Ruben Villalpando
Correspondent
Newspaper La Jornada
Tuesday, May 17, 2022, p. 4
Ciudad Juárez, Chih., Given the lack of capacity of the Border Patrol of El Paso, Texas, to house the migrants they detain, on Sunday morning they began to release groups of more than 100 on the streets of that city. undocumented.
Before, they were instructed to speak to the Annunciation House, a religious group that gets them lodging and sends them to where they have relatives or acquaintances to await their trial, as happened before the covid pandemic.
Currently, the Border Patrol in El Paso, Texas, bordering Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, faces a difficult situation, since according to its registry it detains a thousand foreigners every day.
Without specifying since when the arrests increased, the corporation reported that, in recent days, the El Paso sector has made approximately a thousand newspapers. The migrants are transferred to the facilities where they undergo a medical examination, then they are processed to define their voluntary departure or be deported to Mexico, the country through which they entered.
This situation is similar to the mass migration that took place before the pandemic, when thousands of people in transit, mainly from Central America and Cubans, arrived in Juárez and El Paso, where they turned themselves in to the Border Patrol to request political asylum.
For its part, the Annunciation House, in a message on Twitter, stated: Approximately 120 migrants were released on the streets of El Paso early this morning.
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Rubén García, executive director of the religious organization, said: “The US immigration authorities ‘felt’ that they needed to release more refugees than we had the capacity to receive, so the release was on the street.”
The released people were dropped off around 5 a.m. at the bus station in the downtown area and are all single adults. They have a notice to appear before the authorities when required.
