The Mexican Government carries out a bus program for migrants with confirmed appointments at CBP One from southern Mexico to the northern border, in order to protect them from gangs and organized crime groups that extort and kidnap migrants. migrants traveling through the country.
On Monday, a group of migrants in the southern Mexican city of Tapachula waited to get seats on these buses and expressed relief at having secured one of the coveted CBP One appointments for early January, before Trump takes office. the position on the 20th.
“We will get there before President Donald Trump takes office, regardless of what actions he may take,” said a Venezuelan migrant named Johandry Paz. “We already have the appointments confirmed and we want to reach our destination: the United States of America.”
Mexican government buses typically run two or three times a week, transporting migrants more than a thousand kilometers north to Mexican border cities.
“Yesterday they confirmed my appointment for January 4, so I’m in a hurry” to get to the border, said another Salvadoran migrant, José Escobar.
Hundreds of thousands of migrants have been able to legally enter the United States and access work permits thanks to CBP One and other Biden humanitarian programs.
(Reporting by Jose Torres in Tapachula; writing by Laura Gottesdiener; edited by David Gregorio; Spanish edition by María Bayarri Cárdenas)
