Thousands of migrants have set up an encampment on sidewalks and alleys around a church in this border city, where they wait for assistance and swap stories of their recent rush to cross into the U.S. ahead of a planned policy change by the Biden administration.

Among the crowd of adults and children Thursday was Angel Amarista, a 22-year-old Venezuelan who left for the U.S. in March in part because of rumors that he should enter before the law known as Title 42 expires.

On Wednesday he walked through the Rio Grande and into El Paso, sneaking past a phalanx of U.S. Border Patrol agents, state police and Texas National Guard troops.

“There’s a lot of information out there, but it’s hard to know what’s true and what’s not,” Mr. Amarista said. “A lot of people said it was better to go now. So I went.”

[As I have been repeatedly pointing out on Twitter, an interesting factoid is that El Paso County, TX voted for Joe Biden 2-1 over Donald Trump. 66.66% of the votes cast in the 2020 election were for precisely what is on their streets at this moment. I’m not sure what else they were expecting, but they got Biden, good and hard, and it’s gonna get worse. As a corollary, they have royally helped screw the rest of us and will have probably learned NOTHING. ~ Beege]