U.S. authorities have been flying migrants caught illegally crossing the U.S.-Canada border to Texas as part of a deterrence effort to tackle a rise in ...
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) charter flights, which were used to move the migrants. CBP declined to say whether the migrants were expelled to Mexico under COVID border restrictions known as Title 42. CBP did not comment on a second flight from Plattsburgh to El Paso on March 21. [crossing from the United States into Canada](/world/americas/canada-immigration-why-record-asylum-seekers-are-crossing-us-border-2023-03-11/) in record numbers, straining resources. About half of those were Mexicans, who do not need a visa to travel to Canada. WASHINGTON, March 22 (Reuters) - U.S.