Many people flood the US-Mexico bridge.

Dramatic footage shot on Sunday showed hundreds of mostly Venezuelan migrants surging across the Paso Del Norte bridge which links Mexico and the US, in a bid to gain entry to America. US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents used crowd control measures to stem the flow of people after the large group, which contained men, women and children, attempted to demand asylum. The mass migration effort came amid rumors that the border was to be opened to grant political asylum to migrants. Video from the scene showed the large crowd surging towards gates on the southern US border, with many pleading with agents to allow them to pass. CBP agents confirmed that they used "port hardening measures" to deal with a "potential threat to make a mass entry." Additional officers were deployed to two other bridges in the area, and the standoff had largely receded by 5:30pm local time.

Many migrants are understood to have lost faith in the asylum system after the administration of President Joe Biden launched a mobile application called 'CBP One' which was designed to increase the efficiency of applications. Republican lawmakers have blamed Biden for exacerbating problems at the US-Mexico border by removing policies from the Donald Trump era, such as the defunding of the border wall project. Biden has hit out at Republican opposition to immigration reform proposals announced early into his presidency.