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Hundreds of migrants of various nationalities wait their turn at the border between Mexico Y USA to request asylum from the US authorities days before Title 42 expires, a Washington measure that allows those who enter its territory to be immediately expelled.
About a thousand migrants wait this Wednesday on the edge of the Bravo River (called Rio Grande in the United States), which borders the border Juarez Cityto surrender to the US authorities and request asylum in that country. There are emigrants from Nicaragua, although there are also people from Colombia, Ecuador, Cuba, Peru and Venezuela.
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Since Sunday, lines of people have been seen waiting for their opportunity. The agents of the Border Patrol Americans are receiving them in groups, although it is not clear if once received they are immediately expelled under the Title 42.
Migrants wait their turn amid the low temperatures that are recorded in the city, while other migrants who are also waiting for Title 42 to expire bring them food and water in exchange for a tip.
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“I am here supporting the countrymen who turn themselves in, because they have nowhere to shop, where to have breakfast. You give them the support of getting their needs across,” says Gabriel Infante, a Venezuelan migrant. who brings food to those who wait their turn.
The queue is also recorded days after the Mexican authorities evacuate a camp of about 400 Venezuelan migrants in the city.
“We are seeing hundreds of people very cold, without food, trying to warm up a little. This should not have been so. This is the decomposition of the migration policy of USA and of Mexico”said Fernando García, from the NGO Border Network for Human Rights.
In mid-November, a US judge ruled that the Title 42a measure established by the Donald Trump government to automatically expel migrants in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, was used in an “arbitrary and capricious” manner to block their asylum applications.
At the request of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the same judge later granted the Joe Biden government five weeks to prepare for a feared avalanche of migrants, the vast majority of them Latin Americans.
The ruling will take effect on December 21 at midnight.
Source: Elcomercio
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