Drafting.- A hundred migrants of various nationalities who are sheltered in a shelter in the border city of Tijuana began an indefinite fast on Monday to ask that their asylum applications be granted in the United States, because most of them have been for more than three months waiting
Pastor Albert Rivera Cólon, director of the Ágape Misión Mundial shelter, shared with EFE that the indefinite fasting arose on the initiative of the migrants, since they do not want to take the alternative of crossing the border undocumented, because they know of the risks that they run and prefer to “ask God to intercede for them.”
“The immigrants entered into a chain of fasting asking God to fix the problem that is existing due to the court, because with all the problems that have occurred with the federal judges, for more than 10 days we have not received any appointments and That is done to us an injustice,” he said.
In the shelter, which is located more than 20 kilometers from the border port of San Ysidro, there are around 500 migrants and there are a hundred who started fasting, since this situation of not being able to obtain asylum appointments was affecting them. especially in the mood.
“They see on social networks that they are saying that they should jump over the wall and that everyone who jumps over the wall is being let in and other immigrants are saying that they jumped over or turned themselves in and now they are in the United States and that is generating the temptation to go jump,” he said.
