In just 48 hours, 16,000 irregular migrants have entered the United States from the Mexican border, according to data from the Border Patrol. The officers have the order to “process faster” and remove at least 10,000 people from custody “by any means”, before the visit this Tuesday to El Paso (Texas) of the Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, said journalist Ali Bradley.
On Monday, the largest crossing of a single group made up of 1,500 migrants through El Paso was recorded. “The Border Patrol has more than 5,000 undocumented immigrants in custody and released hundreds on the streets of the city,” said journalist Bill Melugin, from the chain foxnews. These people spent the night outdoors in temperatures below 0 degrees Celsius.
Through El Paso there have been an average of “2,460 illegal crossings per day” by groups of Cubans, Nicaraguans, Ecuadorians, Venezuelans, Guatemalans and Hondurans, according to officer Peter Jaquez. One week before the end of Title 42, which requires the expedited return of migrants, border cities and charitable organizations fear the daily and massive arrival of migrants as has happened in El Paso and have asked the Joe Biden government for help to receive these families.
“We were asked to support, we receive family groups. We give labor links,” Ana Laura Rodela, general coordinator of the Leona Vicario Integrative Center for Migrants, told EFE on Monday. “Everyone who enters can have a formal job. Right now three trucks arrive, with 600 people. They are families mainly from Ecuador and Nicaragua, here in this shelter there will be a dispersion of people because not all of them fit in this place.”
The Last Thursday, 535 Cubans swam the Rio Grande and turned themselves in to Border Patrol at Eagle Pass, Texas. At that time, it was the largest group that had entered the United States at once. The natives of the island were gathered in an area near the Lehmann ranch along with another 74 migrants from Nicaragua, 49 from Colombia, three from Ecuador and three from Mexico and 12 unaccompanied children.
In statements to the ABC channel, Lieutenant Chris Olivarez, of the Texas Department of Public Safety, warned that “El Paso has never experienced anything like this massive migration. The numbers are historic. We must find a way to stop this, it is necessary that policy is applied”.
NEW: In Brownsville, TX we once again witnessed Border Patrol mass releasing hundreds of migrants at a parking garage. A NGO across street then helps organize their travel around the US.
BP source tells me they release hundreds here almost daily, sometimes 10 busloads in a day. pic.twitter.com/mpgNTSkErU— Bill Melugin (@BillFOXLA) December 13, 2022
Texas Congressman Henry Cuéllar, for his part, urged Biden for greater border security and said that the problem is that criminals are taking advantage to do their business by taking migrants to cross the border because it is open.
On the Chihuahua (Mexico) border, there are several groups of migrants organizing their entry into the United States. In Matamoros, Tamaulipas, a Mexican border city across from Brownsville, Texas, there are thousands of migrants waiting for December 21, the day Title 42 comes to an end.
This is a measure ordered by the Donald Trump Administration (2017-2021) under the excuse of the pandemic and which has allowed more than 2.7 million expedited expulsions of migrants.
Various outlets have reported that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) seeks to obtain an additional 3 billion dollars from Congress to deal with the increase in the arrival of undocumented migrants once Title 42 is cancelled.
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