Border Patrol releases plan for migrant surge as Title 42 end nears, 40K amass feet away

Frantic preparations are underway in El Paso, Texas — ground zero for the border crisis — to deal with an expected flood of illegal migrants when Title 42 ends May 11.

The city has already seen an increased influx — with about 1,460 illegal border jumpers a day, according to the US Border Patrol.

And an estimated 40,000 migrants who hope to seek asylum in the US are amassed in Juarez, Mexico, just feet away from Texas’ sixth largest city, waiting for Title 42 to be lifted.

Created during the Trump administration, Title 42 is a pandemic policy that’s allowed the Border Patrol to kick out asylum-seeking migrants from the US and into Mexico without hearing if they have a credible case or not.

It currently applies to Cubans, Guatemalans, Haitians, Hondurans, Mexicans, Nicaraguans, Salvadorans and Venezuelans.

The Biden administration is ending all federal COVID policies on May 11.

Janeicy, a Venezuelan mom living on the streets of Juarez with her 6-year-old child, is among those waiting for the expiration, recounting how staying in Mexico has become more difficult.

She’s hoping to wait it out, but added conditions are increasingly hard in Mexico.

“First, I have no money,” she told the Border Report.

“Second, I’m afraid to give up now [to Border Patrol] and be sent back after coming from so far away.

“I don’t know if I will remain here. I want to turn myself in because I am tired of sleeping in a tent, uncomfortable with my son…and to eat (only) once in a while; not to have a good meal,” she said.

Migrants on both sides of the border are overwhelming shelters, with 200 migrants crammed into a tent outside El Paso’s “Opportunity Center” for the homeless.

“These are all migrants the majority of which are from Venezuela,” director John Martin told KTSM.

“The reality of it is we already have 100 migrants inside, plus the local homeless population, so we simply don’t have any space.”

Border Patrol officials have released a plan to deal with the massive influx, according to the Border Report.

It includes building a second large tent like the one first reported by The Post in December.

Once completed this June, it’ll give the agency three processing centers in El Paso to house migrants, take biometric information and run background checks.

The feds are also focused on freeing up border agents from administrative duties so they can focus on catching illegal entrants — and have enlisted the help of contractors, vendors and volunteers for those administrative tasks.

Also, Border Patrol agents from the northern border will be using video-conferencing to interview migrants in custody in El Paso.

There are already 200 civilian processing coordinators in West Texas.

Meanwhile, federal asylum adjudicators from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services will be brought to processing centers to determine which migrants have legitimate cases.

Those who don’t meet the initial threshold will be removed.

The agency also plans to ramp up repatriation flights, noting one recent flight from El Paso to Guatemala carried 139 illegal immigrants.