Chaos on Mexico border averted, for now, as US turns page in migration rules

by VALERIE GONZALEZ, ELLIOT SPAGAT and GIOVANNA DELL'ORTO | Associated Press

Sat, May 13th 2023, 2:18 PM UTC

A small group of migrants, bottom right, are pictured while camping outside a gate in the border fence in El Paso, Texas, Friday, May 12, 2023. The border between the U.S. and Mexico was relatively calm Friday, offering few signs of the chaos that had been feared following a rush by worried migrants to enter the U.S. before the end of pandemic-related immigration restrictions. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton)

A migrant gathers pieces of cardboard to sleep on, in Huehuetoca, Mexico, Friday, May 12, 2023, while waiting to board a freight train heading north, the day after U.S. pandemic-related asylum restrictions called Title 42 were lifted. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

A Venezuelan migrant child looks out from a makeshift tent, constructed by his parents on the the banks of the Rio Grande in Matamoros, Mexico, Friday, May 12, 2023, a day after pandemic-related asylum restrictions called Title 42 were lifted. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

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A small group of migrants, bottom right, are pictured while camping outside a gate in the border fence in El Paso, Texas, Friday, May 12, 2023. The border between the U.S. and Mexico was relatively calm Friday, offering few signs of the chaos that had been feared following a rush by worried migrants to enter the U.S. before the end of pandemic-related immigration restrictions. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton)

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