Juarez City.– One week after the end of the public health order called Title 42, migrants who remain stranded in Ciudad Juárez remain in uncertainty because they are unaware of the new immigration policies of the United States.
“What will happen on May 12?”, “Will the application continue?”, “What will happen if they arrest me?”, “They say that Canada and Spain are going to receive migrants, but how can they Can I do?”, are part of the questions of Mexicans and foreigners who remain in the city with the hope of obtaining political asylum in the neighboring country.
Through information sheets, the Government of Joe Biden has informed that when Title 42 is withdrawn, at 11:59 p.m. on May 11, the United States will return to the use of Title 8 of immigration authority to process expeditiously. the removal of individuals who entered irregularly.
Title 8 contains severe consequences for trespass, including at least a five-year ban on re-entry and potential criminal prosecution for repeated trespass attempts, so a return to Title 8 is expected to reduce the number of repeated attempts to cross the border irregularly.
“It is very distressing not to know anything, they play with us, now we don’t know why if with a five-year punishment they are going to send us back here, how are we going to do it? Are we going to get stuck here?” he questioned. Joshua, a 26-year-old Venezuelan.
He said that he fears turning himself in again to Border Patrol agents because he already crossed the Rio Grande/Río Grande in April and was separated from his wife and children, and while he was expelled through Nogales they were returned through Piedras Negras .
According to the Department of State and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), individuals who cross into the United States through Mexico without authorization or using a legal route, and who have not scheduled an appointment to report to a port of entry, they will be ineligible for asylum under a proposed new rule, if there is no applicable exception.
Venezuelan Ángel Pavón, 51, who remains in Ciudad Juárez with his two daughters, ages 12 and 13, while his wife waits for them in El Paso, also claimed that returning them to Mexico is not the solution.
“That is not the solution because first of all, Mexico currently does not have the conditions to receive so many immigrants, because we are victims here of a number of abuses. That is why we ask for a humanitarian corridor, that if the United States does not want to receive us, that it be another country that has the conditions”, requested the South American.
In the last week it was also announced that as part of the Los Angeles Declaration on Migration and Protection and the “Call to Action” for Central America of the United States, the Government of Joe Biden, Spain and Canada have established specific objectives how to identify ways in which they can support pathways for labor migration, including support that seeks to promote fair recruitment and respect for workers’ rights.
It was reported that Canada intends to explore new humanitarian pathways to receive more displaced people from the Americas for employment in Canada and Spain will increase the number of people arriving from Latin America over the next three years through linked pathways. with the needs of the labor market, which will reinforce existing operational capacities.
