A record number of migrants - more than 10,000 - were recently apprehended at the US-Mexico border in a 24-hour period, fuelling fears over what comes next when a controversial immigration policy expires at 23:59 ET on Thursday (03:59 GMT on Friday).
EDnews informs via BBC that Nowhere are the realities of what some have termed a border "crisis" more evident than in the Texas city of El Paso.
Here, migrants - many of them confused about the impending rule changes - have been left sleeping rough in makeshift campsites on city streets over the last several days.
Several thousand were camped out earlier this week around a single church in the city centre.
"We've never seen this before," Mayor Oscar Leeser said at a border security expo just streets away from the campsite on Wednesday. "Something has to change. As a community, we can't do this forever."
The worst, officials say, may be yet to come.
US President Joe Biden earlier this week acknowledged that the border would be "chaotic for a while" despite the best efforts of authorities.
First implemented in 2020, Title 42 allows US authorities to swiftly expel would-be migrants attempting to cross the border from Mexico - including those seeking humanitarian asylum - using the Covid-19 pandemic as justification.
