Ruben Villalpando
Correspondent
La Jornada Newspaper
Tuesday, December 24, 2024, p. 5
Ciudad Juárez, Chih., Migrants yesterday left the camp they set up on the banks of the Rio Grande to seek shelter in this winter season. Several warned that they intend to enter the United States with the support of polleros.
On December 18, agents from the Border Patrol and the Texas National Guard threw tear gas bombs against dozens of undocumented immigrants, mostly Venezuelans, who had the intention of surrendering to the Border Patrol at the so-called Gate 36 of the wall. that divides Mexico from the United States, at the height of Ciudad Juárez.
As they were violently rejected, the officers yelled at them through horns: Return to Mexico and your countries
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The place where there were hundreds of migrants yesterday dawned alone, after they remained there in the hope that they would be allowed to cross to request political asylum, arguing that they were afraid of dying in their countries of origin. Given the lack of results, on Sunday they decided to withdraw.
