Title 42 finished on Thursday night. Pandemic-era policies allowed border agents to repatriate asylum seekers to Mexico.
At the U.S.-Mexico border in Yuma County, officials processed hundreds of migrants at two locations. One to the west of Somerton where the border fence ends and the land of Cocopa begins, and another just north of it.
Hours after Title 42 ended just before 9pm local time, agents processed immigrants and they boarded buses.
The group included single adult men and family units with children.
Just as Title 42 ended Thursday, May 11, 2023, immigrants are being processed by agents at the Yuma County, Arizona border.
Border Patrol agents are processing immigrants at the Yuma County, Arizona border just as Title 42 ended Thursday, May 11, 2023.
Immigrants talk to an unidentified border agent at the Yuma County border west of Somerton, Arizona, about an hour after Title 42 ended on Thursday, May 11, 2023.
Immigrants wait at the Yuma County, Arizona border just as Title 42 ended on Thursday, May 11, 2023.
