no surge of asylum seekers have materialized. in fact, quite the opposite. border patrol encountered just over 3700 undocumented migrants on monday. that s according to a dhs official. and it is the fourth consecutive day of declining fourth consecu declining border numbers since title 42 was lifted. far lower than the 10,000 a day or more that officials were seeing last week when the policy was still in effect. and right now, voters are heading to the polls in jacksonville, florida, to pick the city s next mayor. it s a local race with national implications. four of the last five mayors there were republicans. this time will be telling of the chances there. could florida still be a battleground? it s also a test about influential desantis support is. the democrat is a former well-known news anchor.
proceedings of the asylum, and that is the situation on the ground of why we have seen the people sleeping on the sidewalk, which is a relatively smaum number compared to last week, because they don t fit into the shelters. the shelters are belonging to the men and ching. the key metric here is the rate of release. so the number of migrants released from dhs official, and if it is a controlled flow, it is going to allow the nonprofits on the ground to manage the assistance they need to continue with the travels, because that is the number to increase, and that is asylum seekers settling throughout the communities in the country and whether it is denver or as we have talked about at length new york city. polo sandoval for us in el paso. thank you for being there. sara? last hour, president biden said that he had no update on the debt ceiling talks, and deadline for the potential default is
washington, d.c. instead, he boarded a plane to come here to new york. it s possible we will see him here in central islip later today, poppy. thank you very much. title 42 expires tomorrow according to president biden it s, quote, going to be chaotic for a while. now, you will recall this is the pandemic-era border policy that all allowed border authorities to deport certain migrants. it s estimated 150,000 migrants are camped along the southern border right now. dhs official tells cnn border officials encountered 10,000 migrants yesterday alone. cnn s david culver is in ciudad juarez, mexico. your reporting has been very eye-opening. what are you seeing as we get closer to this deadline? it s interesting, phil. you mentioned president biden warning about this being potentially chaotic. we saw some of that chaos overnight. we were monitoring a lot of the border wall here.
the mexico border are already bracing for what is expected to be a surge in migrants following the expectation of that authority. already, you are seeing some beginning to prepare for that surge. the city of el paso, texas, as well as the city of brownsville, texas, both of them issuing states of emergency. now el paso, that will allow them to set up temporary shelters to deal with that expected influx of migrants. that is because we know there are already thousands of migrants in northern mexico that are waiting for title 42 to expire, in order to cross or attempt to across into the united states. 9000 believed to be in tijuana, 10 to 12,000 in the city of 16,000 and one and a half thousand in matamoros. dhs official told cnn that several border
title 42 allowed the biden administration, before that the trump administration, to quickly expel migrants who crossed the border. now that it s ending, something like 35,000, 36,000 migrants waiting to come across. what is the biden administration going to do? it is anticipating a surge in just ten days, but already, even before those thousands of people who are across the border, we re already seeing signs of strains. detention facilities along the border are already over capacity according to a dhs official. already this year, we have started to say the number tick up, about 23% increase from february to march in the number of encounters along the border. in recent days, that number we have seen about 7,000 encounters per day. that is towards the higher end of what these agents typically experience. the biden administration has been working, looking at new