for days,
the situation out here continues to change.
More people continue to show
up here at the border,
some again here for days waitin,
some just getting here,
whether yesterday or even today.
Customs and Border Patrol
officers are out here.
Homeland Security officials aret
here as well, along with charity groups,
churches and just people trying to help out.
You can see there are kids,
there are adults,
people of all ages here waiting to see
what happens with the end of Title 42.
I talked to two young women earr
this afternoon as soon as I got here.
They're from Colombia.
They're friends.
They barely knew each other in Colombia,
and they made the trek,
going from Colombia through several countries
in South America and then ultimy
ending up here at the border of Tijuana.
You're going to hear more from them later
on in this evening of what they,
what they left behind,
and their hopes.
For all of this, Heather.
Carlo,
Yeah,
Just just to get a better vantage point of
exactly where you are along the border.
Have you seen Border Patrol come
by since you've been there?
I know when we were checking inh
our net Iran pour around the noon hour,
all throughout the morning she d
been reporting right up against
the fence and chatting with peoe
on the other side of the fence.
They asked her to move back from the fence.
Have you received those same
types of rules or restrictions?
What if agents been telling you?
I have not gotten any of that, Heather.
We do see CBP out here again.
We have seen Homeland Security
out here talking with folks and
kind of monitoring the area.
There are several people,
whether again on their own or with charities
or churches or humanitarian eff,
who are right up on the border.
There are journalists right up on the border.
The shot that you're looking at right now.
Is from one of our photographers
who is shooting through the the
towers that you know, the slats,
the spaces in the border trying
to give you the shot right here.
So we are able to get up close,
we are able to talk with people
on the other side of the border.
Again, they're right up against it and
we are being allowed up to this point
right now to get close to the border.
To bring you all of this.
Heather, Carlo and Jesse,
just quickly to recap,
as of right now,
we're just a few hours from Title 42 ending.
We still do not have a clear
picture of how things will chane
there at the board of entry.
That's very correct, Carlo.
Yes, we have heard obviously frm
the Biden administration's plano
impose some new restrictions one
Title 8 comes in back into play
rather and either impose some oe
restrictions or the stricter regulations
within Title 8 or some new ones.
But really we are at a point
of wait and see to see what
happens come 8:59 PM tonight.
On reporting live from the border, Jesse,
we will check in with you a little bit
later during this hour. Right now though
we do want to give you a live
look up above from chopper rate.
As you can see here we are realy
kind of pulled out on the shot.
So little hard to get our bearings of
exactly where they've grabbed the shot from.
But again, chopper rate up and r
the scene of the border crisis.
What we can't see we've been
out there all week.
We've seen the crowds growing
incrementally during this week.
Today looks like a big change from yesterday,
like there's. Double almost.
The crowd from what we saw yesty
that it was sitting waiting for this.
Maybe this is because they're looking at
we're that much closer to Title 42 ending.
Hard to know exactly what is
motivating that move right now,
but those crowds definitely are growing
as we get closer to that deadli.