The situation on the US-Mexico border near El Paso, the point where there are the most migrants passed in recent months, remains quiet for the second day in a row, following the repeal of Title 42, the rule that allowed emergency evictions due to the covid-19 pandemic.
Early in the morning, the boundary line southeast of the cities El Paso (Texas, USA) and Ciudad Juárez (Chihuahua, Mexico) it looked peaceful, without the presence of refugees who wanted to enter US territory.
The American bank of the Rio Grande, which forms the natural boundary between the two countries, continued to be fortified by an accordion-shaped wall, erected by Texas National Guard by order of the state governor, Republican Greg Abbott.
Only a few birds flew over the five-and-a-half-meter metal fence on which numerous police vehicles were stationed. US Border Patrol and from the National Guard Corps, the latter without insignia, as well as several battleships.
At exit 42, about fifteen kilometers from the urban centers of both cities, you can see several holes made in the nights migrants spend on barbed wire and monitored by US agents to try to fix it.
Likewise, there are also patrols on the Mexican side Military vehicle.
At the gate, where yesterday morning the authorities completed the transfer of a thousand refugees who had gathered there in the last hours of the validity Title 42there are still three containers loaded with belongings left behind by migrants before being transported to detention and processing centers.
Authorities from NOW On Friday, they said that on the first day of the repeal of Title 42, they did not record a significant increase in border crossings, contrary to forecasts.
Juan Ángel Pavón, a 51-year-old Venezuelan traveling with his wife and two children, told EFE next to the center Mexico’s National Migration Institute (INM) where at least 40 people died in a fire last April, it takes two months to arrange an appointment with immigration authorities to cross the border.
He says that he arrived a few days before the tragedy that happened in the Ciudad Juárez immigration center, from where you can see the American side, and adds that “waiting for an official statement from both the governments of Mexico and the United States so that there would be a humanitarian exit for us from this area.”
And in the meantime, you have already filled out the application for cell phone offered by the United States authorities, to start the asylum application process.
He assures that everything is nervousness and uncertainty, that it took a year to get there, “go from country to country, work, collect funds to continue the journey”and suffering robberies and attacks that forced them to start from scratch.
Source: Panama America
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