Mauro de la Fuente/ Reform Agency
Tuesday, April 25, 2023 | 06:08
CDMX.- The Border Patrol reported that on Sunday more than 1,600 migrants crossed from Matamoros to Brownsville via the Rio Grande.
Through a statement, he pointed out that an average of a thousand foreigners cross illegally every day, to stay on the river bank waiting to turn themselves in to the immigration authorities to request political asylum.
“(On Sunday) Border Patrol agents in Brownsville found more than 1,600 migrants entering the United States illegally in a 24-hour period,” he said.
He stated that the large groups of migrants accumulated on the banks of the Rio Grande, on the Mexican side, near Matamoros, crossed illegally with human smuggling organizations.
The federal agency indicated that crossing the border illegally into the US brings inherent dangers even for the most vulnerable, such as children.
Meanwhile, the Department of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) reported that migrants who continue to enter the US illegally will be expelled.
“Persons who try to enter the US without permission, do not have a legal basis to remain and cannot be removed under Title 42. They will be subject to expedited removal to their country of origin and prohibited from re-entry for five years,” he said.
Migrants who are in the camp located on the banks of the Rio Grande, have been crossing in inflatables and with the help of a rope, to the American side.
On Wednesday night, about a thousand tried to cross the Puerta México International Bridge to demand asylum in the US, forcing the authorities to close the crossing.
…And another 3,500 leave Chiapas
The federal government reported yesterday that the new migrant caravan that left Tapachula, Chiapas, could involve the transit of some 3,500 travelers.
In a morning conference at the Palace, the Secretary of the Interior, Adán Augusto López, assured that attention, food and health services will be provided to foreigners.
“Our migrants are being cared for, the federal government tries to guarantee not only free transit through the national territory, but that they are very well cared for in terms of food, in terms of health prevention,” he said.
“And now, these days, a new march began with approximately 3,500 migrants. The National Institute of Migration (INM) supported by the Government and the instances of the federal Government and the state Governments, we are awaiting the development of this new caravan and will we are providing all the care that is required.”
The official was questioned about the demands of the Governor of Chihuahua, PAN member María Eugenia Campos, who demanded to stop the migratory flow and define a federal policy to address the crisis that is taking place on the border with the US.
In response, López warned that Mexico will maintain its tradition of asylum, so they will continue with the open door policy for travelers.
“Mexico is an example, it is a country of asylum, it is a country of open doors. Of course we work in coordination, the federal government works in coordination with state governments, with municipal governments,” he said.
“Right now in the security meeting we were analyzing the situation of migrants, especially Haitians, who have already been transferred to a shelter that the city government implemented together with the National Institute of Migration in the Tláhuac (sic) delegation.”
Meanwhile, armed only with jugs of water and their backpacks, children, women, and men from Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, Venezuela, Costa Rica, and Colombia came together to leave the Tapachula Bicentennial Park in Chiapas at dawn yesterday. heading towards Mexico City.
In addition to taking with them the minimum to withstand the journey of more than a thousand kilometers, the migrants also set out on the road with banners and crosses in protest of the tragedy in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, which killed 40 people inside a ranch. of the INM, on March 27.
“In this Via Crucis we ask the government for justice for the murderers, that they stop hiding the high command, we also ask that these prisons (the INM stays) be finished; we also ask for the disappearance of the National Institute of Migration,” sentenced Irineo Mújica , director of the organization Pueblos sin Fronteras and organizer of the tour.
