A group of migrants tried hiding in the backyard of an El Paso, Texas, home before fleeing the area when they noticed they were on security camera.
Footage posted to a local news and information page showed a man carrying a young child toward the home in the dark as he looks around and crouches against an exterior wall.
The video was posted late last week and shows seven other men, women and children then trickling over, with some crouching at a nearby stone wall.
One person can then be seen surveying the area. He then points toward the home’s security camera before everyone stands up and walks away.
The caught-on-camera incident allegedly took place outside an occupied home within the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo, Native American tribal grounds located approximately 13 miles from El Paso’s downtown area.
The migrants were ultimately apprehended, the caption states, although The Post wasn’t able to independently verify that was the case.
Tribal police had recently warned locals about migrants flooding into the area, according to a different post on the Instagram account.
Migrants seen approaching the backyard of an occupied home in El Paso before noticing the security camera and leaving. Instagram/@therealfitfamelpaso“Tribal Police is urging community members to monitor their property and report any trespassers or suspicious activity immediately,” the warning states.
Locals previously told The Post how border city El Paso has become overrun by migrants – in some cases with illegals taking refuge in their yards and neighborhoods.
What is Title 42 and what does its end mean for US border immigration?
What is Title 42?
Title 42 is a federal health measure enforced by the US Border Patrol. It allows the agency to kick certain migrants out of the US and return them to Mexico. This includes asylum seekers, who under international law have the legal right to make an asylum claim in America.
Currently, migrants who cross the border illegally and who are from Cuba, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua or Venezuela are subject to Title 42 and could be sent to Mexico.
How did Title 42 start?
President Donald Trump invoked the law in 2020 at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, asking the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to issue the policy. The Trump administration made the case that keeping migrants out of the country would slow down the spread of infections and maintain the safety of federal agents encountering migrants.
What has happened with Title 42 under Biden?
When President Biden took over, he continued to enforce Title 42 with one important change from his predecessor. Biden said Border Patrol agents were only allowed to expel migrants from certain countries under his direction. That meant migrants seeking asylum from countries like Cuba and Venezuela could still seek asylum if they arrived at the border and stay in the US while their cases were decided in court — unless they had a criminal record.
What is happening with Title 42 now?
Title 42 is supposed to be a health policy, not an immigration law. It will end at 11:59 p.m. May 11, when the Biden administration ends all COVID-19-related policies.
Why is it controversial?
Many have called for the policy’s end, saying it’s illegal and that international law guarantees people the right to seek asylum.
Others, like Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, warn that the southern border could see up to 13,000 migrants per day crossing with the intention to stay in the country when the measure ends.
What would the end of Title 42 mean for immigration into the US?
It’s unclear exactly how many people have been expelled under Title 42 because there have been scores of people who have attempted to enter the country numerous times and been rejected again and again, but the US Border Patrol said it made an all-time high of more than 2.3 million arrests at the border in the last fiscal year. Forty percent of people who were expelled from the country were ejected under the rules of Title 42.
Luis Lujan, who lives less two miles from the US-Mexico border, told the Post he has seen migrants hiding in the yards of his neighbors, many of whom are elderly.
“They’re afraid — we don’t know if they’re going to break into our houses,” he said in November last year. “We don’t confront them because we don’t know if they have guns. We don’t know if they have knives.”
The incident allegedly took place outside an occupied home within the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo, Native American tribal grounds, 13 miles outside El Paso. Instagram/@therealfitfamelpaso
The group was allegedly apprehended, but The Post could not confirm. Instagram/@therealfitfamelpasoAnd more than a dozen migrants were caught on video in December dodging traffic after hopping a 30-foot border wall and running onto an E Paso highway.
“This is our government f—ing money, yes sir,” a driver can be heard saying. “Another one! Another one! Another one!”
The Texas government is bracing for a flood of illegal migrants into the country at the end of Title 42 on Thursday. Law enforcement sources previously told The Post thousands of migrants had gathered along the Mexico border ahead of the deadline.
Title 42 is a pandemic-era measure that has allowed border patrol to swiftly eject migrants from certain countries without hearing their asylum claims, citing public health reasons.
The federal policy was enacted under President Donald Trump and is among the federal policies being ended by his successor.
During a Monday press conference, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said the end of Title 42 would likely “cause a catastrophic disaster in the United States.”
According to data obtained by The Post, up to 16,000 migrants are waiting to cross into San Diego from Tijuana, while as many as 35,000 are waiting in Mexico’s Ciudad Juarez to cross into El Paso.
Texas cities of Brownsville, El Paso and Laredo have already declared states of emergency.
