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Venezuelans who insist on entering USA Despite new immigration policies that restrict them, they protested this Friday at the southern and northern borders of Mexico, claiming that they are “unfair” measures after the harsh exodus from their country.
In Chiapas, a state bordering Guatemala in the south of Mexicoa caravan of about 1,000 Venezuelans was advancing on a highway in that hot region, hoping to reach USA.
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in the northeast of MexicoMeanwhile, dozens protested at one of the border bridges that connect the state of Tamaulipas with the US state of Texas, forcing the passage through that road to be closed, authorities reported.
This week, an agreement between Washington and Mexico determined that 24,000 Venezuelans will be able to enter USA through a formal request and by air, frustrating the efforts of those who try to cross from Mexican territory.
Enduring the Chiapas sun and guarded by a National Guard patrolman, Sandy Araujo, a 22-year-old Venezuelan, told AFP that the measure should have been reported in advance to migrants like him who have spent weeks of painful road.
“It’s unfair because many of us have already come tired, exhausted, looking to pass, so they give us this news and it’s really quite hard (…) But we keep going,” he stressed.
Shouting “yes you can!”, the Venezuelans and some migrants of other nationalities left Thursday night from Tapachula, on the border with Guatemala and the starting point of the numerous caravans that have traveled Mexico in recent years.
According to the new migration agreement, Mexico will receive for humanitarian reasons the Venezuelans illegally crossing from its territory.
Meanwhile, in Matamoros, a city on the border with Brownsville, United States, dozens of Venezuelanschained and with their hands painted white as a sign of peace, sought to cross USA over the Gateway International Bridge, local media reported.
The authorities of that country closed the crossing, reported the US consulate in Matamoros, which also asked its employees and citizens to avoid the area.
Last Wednesday a first group of about 100 Venezuelans was returned to Mexico’s Ciudad Juárez (north) as soon as the new politics.
The Mexican government began to ask for visas from Venezuelans starting last January, which pushed thousands to try to cross the country clandestinely or in caravans.
Since October 2021, the US authorities have counted more than 155,000 Venezuelans entering through its southern border, more than triple than in the previous period.
Source: Elcomercio
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