CIUDAD JUAREZ: Group sojourner walked into Mexico on Saturday against pedestrian traffic on the international bridge between El Paso and Ciudad Juarez minutes after being deported from the United States under the new administration of Biden. asylum ban.
The twenty-something Venezuelan men were deported under a June 5 proclamation with immediate effect. deportation most people cross the border illegally.
In a scene that shows the pitfalls and promises of the new approach of president Joe Biden, the deportees who crossed the border just a few days before in the deadly triple digit heat, passed another group of migrants with wheelie suitcases standing in line.
These migrants are waiting for the interview to pass CBP onea mobile phone application provided by the administration that provides a means of legal access to the port of entry.
Asked if he would try to cross again, the man wearing the silver cross necklace, who gave only his first name, Josuan, said: “Of course.” Others nearby nodded.
All face at least a five-year ban from entering the United States and must avoid future arrests.
US President Joe Biden, a democrat, has strengthened his position border security next immigration emerged as a key issue ahead of the Nov. 5 election in which he faces his predecessor, former Republican president Donald Trump, who has promised a broad crackdown on immigration if re-elected.
Biden on Tuesday announced a legalization program for immigrants in the country illegally who are married to US citizens. The measure is to support a different campaign message than Trump’s because of his support for more humanity immigration system.
Now, Biden’s restrictive asylum policy, combined with tougher immigration enforcement by Mexico, appears to be reducing crossings.
Concerns fell below 2,500 on Sunday, the lowest daily figure since February 2021, according to a senior US customs and border protection official who requested anonymity to discuss preliminary figures.
The arrests exceed the 1,450 CBP One appointments that U.S. officials say are available daily at eight border crossings.
In recent years, re-crossings by deported migrants have helped raise concerns to record levels.
At the Buen Samaritano migrant shelter in Ciudad Juarez, director Juan Fierro Garcia has seen a nearly 40 percent increase in people seeking shelter since Biden’s order, which mirrors the Trump-era asylum ban.
“The border is almost closed, so the only legal way is through CBP One,” said Fierro Garcia, who did not accept deportation.
Honduran Fidelina Bardales, 46, said she and her two daughters, ages 15 and 5, have been waiting in Buen Samaritano for a month and a half for their CBP One appointment. The app functions when migrants arrive in central Mexico.
“With Biden’s rule, it’s the only option I have,” Bardales said, adding that he began a nine-month journey to the border to seek asylum after his son was shot dead for being gay and the killers threatened to “disappear” him and his daughter for stop people informing the authorities.
On the US side of the bridge, Yenny Cisneros, a Venezuelan, 36, on Friday sat in the shade of a store on El Paso Street, having completed an interview with CBP One. A manicurist, he has been notified to appear before the immigration judge and is expected to get a work permit in about two weeks to allow him to find a job in Houston.
“I thank God and this country,” Cisneros said, waiting nervously for her 20-year-old daughter to emerge from the beige border control building.
The day before, June 13, she and her two daughters rested in an air-conditioned Juarez hotel room before the interview.
On the same day, Mexican authorities recovered the body of a female migrant believed to be Adriana Castellanos, 23, from El Salvador, who died of dehydration in the desert near the city of 1.6 million people.
Activist Alan Lizarraga said the criminalization and detention of asylum seekers forced them to try to cross the desert.
“Migrants are being killed by the policies of not only the United States but Mexico,” said Lizarraga of the El Paso border network for human rights.
About one migrant a day has died in the heat last week in the El Paso sector, where deaths have nearly doubled so far this fiscal year as border patrol rescues have nearly tripled, according to US border officials.
Speaking in the mountainous area west of El Paso where most migrants cross, US border patrol agent Orlando Marrero Rubio said the increase in deaths was due to the hot weather and the inhumane treatment of migrants by criminal groups that control human trafficking.
In the north-east of the city, the intake drops significantly in the overcrowded migrant processing center where almost all those arrested face the “expedited removal” process.
Before Biden’s new restrictions on asylum, most immigrants who crossed the border were allowed to enter the United States after an interview, where officials would ask if they feared being returned to their country or deported.
“They don’t show any fear,” said the border official, who requested anonymity to discuss changes in processing operations, while commenting that the migrants are asking for interviews to be considered for asylum.
Alejandro Mayorkas, the US homeland security secretary, told reporters that many migrants travel for economic or other reasons rather than fear of persecution.
He expects the new rules to have an increased impact.
Back at the Buen Samaritano shelter in Ciudad Juarez, Venezuelan Alejandro Wilchez, 24, said his plans had changed after Texas national guard soldiers fired pepper balls at his family last week as they tried to reach the border fence east of the city of El Paso.
Like Republican leaders elsewhere, Texas governor Greg Abbott has used force to stop migrants from crossing the border.
Wilchez’s one-and-a-half-month-old daughter bled from the nose and mouth after inhaling pepper spray, and his wife was cut with razor wire while trying to enter US soil and claim asylum. Abbott’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Now the family is waiting for one CBP appointment.
