Tijuana, Mexico (EFE).- Organizations in the Mexican border city of Tijuana rejected this Friday the new immigration policies of USA that will receive 30,000 migrants from Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba and Nicaragua per month, although it will immediately expel the rest to Mexico.
The activists considered that, beyond being a policy that aims to solve crises at the border, it is a dispersal method that not all migrants will be able to access due to the series of requirements that are requested.
FAR FROM WHAT BIDEN PROMISED
Soraya Vázquez, co-director of the organization Al Otro Lado, told EFE that these measures “are not even remotely what Joe Biden promised, because it leaves intact these racist and inhumane policies like Title 42, which was imposed by Donald Trump, but it seems that Biden supports it because he has not decided to eliminate it.
The activist is not surprised by the measure, since she recognizes that it is something they did with the Ukrainians, that they instrumented with the Venezuelans and that now the Haitians, Cubans and Nicaraguans are being integrated.
“It is a way of subjecting these people who are fleeing their countries for various reasons to a series of requirements that it will be difficult for those most in need to meet,” he said.
COMPLEX PROCESS
Vázquez highlighted that this is a procedure that “in principle sounds very good”, but that in reality it is a complex and difficult process that people will not be able to access easily, mainly because technological skills are required to be able to use the CBP application.
But the most complicated thing, he said, are the other requirements such as applying without having crossed countries to reach the border, being in their countries of origin, having a valid passport, among others.
“These people who are from countries with very complex situations do not have and cannot get a passport, which will be a difficult requirement to meet,” he said.
He added that there must also be a sponsor in the United States, “whom they are going to investigate”, because it must have a condition of stability and the possibility of receiving and maintaining them for a while.
However, he said, “many of those most in need do not have a family member in these conditions.”
Gustavo Banda Aceves, director of the Embajadores de Jesús shelter, said that this measure is not intended to solve border crises.
«It does not solve anything for the people who are already here or who are on the way, who have already crossed countries and dangers; it turns out that they will no longer be able to qualify, ”he lamented.
WAITING FOR OPPORTUNITY
Isman Plitnoc, originally from Haiti, is the mother of a small child, and together with her husband left her native country at the beginning of 2021, in mid-2022 she was deported directly to Haiti, but she started leaving again and has been living for a month. in Tijuana.
“We are informing ourselves well to find out how we can enter, because we have had a very difficult path, a lot of depression and sadness and it would be unfair if we were not able to enter because we are on this border,” he said.
The measure announced by the US government determines that those who do not meet the requirements will be expressly deported under Title 42, an immigration policy established by Donald Trump (2017-2021), under the pretext of the pandemic, and that the Supreme Court has neat to keep at least for the next few months.
The US government’s decision comes after the arrest of 2.76 million undocumented migrants was registered during the fiscal year of 2022, an unprecedented figure.
During 2022, according to data from the Mexican Commission for Refugee Assistance (Comar), Mexico received 118,478 petitions from migrants seeking asylum, the second highest figure after 2021 with 131,448 cases. EFE
