El Paso Declares State of Emergency Ahead of Title 42 Order Expiration Next Week

Venezuelan and Nicaraguan migrants are transferred by agents of the Border Patrol after crossing the Rio Grande river from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, to El Paso, Texas, on Dec. 27, 2022. Herika Martinez/AFP via Getty Images

On May 1, the border city of El Paso, Texas, entered a state of emergency in advance of an expected surge of illegal border crossings when Title 42 ends in less than two weeks.

“We are getting prepared now for what we call the unknown,” El Paso Mayor Oscar Leeser, a Democrat, said at a press conference on April 30.