He migrant flow It has fallen after a record high due to the end of the Title 42 ban, which expired at midnight Thursday, and there have been no confrontations or violence on the border with the United States in recent hours, Mexico’s foreign secretary said on Friday. , Marcelo Ebrard.
“The flow is going down today, at least until now, we have not had confrontations, situations of violence on the border,” the senior official stressed.
According to official US figures, the arrests of migrants trying to cross the common border from Mexican territory have reached record levels this week, due to their hopes of taking advantage of the lifting of the restriction imposed during the coronavirus pandemic.
“There is a decrease in the flows observed in recent days. Today, only in Tamaulipas (northwest of the country) of more than 1,800 people,” said Ebrard, citing information from the Migration’s national institutebut without offering more information about other bordering points.
According to reports from the Secretary of Defense cited by the foreign minister, in the border cities of Ciudad Juárez, in the state of Chihuahua, and Matamoros, in Tamaulipas, “the groups of migrants continue in the same numbers, more or less approximately 10,000 and 5,500 , respectively”.
In Tijuana, near San Diego, some 500 migrants are congregating peacefully along the border strip, while in Ciudad Juárez, neighboring El Paso, 24 people who crossed the wall, after drilling it, were detained by the border patrol of United States, he added.
The Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has been holding up to 28,000 migrants at its facilities in recent days, much more than its declared capacity, and people caught crossing illegally have exceeded 10,000 per day.
Under Title 42, imposed in 2020 to stop the spread of Covid-19, hundreds of thousands of migrants have been quickly expelled to Mexico. The measure has been superseded by a regulation by the Joe Biden administration that will deny asylum to nearly all those who cross illegally.
