America falls back into chaos and fear of the refugee crisis on the border with Mexico With the expiration of Title 42 at midnight on May 11, the measure introduced in March 2020 by then-President Donald Trump that effectively sealed the southern border and allowed asylum-seekers to be immediately deported due to the Covid emergency. And tens of thousands of migrants, hungry and thirsty under the scorching sun, have been crowding the border with Mexico for days, putting El Paso in Texas under a state of emergency: a wave of over 150,000 people is expected from Friday. with an average of about 10,000 per day.
“Our borders are not open”However, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, at the White House briefing a few hours after Title 42 expired, reiterated the measure put in place by Donald Trump, allowing immediate expulsion of asylum seekers due to the Covid emergency. Mayorkas warned of harsher consequences for those entering the country illegally, ranging from criminal proceedings to expulsion with a ban on re-entry for at least five years.
E Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced today that he has given orders to the National Guard to be
reinforced the garrison on the border with the United States. López Obrador added that the regulation was not made as a result of pressure from the neighboring country, but that it was a decision by the Mexican government so that from tomorrow there would be “no chaos and even less violence on the common border with Mexico”. US”.
Meanwhile, New York has reached the limit of hospitality for migrants and Mayor Eric Adams, with an executive order already in effect, is temporarily repealing an old rule guaranteeing anyone who needs it “the right to a roof” within the same night and, in the case of a family, the right to private rooms and bathrooms Kitchen, avoid gatherings. The turning point comes amid the feared wave of migrants at the border with Mexico after today’s loss of title 42, the anti-Covid emergency measures.
Up to a thousand migrants arrive in New York every dayThis was announced by the head of the immigration department of New York Mayor Manuel Castro. The current number of migrants who have landed in the city since last spring is 61,000 people, he explained, but with the end of Title 42 today, it will skyrocket “unless something changes.” “. In fact, he says, “a large proportion” of illegal immigrants crossing the border could end up in the city’s five boroughs. “It’s hard to say how many of them will take the bus to New York, but it could be more than 12,000,” he said.
New York is one of the Democratic cities targeted by Republican Southern governors, who have sent dozens of buses full of migrants there. Stopgap solutions being considered by the city government include the erection of tents in Central Park and a converted hangar at John F. Kennedy Airport.
A spokesman for the mayor said the city had “reached its limits” and was forced to settle migrants last week
just got into the gyms. “This is not a decision taken lightly and we will make every effort to get asylum seekers into shelters as quickly as possible, as we have done from day one,” he added.
Currently, over 78,000 people live in the city’s “protection” system, mostly migrants, housed in 120 “shelters” and eight humanitarian aid centers. Their numbers have also increased following the move of some Republican governors from Texas to Florida, who continue to send hundreds of asylum-seekers to New York and other immigrant “sanctuary cities” ruled by the Democrats. Adams warned that housing the migrants is costing the city billions of dollars and that the city is being “devastated” by the crisis, and has criticized Joe Biden for his handling of the situation. His attempt to defuse the situation by sending hundreds of irregulars to the outskirts of the city was rejected by neighboring counties.
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