A group of migrants tried to stampede from Mexico to the United States, through a border bridge that connects Ciudad Juárez with Texas and New Mexico, but they were blocked and repelled by the US border police.
The migrants, who, according to information in the media, numbered in the hundreds, gathered on the Paso del Norte-Santa Fe international bridge, conquered by the rumor that they would be given free passage to the US for the celebration of a supposed day for migrants.
When the migrants reached the middle of the bridge, the United States border authority blocked the passage and, although they insisted on entering, the security agents prevented it.
The migrants, from various Central and South American countries, ran across the bridge until they were blocked with a barbed wire barrier. “They fired tear gas at us,” said Jackson Solís, a young Venezuelan who was in the group of migrants.
For his part, Enrique Valenzuela, coordinator of the state council for the population of Chihuahua, where Ciudad Juárez is located, narrated that “hundreds of people entered the middle of the bridge where the US authority closed of course, by protocol.”
The impossible family date
One of the protesters was Luisa, originally from Venezuela, who told EFE that on March 1 she showed up with her appointment and the United States authorities told her to say goodbye to her children, “that I was passing by, but they weren’t.”
“So I went back and today, March 12, when my children have their appointment, they tell me that I cannot cross and the chief of the agents told me that this is how things are and that they are the ones in charge.”
She mentioned that it is impossible to get a family appointment and in her case since December she has tried to go to the immigration authorities of the United States, but when she goes with her children, they ask her to separate from them. “What mother is going to leave her children alone,” she explained.
Intoxicated in Peru
In another incident, a group of Venezuelan migrants in Peru suffered food poisoning after consuming food that was given to them.
“A group of Venezuelans in Trujillo, Peru, were poisoned by another group of people who came to spread food to them. Within the group of Venezuelans there are many children in a serious state of health,” they denounced through the social media account @venezolanosperu.
The food plate contained mash, rice and a meat stew and was supplied by a caterer. The treating physicians diagnosed spoiled food poisoning.
