As migrants head for the U.S. border, social media surges with conflicting information on what the end of Title 42 will mean for them.
With the end on Thursday of Title 42, the pandemic-era policy that the Trump and Biden administrations used to expel immigrants who entered the United States illegally, their WhatsApp and Facebook groups have been
U.S. officials warn that migrants who cross illegally could be deported, barred for five years and prosecuted for the crime of illegal entry. In Necoclí, a coastal town near the entrance of the Darién Gap, the roadless jungle between Colombia and Panama, an advocate for migrants noticed the confusion among the gathering hundreds. On Thursday, hours before Title 42 was set to expire, Marlyn Luque Urquiola stood in a circle with a group of migrants on a beach and asked what they knew about the change in border policy.
“On social media, pretty much,” another man said. “You see everything that happens on there and get informed, little by little.”“Honestly, nothing, because one person tells you one thing, and another person tells you another thing,” said Heisber Silva, a 24-year-old Venezuelan.“To turn myself in to immigration,” he said. He had heard something about an application, he said, but didn’t know anything about it.
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