The Government of the Mexican state of Coahuila, bordering the United States, this Wednesday integrated elements of the Criminal Investigation Agency (AIC), a body created in 2013 to combat crime, of the Migrant Containment Plan, with which seeks to prevent the crossing of undocumented immigrants through the Rio Grande.
The operation began in the Braulio Fernández park, in Ciudad Acuña, through which dozens of migrants pass daily to Del Río (Texas). “This site is one of the key points,” he tells 14ymedio a rescue worker from Grupo Beta, which is used by “Cubans, Nicaraguans, Venezuelans, Hondurans, Guatemalans and Salvadorans” to cross to US soil.
“In mid-March, 1,500 migrants arrived in the US in one day. 800 returned. And a wave of foreigners is expected before the end of this month,” estimates the lifeguard. “The plan is to stop the groups before they reach the banks of the river.”
In #Acunafrom the Braulio Fernández park, starts an operation of the State Police of #Coahuila ?? to reinforce security in the border strip with the state of #Texas. #CoahuilaSafe pic.twitter.com/rv8aVDD9dN
– Miguel Riquelme (@mrikelme) April 20, 2022
The Department of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) recorded the arrival of 80,000 Cubans in the US between October 1, 2021 and March 31, 2022. And in Mexico, Migration reported on April 16 the arrest of 15,907 natives of the Island. “The figures are from this year, in less than four months, about 1,800 of these arrests have been registered in Coahuila,” shares the Grupo Beta source.
The rescuer assures that at all times the human rights of the migrants will be respected and they will only be prevented from crossing the Rio Grande, but he did not know how to respond to the carrying weapons, visible in the images posted by the Attorney General of Coahuila.
The Migrant Containment Plan is between the agreements reached on April 14 the governor of Coahuila, Miguel Riquelme, with the Republican Texan, Greg Abbott, who at the beginning of the month announced the laying of barbed wire in the lower areas of the Rio Grande to contain migration.
Riquelme, on the other hand, opted for the deployment of 200 agents, including armed municipal and state police officers and members of the AIC, who hide in the undergrowth of the Braulio Fernández park, lying in wait for migrants who manage to evade the patrols located in streets surrounding the flow. As soon as the operation began, six Haitians were arrested and handed over to Immigration.
close to this area, the Beta Group ordered six days ago Daniela Anaya, a 26-year-old Cuban, and her 7-year-old son Dismel Arce, not to cross the tributary towards the United States due to the strength of the current and the danger it represented for them.
And it was precisely in the Braulio Fernández park where William Alan Matos was found in shock after losing his wife Alexa Nadine, a Uruguayan national, and his son Ismael. They both drowned.
Wilmer Cloakswho is heading to Piedras Negras, and spent 37 days in the migration center of Acayucan, Veracruz, says that the Mexican government “wants to pass us off as criminals, when what we are doing is fleeing from a dictatorship, but they are not going to stop these people.
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