In previous days, thousands of migrants, mainly Venezuelans, jumped into the Rio Grande to try to cross it in inflatables in an attempt to find a way to stay in the United States.
Mexican authorities found the body of a Venezuelan migrant who disappeared on Sunday, April 30, when he jumped into the Rio Grande to try to reach the United States.
The deceased migrant was identified as Víctor Andrés Lugones Cespedes, a native of Maracaibo, Zulia state. His body was found in the town of Matamoros, Tamaulipas. The Venezuelan had thrown himself into the flow with a group of foreigners.
Lugones Cespedes’s companions did manage to reach the other shore, but they were detained and released after hours by the Puente Nuevo in Matamoros, Tamaulipas.
A few days before Title 42 expires in the United States, asylum seekers desperately seek to cross the border.
This is with the objective of turning themselves in to the Border Patrol in an effort to continue their process in that nation, although many are returned.
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“What we wanted was to cross because on that side (the United States) they supposedly receive us, process us and leave us inside,” he told the agency. EFE one of the friends of the deceased migrant.
Early in the day they went into the water, but when he was already on North American soil, he could only hear someone asking for help, but he did not imagine that it was his partner whom he met on the route.
staff of Migration’s national institute (INM), Grupo Beta and the Tamaulipas Attorney General’s Office (FGJT), arrived at the site to begin the investigation and remove the body of the Venezuelan.
“We had never reached a northeast border and as soon as we arrived, what we wanted was to know where the river was to cross,” his friend explained.
In previous days, thousands of migrants, mainly Venezuelans, jumped into the Rio Grande to try to cross it in inflatables in an attempt to find a way to stay in the United States.
Asylum seekers continue to register on the CBP One application, but the puzzle they now have is what will happen when Title 8 takes effect, in which the US is expected to toughen penalties against those who enter illegally.
With information from runrunes
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