Since the beginning of April, 35 percent of the encounters with migrants carried out by Border Patrol agents from the El Paso sector have occurred in the Santa Teresa area, reported the US authority.
“Agents in Santa Teresa use jeeps to intercept migrants entering the United States illegally in New Mexico,” he said, reporting that more than three out of seven irregular crossings occur through the desert between Juárez and New Mexico, including the Sunland Park area.
According to the authority in charge of monitoring the border with Mexico, its agents have found more than a thousand irregular migrants daily during April, in the sector that runs from the border in New Mexico with the town of El Berrendo, municipality of Janos, to the area of Texas, almost at the height of El Porvenir, in the Juárez Valley.
Although daily hundreds of migrants cross the Rio Grande/Río Grande between Ciudad Juárez and El Paso to surrender to US agents in the hope of being released in El Paso, hundreds more try to enter the neighboring country with the intention of not being discovered. because they do not seek asylum or because they fear being returned to Mexico or directly to their country.
“I went through Anapra, so they wouldn’t return me, because those who surrender at the gates are being returned through other borders… but they still caught me and returned me after six days,” ‘Luis’ narrated yesterday, as he asked to identify himself a 26-year-old Venezuelan migrant, who was later sent to Mexico City by the Mexican authorities, but decided to return to Ciudad Juárez aboard the freight train.
“Chantal”, a Salvadoran migrant, also assured that she has been expelled five times at this border, after trying to cross the Santa Teresa desert or the Anapra hills.
The Border Patrol of the El Paso sector shared two images where a group of at least 35 migrants, between men and women, was observed in the middle of the dark and with the help of all-terrain vehicles in the Santa Teresa area. .
