Hundreds of migrants at US-Mexico border hours before the lifting of Title 42

Hundreds of migrants wait along the US-Mexico border wall, waiting to enter the US, after crossing the Rio Grande River to El Paso, Texas. Contractors are seen fixing border wall gaps used by migrants to cross, hours before the lifting of Title 42, a set of pandemic-era controls barring migrants from claiming US asylum.

Pandemic-era controls barring migrants from claiming US asylum expire Thursday night, with a tough new policy spelling uncertainty for thousands seeking refuge in America.Migrants, mostly from the Americas but some from as far away as Asia, were present on both sides of the frontier as US troops arrived to handle an expected surge of people seeking to cross over.