Drone footage shows migrants at the Mexico border city of Juarez, May 12, 2023.

The U.S. government has ended Title 42, the emergency health order used during the COVID-19 pandemic at the U.S.-Mexico border to quickly expel migrants back to Mexico or to their home country,

The order ended Thursday night at midnight.

The Biden administration introduced strict asylum measures that, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas says, will lead to the expulsion of the majority of migrants at the border, where some border analysts say about 150,000 people are waiting to enter the U.S.

"This is what will happen: You will be returned," Mayorkas told a Washington news conference on Wednesday. "Our border is not open."

At the border, migrants are confused about what to do next. Priscilla Orta, an immigration lawyer in Brownsville, Texas, has been crossing the border into Matamoros, Mexico, every week to explain to migrants the process they are about to face.

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