Record number of migrants illegally enter US as Title 42 expiration looms.

Over half a million people have crossed into the US illegally and not been stopped by border patrol in the last eight months, according to US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Chief Raul Ortiz. The number of gotaways is on track to be the highest in recent years. The southern border is currently besieged with tens of thousands of migrants who have amassed at various points waiting for the end of Title 42, the pandemic-era measure that has allowed border patrol to swiftly eject migrants from certain countries without hearing their asylum claims, citing public health reasons.