Mexico: Hundreds of migrants try to force their way into the US

This is the first incident of this magnitude on the border since then The May 11 decision of Title 42, a pandemic-related measure that has allowed the U.S. for three years to immediately deport undocumented immigrants in the name of a health emergency. In particular, it has been replaced by a new system of restrictions on the right to asylum.

A Venezuelan woman traveling with her family told reporters they decided to cross after an afternoon storm destroyed their makeshift tents. They make it to the end of the bridge but run into American agents with shields. “My husband asked them if they didn’t have wives or children, but the guards said no and pushed us away,” he said when he returned to the region.Mexican.

Mexican officials were stumped

According to local media, hundreds of migrants, mostly Venezuelans, Hondurans and Salvadorans, tried to enter the United States this way.

In videos posted on social media, migrants can be seen advancing in groups, hustling and shouting, on a narrow covered bridge leading to Brownsville, Texas. Some were carrying small children, others were accompanied by young men whom they tried to protect with their bodies. Mexican officials tried to close the crossing, but were outnumbered.

Termination and clearance

Last Friday, in another neighboring city of Nuevo Laredo, Texas, an international bridge had to be closed after a group of Russians tried to force their way across. America. Since the end of Title 42, immigrants who cross the border illegally can be sent back to their home country and punished.

Arriving at the border of undocumented aliens, mostly Venezuelans, started again before May. has declined in recent weeks, according to officials. But thousands of migrants remain stranded at the Mexican border, hoping to get an appointment with U.S. immigration to enter the U.S. and seek asylum there.

(AFP)Show comments