The countdown is over and
the next phase has begun.
Title 42 is now expired as of an hour ago.
Now the thousands of migrants
gathered at the US Mexico borders are
trying to figure out what's next.
Good evening and thanks
so much for joining us.
I'm Marcella Lee.
And I'm Jesse Pagan. U.S.
officials say Right now,
an estimated 60,000 people are
gathered near the US Mexico
border in anticipation of titles.
40 twos end. They'll now face
new rules on applying for asylum.
Tonight we have live team
coverage at the border,
answering all of your questions.
CBS8's Richard Allen is in
Tijuana with what's happening on
the other side of the border.
Our Jasmine Ramirez is covering the
situation right now in San Ysidro,
but we begin with CBS8's Rosila Lafay
with some breaking information for SEAL.
Well, now that Title 42 is officially over,
asylum planes are now being
processed under Title 8.
It's an immigration policy that has
been around for decades in the US,
and what that means is that these
migrants and anyone else who continues
to show up could potentially
become ineligible for asylum and
could face strict penalties now.
New developments In the last
couple of hours or so,
a federal judge in Florida has
temporarily blocked the Biden
administration from continuing A
migrant release policy designed
to relief overcrowding at
immigration holding facilities.
The ruling came just hours before
Title 42 expired and raises
concerns of high number of migrants
becoming stranded in Border Patrol
custody in overcrowded conditions.
Hundreds of migrants are waiting
at the southern border for their
asylum claims to be processed.
Carlos Santiago Rossetto is from
Ecuador and has been waiting at the
border for four days. She says.
If other countries had the necessary
guarantees for our families,
we would go there.
It'd be much closer to home and less
expensive, but it's not possible.
He's here with his wife and two
young daughters and tells me
they will continue trying to get
an appointment to be processed.
But Border Patrol officials are now
processing migrants under Title 8 guidelines,
which means migrants seeking entry
into the US will have to prove
they left their home country to
seek protection from prosecution.
There will be a credible fear interview,
and at that point it'll be
determining whether they will
proceed with an asylum case.
If they're credible,
Fear interview does not.
Meet the benchmarks of moving forward, then.
At that point they will be
processed through Title 8,
which means that they will be
placed into removal proceedings.
Under Title 8, migrants who enter the
US without an appointment will not be
allowed to apply for asylum if they did
not seek it in Mexico or another country,
which means that many of them
possibly probably could be deported,
and so those countries are not
safe for their own citizens.
How could other people
seeking safety expect to?
Live with in harmony.
Live without harm in those places.
It's just not possible.
Santiago Rossetto tells me.
Seeking asylum in Mexico is not
an option for him or his family.
It's a poserian existed porque Mexico
is temple gross economy place, he says.
That possibility does not
exist because Mexico is just as
dangerous as my own country.
Those who claims are denied
could face a minimum five year
ban from seeking reentry.
That is a measure that we've never seen.
I think it degrades the concept of asylum
and the promise that people seeking
safety and safe harbor would be taken in.
Now, these migrants are being highly
encouraged by you as officials to submit
their asylum claims through the CBP One app,
and through it they are able
to set up those appointments.
But obviously, if you take a look behind me,
there are still dozens and dozens of
these migrants and their families
that are still waiting around for a
chance to enter into the United States
and for their claims to be processed.
And a lot of these people were actually here,
have been here for days,
meaning before Title 42 even expired.
So what's going?
What happened to them and how their
claims will be processed moving forward?
Well, that has yet to become to be decided.
We're live here at the border, received
a lot fit back to you. All right,
we'll see that effect kicking off our
coverage tonight, Rocio, thank you.
CBS8's Jasmine Ramirez is also at the
border right now with what we've seen
throughout the day today and into the
evening in sunny seasonal Jasmine.
Yes. Well, Title 8 has now been in
effect for one hour, but we really
haven't seen any change out here.
I've seen a couple Border
Patrol vans drive by,
but they have not been picking anyone up.
What we are continuing to see is
so many families out here tonight.
They're all huddled together, just
ready to brace the cold for another night.
The situation at the San Ysidro
border is only getting worse.
Here's video from earlier today when a woman
passed out right next to the border wall.
It's just heartbreaking to see
the conditions that are awful.
I think seeing the women and the children,
the amount of small children under the age
of five that are out here is compelling.
It's makes you want to help,
which is exactly what they did.
Bridget and Melanie,
along with other Sandy Egans,
came down to the border on their own to help.
It's thanks to the volunteers
and organizations out here that
the migrants are being fed.
Even with Title 8IN effect,
it's unclear how long they'll
be enduring these conditions
before they're processed.
