Aline Corpus / Reform Agency
Thursday, May 11, 2023 | 18:46
Tijuana, Mexico.- Women and children who were waiting to turn themselves in to the US authorities between the two walls of this border were separated from the larger group and taken into Border Patrol custody.
For now it is unknown if the families will be accepted with political asylum or deported, a few hours after the end of Title 42, which will stop working at 9:00 p.m. local time in Baja California.
Starting around 6:30 a.m. this Thursday, agents in green uniforms took various vehicles to the group of migrants between the two walls, there were panels and Suburban-type trucks.
The agents first lined up people in the middle of the makeshift camp, and people chose to sit down, then in groups of 10 or fewer people they were led to the vehicles.
Leonardo Acevedo, of Colombian origin, indicated that the Border Patrol only took his wife and children, but not him, the authorities did not tell them for what reason.
“I just want to thank the people who have come to leave us food and water for the changes in weather,” he said, “we will continue to wait.”
In the place there are Ecuadorians, Haitians, Colombians, Turks and Afghans, indicated the same migrants.
To date, the Border Patrol had not provided any official information.
Meanwhile, units of the National Institute of Migration (INM) also collaborated with border surveillance, placing surveillance posts where migrants have been crossing illegally.
They post warnings.
The United States Government and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) today placed signs at the San Ysidro checkpoint and at the Tijuana bus station as a warning not to cross illegally into the United States.
The goal is to reduce illegal crossings and strengthen asylum claims through enforcement, the signs indicate.