“I don’t want my son to die crossing,” said Wilchez, as she and her family rested for the day, her baby still suffering from a fever after being hospitalized for inhaling pepper spray.
The twenty-something Venezuelan men were deported under a June 5 proclamation with immediate effect. deportation most people cross the border illegally.
In a scene that shows the pitfalls and promises of the new approach of president Joe Biden, the deportees who crossed the border just a few days before in the deadly triple digit heat, passed another group of migrants with wheelie suitcases standing in line.
These migrants are waiting for the interview to pass CBP onea mobile phone application provided by the administration that provides a means of legal access to the port of entry.
Asked if he would try to cross again, the man wearing the silver cross necklace, who gave only his first name, Josuan, said: “Of course.” Others nearby nodded.
All face at least a five-year ban from entering the United States and must avoid future arrests.
US President Joe Biden, a democrat, has strengthened his position border security next immigration emerged as a key issue ahead of the Nov. 5 election in which he faces his predecessor, former Republican president Donald Trump, who has promised a broad crackdown on immigration if re-elected.
Biden on Tuesday announced a legalization program for immigrants in the country illegally who are married to US citizens. The measure is to support a different campaign message than Trump’s because of his support for more humanity immigration system.
Now, Biden’s restrictive asylum policy, combined with tougher immigration enforcement by Mexico, appears to be reducing crossings.
Concerns fell below 2,500 on Sunday, the lowest daily figure since February 2021, according to a senior US customs and border protection official who requested anonymity to discuss preliminary figures.
The arrests exceed the 1,450 CBP One appointments that U.S. officials say are available daily at eight border crossings.
In recent years, re-crossings by deported migrants have helped raise concerns to record levels.
At the Buen Samaritano migrant shelter in Ciudad Juarez, director Juan Fierro Garcia has seen a nearly 40 percent increase in people seeking shelter since Biden’s order, which mirrors the Trump-era asylum ban.
“The border is almost closed, so the only legal way is through CBP One,” said Fierro Garcia, who did not accept deportation.
Honduran Fidelina Bardales, 46, said she and her two daughters, ages 15 and 5, have been waiting in Buen Samaritano for a month and a half for their CBP One appointment. The app functions when migrants arrive in central Mexico.
“With Biden’s rule, it’s the only option I have,” Bardales said, adding that he began a nine-month journey to the border to seek asylum after his son was shot dead for being gay and the killers threatened to “disappear” him and his daughter for stop people informing the authorities.
On the US side of the bridge, Yenny Cisneros, a Venezuelan, 36, on Friday sat in the shade of a store on El Paso Street, having completed an interview with CBP One. A manicurist, he has been notified to appear before the immigration judge and is expected to get a work permit in about two weeks to allow him to find a job in Houston.
“I thank God and this country,” Cisneros said, waiting nervously for her 20-year-old daughter to emerge from the beige border control building.
The day before, June 13, she and her two daughters rested in an air-conditioned Juarez hotel room before the interview.
On the same day, Mexican authorities recovered the body of a female migrant believed to be Adriana Castellanos, 23, from El Salvador, who died of dehydration in the desert near the city of 1.6 million people.
Activist Alan Lizarraga said the criminalization and detention of asylum seekers forced them to try to cross the desert.
“Migrants are being killed by the policies of not only the United States but Mexico,” said Lizarraga of the El Paso border network for human rights.
About one migrant a day has died in the heat last week in the El Paso sector, where deaths have nearly doubled so far this fiscal year as border patrol rescues have nearly tripled, according to US border officials.
Speaking in the mountainous area west of El Paso where most migrants cross, US border patrol agent Orlando Marrero Rubio said the increase in deaths was due to the hot weather and the inhumane treatment of migrants by criminal groups that control human trafficking.
In the north-east of the city, the intake drops significantly in the overcrowded migrant processing center where almost all those arrested face the “expedited removal” process.
Before Biden’s new restrictions on asylum, most immigrants who crossed the border were allowed to enter the United States after an interview, where officials would ask if they feared being returned to their country or deported.
“They don’t show any fear,” said the border official, who requested anonymity to discuss changes in processing operations, while commenting that the migrants are asking for interviews to be considered for asylum.
Alejandro Mayorkas, the US homeland security secretary, told reporters that many migrants travel for economic or other reasons rather than fear of persecution.
He expects the new rules to have an increased impact.
Back at the Buen Samaritano shelter in Ciudad Juarez, Venezuelan Alejandro Wilchez, 24, said his plans had changed after Texas national guard soldiers fired pepper balls at his family last week as they tried to reach the border fence east of the city of El Paso.
Like Republican leaders elsewhere, Texas governor Greg Abbott has used force to stop migrants from crossing the border.
Wilchez’s one-and-a-half-month-old daughter bled from the nose and mouth after inhaling pepper spray, and his wife was cut with razor wire while trying to enter US soil and claim asylum. Abbott’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Now the family is waiting for one CBP appointment.
“I don’t want my son to die crossing,” said Wilchez, as she and her family rested for the day, her baby still suffering from a fever after being hospitalized for inhaling pepper spray.
