Border Patrol to arrest migrants in El Paso who entered U.S. undetected

The U.S. government announced Monday it would dispatch Border Patrol agents to apprehend migrants in El Paso, Texas who crossed the southern border surreptitiously, saying those taken into custody could be expelled, detained or placed in deportation proceedings.

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said agents in El Paso would launch an operation Tuesday to apprehend migrants who can't prove that they had been processed and released by the agency after crossing into the U.S.

The operation is designed to target many of the thousands of migrants who have been sleeping on the streets of El Paso amid a spike in migrant crossings in the lead-up to the end of the Title 42 public health restrictions on Thursday.