Title 42 expiration leads to significant drop in migrant border encounters.

Border encounters have dropped by 56% since the lifting of Title 42, with an average of 4,400 people crossing the border each day, compared to 10,000 before May 11. The Department of Homeland Security has returned to the use of expedited processing under its Title 8 authorities, which creates a paper trail and comes with a potential five-year bar on reentry. Republican governors have sent their own personnel to the border, but the Biden administration is confident in their ability to conduct border operations in a safe, humane, and secure manner.