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Photos: Migrants rush across US border in final hours before pandemic rule expires
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Photos: Migrants rush across US border in final hours before pandemic rule expires

  • Associated Press
  • May 11, 2023
  • May 11, 2023 Updated Jan 10, 2024
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Clasping exhausted children, desperate migrants tried to make their way to the United States before the end of the pandemic-era health rule known as Title 42.

In Texas, members of the National Guard were deployed to the Mexico border as part of their state's response to the rush, bearing guns as migrants came with dozing children, and clothes soaked by crossing the Rio Grande.

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