The crisis of thousands of Venezuelans who have entered the territory of the United States through Mexico and who were expelled by the immigration authorities has not ended, after the massive departure of compatriots on October 12, but has worsened, on the one hand , given the insistence of many of these people to enter the northern country and the repressive actions undertaken by the security patrols stationed at various border points with the Aztec nation.
International media reported that last Tuesday a mostly Venezuelan group, along with other migrants from Central American countries, Colombia and Cuba, held a strong demonstration at the Siglo 21 immigration station in Tapachula, on the southern border of Mexico, to demand their release. and the delivery of documents to transit through the country.
The migrants protested in the dormitory area to demand their departure from the compound, which has a capacity for 960 people.
“Let us out, let us out, we want to be free,” demanded the detainees inside the center.
One of the participants, a Venezuelan, assured that the place where he is being held is the equivalent of a jail.
“There they give us food, but I don’t understand what happens, because there they give us a paper to transit, but what they really give you is a document to leave the country through Guatemala,” he declared in an interview with an international media.
Now the migrant has bought his ticket departing from Cancun, in the Mexican Caribbean, to return to Venezuela, but in Tapachula they have so far not given him a document that allows him to travel to the neighboring state of Quintana Roo, where he must take his flight. .
He stated that he and his countrymen do not know what to do in the face of the restrictions announced on October 12 by the United States, which now immediately deports Venezuelan citizens who arrive by land.
The fact reflects the record migration in the region to the United States, whose Customs and Border Protection Office detained an unprecedented number of more than 2.76 million undocumented immigrants in fiscal year 2022, a figure that includes substantial increases in captures of Cubans and Venezuelans.
In the case of Mexico, the Aztec country received 86,621 refugee applications in the Mexican Commission for Refugee Assistance in the first three quarters of the year, of which 8,665, about 10%, are from citizens of our country.
Meanwhile, the United States authorities have not given sufficient importance to the repressive actions undertaken by the authorities of that country when last Monday they attacked dozens of Venezuelans with rubber bullets while they tried to cross the Rio Grande.
Eli Alfonso Segura showed the round injury to an international media outlet, which one of the rubber bullets left in his back.
“I was fighting so they wouldn’t take my flag away, and when I was in the river they shot me and they shot me again and again and again. They mistreat us like cowards, because we are a disarming, humble, hard-working people,” he declared.
The US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) commissioner, Chris Magnus, issued a statement on Tuesday, November 1, stating that the pertinent investigations are being carried out into what happened in El Paso, Texas, although he clarified that what What was used were “pepper bullets”, which in his opinion is “a less than lethal system”, for the use of which the agents are duly prepared.
Added to the critical situation of migrants at these border points is the deceptive offer for economic purposes and the manifestations of xenophobia suffered by compatriots who are already in the US.
It is worth highlighting the transfer of Venezuelans from Florida to other states of the Union, including Massachusetts, as part of a protest plan by Republican governors against the policy of Democratic President Joe Biden, and who were later abandoned after previously deceiving them with aid plans. .
Since October 12, Mexico has received some 1,800 Venezuelans deported from the United States, the date on which the new immigration policy that affects hundreds of Creole migrants came into force. Now, it only admits asylum processes for 24,000 nationals who arrive by air and under certain conditions, which benefit migrants who have economic solvency.
