Dozens of migrants gathered at the border point after misinformation spread on networks that the United States would allow them to enter its territory to request asylum, for International Migrant Day.
They crossed the Rio Grande, but on the US side they could not advance due to the surveillance of elements of the Department of Public Safety and the Texas National Guard, in addition to the barbed wire placed over the river for months.
According to the migrants’ version, uniformed members of the Texas National Guard fired pepper spray bullets at them to make them retreat and return to the Mexican side, where patrols were made by local police and elements of the National Immigration Institute.
“Rumors circulating on social media that the areas between the ports of entry on the southwest border will be open to migration due to International Migrant Day are patently false,” the Border Patrol, El Paso sector, said in a statement. .
“The El Paso Sector of the United States Border Patrol continues to warn migrants not to listen to misinformation circulated by transnational criminal organizations about illegal entry into the United States between ports of entry,” he added.
Just this morning, Foreign Minister Juan Ramón de la Fuente was in El Paso, Texas, where he announced – during the morning conference – the strengthening of the consular network in the face of President-elect Donald Trump’s threat of carrying out a mass deportation of migrants.
“They are not alone, they are not going to be alone,” said the Secretary of Foreign Affairs.
