Senior Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials demonstrate how deportations are carried out in South Texas
A senior Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official was at the southern Texas border on Wednesday to witness three asylum seekers being returned to Mexico under the Biden administration’s Title 8 removal orders.
Escorted by agents, two Venezuelans and one Cuban were led in a line to the middle of the Gateway International Bridge in Brownsville, Texas, where they were instructed to continue walking to Matamoros, Mexico.
“The measures we are implementing as part of our comprehensive approach to managing migration flows at the border are working, with the voluntary returns and returns to Mexico taking place right now behind us,” DHS Assistant Secretary Blas Núñez-Neto told the media.
“Our new policy establishes reasonable conditions for those who do not use the legal pathways we have expanded,” he added.
People who are deported or returned to Mexico face a five-year ban on reentering the United States. If they attempt to cross the border before that period has passed, they could face criminal prosecution and a possible ban on entry of up to 20 years.
In addition, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has increased deportation flights through ICE Air.
On Tuesday, ICE Air carried out several deportation flights to the Dominican Republic, Colombia, and Honduras. Additional deportation flights are scheduled from South Texas this week, according to ICE.
Title 8 replaced Title 42, which had been implemented during the pandemic, on May 11. That public health order, which had been in effect since March 2020, prohibited migrants from seeking asylum at the border in an effort to stop the spread of COVID-19.
Under Title 8, asylum seekers must request interviews at U.S. ports of entry with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) using the CBP One app.
They can also request interviews at 100 regional processing centers being established by the U.S. Department of State and the United Nations in countries throughout Latin America and the Caribbean.
Núñez-Neto announced that, beginning Thursday, the CBP One app will offer 250 additional appointments per day, bringing the total to 1,250 across the entire southwestern border.
He also emphasized that those who do not follow this process will be deported or returned to Mexico.
On Thursday, more than 100 migrants from Central America are scheduled to be returned on foot from the McAllen-Hidalgo International Bridge to Reynosa, Mexico, according to CBP officials.
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