Misinformation remains a major problem too.
Tonight we talked to Osley, nice feeling.
And we the chocolate.
He's from Turkey and was told
seeking asylum would be easy once
he got to the US Mexico border.
Now he's one of hundreds
left wandering and waiting.
Tonight he asked me if I knew when
Border Patrol would be getting them
or if they'd be sent back to their
countries without a chance to seek asylum.
He said, what are your thoughts
on this? Will they pick us up
here or send us back again?
And now we have been working to
get a timeline of when people
will be getting processed,
but we haven't gotten any real answers.
What we have noticed for ourselves is
that it's the women and children that
are being picked up by Border Patrol
vans reporting live here at the border.
Jasmine Ramirez, CBS8.
Out of this image is just heartbreaking.
Thank you so much,
Jasmine. We
now want to take you just
across the border in Tijuana.
Confusion is deepening among the
thousands of migrants waiting in
shelters there, with a lack of
information making things worse,
CBS8's Richard Allen has been
in Tijuana for days now.
Richard continues our coverage tonight,
talking with people there today on their
frustrations as they try to navigate
the asylum process in the US Richard.
And here in Tijuana,
so many of the migrants we've
been speaking with say that after
making the dangerous journey
here and their search for asylum,
they want to make sure to enter
the United States legally.
But they're increasingly unclear
as to what that process now means.
Other silly funk journeyed here
to Tijuana from her home country
of Guatemala with her partner and
their little girl three months ago.
To escape the homophobia and
discrimination they faced there for
Eso Angua Para Silo,
fearing for her life back home,
she hopes to claim asylum
in the United States.
She says it was a dangerous journey
just to get here to this shelter.
Movin miento who've into dos meal robbed
of all of her money by criminals during
the trip and while she feels safe
here in the shelter for the time being,
trying to navigate the process
to request asylum.
Through Stranded has been
exceedingly frustrating,
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 apply, so far with no luck.
Meanwhile, at another migrant
shelter just around the corner.
Confirming Namas,
but a good news for F9 Martinez
Reyes from El Salvador,
who just learned he passed the
first step and is now waiting for
an appointment with immigration
officials in the next two weeks.
Spero polo Menojama push it on
the import like while your 10 OK
sper Army hopeful now that he at
least has made some progress in
trying to cross the border legally.
He says criminal gangs back home attacked
him with a machete and threatened
the lives of his entire family,
Honduras, Esaba or Guatemala.
Celia Ardone is the shelter coordinator here,
where they have migrants staying
from all over the world and while
there is technically room for
150 people, they now have 180.
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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
groups like Altodo Lado try to help
provide them with proper guidance.
But essentially, the government has provided
no information to the migrant community.
And what we're seeing is mass confusion.
And Alota Rollado and other groups
like it are working directly
with migrants here in Tijuana,
providing them legal guidance and also
working to counter the misinformation
a lot of migrants are now receiving,
specifically from human smugglers
who are exploiting migrants for
their own profits in Tijuana.
Richard Allen, CBS8.
Thank you, Richard.
Right now dozens of people are
being processed after getting
picked up on our side of the border
and brought over to local hotels.
Earlier this evening,
several buses filled with people
seeking asylum were spotted at the
Crowne Plaza Hotel in Mission Valley.
Some of the people there were
transported somewhere else,
others were seen leaving in taxis and cars.
Detention buses were also on site.
Members from Catholic Charities
were also there assisting and
providing aid to the migrants.
Border agents apprehended some
migrants in East County today
after they found them traveling
through the Hokumba del Zura area.
About 300 people were in this
particular group, we're told.
They trekked through the
OTA Mountain Wilderness.
Some migrants say they got hurt
after climbing over the border wall,
then walking through the Marin Valley
and onto the 94 near Campbell Rd.
Many, including children,
also say they have gone days
without food and water.
Jesse, what They were saying they were tired.
The young boy said he was tired.
And so that the father is where
Gonzado means tired. Yes. It
is unclear tonight what border agents
plan to do after detaining these migrants.
Some of them say they are from Colombia.
Another said he came all the way from Turkey.
Migrant families seeking asylum may
have to follow a home curfew and where
GPS ankle monitors while officers
decide if they can stay in the country.
It's a potential new policy
from the Biden administration.
Officials say under the policy,
migrant families won't have to
be held in detention centers.
ICE agents will be able to
monitor and locate the adults
who cross the border on lawfully.
If asylum officers find they
aren't eligible for US protections,
they would then be deported within
30 days of their placement and
get a five year ban from the US.
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