Title 42 pandemic restrictions expire, causing chaos at US-Mexico border.

The US has ended a three-year-old asylum restriction and enacted a set of strict new rules that the Biden administration hopes will stabilize the US-Mexico border and push migrants to apply for protections where they are, skipping the dangerous journey north. Even as the old policy known as Title 42 expired, migrants along the border were still wading into the Rio Grande to take their chances getting into the country, defying officials shouting for them to turn back. The Biden administration has said the new policies are meant both to crack down on illegal crossings and to offer a new legal pathway for migrants who spend thousands on smuggling operations to get them to the US-Mexico border.