Ruben Villalpando, Carlos Figueroa and Raul Robledo
correspondents
Newspaper La Jornada
Monday, June 20, 2022, p. fifteen
Firefighters from El Paso, Texas, recovered the bodies of two migrants who drowned in the Franklin Canal, which flows parallel to the Rio Grande.
The foreigners tried to enter the United States from the border with Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, but fell into the water and were swept away by the current. In the last two weeks, 11 people have died in this way in their attempt to cross into the neighboring country.
Border Patrol reports reveal that around a thousand undocumented immigrants have been arrested crossing the border from El Paso, Texas.
Meanwhile, in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, border agents from the Laredo sector detained 450 foreigners in a week, most of them of Mexican origin: 27 were hidden in train hoppers and 380 in closed trailers, at risk of suffocation or death. The high temperatures.
In Nuevo León, at least 200 migrants remain at the Monterrey Bus Station, awaiting a response to their situation and the reimbursement of the money paid for tickets that were never provided.
