Metering Update: February 2022

This report provides an update on asylum waitlists, asylum seekers, and migrant shelters along the U.S.-Mexico border amid the suspension of CBP’s asylum processing since June 2018 and the Title 42 exemption processes that ended in August 2021. It documents approximately 28,995 asylum seekers on waitlists in eight Mexican border cities. This is an approximately 9 percent increase from November 2021, when there were 26,505 asylum seekers on the lists. This is also the largest number of individuals on metering waitlists at the border since the Strauss Center reports began in November 2018.