Tens of thousands of migrants waited Wednesday along Mexico’s northern border to cross into the United States after the end of Title 42, as authorities stepped up police and even military presence.
In Tijuana, on the California border, thousands of migrants of various nationalities, including whole families and children, gather together against the border walls waiting for Title 42 – scheduled for the fifth fair at night – to request humanitarian asylum from us. USA.
The camp has been growing since last weekend with people from Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Haiti and Honduras, but also from as far away as Turkey and Bosnia, as well as Mexicans from the southern states of Michoacán and Guerrero, where violence organized criminal put them on the run
Title 42 was a measure adopted by former President Donald Trump in 2020 and later expanded by the current president, Joe Biden, to expel migrants under the pretext of the Covid-19 pandemic, an emergency declaration that is about to end.
Several migrants consulted by EFE, who did not want to be identified, said they were overwhelmed and tired by the uncertainty about their future, a situation that is aggravated because they do not know how the new Title 8 will work, which brings together all the immigration laws of the United States and provides expedited removal procedures for asylum seekers whose stories appear to lack credibility.
The region faces an unprecedented migratory flow, with more than 2.76 million undocumented immigrants intercepted by the United States at the border with Mexico in 2022.
Given the entire situation and to help local authorities, the United States today mobilized more than 25,000 agents on the border with Mexico and adopted new restrictions on the right to asylum, given the legal change.
The Government has announced today the deployment of “more than 24,000 agents and law enforcement, as well as more than 1,100 coordinators” of the border police.
These figures do not include the 1,500 soldiers sent by the Defense Ministry, in addition to the 2,500 already in place.
To encourage legal immigration channels, Washington eventually plans to open a hundred “regional management centers” located outside the country, and where the processes of emigration candidates will be studied. The first are planned in Colombia and Guatemala.
These new rules have been harshly criticized by immigrant defense associations that accuse Joe Biden of carrying out an immigration policy not very different from that of his predecessor, Donald Trump.
The 80-year-old president, who has just announced his candidacy for a second term in 2024, tries to neutralize these criticisms with a balance that alternates messages of firmness and humanism.
Along with the new restrictions, his government is issuing an additional 30,000 visas per month to citizens of Cuba, Venezuela, Guatemala and Haiti.
Source: TSF
