The number of migrants crossing the border in the United States reached a daily record

Migrants cross the Rio Grande trying to reach the US. Credit: ALFREDO ESTRELLA/AFP via Getty Images

Premonitions The death of Title 42 sparked a race to the border as thousands of migrants crossed the Rio Grande from Mexico to Texas, often holding babies, cell phones and other items over their heads.

< p>Thursday evening a group of about 15 people were waiting on the bank on the Mexican side of the river. They tried to cross the border between Ciudad Juarez and El Paso, but the known holes in the fence were covered with barbed wire.

The group believed that at midnight, when Section 42 expired, they might be let through, but this did not happen.

Cindy Alvarez-Caro, 34, from Medellin, Colombia, said: for what». She hoped to join her sister in Houston, Texas, and left her daughters, aged 15 and 9, with their mother in Columbia.

She went with a friend, but her companion returned after they were robbed in Nicaragua.

The journey was «very difficult» and she said she was hungry, tired and cold. She was waiting by the river with some Venezuelan migrants she met in Honduras and they had been living on the streets of Ciudad Juarez for two months now, waiting for the 42nd title to expire.

Members of the National Guard guarding the fence on U.S. border, they told the group they would have to enter through official checkpoints where long lines of migrants line up waiting for their applications to be processed.

Cindy, 34, was unable to reach the US after two months on the streets of Ciudad Juarez. Photo: James Breeden for the Telegraph Late Thursday, a Florida judge temporarily suspended the release of migrants from overcrowded detention centers. U.S. District Judge T. Kent Weatherell, who was appointed by former U.S. President Donald Trump, said the release was not in accordance with due process.

An immigrant throws water bottles at a makeshift migrant camp. Photo: John Moore/Getty Images

The Joe Biden administration has drafted rules to replace Section 42, which they claim will stabilize the US-Mexico border. although they acknowledged that it would «take time».

Potential migrants will apply for asylum from their home countries through an app administered by US Customs and Border Protection.