Amid the uncertainty and confusion over the imminent conclusion of Title 42, thousands of migrants have crowded the southern and northern borders of Mexico seeking to enter the United States.
While US authorities maintain that with the lifting of Title 42, —a sanitary measure that allowed the immediate expulsion of migrants that concluded in the first minutes of this May 11— “the border will not be open”, at the same time that In the last few hours, they announced the deployment of 24,000 agents on the border with Mexico to deal with the chaos that could be generated by the massive arrival of migrants seeking refuge.
It should be noted that under Title 42 there were more than 2.8 million expulsions of migrants, most of whom were expelled and sent back to Mexico.
The Mexican government proposes to increase financing with a direct impact on people to address the root causes of migration, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE) announced on Tuesday after announcing a visit by the head of the Unit for North America of the Foreign Ministry, Roberto Velasco Álvarez, led a visit to the White House together with the Executive Director of the Mexican Agency for International Development Cooperation (Amexcid), Laura Elena Carrillo Cubillas.
According to the Mexican government, the visit was carried out to analyze new collaboration policies to address the root causes of the migration phenomenon before the lifting of Title 42.
Despite these government actions, migrants continue to arrive at both borders of Mexico. In Chiapas, it is estimated that some 3,000 migrants have planted themselves in the Provisional Attention Center (CAP) of the National Institute of Migration (INM), located in Tapachula, to request a provisional permit of about 45 days that allows them to arrive quickly. to the northern border.
While in the north of the country, a few hours after the conclusion of Title 42, the borders of Chihuahua, Tamaulipas and Baja California presented an unusual number of migrants seeking to turn themselves in to the US authorities, who camped and even made huge lines at the border.
Confusion
On the US side, the Border Patrol put up poles and barbed wire to try to prevent irregular crossings.
And it is that some of the migrants seek to be detained by immigration agents with the idea that they will have a better opportunity to request humanitarian asylum in that country.
However, organizations and the US government itself clarified that with the end of Title 42, Title 8 will be applied again, with additional requirements and obstacles, such as the presumption of ineligibility for asylum of those people who do not meet a series of requirements, such as:
Get an appointment to cross the border with the CBP One app; have applied for and been denied asylum or recognition of refugee status in a third country en route to the US.
Although there are exceptions in cases of medical emergencies, victims of human trafficking, among others.
The end of Title 42 would also mean an expansion of deportations, including an increase in the number of flights of people with expedited removal orders, as well as a ban on re-entering the United States for 5 years.
While the “Parole” program (entry permit) for Cubans, Nicaraguans, Haitians and Venezuelans will continue with a monthly limit of 30,000 people and the annual admission quota for refugees from Latin America and the Caribbean will double to also reach the 30,000 people.
Arrivals on the rise
Julia Gloria Gómez Martínez, director of the Resource Center for Migrant Workers, in Tijuana, pointed out that there has been an increase in the arrival of migrants in Baja California who hope to cross before Title 42 ceases to work.
The foregoing has generated a saturation of the shelters by people who are also waiting for the resolution of their asylum trial.
Added, he said, to the fact that many others arrived from locations with Ciudad Juárez, thinking that perhaps in Tijuana the asylum process would be faster.
For this reason, he added, the new immigration policies and the restriction on the right to asylum “cause a lot of despair, especially for those people of nationalities who come from places further away.”
For his part, José Ascensión Moreno Mena, president of the Coalition for the Defense of Migrants AC, from Mexicali, Baja California, agreed that there is a lot of uncertainty.
Adding to the fact that the confusion has caused many migrants to despair over the asylum process and decide to cross on their own, and are detained.
The word has spread a lot that people who move more could have a better opportunity to access the shelter, ”he added.
For this reason, he added that a lot of uncertainty is being created in the migrant population, since some seek to cross and others prefer to wait.
“So it is a situation that we will only be able to, let’s say, evaluate, after two or three days,” he said.
More than 10,000 daily crossings
More than 10,000 migrants were caught crossing the border illegally each day Monday and Tuesday, according to Brandon Judd, president of a union of border patrol agents. The total exceeds a scenario outlined by a senior US border official in April for the period after Title 42 ends.
Border agents have been authorized to release migrants in border cities if US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and charities do not have the capacity to accept them, Judd added.
The US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
You close stays
The National Institute of Migration (INM) reported, in this context, that 33 provisional stays are temporarily suspended throughout the country, until the National Human Rights Commission carries out and concludes the supervision visit and prepares the corresponding report. .
However, it was clarified that the attention provided by these immigration facilities will be carried out in other immigration offices that are distributed in various parts of the national territory. (With information from Arturo Rojas)
